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Panda
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Message 68 of 307 (655501)
03-10-2012 9:07 PM
Reply to: Message 47 by foreveryoung
03-10-2012 12:04 PM


Puzzling
foreveryoung (and others) writes:
I don't have much faith in science.
I have never understood how people can say this.
They are 100% dependent on science.
The food they eat. The clothes they wear. The house they live in. The medicines they use. Etc, etc., etc.
Even the aspects of their lives that don't have to be reliant on science, still are.
The car they drive. The books they read. The light they read by. The tools they use. The furniture they sit on. Etc, etc., etc.
Everyone is fundamentally dependant on chemistry, physics and biology: they are dependant on science.
Do you not see the irony of sitting at a computer and posting a comment on the internet about how little faith you have in science?

If I were you
And I wish that I were you
All the things I'd do
To make myself turn blue

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Panda
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Message 138 of 307 (655634)
03-12-2012 8:56 AM
Reply to: Message 137 by shadow71
03-12-2012 8:52 AM


From his own mouth...
shadow71 writes:
Ok. You have convinced me. Dawkins is not an atheist.
Anthony Kenny: "Why don't you call yourself an agnostic then?"
Richard Dawkins: "I do."
Anthony Kenny: "But you are described as the world's most famous atheist!"
Richard Dawkins: "Well, not by me."
http://richarddawkins.net/...lliams-archbishop-of-canterbury

Tradition and heritage are all dead people's baggage. Stop carrying it!

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Panda
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Message 234 of 307 (659184)
04-13-2012 9:12 AM
Reply to: Message 227 by foreveryoung
04-13-2012 12:08 AM


Re: Inefficient thread
foreveryoung writes:
I can't give you evidence because you won't fucking tell me what evidence is.
tbh: we were expecting you to use a dictionary or google.
Was that too much to expect?
Well, here is a brief description from Wiki:
quote:
Evidence in its broadest sense includes everything that is used to determine or demonstrate the truth of an assertion. Giving or procuring evidence is the process of using those things that are either (a) presumed to be true, or (b) were themselves proven via evidence, to demonstrate an assertion's truth. Evidence is the currency by which one fulfills the burden of proof.
foreveryoung writes:
You mutherfuckers like throwing that word around because it is absolutely meaningless.
You appear to have confused your own ignorance of the meaning of evidence with an actual absence of meaning.
foreveryoung writes:
It will remain meaningless until you can define it in a meaningful way that somebody other than your atheistic drones can use.
Evidence has never been meaningless - you have simply been uneducated.
quote:
In scientific research evidence is accumulated through observations of phenomena that occur in the natural world, or which are created as experiments in a laboratory or other controlled conditions. Scientific evidence usually goes towards supporting or rejecting a hypothesis.
One must always remember that the burden of proof is on the person making a contentious claim.(Wiki)
You can read more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_evidence

Tradition and heritage are all dead people's baggage. Stop carrying it!

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