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Pressie

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Message 35 of 223 (707402)
09-27-2013 2:43 AM

Reply to: Message 32 by Upright BiPed
09-26-2013 10:25 PM

It doesn't bode well when it starts with In a material universe,...... I mean, we've only got one example of a Universe. We live in it. And it is material.

The beginning of the sentence implies that there are other non-material Universes.

This immediately warns me of a hidden agenda and that I can expect some long, religious word salad to follow. I'd rather not even bother struggling through it.

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Message 42 of 223 (707667)
09-30-2013 7:40 AM

Reply to: Message 38 by Upright BiPed
09-27-2013 6:23 PM

Upright BiPed writes:

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Pressie,
"It doesn't bode well when it starts with In a material universe,...... I mean, we've only got one example of a Universe. We live in it. And it is material."
—Pressie

Agreed.

quote:
"This immediately warns me of a hidden agenda and that I can expect some long, religious word salad to follow. I'd rather not even bother struggling through it."
—Pressie

So, in not finding your expectations, you mention them as if you had, in place of a substantive response.

It was very substantive. Anything starting with a word salad in the first few words is not worth even looking at. I expect more word salads with nothing substantive to follow. Not worth looking at.

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Message 70 of 223 (724945)
04-23-2014 3:39 AM

Reply to: Message 69 by PaulK
04-23-2014 1:05 AM

Re: I agree - same old argument, different name

I also don't understand why he's trying to slam the word 'faith' here. Isn't faith to be an enormous virtue according to some Holy Books?

I mean; if I wanted to make derogatory remarks about creationism/ID, I wouldn't try to slam it by calling it 'science'.

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