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PaulK Member Posts: 17822 Joined: Member Rating: 2.2 |
quote: Now see this is just insulting, and untrue.
quote: And more insults instead of rational discussion. You are doing great work illustrating my points.
quote: Percy coded this forum. So far as I can tell there’s no good reason to suppose that anyone coded the universe.
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Trump won ![]() Suspended Member (Idle past 1240 days) Posts: 1928 Joined: |
make sure u reply to the last post on the previous page
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PaulK Member Posts: 17822 Joined: Member Rating: 2.2 |
quote: Nobody understands it. And I follow parsimony in assuming the absence of a creator unless and until the evidence warrants it.
quote: My actual position certainly is.
quote: At the levels we usually deal with it isn’t. The complexities are found at the sub-atomic level.
quote: No, I am just unwilling to accept a weak analogy as sufficient argument. Because it is not.
quote: That is an assumption. Leaves are certainly shaped by evolution. Can you show that your squiggly lines would function equally well in the environments where the trees actually live? Can you show that your squiggly lines are a reasonable possibility given the developmental biology and evolutionary history of trees?
quote: That is your opinion, not fact. Though if it were fact it would certainly not depict the coder in a flattering light.
quote: As you have demonstrated, you are just an arrogant little kid shouting insults from his paddle-boat. (Do you even know what hubris means?)
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Trump won ![]() Suspended Member (Idle past 1240 days) Posts: 1928 Joined: |
do i know what hubris means?
do you know that i have an MA in english studies and that i worked with famous writers. assumptions are your trade. leaves that looked like squiggly lines could perform functionally just as well as what we have, if the code said it had to. don't you understand that? that everything is unique according to a certain molecular, biological, and genetic code? you are interested in how the universe works, but you are overlooking the "why" of why does it work the way it does. a car is designed to look and perform and operate a certain way. we're an infinitely more complex structure than a car, yet you don't seem concerned about who created our code.
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Trump won ![]() Suspended Member (Idle past 1240 days) Posts: 1928 Joined: |
the reason why our society is doomed and why satan controls our world is because no one wants to ask the interesting questions. they want to calf lick. they want to collect. they want to create uninteresting arguments that miss the point entirely.
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PaulK Member Posts: 17822 Joined: Member Rating: 2.2 |
quote: Then you know that hubris is not a good thing at all. And yet you boast of it.
quote: Funny you say that when you use them so often.
quote: Could they? Perhaps you’d like to back that up.
quote: That is not the same thing at all. The genes don’t get to dictate that squiggly line leaves must work. They just get to build leaves and those that work better have an advantage that make them more likely to be passed on to future generations.
quote: It’s an assumption that there is a why beyond the how. Until that can be shown there is nothing to overlook.
quote: The evidence is consistent with there being no who who created our code. So it’s an unnecessary assumption, and that is something nobody needs to be concerned with.
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Trump won ![]() Suspended Member (Idle past 1240 days) Posts: 1928 Joined: |
so there is a code and unless the code is sentient and created itself there had to be a coder
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PaulK Member Posts: 17822 Joined: Member Rating: 2.2 |
quote: Again, that’s an assumption.
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Trump won ![]() Suspended Member (Idle past 1240 days) Posts: 1928 Joined: |
has a video game ever written itself into existence? maybe banjo & kazooie?
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PaulK Member Posts: 17822 Joined: Member Rating: 2.2 |
quote: Humans aren’t any of those, nor are trees. Why don’t you go away and actually come back with a rational argument that takes the evidence into account?
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Phat Member Posts: 18262 From: Denver,Colorado USA Joined: Member Rating: 1.1 |
First of all, good morning. This is Thursday September 17th, my second day off in a row. Yesterday was a technological eye-opener, as I was scheduled to have a crown removed and redone on onof my upper teeth and I thought I knew what to expect...but as it turns out, the Dentist can now make the permanent crowns on the spot and cut the whole procedure in half time-wise as well as eliminating the need for dealing with a temporary crown for two weeks waiting for the crown to be made. Bad news for the Labs who used to make the crowns!
So after sleeping early, I awaken early at 5 am to continue my rambling, continuous debate and discussion with one of my favorite adversaries (jar of Texas) and his ongoing quest to get me to be honest with myself and think. As an aside to the peanut gallery (those bored enough to listen to us regurgitate the same issues again and again for over ten years) I have a desire to be honest with myself and others, as I essentially consider my discussions at EvC Forum to be training for encounters with like-minded skeptics, unbelievers, and critical thinkers whom I will someday meet in life.
jar writes: You are still lying Phat. Show me where I market a God at all? As I looked back and rethought the question, I realized that you indeed do *not* market a God at all. In fact, one of those Socratic Masters or Joe Wood convinced you early on that GOD is unknowable until after you die and to just simply throw the whole concept away---that apologists were con artists and misleading, and that if you simply *did* the message and answered that charge you would be a good member of Club: Christian. So in essence, the God that I see you marketing is no God at all.
jar writes: Iano was right about you. You are essentially a fifth columnist who is assigned by an enemy whom you don't even believe in and would laugh at to undermine Christian belief. Even Satan is useful to God, however. So stay honest and do your job and God will show you your errors before this life is over we hope. Phat, I simply report what is actually written in the Bible. By the way, being the scientific critical thinker that you are, do you believe that you will meet God after you die? Do you see the One you meet as being Jesus Christ? Just curious. "A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes." ~Mark Twain " *** far from science having buried God, not only do the results of science point towards his existence, but the scientific enterprise itself is validated by his existence.- Dr.John Lennox The whole war between the atheist and the theist comes down to this: the atheist believes a 'what' created the universe; the theist believes a 'who' created the universe.- Criss Jami, Killosophy
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Phat Member Posts: 18262 From: Denver,Colorado USA Joined: Member Rating: 1.1 |
Just a few quick notes, Chris. Good morning, by the way. Thursday my second day off this week.
I read with interest your exchange with PaulK. Though your argument is good, it starts with a conclusion. (That God exists) and PaulK is not one to ever easily accept such a conclusoion though if and when he does, he will be one of the strongest proponents for Christianity since he will first have accepted the evidence that convinces him. I like his style. CSP addressing AZPaul3 writes: Satan has a bag of tricks and the battle in the supernatural realm between good and evil is much bigger and more powerful than any rational scientifically minded person could ever guess.(They never guess anyway! the atheistic position is untenable. it's not that there could be a creator...there has to be. life cannot compose itself intelligently out of inert matter, just as inert matter can't compose itself...atheism is a fabricationthe greatest lie satan ever told was that you were not created ![]() CSP writes: Sometimes I am compelled to think that I waste my time around here, but I have grown fond of my adversaries. If nothing else they help me form better arguments as an apologist. (A term that jar despises) I wont spend more than an hour here eveery day, however. Life is short and we are in a spiritual war. RCC knows this which is why they have exorcists. One of my favorite Protestant Excorcists is Isaiah Saldivar. Here is a recent podcast with Vladimir Savchuk .
there is a serious demonic spirit on this forum phat as we know satan loves atheists, they work for free Casting Out Demons"A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes." ~Mark Twain " *** far from science having buried God, not only do the results of science point towards his existence, but the scientific enterprise itself is validated by his existence.- Dr.John Lennox The whole war between the atheist and the theist comes down to this: the atheist believes a 'what' created the universe; the theist believes a 'who' created the universe.- Criss Jami, Killosophy
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jar Member (Idle past 395 days) Posts: 34026 From: Texas!! Joined: |
Phat writes: Iano was right about you. You are essentially a fifth columnist who is assigned by an enemy whom you don't even believe in and would laugh at to undermine Christian belief. Even Satan is useful to God, however. So stay honest and do your job and God will show you your errors before this life is over we hope. By the way, being the scientific critical thinker that you are, do you believe that you will meet God after you die? Do you see the One you meet as being Jesus Christ? Just curious. I am a Christian and so most certainly do not undermine Christian beliefs Phat. What I do try to do though and it seems pretty successfully is expose the con artists that really undermine the Christian Faith. If I was not successful at that you would be able to present reasoned arguments that supported what the Apologists market. That never seems to happen though. And if there is life after death then perhaps I will meet GOD but I would be shocked if it is the picayune Jesus you and the Apologists market.
Phat writes: So in essence, the God that I see you marketing is no God at all. That's another silly post Phat. I have consistently said that I believe there is a GOD, the creator of all that is, seen and unseen. What I do point out and provide the evidence to support what I point out is that all the God(s) & god(s) that humans have ever discussed are not GOD but rather creations of human minds that exist only in those human minds.
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PaulK Member Posts: 17822 Joined: Member Rating: 2.2 |
quote: It isn’t good at all - in fact it is woefully underdeveloped. At this stage it is just an excuse to jump to a conclusion. Which makes it a very bad argument.
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Phat Member Posts: 18262 From: Denver,Colorado USA Joined: Member Rating: 1.1 |
jar writes: Interesting. Just from what you have written in the past, I can see where the change began at and through St.Johns. Apologetics teaches that Jesus is God. It seems that you were taught that God is a product of human imagination and that GOD is forever unknowable until perhaps after death.
And if there is life after death then perhaps I will meet GOD but I would be shocked if it is the picayune Jesus you and the Apologists market. jar, as he met Joe Wood writes:
Confirmation Statement: I remember telling him that "Jesus died for my sins and so if I believed in Him I was saved." and his laugh before he said, "Well, then I guess all this is a waste of time isn't it?"Do you renew your commitment to Jesus Christ? *One would thus think that after death we meet Jesus. But notice the wording of jar himself after Confirmation:
I do, and with God's grace I will follow him as my Savior and Lord. I remember on the drive home, all of us packed together in the car, mom and dad in the front seat and IIRC at the time, about 4 kids stuffed in the back, one of my parents asked me, Well, how do you feel now? So when did Jesus get bumped out of the way and GOD took over? Whats wrong with "marketing the concept" that Jesus is God? (Or more correctly GOD) and if you were somehow taught that Apologetic s was evil, where on earth can you even assume that GOD will help you when you wont even let Jesus do it?I think I can do what I need to do. I said, I know that you and GOD will help. You evidently refuse the idea that Jesus is God.You evidently support the idea that humans universally make the Gods they create. You DO acknowledge that we will meet GOD when we die. (in your belief) Yet you wont accept that Jesus is this GOD."A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes." ~Mark Twain " *** far from science having buried God, not only do the results of science point towards his existence, but the scientific enterprise itself is validated by his existence.- Dr.John Lennox The whole war between the atheist and the theist comes down to this: the atheist believes a 'what' created the universe; the theist believes a 'who' created the universe.- Criss Jami, Killosophy
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