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Jon

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Message 15 of 301 (435622)
11-22-2007 12:51 AM

Reply to: Message 1 by Cold Foreign Object
11-21-2007 10:11 PM

Why they can't...

CFO:

We did have a topic very similar to this not too long ago (Proof for God's Non-existance?). That topic is now closed, but it does have a lot of points addressed here and there. Maybe folks would want to make sure they don't simply repeat that thread?

As for my opinion on this: The atheists will never be able to show you positive evidence for no-God. Why? Because it doesn't exist. Instead, they will use sophistry to convince you of such malarkey and impossibilities - i.e., they will begin arguing like Biblical Fundamentalist. It really does become quite sad.

Jon

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Message 39 of 301 (435698)
11-22-2007 12:58 PM

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11-22-2007 7:26 AM

Re: Why they can't...

Here's an example of sad sophistry from that thread, Jon. Someone tries to use mathematics inappropriately to prove that a God who created this earth flat cannot be disproved.

Inappropriate, eh? Well, that has yet to be demonstrated, on that thread, or in this post.

Jon

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Message 49 of 301 (435748)
11-22-2007 3:46 PM

Reply to: Message 33 by Phat
11-22-2007 10:40 AM

Re: What came first? God or Dirt?

This whole idea of not knowing really bothers me.

Um... but if you make up your answer, you don't know it just as much as you didn't know it before you made up your answer.

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Message 68 of 301 (435809)
11-23-2007 3:01 AM

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11-23-2007 2:54 AM

Re: What came first? God or Dirt?

No other way... sorry, man. Reason and logic is all we have. You can't just make stuff up without reason. IF you make it up,l you must test it against logc... place ina dsimple

Jon

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Message 162 of 301 (436461)
11-25-2007 10:37 PM

Reply to: Message 11 by crashfrog
11-21-2007 10:51 PM

Silly rabbit...

I have no positive evidence, because none can exist; instead, it's the negative evidence that supports atheism. There's nothing faith-based about that.

Argument from Ignorance

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Message 167 of 301 (436474)
11-26-2007 12:21 AM

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11-25-2007 10:43 PM

Absence of evidence is evidence of absence

that's how you know when you're out of milk.

Are you saying you never know when you're out of milk, Jon?

C'mon, I'll tell you the same thing I always tell ya, get your head out of your ass and learn to debate like an adult.

Jon

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