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Coyote
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Message 146 of 506 (694919)
03-30-2013 9:35 PM
Reply to: Message 142 by designtheorist
03-30-2013 8:10 PM


Re: Hi Blue Jay
A Man Said to the Universe
by Stephen Crane
A man said to the universe:
"Sir I exist!"
"However," replied the universe,
"The fact has not created in me
A sense of obligation."
Fine tuning?
Perhaps life just adapted to existing conditions much like water adapts to a hole, thus creating a puddle?

Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge.
Belief gets in the way of learning--Robert A. Heinlein
How can I possibly put a new idea into your heads, if I do not first remove your delusions?--Robert A. Heinlein
It's not what we don't know that hurts, it's what we know that ain't so--Will Rogers

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Coyote
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Message 504 of 506 (697517)
04-26-2013 1:46 PM


Summary
Science can address many of the claims made by religions. Examples: a 6,000 year old earth and a global flood ca. 4,350 years ago, both of which have long since been disproved.
Other claims are not subject to direct scientific testing (a talking snake), but can be addressed indirectly: no snake species known to science is capable of talking.
But the primary problem is that believers have been able to present no convincing evidence to support their claims of deities and the supernatural. We are asked to take things "on faith" but science doesn't work that way.

Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge.
Belief gets in the way of learning--Robert A. Heinlein
How can I possibly put a new idea into your heads, if I do not first remove your delusions?--Robert A. Heinlein
It's not what we don't know that hurts, it's what we know that ain't so--Will Rogers

  
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