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Starman wrote:
"Prophecy" is a noun. The intended word is "prophesy," a verb.
Since grammar is far simpler than scientific rationality, how can someone so lacking in grammar be trusted to espouse scientific rationality?
'Cause some of us consider rationality rises above the ability to spell words correctly.
Clownboat's rationality is splashed across these pages.
Starrider wrote:
As to "proof," that term is bantered about endlessly by atheists who demand it of others, but never provide any themselves. The atheist claim that "we have nothing to prove" is mere wordplay. Atheists cannot pin their "rationality" on unproven beliefs in the Magic Nothing.
How much evidence does one need in order to accept that an atheist rejects the claims of those who can't show they speak truth?
Starrider wrote:
Matter, energy, time, space, information, correspondence, beauty, consciousness and things unseen in our universe were either created by:
a. An Intelligent Creator, or
b. Nothing.
Falsifus dichotomous.
Starrider wrote:
Nothing is not a "quantum vacuum." That is something, perhaps undefinable and impossible but it is not "nothing."
Nothing must also be something, if there you sit a-tellin' about it.
Starrider wrote:
To the extent that there is some option, please provide it here. "Evolution" is not an option.
"Why won't the atheists tell us all about out, but just don't mention that mean ol' evolution when ya do!"
Starrider wrote:
The default position of atheists is that since "xtians" cannot "prove" (to your satisfaction, always) that there IS a God, then there must not and cannot be a God.
You couldn't be wronger if ya wrote that in all caps.
Starrider wrote:
This is utterly without reason or logic due to the fact that even IF something cannot be proven, it is not necessarily false.
Which is why we seldom see atheists saying it.
Starrider wrote:
Better would be for atheists to prove that Magic Nothing created everything.
Better that one who doesn't understand atheists quit telling what all it is atheists think or believe.
Starrider wrote:
The gravitational constant seems to be the most precise of physical constants. If the gravitational constant were different by as little as 1 part in 10 to the 120th, there would be no stars, and no humans.
Argumentum ad ain't that a big ol' whoppin' numberum.
The odds of something existing, where there it is being all existy, is 1.
Starrider wrote:
Richard Dawkins defines "impossible" as 1 chance in 10 to the 40th power.
Then he's wrong. That which is impossible is just that.
Starrider wrote:
I have seen it defined elsewhere as 1 in 10 to the 50th.
The gravitational constant is impossibly precise by scores of orders of magnitude.
It is only one of many such exquisite physical constants which are so clearly inexplicable by anything other than an Intelligent Creator.
Argument from incredulity.
Starrider wrote:
By way of comparison, 10^50th grains of sand would fill 15 spheres the size of our solar system out to pluto. The probability of selecting 1 specially marked grain of sand, in 10^50 grains, while blindfolded, on your first and only try, is impossible.
And another'n from incredulity.
Starrider wrote:
Those who believe otherwise should first contact Richard Dawkins and argue the point with him, and then prove their contention by experiment.
Nope.
Atheists are not bound to argue in the manner you deem fit.
Starrider wrote:
I find the arguments propounded by atheists to be hateful, anti-scientific, unintelligent, and irrational.
I find the same occurs in arguments by theists.
One's displeasure is not sufficient reason to reject arguments.
Starrider wrote:
Atheists constantly invoke the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy, Santa Claus, and the Flying Spaghetti Monster, while giggling and pretending to be erudite. Such childishness has no place in any rational discussion.
Theists constantly invoke God, while giggling and pretending to be erudite. Such childishness has no place in any rational discussion.
Starrider wrote:
In rebuttal to such atheist pretenses, I ask why you believe in your Magic Nothing Fairy.
In rebuttal to such theist pretenses, I ask why you believe in your Magic Nothing Fairy.
It just befuddles me how a theist can invoke images of "Magic Fairies" and not understand why atheists think theists have 'em one themselves.
Starrider wrote:
Nowhere has mankind ever seen nothing spontaneously create something material and tangible.
Nowhere has mankind ever seen a god spontaneously create something material and tangible.
Starrider wrote:
Invoking this concept for the entire universe is without precedent. If you believe it happened, please prove your contention.
A belief is not a contention.
Since knowing that is far simpler than scientific rationality, how can someone so lacking in that understanding be trusted to espouse scientific rationality?
Starrider wrote:
I accept the insuperable statistics of physical constant fine-tuning, just for starters.
Well don't that eat all the carrots out the cake, you demand atheists support contentions you place on 'em, while doing nothing to support your'n.
I call hypocrisy.
Starrider wrote:
More on other insuperable statistics demonstrating an Intelligent Creator in another post I shall write.
You got the odds wrong above, I have little expectation you'll get these stats right, or at least the concludings based on 'em.
I might be Teddy Roosevelt, but I ain't.
-Punkinhead Martin