Daniel Smith
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Joined: Sep. 2007
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| Quote (Arden Chatfield @ Feb. 01 2009,17:32) | | Quote (Daniel Smith @ Feb. 01 2009,14:44) | | Quote (Arden Chatfield @ Jan. 30 2009,17:11) | | Quote (Daniel Smith @ Jan. 30 2009,16:27) | | why isn't it right to at least postulate the possibility of God based on the sheer number of believers in the world throughout history? |
Since consensus apparently decides reality for you, I assume that sometime in the next couple decades, when the number of Muslims passes the number of Christians, you'll switch to Islam?
Also, there's close to a billion Hindus. I assume you 'at least postulate the possibility' that it's true? |
The number of believers in the supernatural - be they Hindu, Muslim, Jew, Buddhist, Christian or whatever - only reinforces my argument that these beliefs are there for a reason and therefore merit serious consideration.
Why do so many ancient traditions embrace creation as a mechanism as opposed to natural forces?
Consider this:
A) No one has ever seen anything supernatural.
B) Everyone has seen natural forces as work.
C) Most people still credit the supernatural with all ultimate origins.
Why is that? |
You're avoiding the question, big surprise.
So Hinduism is just as valid to you as Christianity?
Hinduism`s time scale for the age of the earth is certainly less nonsensical than Christianity`s. How do you choose?
Buddhists don`t believe in a Creator God. How does that fit into your "if lots of people think it, it must be true" litmus test?
| Quote | | It is my contention, Bill, that only God can build such systems. Only an omniscient being could take into account all the variables necessary to make a living organism from earthly chemicals. Your silence - and the silence of science - confirms my contention. |
Do you really not understand why people laugh at you when you say "it's like, totally complicated and stuff, so God must have done it", and claim this is a devastating argument that scientists should adopt? |
I don't accept those other religions as true - if that's what you're fishing for. I just think it's pretty amazing the sheer number of 'evolved individuals' who still believe in the supernatural. It's got to be troubling for you and your type (assuming you're the atheist type).
As for the 'complicatedness' of life - We've not even begun to scratch the surface of it and you act like it's wrong to be overwhelmed. I guess when you've got a point to prove...
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"If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance." Orville Wright
"The presence or absence of a creative super-intelligence is unequivocally a scientific question." Richard Dawkins
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