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| Quote (Patrick @ Nov. 30 2012,19:44) | | Quote (JLT @ Nov. 30 2012,19:32) | So, I still have the UD comments in my feed reader, although nowadays I mostly ignore them. But this one caught my eye.
| Quote | JDH
So I think we already have proof of the supernatural.
1. Place X number of intelligent people in a room who all speak the same language.
2. Provide an accurate clock which can be seen by all.
3. Tell them them to raise their right hands precisely Y seconds from NOW.
Given our fore-knowledge of crowd behavior ( see for exapmle films of the Nazi army before Hitler ) we can assume such an experiment would be successful ( all right hands raised in the precise time as humanly measured ) and that X and Y are completely arbitrary ( space and time constraints allowing ).
I contend there is no natural explanation for the above.
1. From what we know about human beings, it was a voluntary response to raise the right hand ( they have the ability to NOT do). We can show this by before hand telling an arbitrary population of the group that they will receive 1 million dollars if they do not follow the command given.
2. There is no conceivable natural way that the mere speaking of the words at T=0 formed a natural set of preconditions in all X people causing the raising of the right hand at T=Y. This solution is highly improbable.
3. Therefore it only makes sense that the X people made a willful decision to tie some abstract future event ( the ticking of clock hands arbitrarily forward in time ) to a willful act of raising their hands.
4. But booth of the above willful acts ( deciding to tie the act to a future event, and executing the act at that time ) being determined by an immaterial will lies outside the realm of the natural and are supernatural events.
5. Thus the existence of the supernatural is proven.
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TL;DR: people raising their hands when told to do so proves the existence of the supernatural (and Jesus, presumably).
I just had to post this, it's such a fine example of pure and undiluted TARD, brought tears to my eyes. |
Ahh, that's the good stuff. Slipping in "immaterial will" takes it from the ridiculous to the sublime. |
Why then do they blame Darwin and not God for Hitler?
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"[...] the type of information we find in living systems is beyond the creative means of purely material processes [...] Who or what is such an ultimate source of information? [...] from a theistic perspective, such an information source would presumably have to be God."
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