Thursday, September 11, 2014
Yahweh gets to decide who you are allowed to love!
in Christian theology Yahweh gets to decide who you are allowed to love! You are not even allowed to cry for the people in hell- you are required by law to be happy in heaven!
Wednesday, September 10, 2014
Evil in the world
There is good and there is bad. If you say something is bad, someone can challenge you on it - why do you think it is bad? how can you fix it? how might it be leveraged for good? These things require a lot of thinking. Instead of trying to understand you can just say "evil" and you are done - no thinking required.
Friday, September 5, 2014
how is "common ancestry" is falsifiable?
Please explain how "common ancestry" is falsifiable.
If it could be shown that some progeny could not be related to its parents through set theory, then common ancestry would be wrong. In the "common designer" argument, for example the arrangement and changes in DNA could be (are allowed to be) mixed up by either random patterns or patterns that violate set theory. This case has never been observed in nature.
However, the "common designer" idea itself could never be falsified because the first step in falsifying any designer is to specify the abilities and limits of the designer which is the exact opposite thing "common designer" proponents are trying to do.
However, the "common designer" idea itself could never be falsified because the first step in falsifying any designer is to specify the abilities and limits of the designer which is the exact opposite thing "common designer" proponents are trying to do.
Saturday, August 30, 2014
account for all murders and wars.
"Yes. I'm sure that secular ideologies have killed more people in the 20th century than religious ideologies have. It's not even close." Daniel Halverson
I think you have to gerrymander the idea of secularism to say that. For example the secular ideology of medicine has saved more lies in the past two centuries to more than account for all murders and wars.
Thursday, August 28, 2014
Math, logic, and god concepts.
If someone writes 2+2=5 they have simply failed to understand the rules and language of math - they haven't found an "infinitely complex" math problem.
All logic works the same way - it is just a language used to describe reality. And so when YOU make an illogical claim or hold an irrational position - YOU haven't found an "infinitely complex" logic problem, you have simply failed to be logical or reasonable.
Everything that exists outside of your imagination must submit to logic. Your god concept does not, rendering it an imaginary thing without possibility for any other resolution. Unless you are also willing to just throw away math - your position is untenable.
All logic works the same way - it is just a language used to describe reality. And so when YOU make an illogical claim or hold an irrational position - YOU haven't found an "infinitely complex" logic problem, you have simply failed to be logical or reasonable.
Everything that exists outside of your imagination must submit to logic. Your god concept does not, rendering it an imaginary thing without possibility for any other resolution. Unless you are also willing to just throw away math - your position is untenable.
Sins of the feeble mind
Largely religious people simply don't understand math, science, logic, or even abstract thought. They certainly do not think critically by definition.
And so religious people generally have no appreciable concept of useful information and how to evaluate evidence, which is why engineers are much less religious than average. That is to say anything deemed religious is based on pure hearsay which is completely crap evidence without useful purpose and not suitable for any responsible or educated adult.
In short - all hearsay evidence (religion) is only evidence to a profoundly feeble mind.
Math and Science
If you have an empty bag, you put two apples in the bag, and then you put two pears in the bag - do you have to look in the bag to verify there are 4 pieces of fruit? In science, 2+2=4 is sufficient evidence to establish that there are 4 pieces of fruit in the bag - without even looking. Science uses math to establish the orbits of the planets and evolution of humans in the exact same way.
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