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Recent content by Archaeopteryx

  1. Archaeopteryx

    atheism = unscientific

    - Sorry to interject. I want to apologize to everyone on this board for the animosity that has arisen from some of my earlier posts; it seems that my debating skills have not been developed to the point where my replies are not based on emotion. I enjoy debate, though it seems that I've more...
  2. Archaeopteryx

    atheism = unscientific

    Maybe you're right - I apologize. No, I think you terminated the maturity of this debate with this childish nonsense: May you, also, have a great day.
  3. Archaeopteryx

    atheism = unscientific

    What are you, four? This discussion is going nowhere. Who's really closed-minded? One who approaches the concept of a god with an open mind, who finds no evidence to support such a concept, and walks away naturally doubting its validity; or one who approaches the concept with the...
  4. Archaeopteryx

    atheism = unscientific

    Please explain how I first claimed that 'evidence found leads to no conclusion about deity.' On the contrary, evidence found regarding the existence of a deity would most certainly lead to a conclusion about the deity, if only that the deity may, in fact, exist. Please present this evidence...
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    atheism = unscientific

    No, this is not the conclusion that was drawn. Because in 600 BCE there was no evidence for the existence of Pluto, it would have been logically consistent to draw the conclusion then that Pluto did not exist, due explicitly to the lack of evidence for its existence. Because there is evidence...
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    Eternal damnation. Why?

    Quite a good flogging, yeah. I suspect I wouldn't have been quite the outspoken non-adherent I've shown myself to be in Biblical times; hell, the death of one's family or friends for mere blasphemy would pretty much set anyone into quiet obedience.
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    Eternal damnation. Why?

    Some form of reprehension must be installed into a nascent religion to regulate those who would disregard the religion as anything more than myth; if there is to be unquestionable loyalty to the religion by its followers and their descendants, there must be an ambient fear encapsulating the...
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    atheism = unscientific

    Neither gnosticism nor agnosticism is a position between atheism and theism. Theist - One who believes in the existence of a god or gods. Atheist - One who does not believe in the existence of a god or gods. Gnostic - One who believes that knowledge can be obtained about a god or gods. Agnostic...
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    String Theory and the Spiritual Realm

    Why are you directly judging this man's character so pretentiously? When in a debate with someone, one is not challenging their opponent directly, but rather their opponent's argument. I do not believe you to have summed up Opethian's entire disposition from this argument sufficiently enough to...
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    Rejection of Christ

    It's hard to articulate this point but I'll try - Christianity seems to be founded partially on the concept that one must deny all other forms of deism and therefore all other deities in order to be rewarded with the promised salvation referred to in its texts, and on the concept that all people...
  11. Archaeopteryx

    Atheists - which God don't you believe in?

    One could argue both ways - One could say that relative to any specific god or gods that a person does not believe in, that person holds an atheistic viewpoint. However, one could also argue from the more general standpoint that because a person does posit a belief in a god, that person has a...
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    Atheists - which God don't you believe in?

    Also, to answer the original question - "Which god don't you believe in?" - Abiding by the quintessence of the word atheist, the obvious answer is, "All of them." Posing this question is as silly to me as asking a painter, "Which color do you use?" or to a poker player, "Which card do you...
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    Atheists - which God don't you believe in?

    This is true - A logical conclusion would be to say that both statements are based on assumptions, and neither statement's validity can be verified, so neither position can be logically justified given the present information. However, given that there is no evidence supporting the idea that the...
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