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This is the exact reason I am an atheist. I can't just pretend that something is a somehow a circle and a square at the same time--it is completely impossible, be definition. Any nominal child can tell you that.
Why would I want to delude myself in order to hold a belief for which there is no...
This is the point I was sort of hoping he would get to on his own. I find that the force of an argument is much greater when you reach it yourself.
And your British spellings make little red squiggles in my editor :D
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Excellent concept. I'd be happy to take the opposing viewpoint--having been a theist myself, I feel I am probably qualified to take the opposing viewpoint without resorting to the straw-men so often thrown about by atheists arguing from the theistic point of view.
I will begin with the simple...
You have almost learned something. Science never says anything with 100% accuracy. Why? Because an aggregate of probabilities can never reach 100% certainty; the error bars can get smaller, but they never go to zero.
Did you seriously just make the leap from a physical system governed by...
Do you even grasp the concept of probability? The wave function is not the most complete description that we can have of a physical system, but I'll let that slide for now because I really don't feel like explaining higher mathematics to someone who obviously does not possess the prerequisites...
You do realize that this statement is a non sequitur, don't you? It's logically impossible.
I'm not a geologist, but I would hazard a guess that we would see a uniform, worldwide sedimentary layer. I would expect to find a lot of fossils buried in that sedimentary layer - of all kinds of...
I had a similar conundrum during the last Presidential election here in the US. I live in a state that has gone to the Republicans for the last 35 years; I was bummed that my vote wouldn't count amid the many brain-dead ditto-heads running around. Well, lo-and-behold, in 2008 my state carried...
I hate this debate because it is completely pointless. The concepts of agnosticism and atheism encompass completely different realms of thought. Let's explore this for a moment.
Agnostic is derived from the Greek, gnosis meaning "knowledge." The prefix "a" in Greek denotes the concept of...