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Atheists soon a majority?

Discussion in 'Religion & Philosophy' started by mbk734, Sep 30, 2018.

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  1. Mamasaid

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    Nope, getting colder.
     
    Mamasaid, Oct 10, 2018
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  2. Polydectes

    Polydectes Well-Known Member

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    Well making people pay dues to work for a company has to be one or the other.
     
    Polydectes, Oct 10, 2018
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  3. Mamasaid

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    No it doesn't, as you can just seek employment elsewhere if you choose to do so. Thieves are thieves only because of lack of consent; otherwise, it's a gift.
     
    Mamasaid, Oct 10, 2018
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    Look is up like everyone else....that way you can "not believe" someone else.
    *hint* start with ancient seas in America.
     
    tecoyah, Oct 11, 2018
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  5. Mamasaid

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    A rational adult, upon happening on such a thought, would just look up the answer to that. Hint: start with how long that took.
     
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    Mamasaid, Oct 11, 2018
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    Sonuva...
     
    Mamasaid, Oct 11, 2018
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    Bullshit it's extortion.
     
    Polydectes, Oct 11, 2018
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  8. Mamasaid

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    Because Pepe says so, I guess....
     
    Mamasaid, Oct 11, 2018
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    How did we get off on labor unions in the religious section?
     
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    Polydectes, Oct 11, 2018
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  10. WillReadmore

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    You do realize that you're talking about a miniscule incident that in NO WAY suggests there is sufficient water anywhere.

    Please also note that condensation (rain) has a heat affect that would be MONUMENTAL if it involved enough water to cover the earth. Plus, then what? The water just "went away"?
    Again, you're not thinking this through. Animating dead flesh is not even remotely related to abiogenesis.
     
    WillReadmore, Oct 11, 2018
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    Ha! No idea!
     
    Mamasaid, Oct 11, 2018
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    Conversations are strange how they turn huh?
     
    Polydectes, Oct 11, 2018
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    The newly formed oceans.
     
    Paul7, Oct 11, 2018
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    Of course, the usual sense of “rational” is the application of logic to objectively verifiable premises. Religions, on the other hand, usually rest on unverifiable metaphysical assumptions as well as myths, mysticism, and superstition. You might be better off conceding reason to those who hold a reductionist scientific worldview and argue its inability to fully describe the universe.
     
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    Demonstrably false.
     
    Mamasaid, Oct 11, 2018
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    But that would do nothing to advance his position, as not only does religion also not fully explain the universe, it explains exactly NOTHING.
     
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    True.
     
    Jeffrey Williams, Oct 11, 2018
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    The existing oceans are not even close to being enough to cover earth.
     
    WillReadmore, Oct 11, 2018
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    Well duh, or they would cover the Earth right now, wouldn't they? You're not going to get through such a thick skull.
     
    Mamasaid, Oct 11, 2018
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    Explained here:

    https://christiananswers.net/q-aig/aig-floodwater.html

    "Indeed, if the entire Earth's surface were leveled by smoothing out the topography of not only the land surface but also the rock surface on the ocean floor, the waters of the ocean would cover the Earth's surface to a depth of 1.7 miles (2.7 kilometers)."

    The uplifting of the mountains happened towards the end of the Flood, as evidenced by the fact that upper parts of Mt. Everest contain ocean fossils.
     
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    Maybe you could fully explain what set off the Big Bang, or how the first non-life became life.
     
    Paul7, Oct 11, 2018
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    We will never be able to explain most things in the universe (although we really are starting to understand how nucleotides began life), but that in no way implies there are any gods. There are always those, however, who respond to the limits of our understanding by turning to religious mythology as an explanation. That’s what is referred to as the god of the gaps.
     
    Jeffrey Williams, Oct 11, 2018
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    Most of them have simply replaced theism with statism.
     
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    Most people who question the legitimacy of religions distinguish religion from spirituality. There is very little that is spiritual about today's Christianity.
     
    Kode, Oct 11, 2018
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    LOL!!! Are you one of those people who simply MUST have an answer to all the mysteries, even if the answer is obvious myth?
     
    Kode, Oct 11, 2018
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