Do You Believe In A "Soul"?

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  1. doombug

    doombug Well-Known Member

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    I have to give you kudos especially on 2.
     
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    Humans are going to Mars, a dead planet, we are going to bring life, people animals and food to grow. God is proven once this happens, look to the living future instead of the dead past and you will see the light
     
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    No, I don't. And neither do you.

    All any of us have is the choice to believe a specific (and almost always geographically and socially convenient) myth.
     
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    Going to help us out and respond to those parameters with your evidence? Go on, you know you want to :)
     
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    I kinda like this. Though I suspect that once we've done so .. gods will recede even further into historical novelty.
     
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    Atheist will look at this and say that it does not matter because life was here first, ignoring that we just did everything that the bible says God did
     
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    Asking, "If there is no God, what is the purpose of life?" is like asking, "If there is no master, whose slave will I be?" If your purpose of life is to submit as a slave, then your meaning comes from flattering the ego of a person whom who should detest.”
    Dan Barker


    It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
     
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    I see....so Man is God?
     
  9. TheDonald

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    God brought life to the Earth, or so the people who believe in God say. When man creates the technology to leave the Earth and populate a new planet, all the requirements of God have been fulfilled by man. Food adapted to grow on Mars is being designed now.................God is proved once this happens.

    But God is not really man, but the sum total of human knowledge used to survive and travel the Universe
     
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    I am working on a new thread.
     
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    That's the point. It would be US who did it, not some god/s.

    And we (atheists) generally don't 'ignore' the biblical explanations for life, any more or less than we ignore other religious explanations. It's not even a matter of ignoring - in the sense you mean - it's simply reading these things as old myths. Do you 'ignore' the Norse explanations of life? Or do you just accept them as old myths?
     
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    Start her up then, chop chop :)
     
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    Why call it 'god' then? Why not just call it what it is .. the sum of human knowledge.
     
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    Us as you say, were created in the image of God, if this is the exact genetic image then we are God, or at least given enough time will achieve a new planet as God said we did once before.

    Get over it, I proved God, and he hears every persons prayer, because he is them
     
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    Isn't God all knowing...............yup and all knowing is the sum total of human knowledge.

    God is proven
     
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    As is yours. I choose to make mine based on evidence, not threats. If there is a God and he is too evil and insane to resist the urge to torture all nonbelievers, he deserves neither respect nor praise.
     
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    Only if the one who designed the rules was the most evil and insane being that has ever existed. According to others, you'll be burning too. You are taking the same risk.
     
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    again, it's human knowledge proven. adding in an effectively meaningless word doesn't alter that truth.
     
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    which god? there are thousands.

    'proved god'? you typed a bunch of words.
     
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    God could be considered a verb here, the act of moving thru the universe. Once we make this move God is proved, by God himself who was created in the image of God.

    It's really simple
     
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    Yes, you can "prove" the existence of anything by meaninglessly redefining it. I define a Sasquatch as an overripe cantaloupe. Overripe cantaloupes exist, therefore Sasquatches exist.
     
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    You are in denial, I have just proved that humans are about to do everything in the bible that deals with creation, short of creating a new planet. That said we will create new planets merely by finding them as there are already trillions of them
     
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    None of which has to do with the existence of any reasonably defined God. And now, finding something is not the same thing as creating. That's absurdly wrong.
     
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    You are in denial.
     
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    Columbus created a new continent, by finding it, he also created new trade routes by his find, they are related
     

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