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1) I made that point in my post. They are used as supporting evidence (as is a witness) when the words happen to mirror some personal experience. But then when the words are shown to support bad...

That's fine if you don't want to share, I suppose if they are too personal (or whatever your reasons) that's your business.

The same books that those religions use are cited as proof (or at least corroborating evidence) of his existence, yet somehow that's a different story...

And even more full of arguments from incredulity, circular reasoning, wishful thinking, and non sequiturs. :)

"Get your own sand"? Making audible sounds implies being a real entity. Sorry, God...

Maybe this time the details will be retained so that we can actually make progress in this debate... :hmmm:

Life forming polymers have been shown to be capable of forming by the natural mechanism...

No, it is illogical to invoke higher complexity as an explanation of lower complexity.



That's fine for you, but your experiences and observations are not repeatable or testable by outside...

It's the VPU gene that is found in HIV-1 but not HIV-2, it is thought to alter the way HIV infects T-cells and IIRC has to do with which animal species HIV can infect.

The Intelligent Design...

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The analogy between scientific theories being capricious endeavors in dot connecting and religious belief falls flat because it assumes that there is no wieght to plausibility, not to...

Someone should really tell all those scientisits that their critical thinking skills have faltered. :rolleyes:

Evolution is known to occur, we have many examples of it happening (recently, Dr....

You guys are totally right, religious establishments have additional problems, mostly rooted in human greed and egotism.

But I do feel that it's important to make clear the issue that belief in...

The point I was trying to make is that they looked elsewhere for those answers, while you've said (and many people have done the same throughout history) the God offers all answers if you'll accept...

I didn't say they were atheists.

They were practicing secularists who went against the religious notions of their times, they doubted the religious conventions is all I meant.

Doubting the...

But surely you see the predicament here?!?!

The people who want to understand our existence the most are the scientists who spend countles years of their lives devoted to answering the questions...

"Adrenaline rush" has a lot of connotation behind it, but the truth is that grief, despair, depression, mourning, etc. have the same chemicals involved as situations of extreme peril or surprise.
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Oooh, sorry that is incorrect.

Entropy applies to matter and energy in the state that we know it in currently, the temperatures and pressures present in the "pre-big-bang" "universe" would have...

This argument puts a bullet hole in the foot to anyone who uses it.

You mean that the simplest constituent of the Universe (energy) could not have come into existence without being created, but...

You realize the distinction between scientific theory and theory as used in the vernacular correct?

This hasn't been a liegitimate argument for a number of years.

It's fallacious because it presupposes purpose for the parts, which evolution does not.

It's not a valid analogy because the...

It's an adrenaline rush, the body's response to a percieved "fight or flight" scenario.

You feel it in your chest because the heart begins to beat faster and with more force, the lungs are...

That is also a weak analogy; you've sidestepped the part where there is no physical evidence for God, that is impossible to explain in other terms. Right now, God "exists" as a possibility, not a...

See point 4).

You are presupposing his existence, without which there is no evidence.

The human brain delights in discovering patterns, this is what separates us from much of the animal...

I'll take a shot at this as well...

The mind and the intellect are just abstracts about the operations carried out by the brain.

We see people who's brains have a tendency to find patterns...

1) This a fallacious weak analogy between something that is manifest in the natural world (electricity) and that which is not (God). Lightning bolts and static electricity create physical evidence of...

The admission that something can exist which you have previously seen absolutely no evidence for, of which no logical argument has ever supported, and is entirely outside of the realm of what can be...

Mark,

Exactly, none of us can know the supernatural, and if it is such a hazy abyss of possibilities, it's futile to speak in concrete terms about it. Some of us just go one step further and say...