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Postby Unhealthy2 » Wed Nov 24, 2010 4:23 pm

Gagatron wrote:It's unfortunate that reason is flawed.


Except that it's not flawed. Reason only spits out garbage when:

1) Garbage is inserted.

2) Reason is used incorrectly, and thus not used at all.
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Postby The State of Utah » Wed Nov 24, 2010 4:24 pm

Unhealthy2 wrote:
Gagatron wrote:It's unfortunate that reason is flawed.


Except that it's not flawed. Reason only spits out garbage when:

1) Garbage is inserted.

2) Reason is used incorrectly, and thus not used at all.



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Postby Unhealthy2 » Wed Nov 24, 2010 4:25 pm

The State of Utah wrote:Faith is the believing in something


No, faith is believing something without rational justification. The lack of any rational reason to believe in a god makes belief in a god a completely arbitrary idea. Hence, it is rationally justified to reject it unless new information is presented which rationally justifies it.
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Postby Unhealthy2 » Wed Nov 24, 2010 4:26 pm

The State of Utah wrote:ever heard of Decartes?


Yeah, what of him?
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Postby Genivar » Wed Nov 24, 2010 4:26 pm

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The State of Utah wrote:Faith is the believing in something


No, faith is believing something without rational justification. The lack of any rational reason to believe in a god makes belief in a god a completely arbitrary idea. Hence, it is rationally justified to reject it unless new information is presented which rationally justifies it.

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Postby The State of Utah » Wed Nov 24, 2010 4:27 pm

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No... Faith is the believing in something, An atheist doesn't believe in a god, so they believe that there is no god. that is their faith Atheisim is a faith.

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So atheism isn't a faith because it doesn't believe in god so it's marked by the fact that it doesn't believe, SO the premise is... as long as somebody believes that there is nothing by not believing in something it's not a faith OK I GET IT!!!... could you explain it to me?
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Postby Gagatron » Wed Nov 24, 2010 4:28 pm

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Gagatron wrote:Nothing irrational about belief in a creator.


Believing in anything without rational justification is, by definition, irrational.

Not everything you dislike or disagree with is stupid.


Correct, but everything irrational is stupid.


My rational justification for the existence of a God is the probability of the world existing without one being miniscule.

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Postby Sociobiology » Wed Nov 24, 2010 4:29 pm

Unhealthy2 wrote:
Gagatron wrote:It's unfortunate that reason is flawed.


Except that it's not flawed. Reason only spits out garbage when:

1) Garbage is inserted.

2) Reason is used incorrectly, and thus not used at all.


reason has to coupled with testing and evidence or there is no way to establish what is garbage, thats the whole point of science.
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Postby Unhealthy2 » Wed Nov 24, 2010 4:29 pm

The State of Utah wrote:So atheism isn't a faith because it doesn't believe in god so it's marked by the fact that it doesn't believe, SO the premise is... as long as somebody believes that there is nothing by not believing in something it's not a faith OK I GET IT!!!... could you explain it to me?


Atheism is not the belief in nothing. It's the lack of belief in god or, at its strongest, the belief that no god exists. Nothing about believing that no god exists necessitates believing in nothing. Just because someone doesn't believe in god doesn't mean that they don't believe in anything. That's terrible reasoning.
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Postby New Kereptica » Wed Nov 24, 2010 4:29 pm

Gagatron wrote:My rational justification for the existence of a God is the probability of the world existing without one being miniscule.


It isn't, though.
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Postby Gagatron » Wed Nov 24, 2010 4:31 pm

New Kereptica wrote:
Gagatron wrote:My rational justification for the existence of a God is the probability of the world existing without one being miniscule.


It isn't, though.


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Postby The State of Utah » Wed Nov 24, 2010 4:31 pm

Unhealthy2 wrote:
The State of Utah wrote:Faith is the believing in something


No, faith is believing something without rational justification. The lack of any rational reason to believe in a god makes belief in a god a completely arbitrary idea. Hence, it is rationally justified to reject it unless new information is presented which rationally justifies it.


So it's rational to beleive that there is NO god. where is it written in the manuals of the world and how it works that there is a 100% chance that god Does NOT exist.???
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Postby Unhealthy2 » Wed Nov 24, 2010 4:31 pm

Gagatron wrote:My rational justification for the existence of a God is the probability of the world existing without one being miniscule.


Except that no one has ever really been able to give concrete proof that the probability of a world existing without god is small. They always assert that it's incredibly small, but any actually probability numbers or calculations are rarely produced, and when they are, they're never explained.

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"Stupid" is now a swear word?
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Postby Unhealthy2 » Wed Nov 24, 2010 4:33 pm

The State of Utah wrote:So it's rational to beleive that there is NO god. where is it written in the manuals of the world and how it works that there is a 100% chance that god Does NOT exist.???


So now not believing in god is equivalent to believing that it's absolutely impossible for a god to exist? How?
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Postby The State of Utah » Wed Nov 24, 2010 4:33 pm

New Kereptica wrote:
Gagatron wrote:My rational justification for the existence of a God is the probability of the world existing without one being miniscule.


It isn't, though.


or is it??? think for a second don't just agree with what you want but actuly use those mental faculties that god that doesn't exist gave you. or maybe that billion year process they call evolution... or a combinaiton of both. or a veriation...
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Postby Gagatron » Wed Nov 24, 2010 4:33 pm

Unhealthy2 wrote:"Stupid" is now a swear word?

No I was just reminding you of the things you have done that are stupid, to let you know that you are not perfect in this argument.
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Postby Unhealthy2 » Wed Nov 24, 2010 4:34 pm

Sociobiology wrote:reason has to coupled with testing and evidence or there is no way to establish what is garbage, thats the whole point of science.


Yes, but the point of reason is to work with given premises, not to derive them. As such, reason is not flawed.
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Postby Genivar » Wed Nov 24, 2010 4:34 pm

The State of Utah wrote:
Genivar wrote: :palm:


So atheism isn't a faith because it doesn't believe in god so it's marked by the fact that it doesn't believe, SO the premise is... as long as somebody believes that there is nothing by not believing in something it's not a faith OK I GET IT!!!... could you explain it to me?

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Postby Unhealthy2 » Wed Nov 24, 2010 4:35 pm

The State of Utah wrote:or is it??? think for a second don't just agree with what you want but actuly use those mental faculties that god that doesn't exist gave you. or maybe that billion year process they call evolution... or a combinaiton of both. or a veriation...


This post has such horrible grammar and syntax that I can barely manage to catch even a glimpse of what it means. Please write this in a clearer manner.
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Postby New Kereptica » Wed Nov 24, 2010 4:35 pm

The State of Utah wrote:or is it??? think for a second don't just agree with what you want but actuly use those mental faculties that god that doesn't exist gave you. or maybe that billion year process they call evolution... or a combinaiton of both. or a veriation...


The latter. Though it's closer to four-odd billion years, I think.
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Postby Gagatron » Wed Nov 24, 2010 4:35 pm

Unhealthy2 wrote:
Sociobiology wrote:reason has to coupled with testing and evidence or there is no way to establish what is garbage, thats the whole point of science.


Yes, but the point of reason is to work with given premises, not to derive them. As such, reason is not flawed.


But the human mind is, and reason works by the power of the human mind alone. Sometimes your "reason" doesn't mean much.
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Postby Unhealthy2 » Wed Nov 24, 2010 4:36 pm

Gagatron wrote:No I was just reminding you of the things you have done that are stupid, to let you know that you are not perfect in this argument.


Yes, and I make sure to punish myself every day for my lack of being perfect.
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Postby The State of Utah » Wed Nov 24, 2010 4:36 pm

Unhealthy2 wrote:
The State of Utah wrote:So it's rational to beleive that there is NO god. where is it written in the manuals of the world and how it works that there is a 100% chance that god Does NOT exist.???


So now not believing in god is equivalent to believing that it's absolutely impossible for a god to exist? How?


isn't that athiesm? A Theism Non Deo. No God? or are you just a agnostic.
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Postby New Kereptica » Wed Nov 24, 2010 4:37 pm

The State of Utah wrote:isn't that athiesm? A Theism Non Deo. No God? or are you just a agnostic.


That isn't even anti-theism, bro.
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Postby Gagatron » Wed Nov 24, 2010 4:37 pm

Unhealthy2 wrote:
Gagatron wrote:No I was just reminding you of the things you have done that are stupid, to let you know that you are not perfect in this argument.


Yes, and I make sure to punish myself every day for my lack of being perfect.


Well that's not healthy. Repenting and gaining forgiveness feels much better.
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Zilam wrote:It always strikes me funny when people always complain "If God is good, why does he allow evil to exist"....Yet when God destroys every evil person in a flood, its a bad thing.

All sin is deserving of death.

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