... Randy C: But Victor, NO ONE ON EARTH has the "blind faith that the properties of matter are fixed". Quite the contrary. For example, EVERYONE on Earth has...
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VictorM
ptolemy1022
Jun 21, 2012 11:14 pm
... No one doubts that matter can change state from water to ice or steam. No one doubts that water combines with plastic silicone to form a rubbery product...
74428
Randy C
carumba17
Jun 21, 2012 11:38 pm
... Randy C: Of course. So, just as I said, NO ONE ON EARTH has the "blind faith that the properties of matter are fixed". So you are WRONG. ... So, yet again,...
74429
VictorM
ptolemy1022
Jun 22, 2012 10:20 pm
Graphic mentioned in this post is located at: http://www.godsriddle.info/2012/06/changing-earth-creationists.html I received this request from a member of a...
74430
Randy C
carumba17
Jun 22, 2012 11:30 pm
... Randy C: Did that person also ask, "It would help if you would give answers to questions about your claims"? For example, how is it possible to have a...
74431
VictorM
ptolemy1022
Jun 23, 2012 2:55 am
... More than a fifteen hundred years ago, there were many competing versions of science, each with its own first principle. Proclus did a study of first...
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Randy C
carumba17
Jun 23, 2012 3:49 am
... Randy C; But NO ONE has ever discussed the mythical first principle that YOU always talk about. ... Victor NONE of that explains how it is remotely...
74433
VictorM
ptolemy1022
Jun 23, 2012 6:56 am
... OF COURSE THEY CANNOT TALK ABOUT IT? TO question a fundamental first principle means you question almost everything you know about physics. Millions of...
74434
Eric
opensipapu
Jun 23, 2012 2:24 pm
This is what happens when uneducated people try to explain things which are far too complex for them to understand. You get absurdist comedy which flies right...
74435
Randy C
carumba17
Jun 23, 2012 3:03 pm
... Randy C: But as I have explained MANY times, that is NOT an answer! People talk about fundamental principles without ever questioning them. But they...
74436
VictorM
ptolemy1022
Jun 23, 2012 7:10 pm
... It may be absurd to your mindset, but it is not contrary to history. The western system was founded on ideas invented by Catholic mendicant friars - such...
74437
Randy C
carumba17
Jun 23, 2012 8:55 pm
... Randy C: Wrong and wrong. ALL of Aristotle's ideas about science have been discarded. Even Wikipedia says that they were replaced by Newtonian physics a...
74438
Katherine Trammell
katherinetra...
Jun 24, 2012 11:30 pm
Well...we are living in an age where everything is being questioned....especially religion, and its about time. Religion has prevented questions and discusions...
74439
Katherine Trammell
katherinetra...
Jun 24, 2012 11:41 pm
Yes, Eric...they rely on what they were trained to repeat like robots or parrots...they cannot think through what they were exposed to, that would require too...
74440
Katherine Trammell
katherinetra...
Jun 25, 2012 12:42 am
Almost every day, Xians state they are losing members and power....oh well. I listen to American Family Radio and they are dismayed and blaming ATheists for...
74441
Katherine Trammell
katherinetra...
Jun 25, 2012 1:06 am
 What it comes down to is that the religious have a romance going with old writers....from 1000s of years ago who made guesses without any tools of science to...
74442
Katherine Trammell
katherinetra...
Jun 25, 2012 3:32 am
THERE ARE TWO CREATION ACCOUNTS...WHY? BECAUSE THERE WERE TWO HEBREW TRIBES WHO FOUGHT OVER WHO WAS CREATED FIRST...HUMANS OF ANIMALS. SO AFTER KILLING EACH...
74443
Katherine Trammell
katherinetra...
Jun 25, 2012 3:38 am
And what is this gobbly gook supposed to mean since Jesus never existed, and there is no proof of god? huh  Objectivism - the philosophy of Ayn Rand. "My...
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Katherine Trammell
katherinetra...
Jun 25, 2012 3:46 am
Is there any doubt in anyone's mind who is sane...that the religious are LIARS FOR CHRIST....and will do and say anything, regardless of how obviously stupid...
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Todd Greene
greeneto
Jun 25, 2012 5:05 pm
A Great Awakening: Review of 'When God Talks Back,' by T.M. Luhrmann by Molly Worthen (New York Times Book Review, 4/27/2012) ...
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VictorM
ptolemy1022
Jun 26, 2012 7:30 pm
... The most convincing "proof" of religion is not scientific but psychological. There is no way to undo the conviction of believers that God himself told them...
74447
Randy C
carumba17
Jun 26, 2012 9:55 pm
... Randy C: Overwhelming evidence? Thanks, Vic. The ONLY reason to read your posts is that each one seems to include some totally new, but totally insane,...
74448
Todd Greene
greeneto
Jun 27, 2012 12:40 am
Response I just posted to: Why atheists need to do the maths on God by Philip O'Neill (Irish Independent, 6/26/2012) ...
74449
Todd Greene
greeneto
Jun 27, 2012 5:58 pm
Katherine Trammell, you wrote (post #74438), "I am now of the firm belief that those who believe in religion have some screws loose, they have lower IQs, and...
74450
Todd Greene
greeneto
Jun 27, 2012 6:29 pm
Some relevant references... Psychology's Treacherous Trio: Confirmation Bias, Cognitive Dissonance, and Motivated Reasoning by Sam Mcnerney (9/7/2011) ...
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Todd Greene
greeneto
Jun 27, 2012 6:50 pm
For those who may be interested, here's a link to my Google+ stream: https://plus.google.com/u/0/112743459266731535020/posts Please check it out. - Todd Greene...
74452
Randy C
carumba17
Jun 27, 2012 9:06 pm
... Randy C: I couldn't agree more. My last name 'Crum'. In Jr. High School another student had the last name 'Crumb' (with the 'b' at the end). (His first ...
74453
Katherine Trammell
katherinetra...
Jun 28, 2012 3:41 am
Hi, if you look at my sentence, I made three points, separated by commas. And yes, it is a matter of intelligence, because the higher the IQ, the more...
74454
VictorM
ptolemy1022
Jun 29, 2012 7:13 pm
... In the western system, intelligence is ranked against a first principle. The more thoroughly indoctrinated are you in the western first principle, the more...
74455
VictorM
ptolemy1022
Jun 29, 2012 10:35 pm
Graphic for this post of Abell cluster 383 is located here: http://www.godsriddle.info/2012/06/time-is-mental-framework.html I received a question: "Time does...
