"Without an objective criterion one is at a loss to make a meaningful choice among a prioris. The resurrection provides a basis in historical probability for ...
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TwoEdgedSword
Jan 6, 2001 12:22 am
Stupidmoron said:<br><br>"If this is another lame attempt to prove the evidence in that book wrong it failed miserably. Because they have transcripts of ...
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bestonnet_00
Jan 6, 2001 4:13 am
Very low probability....
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guerrilla_us
Jan 6, 2001 8:47 pm
"In 1973... Stephen Hawking and Barry Collins at Cambridge published their findings that life could only exist in a universe where the galaxies were spewed out...
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bestonnet_00
Jan 7, 2001 5:22 am
Your quoting from secondary sources, quote from Stephen Hawking and Barry Collins themselves, not from someone who is just writing about them.<br><br>There are...
5174
zontifer
Jan 7, 2001 7:34 pm
> "... The moment we enter the realm of fact, we<br>> must depend on probability; this may be<br>> unfortunate, but it is unavoidable."<br><br>Some...
5175
zontifer
Jan 7, 2001 7:54 pm
Having read the preceding hundred or so post on this club, I have a few observations....<br><br>First, one of the hallmarks of a scientific theory is ...
5176
truegingerhamster
truegingerha...
Jan 7, 2001 8:08 pm
There is no garentee the rock will fall. I can demonstrate using current scientific theory that there is a one in four thousand billion to the power of a ...
5177
guerrilla_us
Jan 7, 2001 11:13 pm
"Some probabilities are 100%: for instance, if you're standing on the ground and drop a rock, the rock will fall. We call this 'certainty.' :)"<br><br>This is...
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guerrilla_us
Jan 8, 2001 12:01 am
"Having read the preceding hundred or so post on this club"<br><br>I'm sorry.<br><br>"one of the hallmarks of a scientific theory is ...
5179
guerrilla_us
Jan 8, 2001 12:31 am
"On the other hand, religion, as you said, DOES lack disprovability."<br><br>What I meant to say was that God's existence (not religion, oops) does lack ...
5180
guerrilla_us
Jan 8, 2001 1:10 am
"otherwise you are just misquoting"<br><br>You have a very odd definition of "misquote."<br><br>"There are theories that every possible universe that can exist...
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bestonnet_00
Jan 8, 2001 4:26 am
There is no such thing as certainty....
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bestonnet_00
Jan 8, 2001 4:32 am
"Hampsterboy did not discuss the inductive reasoning of physical laws themselves, but only rambled on the uncertainty within the laws. I'm not even sure what...
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bestonnet_00
Jan 8, 2001 4:35 am
If the existance of a certain type of god (like the christian one) can be disproven it already is.<br><br>Just look at the christian god, he can make a rock so...
5184
bestonnet_00
Jan 8, 2001 4:44 am
Quoting a misquote is misquoting.<br><br>Find me a reference in _A Brief History of Time_ where it is stated that the probability of this universe being as it...
5185
guerrilla_us
Jan 8, 2001 4:55 am
A Brief History of Time is not the definitive anthology of all things Hawking.<br><br>"any respectable scientific journal wouldn't want its name on ...
5186
bestonnet_00
Jan 8, 2001 6:09 am
Well _A Brief History of Time_ would have mentioned the probability as it is a general book about physics, you seem to have been quoting a misquote.<br><br>No,...
5187
general_zard
Jan 8, 2001 8:04 am
I'll go with the rock falling.<br>Screw the rumor of the ump-teenth billion chance that the rock will rise from the dead.<br><br>'Thanks' to the recent Holy ...
5188
bestonnet_00
Jan 8, 2001 8:16 am
A rock falling up is more likely then a rock on mars having "made by god" written underneath it....
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Devas666
Jan 13, 2001 2:27 am
I made bread in school today. Not as hard as a rock, more soft and fluffy as cotton. College is fun. Bread making is fun. Throwing golfballs at people is...
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bestonnet_00
Jan 13, 2001 4:39 am
I prefer tennis balls, filled with matches.<br><br>They blow up when they hit....
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general_zard
Jan 13, 2001 8:56 am
devas,<br>take it easy, girl.<br>Keep cool. <br>You'll hurt yourself.<br>Pray about it....
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general_zard
Jan 13, 2001 9:04 am
Don't encourage her.<br>I have this strange feeling, <br>that she would try it.<br>If not 'spiritual', definately 'spirited'....
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bestonnet_00
Jan 13, 2001 9:14 am
As long as it doesn't get thrown at me I don't care....
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Devas666
Jan 14, 2001 4:33 am
I pray always. When I was twelve i prayed for a bike. Then I realized that the lord doesn't work like that. So I stole one and asked him to forgive ...
5195
Devas666
Jan 14, 2001 4:39 am
I would only try it if mister leader bean himself were here. That should be a ritual of his oh-so-great cult. Throw an exploding tennis ball at the Leader! We ...
5196
Devas666
Jan 14, 2001 4:43 am
this circus we're in but you don't don't really mean it<br>how many fates turn around in the overtime<br>ballerinas with their fins you can never find<br>you...
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Devas666
Jan 14, 2001 4:46 am
with the leisurely stride of a prisoner in his fifth year in harness who never hurries because he expects only worse from what lies ahead....
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bestonnet_00
Jan 14, 2001 5:07 am
Thats it, I pronoune you to be the devil, all my cultists must hate and maim you with exploding tennis balls and pens, as well as throw bottles of ...
