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filthy
SFN Die Hard
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 Posted - 05/12/2006 : 03:40:12 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Kil
It's time to gather up a few of Filthy's posts and publish them as articles...
Modesty forbids comment...... 
I hope you'll give me a chance to clean some that stuff up, first. I wrote a lot of it before I'd learned to link in the sentence and put up images.
Anyhow, I appreciate it....
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moakley
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Posted - 05/12/2006 : 04:38:38 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Bill scott
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Originally posted by filthy
‘Tis true, my friends, ‘tis true; they loathe, despise, and outright hate that wretched Flood bilge with a malevolence they usually reserve for Democrats, Communists, atheists, sex because it feels good, anyone named Clinton, and those who accept the Theory of Evolution, whatever their names might be.
Of course, you'll never get the first one of ‘em to admit that....
... apologetics for Noah ... apologetics for god ...
Sorry Bill, but your bible does not say anything about a series of miracles by god in order to overcome the logistical nightmare that was Noah's given task. He and 7 other adults. filthy has simply taken the story as presented in your sacred tome and pointed out it's many problems. And why biblical inerrantist such as yourself are required to "make shit up" to support the flood story.
Where did all the water come from? Where did all the water go? These are fair question for people who do not find offense in questioning the authority of the bible or its human authors.
It should not be a sin to think, although I do believe that willful ignorance should be a sin. Why the bible, or any sacred text, has done more harm than good.
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Bill scott
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Posted - 05/12/2006 : 06:18:31 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by pleco
The only difference is that you have zero, nada, zilch, evidence other than your book. That is the truth. Period. No amouth of blathering will change that. No amount of twisting the words in your book will expose any physical evidence. You have nothing, and you will always have nothing. That is why you have to say, by default, "Goddidit".
Of course your god could do it. Why do you have to state the obvious? But without leaving any trace other than what was written in that book? Why the cover up? The prankster god, or just testing faith?
Your version of religion is rather pathetic. Other religions don't have to have crutches like this. Why does yours? Is it that intellectually weak?
Oh, and in this case the "naturalist" would not say what you stated - you are confusing your twisted view of evolution with the subject at hand. A "naturalist" says that it is not possible within the realm of known physical laws. This does not mean that a god couldn't do it. It just means that we have no evidence for it. I guess you can't take your blinders off to see that.
BTW, we now know, since you never ever admit it, that you are just a plain jane, bible thumpin', run-of-the-mill fundie christian. 'Bought time you fessed up, even if it was involuntary. We still wonder why you hid it all this time.
You have any college degrees from any degree mills? Just curious, since that seems to follow the intellectually dishonest.
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The only difference is that you have zero, nada, zilch, evidence other than your book.
(bill) Your ignorance shows.
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That is the truth. Period.
(bill) So pleco is the holder of truth. After all truth is exclusive so someone has to be right, while others are wrong. If he says it is truth it must be.
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No amouth of blathering will change that. No amount of twisting the words in your book will expose any physical evidence. You have nothing, and you will always have nothing.
(bill) You'd make a great trial layer P. (Not) My favorite is when you refute entire posts with "liar".
Judge: He's your witness counselor Pleco.
Pleco: Lair. OK, we rest your honor...
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That is why you have to say, by default, "Goddidit".
(bill) Your absurd. The whole foundation of my worldview states that Yahweh is the creator and sustainer of all that exists in our cosmos. What part of "creator and sustainer of all that exists" do you not understand?
Pleco: Bill, See that brand new car sitting on that car lot over there? Bill, who assembled that into a complete car?
Bill: Well looking at the VIN numbers I can tell you that this car was assembled at the Ford assembly plant in Louisville Kentucky with genuine UAW employees.
Pleco: I see. What about the engine? Who assembled that onto the frame of the car?
Bill: Well, as I said this car was assembled in the Louisville Kentucky plant by some of the UAW's best.
Pleco: I see. Again with the Louisville Kentucky plant. Ok Bill, who assembled all those body panels onto that fine looking car?
Bill: Well, as I said this car was assembled in the Louisville Kentucky plant by some of the UAW's best.
Pleco: Again with the Louisville Kentucky plant, Bill. What is that your default answer?
Bill: Yon need admitted, dude.
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Of course your god could do it. Why do you have to state the obvious?
(bill) Because you keep asking, over and over and over...
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But without leaving any trace other than what was written in that book? Why the cover up? The prankster god, or just testing faith?
(bill) Yahweh left more then a trace, he left the entire creation, including yourself. Seek and you will find. Of course do not seek and you will not find. You can have the writing on the wall and still refuse reality. God has given man that prerogative.
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Your version of religion is rather pathetic.
(bill) Maybe someday your blinders will be removed?
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Other religions don't have to have crutches like this. Why does yours? Is it that intellectually weak?
(bill) Again, you are being absurd an so many different levels.
Bill: I believe that Yahweh is the creator of all that exists and is the sustainer of all that exists as well.
Pleco: OK Bill, then in your worldview please tell us how a global flood could have taken place? Oh yeah, in your explanation your not allowed to account for any creator, let alone Yahweh, as I reject your God, Bill.
Bill: So you want me to explain my worldview without referencing to Yahweh as the creative and sustaining agent even though Yahweh, as the creative and sustaining agent, is what I believe?
Pleco: Well yes, that's right.
Bill: That is like me asking you to explain the diversity in all the forms of life that we see on planet earth? Oh, and BTW, you cannot reference the ToE in your explanation or random mutations being guided by natural selection.
Pleco: Bill, stop trying to muddy the waters. We are talking about you here not me.
Bill: You make me laugh P...
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Oh, and in this case the "naturalist" would not say what you stated - you are confusing your twisted view of evolution with the subject at hand. A "naturalist" says that it is not possible within the realm of known physical laws.
(bill) That is right. There is so much unknown to the naturalist that his/her worldview is assumptions piled upon assumptions. For the naturalist to pretend they, definitively, know what the earth was like in the days of Noah, let alone 4.5 billion years ago, is absurd on so many different levels. The naturalist worldview is a house of cards with each card representing assumptions. Pull just one |
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Robb
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Posted - 05/12/2006 : 07:40:32 [Permalink]
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I have not thought about the latent heat being released and the earth warming up to a crazy temperature. It was an interesting article.
But it points out what most christians believe (except YEC's). That the flood cannot be confirmed or even proved by modern science. Scientifically it could not have happened. But if you believe in a God that created everything from nothing, the flood is not an impossibility. Yes, god did it. There has been alot of discussions on this site that God is outside the realm of what science can explain. Why then do you filthy try to disprove God with science? Whats the point? Non believers will say great job, believers will say God did it.
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 05/12/2006 : 07:55:53 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Robb
I have not thought about the latent heat being released and the earth warming up to a crazy temperature. It was an interesting article.
But it points out what most christians believe (except YEC's). That the flood cannot be confirmed or even proved by modern science. Scientifically it could not have happened. But if you believe in a God that created everything from nothing, the flood is not an impossibility. Yes, god did it. There has been alot of discussions on this site that God is outside the realm of what science can explain. Why then do you filthy try to disprove God with science? Whats the point? Non believers will say great job, believers will say God did it.
I do not try to disprove God at all. Nothing could be more futile, especially if you don't believe that such a thing exists. But that doesn't mean that I can't have a little fun at God's, or at least the concept of God's expense. As well as pass along some pretty good information, as can be seen in the OP. Did you know previous to this that pangolins were anteaters and related to both armadillos and sloths? Or that honey could poison a hummingbird?
I have no problem with God or the concept; just with some of God's followers who present myth as fact; legend as history.
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"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
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Bill scott
SFN Addict
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Posted - 05/12/2006 : 08:01:26 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Robb
I have not thought about the latent heat being released and the earth warming up to a crazy temperature. It was an interesting article.
But it points out what most christians believe (except YEC's). That the flood cannot be confirmed or even proved by modern science. Scientifically it could not have happened. But if you believe in a God that created everything from nothing, the flood is not an impossibility. Yes, god did it. There has been alot of discussions on this site that God is outside the realm of what science can explain. Why then do you filthy try to disprove God with science? Whats the point? Non believers will say great job, believers will say God did it.
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Scientifically it could not have happened
I would say that based off many, many, assumptions, and off of their finite and limited knowledge, they have concluded that scientifically it could not have happened. |
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
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Posted - 05/12/2006 : 09:21:24 [Permalink]
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Bill Scott:
I would say that based off many, many, assumptions, and off of their finite and limited knowledge, they have concluded that scientifically it could not have happened.
Actually Bill, scientifically, it really could not have happened. You just can't have it both ways. If it happened it was a supernatural event completely outside of any possible scientific explanation. The fact is, there is no evidence in the geological record that a worldwide flood occurred. And there is lots evidence to the contrary.
What I wonder (which I understand you have no interest in addressing) is why god would hide all the evidence for such a catastrophe even if the event was supernatural.
Bill, if you were even halfway as interested in where the evidence that supports a world wide flood went as you are of poking holes in evolutionary theory, I would be impressed. Actually, I am impressed. Your lack of any ability to think critically is a wonder to behold. Apparently, all thought processes along those lines ends at the first page of Genesis.
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BigPapaSmurf
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Posted - 05/12/2006 : 10:32:35 [Permalink]
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"...things I have neither seen nor experienced nor heard tell of from anybody else; things, what is more, that do not in fact exist and could not ever exist at all. So my readers must not believe a word I say." -Lucian on his book True History
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Chippewa
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Posted - 05/12/2006 : 10:36:15 [Permalink]
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| Actually, it probably did happen. A gigantic natural dam broke 7000+ years ago; a freshwater lake was replaced by the saltwater Black Sea, and from that event various myths, tales and legends were told, one of which made its way into the Bible. By that time, the ancient huge region that was flooded was referred to as "the world." |
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leoofno
Skeptic Friend
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Posted - 05/12/2006 : 11:06:03 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Bill scott
(bill) Yahweh left more then a trace, he left the entire creation, including yourself. Seek and you will find. Of course do not seek and you will not find. You can have the writing on the wall and still refuse reality. God has given man that prerogative.
Could you explain why you think it is so obvious that God created the universe? Is it because of some vague feeling that “it's all too beautiful and complex and fine-tuned” to have been created without the input of an intelligent agent? Or is there something more specific?
I'm not trying to be a smart-ass. I really want to know. While I have come to the conclusion that there is no God, I also realize that, deep down, I would like to believe. I mean, who wouldn't want to accept the promise of eternal happiness if you only had to believe and follow a certain set of rules? After all, the rules are mostly common-sense and I follow most of them already. It wouldn't be too difficult.
The problem is that I have gotten to the point in my life where I need a solid body of evidence before I believe in something so fantastic, not just the say-so of others. I think most people ‘believe' because they have been brought up being told, over and over, that the beliefs they are being brought up with are true. It is engrained and reinforced by both family and community, and becomes a fundamental part of their identity. However, there are many different Faiths, and most are mutually exclusive. They can't all be right, and perhaps none are. That is, I think, what started me down the road to the rejection of my beliefs. At some point I began to ask myself what it was that made my beliefs correct and the others wrong. I found that my faith was based on the assertions of others, and that the evidence that was presented was not very convincing.
So that's where I stand right now. I have abandoned beliefs in the supernatural, but I keep looking for that solid body of evidence to convince me otherwise. That's why I am interested in your claims. You seem confident and assured of your beliefs.
If you've got it, I'd like to see a line of evidence that was not based on an appeal to either authority or incredulity. I know I've asked you a very similar question a little while ago in another thread, but I was hoping maybe you could single out just one argument you find particularly convincing.
P.S. It occurs to me that this may look like an attempt to hijack the thread, but I'b be stunned if it did.
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BigPapaSmurf
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Posted - 05/12/2006 : 12:39:24 [Permalink]
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| leoofno, I regret to inform you that clear, well-word and logical arguements are to Bill Scott as bullets are to Supermans chest. |
"...things I have neither seen nor experienced nor heard tell of from anybody else; things, what is more, that do not in fact exist and could not ever exist at all. So my readers must not believe a word I say." -Lucian on his book True History
"...They accept such things on faith alone, without any evidence. So if a fraudulent and cunning person who knows how to take advantage of a situation comes among them, he can make himself rich in a short time." -Lucian critical of early Christians c.166 AD From his book, De Morte Peregrini |
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leoofno
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Posted - 05/12/2006 : 12:59:24 [Permalink]
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leoofno, I regret to inform you that clear, well-word and logical arguements are to Bill Scott as bullets are to Supermans chest.
I hope you're wrong in this case. Something must convince him he's right. I'd like to know what that is. |
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Valiant Dancer
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Posted - 05/12/2006 : 13:03:56 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by BigPapaSmurf
leoofno, I regret to inform you that clear, well-word and logical arguements are to Bill Scott as bullets are to Supermans chest.
I hope you're wrong in this case. Something must convince him he's right. I'd like to know what that is.
So far, we've been able to narrow it down to Holy fiat. |
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R.Wreck
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Posted - 05/12/2006 : 15:11:35 [Permalink]
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(bill) Your absurd. The whole foundation of my worldview states that Yahweh is the creator and sustainer of all that exists in our cosmos. What part of "creator and sustainer of all that exists" do you not understand?
What part of "Why did he make so many really bad designs?" don't you understand, Bill?
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Chippewa
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Posted - 05/12/2006 : 16:54:32 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by leoofno
...I mean, who wouldn't want to accept the promise of eternal happiness if you only had to believe and follow a certain set of rules?...
Anyone who thinks critically wouldn't. Who could accept eternal happiness knowing that a loved one was condemned to eternal torment simply because they questioned or disobeyed one or two of those set of rules? To accept eternal happiness in that case is to accept being brainwashed.
Anyone with a love of humanity would be appalled at the notion that eternal punishment magically proclaimed from on-high, and established within one culture, applies to all people of a different culture, who are themselves unknowing of those rules or have rules of their own.
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