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Reply #60 on: October 24, 2009, 18:35:46 PM
No, that is completely logical, thats the problem you have with it. It fits observable facts, something happened but we have no idea why. One possible answer is that there is one or more gods causing it to happen. If people chose to believe, great, if not thats their choice, but its still BELIEF! You are as stuck with this as they are. Faith, Belief and hope are as much a part of a scientists life as they are anyone elses, even the Pope.

Plenty of stuff in Physics and math is difficult or impossible to prove or disprove, its why you have hypothesises and theories. Although sometimes they get mixed up over whats what.

As for the scientist hes obviously not up to the job cause he cant prove his hypothesis there isnt a god ^_^

If you absolutely had to prove 100% that what you are saying forward in physics is true then there would be a lot less bunpf coming out.

As has been proven in the past, a scientist is far more likely to be wrong than right.

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Reply #61 on: October 24, 2009, 19:37:30 PM
yes, that is one possible explanation, so is the FSM.

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Reply #62 on: October 24, 2009, 20:57:46 PM
Unproven faith and beliefs has far to much power in politics etc. at least science givs useable stuff even if not proven
one can build stuff because of science, faith and beliefs tend to tear down, destroy and divide of course science can be used
to make big bombs but it is usaully a religious motive behind type; the others are evil hence it is ok to bomb them because you belive that is the will of the god you have faith in but cannot not prove the existence of.

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Reply #63 on: October 24, 2009, 21:19:48 PM
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How, literally in Gods name, would anyone preselectively believe in Him if they wernt bombarded and indoctrinated with religious material from a young age? Thats total garbage.

There are no Jesus believers in the Amazon rainforest unless missionaries get to them.


Tip: dont make this argument in bible-belt america - fastest way to lose new friends :)

Im still in Gods corner tbh. You want proof of God? Sirs, I give you the bacon buttie -




lol - red X, so no proof.
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Reply #64 on: October 26, 2009, 10:44:07 AM
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1222923/One-Britons-say-children-taught-creationism-science-classes.html

I find this pretty worrying.

By all means cover rival theories, but not in science lessons. At my old school we had science, and we had RE/Religious Exercise. That is where creationism/ID belongs. Thinking back on it I think I got a fair dose of all that religious propaganda at that school, but as science was kept seperate it didnt suffer.

I remember being insanely jealous of the token muslim that had permission to not attend RE and instead spent the hour in the art room drawing.

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Reply #65 on: October 26, 2009, 11:17:39 AM
The wording of that question is very poor and the sample not well defined (typically Mori polls people by landline, during the day which is going to skew the results to the elderly who are more likely to either believe it or, even more likely, not know what creationism/ID are).
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