I didn't say we can't have both. I said life after death is nothingness and life as it is has no ultimate purpose, but its purpose is decided by those living it. Why live when nothing awaits you...
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I didn't say we can't have both. I said life after death is nothingness and life as it is has no ultimate purpose, but its purpose is decided by those living it. Why live when nothing awaits you...
Just because the world has no purpose and our lives no ultimate meaning doesn't mean we cannot continue to live with our own sense of purpose. Nothingness awaits us in death, which is why we enjoy or...
Technically you're presuming religion has to do with god, which it doesn't. It has to do with worship, dogma, ritual, belief in a concept of great importance. Atheists can have religions, just like...
There are plenty of Christians, and theists, who believe in evolution and God. If you'd been over to the evolution v creation thread, which I know you have, you'd know that. I guess you're just not...
I like to figure life after death is a lot like life before you were born-- i.e. non existent. Try to remember a time before you became a zygote and tell me what the world is like then, and once you...
Atheists only have to have a lack of belief in gods. That is all being an atheist entails. Any "dogma" associated, any religion added on, any "beliefs" an atheist holds are individually associated...
If you say so.
Evolution: Millions of pieces of evidence pointing towards a common theory.
Creationism: One book, full of testimonies rather than evidence, believed in by many to assume a common...
Those first one-celled organisms came from amino acids, water, and electricity. Put those together and with enough action happening life happens to emerge at times, or at least, it did once....
Okay, so maybe "most" was the wrong word, but it's still too high for all the education we have.
"A recent National Geographic survey found that only one in seven Americans aged between 18 and 24...
Indeed. Even the texts pointed to a flat earth and the universe revolving around us. It's not all that surprising that some would choose to follow such an ancient belief when the ego is still inside...
Thought I'd throw this article out there, since it's rather interesting.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/30/science/30profile.html
The wonders of public education has more problems than just...
dejosc, Ockam's Razor tends to agree with your feelings in that "the simplest answer is most often the most probable" in that there is one universe and because there is life in it, that demonstrates...
If I were angry, I wouldn't be posting. I'm merely being direct with you, rather than rambling on about whatever pops up in the thread. We've given you fossil records, radiometric dating, and the...
It's always plagiarism until you cite your source, which you didn't do until I pointed it out. Now its a moot issue. Your second idea, if you could call it that, is barely put together in a readable...
Of course we decide ourselves, and no one will ever truly convince the other side completely because there will always be someone to believe God did it in 6 days, no evolution required. And so long...
Didn't we note that both of them at the same time is quite fine a few pages ago? There are just some folks that can't accept evolution, just as there are some that can't accept creationism. Life...
We're on a literature forum, plagiarism is serious stuff. I'm fine with posting someone else's ideas, just cite them. By the way, atheism is only a lack of belief in gods. You're thinking nihilism,...
Before I reply to this: Quote your sources that you plagiarize next time. http://www.catholiceducation.org/articles/science/sc0017.html
And a beautiful question to ask you, since you uphold that...
No one is following science like a sheep, outside of the few idiots that just believe what they read right off the bat, but there are plenty of each on both sides of this idea. The way you word it...
On that same line of thought, it's very possible that the preverbial "Adam" that God spoke to was merely the first man who God got around to talking to. The story about him being made in God's image...
So I suppose you ignore wolves, sharks, snakes, murderers, lawmakers, and various other things, creatures as I call em, to have dominion over you? I know I don't control most of those things, nor do...
Seeing as most of their art isn't anything outside of abstract (to us anyway) and their color usage is mainly based off of their memories and/or emotions at the time, it's fairly easy to tell they...
Considering they don't have the fingers to properly pull off most musicianship, I doubt we'd see them playing those. I seem to recall them being able to learn how to speak english though, which...
Hey, neat, you're like my polar opposite. HI! heh, was just noticing you managed to give a good suggestion to each side without stating any side, so it appeared pretty neutral. I plan on picking up...
That's an odd way to remain neutral Okmit, but I can respect you at least trying to add in new book knowledge to the arena.