"God is undetectable to us at first because in the beginning the infinite is imperceptable to the finite."
That is possibly the most vague, ambiguous, desparate, impotent, and hastily contrived...
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"God is undetectable to us at first because in the beginning the infinite is imperceptable to the finite."
That is possibly the most vague, ambiguous, desparate, impotent, and hastily contrived...
Orwell should have won.
On another subject of Nobel Prizes, I was shocked to see the Peace Prize was never awarded to Ghandi.
"Despite", perhaps? Depends on the context.
The last sentence I have written was this one.
1984
Farenheit 451
Brave New World
Lord of the Rings
I, Claudius
In no particular order. I love dystopian!
There are also differing criterion for "dislike"
For instance, I finished "The Urantia Book"(2128 pages!), and it was so absurd that I consider it to be contrived only as a direct insult to human...
What is your least favorite book, and why? It can be for any reason. You can have actually liked it but hated it because it was frustrating or sad (but still high quality), or you could have just...
EDIT:
I think I win for single volumes. I just finished the (rather interesting) Urantia Book. 2128 Pages, unbelievably thick. It's an extension of Christianity for extraterrestrial beings!
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Um, the Big Bang theory isn't a theory about how the universe began, but a theory of the current development of the universe. What scientists mean when they tell laypersons that the Big Bang was...
"I will also not accept prophecies which are self-fulfilling"
Read that last part. This prophecy and similar ones in the Old Testament are the sole reason that most Jewish people return to...
Good points made by all. I will post my response to objections by editing my first post if you would like to see if I acknowledged your post.
List of Evidence Potent Enough to Convince Atheists of the Veracity of a Religion.
I was recently engaged in a discussion on this board and was challenging a theist to present to me empirical evidence that his religion was true. He struck back by accusing me that anything he...
Joel, make sure you bother to actually read it through more carefully, and view the MOUNTAIN OF EVIDENCE ACCUMULATED IN THE LAST 144 years since the Origin. Darwin doesn't need to assert explicitly...
Keep in mind, NikolaiI, that not all of my message (the part concerning my criterion for my conversion to theism, for example) is addressing you individually. I fully acknowledge that you were never...
It is fallacious to assert that I am erroneously valuing my ideas above everybody elses; I merely exhibit strength and backbone in my convictions through empiricism (in regards to evolution).
It...
For fiction, i've read Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand (1168 pages), War and Peace by Tolstoy (1388 pages), The Stand by Stephen King, uncut version (1233 pages), and The Bible (1152 pages in my version)...
"The Structure of Evolutionary Theory" by Stephen Jay Gould.
I find it difficult to deduce that the presence of evil is merely the absence of good. I doubt you could think of the worst attrocities that have ever occured, and then come up with the good-evil...
I personally know and am friends with a devout Mormon who attends my school. Although I am an atheist, her and her family are more decent, ethical, and tolerant than almost anybody I have ever met. ...
I am inferring that because somebody pruposes an argument with confidence that contains superior intellectual merit to yours; that your only option is to call them an "elitist snob" (i.e. someobody...
Very true.
The first person to actually coin evolution was Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, who proposed a two mechanism theory. The first mechanism was an arcane and empircally unsupported orthogenesis...
"Isn't it funny how he writes in chapter 14 "On the...view of the independent creation of each being, we can only say that so it is; that it has pleased the Creator to construct all the animals and...
It amuses and frustrates me when I see people make the Baconian assumption (I call this assumption Baconian after Francis Bacon, and this position can be read in his essay entitled "On Atheism"),...
The one thing that I become amused and slightly frustrated by in these debates is the misunderstanding of the term "theory" in the colliqual sense, and in a scientific sense. In the colliqual sense...
In reading "The Origin", I could not help but laugh at your statement that Darwin wrote it to just mess around with people. That anybody could make a more uneducated statement would be depressing. ...