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Old 04-22-2018, 08:06 AM
 
Location: Northern Maine
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Way to go, dismissing arguments you don't want to hear, preferring your wishful thinking about atheism collapsing.

Why is this so important to you?

Rather why is it important for you to dismiss it, don't you like science ?
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Old 04-22-2018, 12:00 PM
 
Location: S. Wales.
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Rather why is it important for you to dismiss it, don't you like science ?
But that isn't science - is is reading a lot into science that really wasn't there. I already said; quantum woo stuff and the cutting edge of consciousness research is particularly interesting, so pointing up the misuse of it by the God -believers is to correct misrepresentations.

Now I answered you fully - how about answering my question: just why is it so important to convince atheists that a god really exists when we don't deny the possibiity, but we haven't seen persuasive evidence yet?

Yes, I know you are presenting what you think is persuasive evidence, but when it gets debunked, why do you so persistently keep shoving it at us? Why is it so important to you that we accept the God -claim?
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Old 04-22-2018, 12:14 PM
 
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Way to go, dismissing arguments you don't want to hear, preferring your wishful thinking about atheism collapsing.
Atheism is an aberration. Because over 92% of the world population either associates with a religion (=84%) or worships in private on their own (=8%).

ab·er·ra·tion
noun
a departure from what is normal, usual
anomaly, deviation, abnormality, irregularity, digression, oddity, peculiarity, curiosity, quirk, mistake, divergence
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Old 04-22-2018, 12:21 PM
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Atheism is an aberration. Because over 92% of the world population either associates with a religion (=84%) or worships in private on their own (=8%).

ab·er·ra·tion
noun
a departure from what is normal, usual
anomaly, deviation, abnormality, irregularity, digression, oddity, peculiarity, curiosity, quirk, mistake, divergence

in any group of humans there are extremists.
atheists are such a group.
So is being a genius.

For that matter having an IQ above 115.

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Old 04-22-2018, 12:35 PM
 
Location: S. Wales.
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Exactly. Verified facts and validated beliefs are not decided by a show of hands.
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Old 04-22-2018, 12:38 PM
 
Location: Ontario, Canada
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Way to go, dismissing arguments you don't want to hear, preferring your wishful thinking about atheism collapsing.

Why is this so important to you?
He's born again and got the fervour-fever.

Whether it's quitting smoking or finding "God," they find their early selves contemptible and attribute that self-hatred to those who remind them of it.

What's laughable is the holier-than-thou attitude that accompanies such re-borning.
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Old 04-22-2018, 12:47 PM
 
Location: Ontario, Canada
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Atheism is an aberration. Because over 92% of the world population either associates with a religion (=84%) or worships in private on their own (=8%).

ab·er·ra·tion
noun
a departure from what is normal, usual
anomaly, deviation, abnormality, irregularity, digression, oddity, peculiarity, curiosity, quirk, mistake, divergence
Actually, Hasidic Jews are a REAL aberration, forming 0.0057142857142% of the world's population.

In other words, statistically insignificant.

Insignificant:
in·sig·nif·i·cant
ˌinsiɡˈnifəkənt/
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adjective: insignificant
too small or unimportant to be worth consideration.
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Old 04-22-2018, 12:58 PM
 
Location: S. Wales.
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Expect a house -call from Mossad.
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Old 04-22-2018, 01:11 PM
 
Location: Pacific 🌉 °N, 🌄°W
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Theyre trying to let you down easy.
The science of the gaps is growing.
The gaps in scientific understanding and reading comprehension is growing in the US.

Paradigms shifts in science are nothing new and are in fact are expected. How else would science continue advancing our knowledge if we just stopped researching as soon as a scientific truth has been observed?
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Old 04-22-2018, 08:43 PM
 
Location: 'greater' Buffalo, NY
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Conclusion, that mind is the 'essence' of what we observe, is unwarranted. This guy has a book titled 'Why Materialism is Baloney'--not exactly an unbiased perspective here. Quantum entanglement is a mystery that remains unexplained--it was irresponsible for him to offer what he offered at the end.
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