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Dredge Member Posts: 2850 From: Australia Joined:
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Unfortunately there is no shortage of "cultural" Catholics who attend Mass every Sunday but are simply going through the motions. They may have a degree of faith, but they have yet to experiece a true and deep conversion ... at least, that the impression I get. I doubt if they ever pray in private and probably won't take God seriously until they're on their death-beds.
I've met practising Catholics who are agnostic ... I even knew one who went to Mass every Sunday but was an atheist.
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Dredge Member Posts: 2850 From: Australia Joined: |
Parasomnium writes:
If that argument lets you know that God cannot possess those three attributes similtaneuosly, I don't think it lets you know that "God does not exist" - it doesn't rule out the possibility that God exists without possessing those three attributes similtaneously. God is descibed as omnipotent, omniscient and omnibenevolent. It can be argued that these three attributes are mutually incompatible ...that's one way we can know that God does not exist, if God is indeed supposed to have these three attributes simultaneously. For example, God might be omnipotent and omniscient but not omnibenevolent.Edited by Dredge, .
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Dredge Member Posts: 2850 From: Australia Joined: |
dwise1 writes:
Ouch! That hurts ... so bad. That small lizard was deserving of empathy and compassion. An evil creationist (pardon the redundancy) scum-sucking bottom-feeding willfully stupid lying troll such as yourself deserves absolutely no empathy nor compassion. For that matter, that small lizard had vastly more humanity than you troll ever could have. Edited by Dredge, .
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Dredge Member Posts: 2850 From: Australia Joined: |
Parasomnium writes:
Thank you, but no need to apologise ... my dumb argument deserved your criticism. I should avoid writing things in haste.
I must say, that is a commendable response to my criticism. In my opinion it even merits an apology (hereby offered) for the harsh tone of my previous message.
Hopefully my other response to your argument made more sense.
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Dredge Member Posts: 2850 From: Australia Joined: |
ringo writes:
So you're saying science can't prove anything about DNA and genetics?
science is never about proof ...A mutation is defined as a change in the DNA sequence of an organism. You can't "prove" a definition.
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Dredge Member Posts: 2850 From: Australia Joined: |
ringo writes:
So science can't even prove that I'm taller than an ant. Wow ... science is so dumb!
Science can't prove anything about anything. How many times do you have to be told?
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Dredge Member Posts: 2850 From: Australia Joined: |
Even a five year-old child could prove that I'm taller than an ant ... but apparently, science can't. Wtf ... !!
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Dredge Member Posts: 2850 From: Australia Joined: |
Phat writes:
What is the difference between Perhaps their teacher would remind them that they proved nothing. They merely demonstrated it. Keep in mind what the peanut gallery has taught us about "proofs". (a) demonstrating that I'm taller than an ant, and (b) proving that I'm taller than an ant? Edited by Dredge, . Edited by Dredge, .
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Dredge Member Posts: 2850 From: Australia Joined: |
Dredge writes:
So science can't even prove that I'm taller than an ant. Wow ... science is so dumb!
ringo writes:
Why can't science prove that I'm taller than an ant?
A brain surgeon can't fly an F-15. Doesn't mean he's dumb.
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Dredge Member Posts: 2850 From: Australia Joined: |
Let me guess ... you eventually label every theist on this site a "troll"?
What are the evolutionary ancestors of a troll?Edited by Dredge, .
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Dredge Member Posts: 2850 From: Australia Joined: |
Do you know how a tape-measure works?
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Dredge Member Posts: 2850 From: Australia Joined: |
ringo writes:
Do you in fact have any friends? I pick my own friends. If so, what are their names? I have a friend ... his name is Walter.
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Dredge Member Posts: 2850 From: Australia Joined: |
Phat writes:
Or "In Science We Trust" ... even though science can't prove anything (apparently).
Next thing you know, they will change the wording on the money to "In Gods We Trust".
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Dredge Member Posts: 2850 From: Australia Joined: |
AZPail3 writes:
Is there a difference between "demonstrable fact" and "proof"? What would be proof? We can show this is a demonstrable fact. Is that not enough? If so, what is it?
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Dredge Member Posts: 2850 From: Australia Joined: |
Dredge writes:
Science We Trust"AZPaul3 writes:
If science can't prove anything, it can't prove that anything is a fact; nor can science prove anything about reality.
A demonstrable fact is a fact. It has no choice. I’m not sure what else could be added. “Fact” is the pinnacle of reality. The more we have, the more of reality we understand.
Like evolution.
If science can't prove anything, it can't prove anything about evolution.
We have so many 100s of millions of facts (little pieces of reality) that we can see the patterns in detail and categorize the lot into comprehensive and verified theories of what happened, when and how.
What a pity no theories about how evolution produced the history observed in the fossil record can be verified. It can't even be verified that life's history is one of a contiguous biological process. But I'm digressing from the thread, so enuf on that.
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