Register | Sign In


Understanding through Discussion


EvC Forum active members: 65 (9162 total)
2 online now:
Newest Member: popoi
Post Volume: Total: 915,817 Year: 3,074/9,624 Month: 919/1,588 Week: 102/223 Day: 0/13 Hour: 0/0


Thread  Details

Email This Thread
Newer Topic | Older Topic
  
Author Topic:   Science requires faith, chat gtp agrees.
Tangle
Member
Posts: 9489
From: UK
Joined: 10-07-2011
Member Rating: 4.9


(2)
Message 7 of 79 (905762)
02-03-2023 11:10 AM
Reply to: Message 5 by riVeRraT
02-03-2023 10:40 AM


Rat writes:
What I read here is I outsmarted gtp then
What I read here was a computer wishing it could slap your face.

Je suis Charlie. Je suis Ahmed. Je suis Juif. Je suis Parisien. I am Mancunian. I am Brum. I am London. Olen Suomi Soy Barcelona. I am Ukraine.

"Science adjusts it's views based on what's observed.
Faith is the denial of observation so that Belief can be preserved."
- Tim Minchin, in his beat poem, Storm.


This message is a reply to:
 Message 5 by riVeRraT, posted 02-03-2023 10:40 AM riVeRraT has replied

Replies to this message:
 Message 23 by riVeRraT, posted 02-03-2023 11:03 PM Tangle has not replied

  
Tangle
Member
Posts: 9489
From: UK
Joined: 10-07-2011
Member Rating: 4.9


(3)
Message 18 of 79 (905794)
02-03-2023 5:59 PM
Reply to: Message 16 by Phat
02-03-2023 4:54 PM


Re: Bigger Fuse
Phat writes:
Only if I fully embrace skepticism
I see you've abandoned your thinking skills course. That was fast even for you.

Je suis Charlie. Je suis Ahmed. Je suis Juif. Je suis Parisien. I am Mancunian. I am Brum. I am London. Olen Suomi Soy Barcelona. I am Ukraine.

"Science adjusts it's views based on what's observed.
Faith is the denial of observation so that Belief can be preserved."
- Tim Minchin, in his beat poem, Storm.


This message is a reply to:
 Message 16 by Phat, posted 02-03-2023 4:54 PM Phat has replied

Replies to this message:
 Message 20 by Phat, posted 02-03-2023 7:05 PM Tangle has replied

  
Tangle
Member
Posts: 9489
From: UK
Joined: 10-07-2011
Member Rating: 4.9


(2)
Message 29 of 79 (905817)
02-04-2023 2:48 AM
Reply to: Message 20 by Phat
02-03-2023 7:05 PM


Re: Bigger Fuse
Phat writes:
Nonsense. I have abandoned nothing. What I won't easily or readily (or willingly) do is abandon my inner certainty regarding my belief.
You can't hope to even begin a critical thinking course unless you're prepared to accept that you might be wrong about previously held beliefs and preconceived ideas. (This has nothing to do with your faith.)
Yet again, you didn't answer my previous question - why your religious friends would think you mad to do this course?

Je suis Charlie. Je suis Ahmed. Je suis Juif. Je suis Parisien. I am Mancunian. I am Brum. I am London. Olen Suomi Soy Barcelona. I am Ukraine.

"Science adjusts it's views based on what's observed.
Faith is the denial of observation so that Belief can be preserved."
- Tim Minchin, in his beat poem, Storm.


This message is a reply to:
 Message 20 by Phat, posted 02-03-2023 7:05 PM Phat has replied

Replies to this message:
 Message 34 by Phat, posted 02-04-2023 11:09 AM Tangle has replied

  
Tangle
Member
Posts: 9489
From: UK
Joined: 10-07-2011
Member Rating: 4.9


(2)
Message 42 of 79 (905836)
02-04-2023 11:35 AM
Reply to: Message 34 by Phat
02-04-2023 11:09 AM


Re: Bigger Fuse
Phat writes:
Well, yet again im a rebel. I am taking the course and I will keep in mind that I could be wrong about certain thinking patterns and ideas...but I'm not a 12 year old Catholic who never met Jesus and decided to throw his beliefs in the gutter as his scientific and rational mind took flight.
You and your friends think it rebellious to want to be able to think clearly? Don't you think that's that's a bit screwed up?
And I'm not talking about your religious beliefs. That's the third time I've said that. Keep you damn beliefs, they're irrelevant.
Critical thinking is not about religion, it's about thinking rationally. You can't think in a straight line. You think you can and every so often you like to tell people that you're at least as smart as everyone here, but you're evidentially not. But regardless of how clever you are, you can learn some fairly simply thinking skills that you'll find useful in your general life and make you look less like a loon to others.
You have some preconceived ideas that you might need to let go of too. One of them is that the Bible is a poor source of wisdom.
You see, you didn't think about that did you? You just shot from the hip, a defensive reflex. I think that the bible is a good source of wisdom - if somewhat unoriginal - but it's not a good source of fact.
You people have nothing better.
Strange then that we people seem to manage just fine isn't it?

Je suis Charlie. Je suis Ahmed. Je suis Juif. Je suis Parisien. I am Mancunian. I am Brum. I am London. Olen Suomi Soy Barcelona. I am Ukraine.

"Science adjusts it's views based on what's observed.
Faith is the denial of observation so that Belief can be preserved."
- Tim Minchin, in his beat poem, Storm.


This message is a reply to:
 Message 34 by Phat, posted 02-04-2023 11:09 AM Phat has seen this message but not replied

  
Newer Topic | Older Topic
Jump to:


Copyright 2001-2023 by EvC Forum, All Rights Reserved

™ Version 4.2
Innovative software from Qwixotic © 2024