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If we're going to go with classical arguments, let's go with Voltaire's response to the teleological argument: quote:... from this sole argument I cannot conclude anything further than that it is probable that an intelligent and superior being has skillfully prepared and fashioned the matter. I cannot conclude from that alone that this being has made matter out of nothing and that he is infinite in every sense. That's the most charitable reading of the teleological argument. Hume goes further and asks what we mean when we say "designed". Can we imagine a universe that would not appear designed? If we can't, isn't the argument circular?
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I never get the whole "slam dunk" contradiction thing, since the Bible has a bunch of unreliable narrators. There is plenty of evidence within the text to make that clear, but the real smoking gun is that the holy Koran explicitly states this.
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What is strange is the universe existing at all! But if we accept that there are an infinite number of universes, well, we can't multiply a very small probability by infinity, but we can say that multiplying increasingly large numbers approaching infinity by a very small probability asymptomatically approaches certainty. We don't have to go all Copenhagen here, but if we're going to do tired arguments we may as well play with that.
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You guys have it backwards. 2+2=4 is arbitrary a.d what God wants us to believe. I get making GBS threads on the protestant concept of God but that is such a.limited, unimaginative position.
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Dahn posted:Lets try this one. Friendship is a kind of magic (1). Friendship exists (2). QED motherfucker. We don't need your god. 1). Conservapedia article on magic, author conservative. 2). Fact
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We/he/she/I/it watch you. Andy will ban you soon for low content posting.
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