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"Jake21" |
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12 Jan 2005 11:14:50 AM |
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there is evidence for gravity! |
Your argument doesn't work here. The burden of proof is on the
theist. If there were evidence for god then yes, the burden would be
on the atheist. If I said there was an invisible Giraffe in my house,
and you didn't believe me, would not the burden of proof be on me for
making the claim. You can not proove that there is not an invisible
Giraffe in my house. The same applies to an invisible god.
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| User: "J Forbes" |
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| Title: Re: there is evidence for gravity! |
12 Jan 2005 02:18:58 PM |
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Jake21 wrote:
Your argument doesn't work here. The burden of proof is on the
theist. If there were evidence for god then yes, the burden would be
on the atheist. If I said there was an invisible Giraffe in my house,
and you didn't believe me, would not the burden of proof be on me for
making the claim. You can not proove that there is not an invisible
Giraffe in my house. The same applies to an invisible god.
Aw, come off it....we all know it's a Unicorn, not a Giraffe.
--
Jim
Visit the Selectric Typewriter Museum!
http://www.selectric.org
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| User: "Christopher A. Lee" |
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| Title: Re: there is evidence for gravity! |
12 Jan 2005 11:21:50 AM |
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On 12 Jan 2005 03:14:50 -0800, (Jake21)
wrote:
Your argument doesn't work here. The burden of proof is on the
theist. If there were evidence for god then yes, the burden would be
on the atheist. If I said there was an invisible Giraffe in my house,
and you didn't believe me, would not the burden of proof be on me for
making the claim. You can not proove that there is not an invisible
Giraffe in my house. The same applies to an invisible god.
You'll never convince them because in their minds the invisible
giraffe is self-evident, supremely important, loves them and forgives
them when they fart in bed. Besides which all reasonable people know
it exists.
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| User: "Ike" |
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| Title: Re: there is evidence for gravity! |
13 Jan 2005 12:56:03 AM |
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"Christopher A. Lee" <calee@optonline.net> wrote in message
news:3v1au09jhhea4nn665ji14qvu5l4qq1a1j@4ax.com...
On 12 Jan 2005 03:14:50 -0800, (Jake21)
wrote:
Your argument doesn't work here. The burden of proof is on the
theist. If there were evidence for god then yes, the burden would be
on the atheist. If I said there was an invisible Giraffe in my house,
and you didn't believe me, would not the burden of proof be on me for
making the claim. You can not proove that there is not an invisible
Giraffe in my house. The same applies to an invisible god.
You'll never convince them because in their minds the invisible
giraffe is self-evident, supremely important, loves them and forgives
them when they fart in bed. Besides which all reasonable people know
it exists.
I feel so much better now that I have found love form an invisible giraffe.
Thank you for opening my eyes. I was blind yet now I see.
--
The argument that everything had a Creator because it's too complicated, is
about as reasonable as saying that it couldn't have been created since it's
too complicated.
It's about like saying that a super flea created a dog. Then
the good fleas go to a great dog in the sky, while the bad unbelieving fleas
are scratched off into a super rug to be forever hungry. If you think dogs
weren't created by a Great Flea then you are an afleaist.
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| User: "Jos Flachs" |
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| Title: Re: there is evidence for gravity! |
13 Jan 2005 12:46:00 AM |
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On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 06:21:50 -0500, Christopher A. Lee
<calee@optonline.net> wrote:
On 12 Jan 2005 03:14:50 -0800, (Jake21)
wrote:
Your argument doesn't work here. The burden of proof is on the
theist. If there were evidence for god then yes, the burden would be
on the atheist. If I said there was an invisible Giraffe in my house,
and you didn't believe me, would not the burden of proof be on me for
making the claim. You can not proove that there is not an invisible
Giraffe in my house. The same applies to an invisible god.
You'll never convince them because in their minds the invisible
giraffe is self-evident, supremely important, loves them and forgives
them when they fart in bed. Besides which all reasonable people know
it exists.
Blasphemer! What you refer to is the Invisible Pink Unicorn (PBUHH)!
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| User: "Bill" |
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| Title: Re: there is evidence for gravity! |
12 Jan 2005 06:49:05 PM |
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These God beliefs are so ingrained because most people cannot deal with the
finality of death. They must create in their minds a here after and a god
that protects them
from the horrors of death.
--
Bill
"Christopher A. Lee" <calee@optonline.net> wrote in message
news:3v1au09jhhea4nn665ji14qvu5l4qq1a1j@4ax.com...
On 12 Jan 2005 03:14:50 -0800, (Jake21)
wrote:
Your argument doesn't work here. The burden of proof is on the
theist. If there were evidence for god then yes, the burden would be
on the atheist. If I said there was an invisible Giraffe in my house,
and you didn't believe me, would not the burden of proof be on me for
making the claim. You can not proove that there is not an invisible
Giraffe in my house. The same applies to an invisible god.
You'll never convince them because in their minds the invisible
giraffe is self-evident, supremely important, loves them and forgives
them when they fart in bed. Besides which all reasonable people know
it exists.
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| User: "stoney" |
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| Title: Re: there is evidence for gravity! |
17 Jan 2005 03:05:49 AM |
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On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 18:49:05 GMT, "Bill" <wmech@worldnet.att.net>
wrote:
These God beliefs are so ingrained because most people cannot deal with the
finality of death. They must create in their minds a here after and a god
that protects them
from the horrors of death.
Such doesn't prevent decomposure.....
--
Contempt of Congress meter reading-offscale.
Hello, theocracy with a fundamentalist US Supreme
Court who will ensure church and state are joined
at the hip like clergy and altar boys.
America 1776-Jan 2001 RIP
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| User: "anon" |
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| Title: Re: there is evidence for gravity! |
18 Jan 2005 07:52:32 AM |
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It will soon be the United States of Christ
"stoney" <stoney@the.net> wrote in message
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On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 18:49:05 GMT, "Bill" <wmech@worldnet.att.net>
wrote:
These God beliefs are so ingrained because most people cannot deal with
the
finality of death. They must create in their minds a here after and a god
that protects them
from the horrors of death.
Such doesn't prevent decomposure.....
--
Contempt of Congress meter reading-offscale.
Hello, theocracy with a fundamentalist US Supreme
Court who will ensure church and state are joined
at the hip like clergy and altar boys.
America 1776-Jan 2001 RIP
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| User: "Vic Sagerquist" |
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| Title: Re: there is evidence for gravity! |
12 Jan 2005 10:41:29 PM |
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on 12 Jan 2005 in alt.atheism, Bill dropped trou, farted, whirled, then
shouted:
These God beliefs are so ingrained because most people cannot deal
with the finality of death. They must create in their minds a here
after and a god that protects them
from the horrors of death.
Not to forget the ability to punish their enemies by placing them mentally
in their god's hell. Sometimes physically, too - giving them a taste of
what is to come.
--
Vic Sagerquist
aa#2011
Supervisor, EAC Department of little adhesive-backed "L" shaped
chrome-plastic doo-dads to add feet to Jesus fish department
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Why is it that most of the people who are against abortion are the kind of
people you wouldn't want to ***** in the first place?
--George Carlin
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| User: "Al Klein" |
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| Title: Re: there is evidence for gravity! |
12 Jan 2005 11:34:45 PM |
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On 12 Jan 2005 03:14:50 -0800, (Jake21) said
in alt.atheism:
Your argument doesn't work here. The burden of proof is on the
theist. If there were evidence for god then yes, the burden would be
on the atheist.
You really need to study "burden of proof". It has nothing to do with
whether there's evidence.
If I said there was an invisible Giraffe in my house,
and you didn't believe me, would not the burden of proof be on me for
making the claim. You can not proove that there is not an invisible
Giraffe in my house.
Sure can. But no one can prove that there's no invisible giraffe
anywhere in the universe.
The same applies to an invisible god.
Only if its claimed existence is unlimited.
--
"They laughed at Newton, they laughed at Einstein, but they also laughed at
Bozo the Clown."
- Carl Sagan
(random sig, produced by SigChanger)
rukbat at verizon dot net
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