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ben-ja-menGOLD Member
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Posted:
ok so first read this https://www.venganza.org/
i mean really!!!! wtf?!?!?!?! i just cant get over how censored censored censored censored censored censored censored censored this is.

*deep cleansing breath*

ok so how is it that any educated person (as one would assume the Kansas School Board would be required to have some level of education?) or even a mildly retarded chimp for that matter would even consider adding something like ID to a science curriculum?

Now if the ID group where to be taking a page or two from Cellular Automata (which evolution essentially is just in a much more complex environment with more complex survival/interaction rules) and add that the resulting now is possibly the result of design by choosing the rules such that it would evolve in such a way to have created the given now, or that the soul's link to the real world might be the apparently random quantum tunnelling effects that take place in the microtubules (yet another CA) in the brain then i wouldnt have such a big problem with their proposal. both of which are horribly speculative and cant be proven but both allow for the concept of "god" to be introduced to highlight that science doesnt have all the answers

i suppose next we will be using the fox network for our history classes? confused
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People are right to question evolution and there are still gaps in our knowlage about it. i just find it furstrateing/baffling that people seem to use the arguement point A can't be totaly explained by evolution there for by proccess of elimination god did it?? appart from the problem of which god was it thor, neptune, jesus the flying spagety monster. that logical leep starts from the fact there entire world view is baised on the principle that they are absolutly 100% right. thats why they NEVER argue a case for god creating the world i've tryed on several occasions to get people to do this they only ever argue AGAINST evolution. because in there minds he definatly exists if you ever ask a IDist to explain the evidence and make a case for ID without mentioniting evolution or the bible there totaly stumped yet that doesn't seem to bother them
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Posted:
Yeah, i've had some REAL frustrating conversations with religious people. The fundamental flaw in any belief system is the belief that that view is absolutely unarguably unequivocably right.

That said, one of my best mates is training to be a priest, and I've had some wicked conversations with him. But then he listens to other peoples viewpoints and comes up with counter-arguments, which is fine. It's people who go "if it's not in the bible it's not true, and I'm not listening, la la la" that does my head in. wink

And ID is especiialy annoying because it masquerades as science when it isn't. It's an insipid attack on evolution from religious fundamentalists who think they're right and everybody else is wrong, and want to force it down peoples throats, nothing more. They use so-called legitimate scientists like Michael Behe to legitimise their cause, and have a raft of "scientific" backup, like the old irreducible complexity argument that always gets wheeled out. Which sounds convincing to the layman, but is absolute garbage scientifically, and can easlily be disproved.

*disengage rant mode* rolleyes

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jeff(fake)Scientist of Fortune
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Posted:
Anyone seen the new South Park episode yet?YouTube

I don't want to spoil anything, but we'll never be able to look at a certain English scientist ever again without sniggering.

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faith enfireBRONZE Member
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Posted:
i've had some real frustrating conversations with non-religious people tongue

The scientists are saying " this is what we THINK happened" where the creationists are saying " we KNOW what happened"

we believe this happened, somehow there is a subtle difference

(shut up, yes there is)

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Posted:
ubblol Yeah, I agree! Discussing belief is always good, as long as it's two way! Talking to someone (religious, non-religious, it matters not) who is only interested in making you agree with them is soooo irritating.

A good discussion should be about furthering your own knowledge by taking into account the viewpoints of others, and adapting (or evolving, hehe) your own arguments in response, just as the other person in the debate should. Debating with someone who won't budge an inch even when faced with an argument that obliterates their own, because they're so convinced they're right, is pointless. And I've met a few of those, on both sides of the debate. wink

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colemanSILVER Member
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Posted:
offtopic

i'm confused - how the hell do you get youtube to host a 22 minute video without being a 'director' member and on top of that, its of a tv show that's only just been broadcast on an american network?!

youtube seem to be immune to copyright confused



ontopic:

i too think there is a subtle difference between "i know" and "i believe" and it is this:

i think that creationists, like those who subscribe to i.d., generally site their opinions as beliefs and imo, when we are referring to religious beliefs, those beliefs are absolute and thus saying "i believe" is the same as saying "i know" but with an added qualifier, that being: "i don't know how/why i know, but i know".

the difference between "we think x happened" and we believe x happened" is that the belief (in the religious sense of the word) cannot and should not ever be challenged (when it is, it is said that the person's faith is wavering) whereas the thought can be, and is encouraged to be, challenged.

belief in this context must be absolute and should require no qualification.

and that would be absolutely fine, if it were not one of the primary aims of the believers to spread their belief to others.

there is much less of an impetus to push one's support for a scientific idea/theory:
scientists say "we've had this idea. we're going to test it to see if it might be right. anyone is welcome to come up with a different idea and, if that idea fits the evidence better than our idea, we may well end up supporting your idea instead".

i agree that some scientists treat their theories as one would their religious faith, in terms of defending the 'truth' of it to the hilt and attempting to spread support for it to others.
but one person believing in a theory does not make the practice of belief and the spreading of it implicit in science, whereas it clearly is implicit in christianity.


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Posted:
 Written by: coleman


offtopic

i'm confused - how the hell do you get youtube to host a 22 minute video without being a 'director' member and on top of that, its of a tv show that's only just been broadcast on an american network?!

youtube seem to be immune to copyright confused




They aren't immune, but until someone sends a cease and desist to them, they won't take things down.

The BBC f'rinstance (the bbc guy from backstage.bbc.co.uk was saying) know about the bbc programs on youtube, but they don't ask them to be taken down because they act as free marketing / samples in effect getting people to the bbc site looking for more / information. Or getting them to buy the full programs on DVD.

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faith enfireBRONZE Member
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Posted:
isn't the point of a scientific theory to have people agree on it and build on it with other theories because they think that the premise is correct
this seems to be an implicit hope of spreading the idea

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colemanSILVER Member
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Posted:
that's not the point of a scientific theory at all.



the point of a scientific theory is to describe the causes of and accurately model the processes behind a particular phenomena.



if people agree that a theory accurately models the actual processes at work or build further theories on it, it adds support but makes no difference to how correct the theory may or may not be.



however, if it helps to predict further phenomena that have not been observed, this does add credence to a claim that the theory correctly describes the causes of said phenomena.





but that's beside the point - my point was this:



spreading an idea is wholly acceptable to me since disagreement with said idea is not detrimental to it and rational analysis of it is actively encouraged by those who propose it.



an attempt to begin rational analysis of a belief is pointless and disagreement with a christian belief is otherwise known as heresy.



i.d. cannot be proved or disproved, therefore it is not a scientific theory or even an 'idea' - its a christian belief.





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Posted:
The absence of a giant talking t-rex to explain everying is just one of the things the gods got wrong. ubblol

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Posted:
Can't remember if i posted this:
https://xkcd.com/c154.html

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robnunchucksBRONZE Member
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Posted:
lol thats awsome



also thought up something another intresting i realised at least 3 billion on the planet are Delusional and whats more i can prove it



Faith: 1. The belief that something is true, in spite of evidence to the contrary.

2. The proposition that something is true, even if there is no evidence to support it.



Delusions:A false belief that is firmly held despite logical and confirming evidence to the contrary.



As you can see the diffrence between faith and delusion is essentaly wether you are correct or not if your correct is faith if your wrong its a delusion.



As we know religions are mutaly exclusive if one is right the rest are wrong they can't all be right.



so to get our minimum figure for the number of delusional people we simply assume that the religon with the most members is right this is currently christianity so we add the number of christants to the number of atheists (they never had faith in the first place) 33% of people are christian + 16% atheists(who are wrong but not delusional this of course doesn't take into acount the mentaly ill atheists and christans who actualy are delusional about something wink )



so that gives us 49% of 6 billion people which gives us 3 billion as a minimun number for delusional people



so no matter whos right or wrong about the whole god thing at least half of the worlds population is delusional biggrin
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StoutBRONZE Member
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Posted:
Great post robnunchucks, and your analysis could be used to explain the majority of general weirdness that drives most conflicts.

OK, so I was wrong to equate knowledge and faith in the way I did , and as Coleman so eloquently pointed out. It's not that I didn't believe him, it's just that I was thinking along the lines of trust when I made the comparison.

The statement that threw me was "subtle differences" and the more I looked into this issue, the more I found that the differences weren't that subtle after all.

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I'm sure I've seen a post like Robs before in religion - a mental illness wink
as always though it's hard to be negative when you agree whole heartedly, biggrin

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ChellySILVER Member
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Posted:
 Written by: robnunchucks





As we know religions are mutaly exclusive if one is right the rest are wrong they can't all be right.




Umm, I think the teachings of the Dalai Lama may disagree with you there.....but he'll respect that if it's your belief....ubblol

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Posted:
Jeepers!! Thought I better back that up with a couple of quotes or something there....

 Written by: Dalai Lama


We also need to renew our commitment to human values in the field of modern science. Though the main purpose of science is to learn more about reality, another of its goals is to improve the quality of life. Without altruistic motivation, scientists cannot distinguish between beneficial technologies and the merely expedient. The environmental damage surrounding us is the most obvious example of the result of this confusion, but proper motivation may be even more relevant in governing how we handle the extraordinary new array of biological techniques with which we can now manipulate the subtle structures of life itself. If we do not base our every action on an ethical foundation, we run the risk of inflicting terrible harm on the delicate matrix of life.

Nor are the religions of the world exempt from this responsibility The purpose of religion is not to build beautiful churches or temples, but to cultivate positive human qualities such as tolerance generosity and love. Every world religion, no matter what its philosophical view, is founded first and foremost on the precept that we must reduce our selfishness and serve others. Unfortunately, sometimes religion itself causes more quarrels than it solves. Practitioners of different faiths should realize that each religious tradition has immense intrinsic value and the means for providing mental and spiritual health. One religion, like a single type of food, cannot satisfy everybody. According to their varying mental dispositions, some people benefit from one kind of teaching, others from another. Each faith has the ability to produce fine, warmhearted people and despite their espousal of often contradictory philosophies, all religions have succeeded in doing so. Thus there is no reason to engage in divisive religious bigotry and intolerance, and every reason to cherish and respect all forms of spiritual practice.





I was fortunate enough to meet the man once. He stayed in the hotel I was working in when he did his tour, and I got to serve him and some of his monks dinner for a whole week!
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ChellySILVER Member
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biggrin biggrin Yup. He told me I had a beautiful smile... biggrin biggrin

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ChellySILVER Member
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Posted:
Sorry for all the double posting guys, but if anyone is interested in reading a little more about it, I found those quotes here.
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robnunchucksBRONZE Member
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Posted:
 Written by: chellybean



 Written by: robnunchucks



As we know religions are mutaly exclusive if one is right the rest are wrong they can't all be right.





Umm, I think the teachings of the Dalai Lama may disagree with you there.....but he'll respect that if it's your belief....ubblol





yer very true buddism is kinda an execption it been a very sensable religion i was going to exculude buddism but in the end there are still afew conflicts like rencarnation vs the afterlife which are mutaly exclusive. though the lack of a god in buddism does put them in a grey area for the whole thing



is probly safter just to exclude buddists from the whole thing as they just complicate matters ubblol



anways thats pritty cool meeting the Dalai Lama i'ed love to hear his take on the teaching creationism in science issue biggrin
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https://austringer.net/wp/?p=443

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Sym: confused umm



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Oh, it's not very clear what that's about is it? It's not very on topic, but it's about https://www.talkorigins.org/
- a site that debunks creationists 'science'.



"Talk.Origins is an archive with thousands of pages exposing creationist pseudoscience. Rather mysteriously, Google pulled the plug on its search engine, giving only the vague reason: 'No pages from your site are currently included in Google's index due to violations of the webmaster guidelines.' This was apparently triggered by a recent cracking of the site that added 'hidden links to non-topical sites,' but Google won't say just what the violations were. Talk.Origins webmaster Wesley R. Elsberry believes that this Google policy harms honest webmasters."

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jeff(fake)Scientist of Fortune
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Posted:
They are now relisted. Random vandalism or rather petty intelligent design attack?

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MynciBRONZE Member
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Posted:
OK I thought this would fit better in this thread than the intelligent design a critique thread.



just watched heroes again and noticed an interesting analogy / paralell (call it what you will)



the show is supposed to be about the the genetic evolution of man to a new level, the recurring symbol being a stylized DNA strand.

The "baddie" in this is a watchmaker wink drawing interesting similarities to William Paley's "watch maker" analogy as a form of proof of creationalism. I thought the show would probably know this. is it subliminally saying that "watch maker" is evil? could it have been written by Richard Dawkins? ubblol



also note the watchmaker's name is actually Gabriel (no religious conotations there at all eh wink



just an observation.

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Posted:
Is it me, or are points 1,2 and 5 on this website, exactly the same question but differently worded?

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BurdaASILVER Member
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Posted:
Point 4 isn't far off either, still two good questions biggrin lets go find a theory without holes



*years pass*




wait surely a theory without holes (lack of evidence would surely be considered a 'hole') is just a fact?



*goes back to nonchalantly watching things play out*



*also notices the word 'hole' seems wierd when overused*

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