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  Universal sovereignty on trial

  by Factfulness in

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  i just had a thought of clarity regarding the jw explanation for this doctrine.

  they explain that satan challenged god regarding his right to rule.

  god failed to prove his right to rule.

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  Coded Logic

  For many who believe in God . . . he stands outside of the universe, outside matter, outside time, outside of “being” as such.
  -SBF

  Surely you'd agree this is a case of Special Pleading. When we talk about existence we are necessarily describing something that is both local and temporal. To say that something "existed no-where for zero seconds" would be the same thing as describing something that doesn't exist.
  

  If Theist want to put forth the proposition that God "exists" outside of space and time then they need to first demonstrate that such a thing is possible - AND THEN they can use that as an explanation. Not before.
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  Universal sovereignty on trial

  by Factfulness in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i just had a thought of clarity regarding the jw explanation for this doctrine.

  they explain that satan challenged god regarding his right to rule.

  god failed to prove his right to rule.

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  Coded Logic

  Why shouldn’t God as a hypothesis be the starting position? “Because I say so” seems to be the best atheists can come up with.

  There is actually a very good answer to this question SBF. The reason we don't assume claims are true until proven false is because it would put us in the position of believing contradictory things simultaneously. If the JWs say there is only one God and the Hindus say there are multiple Gods - we're now put into a impossible situation of trying to believe two incompatible things at the same time. That's why positive claims require positive evidence.

  And can you imagine a world where claims are assumed to be true until proven false? I'd be able to say, "SBF murdered kids" and we'd have to lock you up in prison until you were able to prove you had never murdered a child in your entire life (an impossible task).

  THAT's why the God hypothesis - just like any other hypothesis - shouldn't be the default position. The default position is "I don't know". And then we can take a look at the world and see that every single thing ever investigated has had a naturalistic cause - and zero things have had a supernatural cause. And, as all the evidence is operating in one direction, our position moves from "I don't know if there's a God" to "There's an infinitely higher likelihood that gods don't exist than do exist."
  
  
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  Bill Nye vs Ken Ham debate

  by Whynot in

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  2. entertainment

  did anyone else watch the bill nye versus ken ham debate?

  it happened february 4, 2014 and just watched it a few months ago.

  i thought it was interesting but must confess that i felt extremely embarrassed for ken ham.

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  You think Bill Nye was in league with Ken Ham to promote the creationist museum???

  You can't be serrious
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  Universal sovereignty on trial

  by Factfulness in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i just had a thought of clarity regarding the jw explanation for this doctrine.

  they explain that satan challenged god regarding his right to rule.

  god failed to prove his right to rule.

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  Coded Logic

  I'm NOT agnostic about unicorns, ferries, world ending prophecies or gods. I'm an anti-unicornist, anti-ferriest, and anti-theist.

  I believe they're all made up nonsense. That is to say, I think they belong in ferry tales and children's books and don't exist - nor are a part of - our reality.

  What's my rational? What's my evidence you ask? Well, it's very simple: Things for which there is no evidence and things which don't exist - are categorically identical. There is no way to tell the difference between the two. And indeed there's no good reason to think there is a difference between the two.

  Or, if I may boil all this down into a single pithy phrase, having no good reason to believe something is at least one good reason NOT to believe it.
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  Bill Nye vs Ken Ham debate

  by Whynot in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  did anyone else watch the bill nye versus ken ham debate?

  it happened february 4, 2014 and just watched it a few months ago.

  i thought it was interesting but must confess that i felt extremely embarrassed for ken ham.

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  Coded Logic

  Bill Nye has a stellar reputation of accurately representing the truth and honesty. When Ken Ham was asked what would change his mind he said "nothing". When Bill Nye was asked he said, "Evidence".

  This is all the difference in the world. And this the kind of intellectual honest and rigor we need right now. Not more fundamentalist Christian asshattery.
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  Universal sovereignty on trial

  by Factfulness in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i just had a thought of clarity regarding the jw explanation for this doctrine.

  they explain that satan challenged god regarding his right to rule.

  god failed to prove his right to rule.

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  Coded Logic

  There must be a moral law giver, right? Man cannot agree on morals amongst themselves

  There must be a health giver, right? Man cannot agree on health amongst themselves . . .

  There must be a language giver, right? Man cannot agree on language amongst themselves . . .

  There must be a blue/gold dress giver right? Man cannot agree on blue or gold amongst theselves . . .

  If a concept is not well defined - or is in dispute - then the solution is to either better define the concept or is to bring evidence to the table. It's NOT to make vague appeals to an authority.

  Stop being so intellectually lazy Perry.
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  Bill Nye vs Ken Ham debate

  by Whynot in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  did anyone else watch the bill nye versus ken ham debate?

  it happened february 4, 2014 and just watched it a few months ago.

  i thought it was interesting but must confess that i felt extremely embarrassed for ken ham.

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  Coded Logic

  "sold out" . . . "globalist puppet"

  Bill Nye has a very long and well documented history of standing up for the things he believes in. The things he's advocating for today are the same things he's been advocating for the past 30 years ago.

  Don't listen to the haters. The only reason they don't like Nye is because they don't want to have to change their behavior. They don't want to be reminded all the time that they are polluting and destroying our planet and completely ruining our kids futures.
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  Bill Nye vs Ken Ham debate

  by Whynot in

  1. social
  2. entertainment

  did anyone else watch the bill nye versus ken ham debate?

  it happened february 4, 2014 and just watched it a few months ago.

  i thought it was interesting but must confess that i felt extremely embarrassed for ken ham.

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  Coded Logic

  Bill Nye is a science educator. Not a scientist. Throwing shade at him because he doesn't have his Masters in the sciences is ABSURD.

  More importantly, we define a scientist as someone who conducts research and publishes scientific findings. NOT as someone who has a degree in science.

  For example, Albert Einstein didn't have a degree in science - but he was still a scientist.

  Bill Nye is an amazing Engineer who helped design parts of the Boeing 747, is an active member of the Planetary Society, and holds at least three US patents for his personal designs. Don't listen to the haters. Bill Nye is more the capable of taking on an idiot like Ken Ham.
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  Universal sovereignty on trial

  by Factfulness in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i just had a thought of clarity regarding the jw explanation for this doctrine.

  they explain that satan challenged god regarding his right to rule.

  god failed to prove his right to rule.

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  Coded Logic

  Perry -

  Do you believe that God actually caused a global flood that killed off most of mankind?
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  Universal sovereignty on trial

  by Factfulness in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  i just had a thought of clarity regarding the jw explanation for this doctrine.

  they explain that satan challenged god regarding his right to rule.

  god failed to prove his right to rule.

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  Coded Logic

  I never understood the concept of "universal sovereignty" either.

  If one believes the accounts of the Old Testament - it's not exactly like God stepped back and allowed mankind to rule himself. Quite to the contrary, he was constantly meddling in the worst possible way. For example,

  • God cursed the ground so man would have a hard time growing food.
  • Introduced disease and suffering to mankind.
  • Made pregnancy and birth a dangerous and painful affair.
  • Drowned almost every human on the planet in a global flood.
  • Scattered everyone across the globe and confused our languages so we couldn't work together.
  • Had a "choosen people" that he ordered to commit genocide against all the nations around them.
  • And visited a host of plagues, famines, pests, earthquakes, and sulfur and brimstone attacks all along the way.

  . . . talk about stacking the deck against humanity. Maybe if Jaweh had stopped being a total dick for a second humanity might have done okay.