I love the fact that as soon as people start poking holes in Perry's arguments he runs for the hills only to return a month later with exactly the same post hoping people have short memories. Perry you are such a silly bird.
Posts by Caedes
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130Atheist Miracles
by Perry ini reworded a variation of a common critique of atheists to my own liking.
no, i do not hate atheists, i love them!
they keep me from getting bored.
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Atheist Miracles
by Perry ini reworded a variation of a common critique of atheists to my own liking.
no, i do not hate atheists, i love them!
they keep me from getting bored.
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Caedes
I will disagree with the professor because there is no struggle between science and the supernatural. The simple fact is that science cannot deal with the supernatural since by definition the supernatural is things outside of nature for which we have no empirical evidence. Science only deals in things we have empirical evidence for or things for which we think empirical evidence can be found.
So there is no struggle against the supernatural, science does not compel scientists to materialism simply because the the material world is the only thing we can study empirically. You can't say that we are forced to material explanations since there are no other explanations that provide us with empirical evidence. I note that no example is given of case where a "non- material" explanation is in any way useful or explanatory let alone more useful or explanatory than a empirical materialist answer.
It is not that science cannot allow a divine foot in the door, it is that we require a divine footprint we can measure, and as ever anything supernatural evades any hint of measurability.
The counter-intuitiveness of the material world (I would also argue that is an indication of our own lack of understanding rather than anything 'wrong' with science) is irrelevant to the question of any supposed conflict between science and the supernatural.
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Atheist Miracles
by Perry ini reworded a variation of a common critique of atheists to my own liking.
no, i do not hate atheists, i love them!
they keep me from getting bored.
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Caedes
Perry's pidgeon is cutting and pasting for the lord again I see.
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Since man is unable to create life does this mean
by Crazyguy indoes this mean possible a creator did or does exist.
there is plenty of evidence of a slow evolutionary changes over millions of years and i do not disagree with this.
but again that fact that mankind can not create a living creature from scratch mean there must be a creator?
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Caedes
I think we may be discussing the stable door whilst the horse is enjoying himself in the next field over. If you read the very short article it's pretty clear that this guy has been there and done that already. He is just waiting to publish his results.
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The poor and deprived life of JW children.
by Esse quam videri ini find it hard to believe that adults on this forum make such a big deal about not celebrating birthdays, x-mas, easter, halloween, etc, etc, etc.
i grew up as a jw kid and it actually made me feel good, being different from the other kids in school.
we went to meetings.
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Caedes
I was forced to return books to the library if my parents didn't like the look of them. I took to just reading them while at the library instead. Anything science fiction or fantasy was likely to get rejected. Eventually I used to pick up some books for approval and would hide anything I knew wasn't going to get past the censors. My parents are from the UK so it's not just the US that has a problem with fundamentalism.
The main issue as the OP shows is the fact that not all JW kids had the same experience, I knew one family whose kids looked like the stepped out of the forties, they had a horrible time at home and at school and they just looked miserable. I know that other kids that had it better than me and seemed to cope quite well.
It's just stupid to assume that your own experience as a child of JWs is going to be the same as everyone else's. The OP's mistake is to denigrate the experience of others simply because his experience was different.
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Scientific Proof that Evolution is NOT Scientific!
by Nicola.threeangelsmessage inbruce malone, an outstanding scientist has absolute scientific proof that evolution is not scientific!.
bruce, a leading researcher for dow chemical for 30 years; he is one of the top 100 inventors eighteen of his inventions raised millions of dollars; and has a b.s.
degree in chemical engineering.
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Caedes
Evolution is NOT scientific????
Tell me something I don't know......
Well you clearly don't know anything about science or evolution, shall we start there?
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Scientific Proof that Evolution is NOT Scientific!
by Nicola.threeangelsmessage inbruce malone, an outstanding scientist has absolute scientific proof that evolution is not scientific!.
bruce, a leading researcher for dow chemical for 30 years; he is one of the top 100 inventors eighteen of his inventions raised millions of dollars; and has a b.s.
degree in chemical engineering.
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Caedes
Nicola,
I have some news for you, having a BS in chemical engineering does not make you a scientist. At best it makes you an engineer. I know because I am also an engineer.
If this "renowned scientist" has absolute proof then he should know that he should publish it in an academic journal and accept peer review. To be a genuine scientist you would have at least a masters or PhD in a relevant field which would indicate that you are doing unique work and contributing to knowledge in that field. A bachelors degree in chemical engineering does not make you an expert in palaeontology especially if you know so little about geology that you think there was a worldwide flood in the recent past.
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For God/Truth Seekers Only!
by Nicola.threeangelsmessage infor the past three years, my husband and i have been watching these sermons by remarkable worldwide speakers.
the biblical truths we have learnt from their presentations, in such a short period of time most definitely tip the scales compared to the truth the jw.org led me to believe i had for over 20 plus years of my life.
thanks to these videos, we have now found the truth and the truth is jesus christ (john 14:6).
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Caedes
My husband and I are so happy, and are so blessed – our lives are a living testimony that Jesus’ words are true when He said in Luke 11:28, “…blessed are those who hear the Word of God and keep it!”
So what blessings have you received and how do you know that god provided them?
(Repeated from my unanswered post on page one)
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God & JW can't exist without "evil"
by thedepressedsoul ini was thinking the other day that so far jw's and god have always needed or relied on "evil" to get items done or taken care of.
almost every bible prophecy and jw teaching would not exist without "evil".. let's take the prophecy of jesus for example, it would not have been fulfilled without evil.
when you think about it, he was a needed evil in order for prophecy to be fulfilled.
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Caedes
Kirk vs. the sexual unavailability of every female of every species
Lol, which side is which?
Do you think I could get a refund on this tea stained keyboard?
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For God/Truth Seekers Only!
by Nicola.threeangelsmessage infor the past three years, my husband and i have been watching these sermons by remarkable worldwide speakers.
the biblical truths we have learnt from their presentations, in such a short period of time most definitely tip the scales compared to the truth the jw.org led me to believe i had for over 20 plus years of my life.
thanks to these videos, we have now found the truth and the truth is jesus christ (john 14:6).
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Caedes
My husband and I are so happy, and are so blessed – our lives are a living testimony that Jesus’ words are true when He said in Luke 11:28, “…blessed are those who hear the Word of God and keep it!”
So what blessings have you received and how do you know that god provided them?