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personal and more than likely good reasons.
and after reading the .
| explain the thousands of paranormal phenomena that are well documented in nearly every country in the world? |
...documented by people who should know to be more skeptical. Show me the incontrovertible evidence for one of these phenomena. As soon as a skeptic studies these phenomena, they prove to be utterly mundane, misperceptions, or a plain hoax.
old dawkins is on the rampage again.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/5372458.stm.
TopHat - I'd also ask you to consider sending the evidence you have to the most appropriate scientific organization, I can assure you it is of the greatest interest to them.
You might also want to look into the the James Randi Million Dollar Challenge, which is a prize offered to anyone who " can show, under proper observing conditions, evidence of any paranormal, supernatural, or occult power or event" .
When you win, please remember me.
old dawkins is on the rampage again.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/5372458.stm.
TopHat, the word theory in science is different from the word theory used by the general public.
| what science calls a... | the general public calls a... |
| hypothesis | theory |
| theory | well-tested explanation of all known evidence |
As you can see from the table, the word theory in science has a very different meaning from the word theory in the way you are using it.
At one time the word theory only meant the one thing (the science meaning), but over the last hundred years it has slipped into the general language and the meaning was distorted.
take a look here, see what you make of it!
all bow down to the fsm!
take a look here, see what you make of it!
all bow down to the fsm!
old dawkins is on the rampage again.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/5372458.stm.
| a morally bankrupt ideology like evolution can offer to this world |
I assume you mean evolutionism. Evolution is not an ideology, any more than the theory of plate tectonics is an ideology.
| Creation by an Intelligent being makes much more sense than evolution ever will! The making of two sexes, male and female, is reason enough |
We can postulate lots of ways in which it can happen, but we may never know which is correct. But each hypothesis is infinitely more likely that 'sky-god made man, sky-god made woman, when? dunno'. The fact that the existence of male and female can be adequately explained by the theory of evolution, is more testament to it's accuracy, not less.
is god just a ball of energy hanging around?.
is god a spirit person as the jw's suggest?.
ok, so i realize that there are a large number of atheists here, of which group i am ever so slowly counting myself among, who would love to shout down the topic with 'there is no god".
| Our conscience, the thing that separates us from animals, where does it come from? |
Define conscience? (you'd be suprised at what does and doesn't separate us from 'animals').
old dawkins is on the rampage again.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/5372458.stm.
Well it's on my xmas list.
is god just a ball of energy hanging around?.
is god a spirit person as the jw's suggest?.
ok, so i realize that there are a large number of atheists here, of which group i am ever so slowly counting myself among, who would love to shout down the topic with 'there is no god".
| Either atheism of theism takes a leap of faith. I am not prepared to take a leap in either direction. |
I understand where you are coming from, but atheism does not have to mean rejecting the ultimate possibility of a god, just that until any evidence comes forward it is not an idea worth considering, it's just not useful. In that sense atheism is the very opposite of a leap of faith, it is a refusal to take a leap of faith.
the thread re: did fossils make you doubt?
makes me laugh at the creationist because they have the same hurdle to over come as does the evolutionist do.
for the creationist can you tell me how god came from nothing?
Evolution is not a hypothesis, it is a scientific theory, which is defined as a 'well-tested explanation of all known evidence'.
| And evolution has problems as well in my mind. |
What are they? I'm sure members of this forum can explain or point you in the right direction of information that will clarify these issues for you.
