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  Top Ten Signs You're a Fundamentalist Atheist

  by BurnTheShips in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  please note that this list is intended to apply to the fundies alone.

  not to all nonbelievers.

  so let's turn the mirror and grab some popcorn:.

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  notverylikely

  That's entirely possible. But if we look at natural history, we see a continuum, don't we?

  Kind of, but not really. Fossilization is extremely rare, particularly with soft bodied and single celled creatures, so there isn't really a continuum. More like patches of information from all over the temporal map.

  If reasoning skills are shown to exist on a continuum, is it reasonable to suppose that we are the apex, or that something greater isn't possible?

  It's reasonable to suppose that we are the apex right now for lack of evidence for anything better.
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  Top Ten Signs You're a Fundamentalist Atheist

  by BurnTheShips in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  please note that this list is intended to apply to the fundies alone.

  not to all nonbelievers.

  so let's turn the mirror and grab some popcorn:.

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  notverylikely

  Read the title of this thread and think of the implication of your question.

  Perhaps you are driving at a point I am not seeing.
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  Top Ten Signs You're a Fundamentalist Atheist

  by BurnTheShips in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  please note that this list is intended to apply to the fundies alone.

  not to all nonbelievers.

  so let's turn the mirror and grab some popcorn:.

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  notverylikely

  Exactly. Pure naturalism would seem to be a defeater for trust in human cognition--including perception and reason. In a meaningless universe, then, it would seem that evolution probably "cares" nothing about "truth," but about survival.

  It seems to me that if survival was the point, highly developed perception and reasoning skills would aid survival, so evolution we be pre-disposed to select for it.
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  Top Ten Signs You're a Fundamentalist Atheist

  by BurnTheShips in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  please note that this list is intended to apply to the fundies alone.

  not to all nonbelievers.

  so let's turn the mirror and grab some popcorn:.

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  notverylikely

  This statement seems arrogant to me. Four years ago a very intelligent atheist poster (you have not struck me as being one yourself, I'm sorry to say) made the same predictions about me. Well, here I am.

  Hey, it took Rock Hudson 50 years to come out of the closet (hey man, I'm just yanking yer chain a little , no real offense intended at all)
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  Initial Analysis Of The Times Square Bombing Attempt

  by leavingwt in

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  initial analysis of the times square bombing attempt.

  and so it is with target new york.

  it is entirely possible, nay likely, that the recent times square car bomb was placed at the doorstep of the viacom building's main northeast entrance because of the south park controversy.

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  notverylikely

  The modern libertarian Right is the old left. The modern authoritarian Left is the old Right. The basic ideas haven't changed, it's the labels that have changed their meanings.

  Now that's not fair, saying something I agree with. How am I going to argue with you if we start agreeing?

  A good example of your point is that Lincoln was in fact a Republican. Washington was a Whig (whatever the hell that means). Labels change all the time and not necessarily with what's underneath that label changing as well.
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  Stephen Hawking knows more about heaven than Jesus did.

  by moshe in

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  i have been watching the discovery channel's, 'into the universe with stephen hawking' and it occurred to me that professor hawking knows more about heaven (which is just part of entire universe) than jesus did.

  maybe jesus knew about black holes, alien life, other worlds, the origin of the universe, etc.

  jesus could have told us something so remarkable about our universe that it would have taken us 2000 years to confirm jesus' divine knowledge and prove he was the son of g-d, but he instead decided to tell us that heaven "has many rooms"- whoop-dee-doo.. i don't think jesus had a clue that there was anything out the in the physical universe beyond what he could see with his own eyes.

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  Pictures or video or it never happened

  Ask and ye shall receive, ye of little faith in the google image search.

  
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  Top Ten Signs You're a Fundamentalist Atheist

  by BurnTheShips in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  please note that this list is intended to apply to the fundies alone.

  not to all nonbelievers.

  so let's turn the mirror and grab some popcorn:.

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  notverylikely

  You know you're a Fundamentalist Atheist, when you can't admit, that a belief that there is no Creator/God, is a presupposition.

  Why is that pre-supposition? You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
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  Top Ten Signs You're a Fundamentalist Atheist

  by BurnTheShips in

  1. watchtower
  2. bible

  please note that this list is intended to apply to the fundies alone.

  not to all nonbelievers.

  so let's turn the mirror and grab some popcorn:.

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  notverylikely

  1. You vigorously deny the existence of God, yet you frequently blame him for all the "evils" in the world, all the natural disasters, and everything else under the sun that is wrong in modern society.

  Actually, it's the crazies that do stuff in their respective god's name that get the blame.

  4. You believe that when the Founders are framing the Constitution, they're staunch non-Christians, but when they're beating their slaves, they're Bible-believing Christians.

  Don't forget the rape, that's all in the bible too.

  If you're gonna make fun of people (which I am all for), try not to trip and fall on your face in the mud on your way out of the gate :)
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  Initial Analysis Of The Times Square Bombing Attempt

  by leavingwt in

  1. social
  2. current

  initial analysis of the times square bombing attempt.

  and so it is with target new york.

  it is entirely possible, nay likely, that the recent times square car bomb was placed at the doorstep of the viacom building's main northeast entrance because of the south park controversy.

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  notverylikely

  Cats and dogs do live together. Sheesh! Do your research.

  Sheesh, am I the only one that's seen Ghostbusters?

  Dr. Peter Venkman: This city is headed for a disaster of biblical proportions.
  Mayor: What do you mean, "biblical"?
  Dr Ray Stantz: What he means is Old Testament, Mr. Mayor, real wrath of God type stuff.
  Dr. Peter Venkman: Exactly.
  Dr Ray Stantz: Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies! Rivers and seas boiling!
  Dr. Egon Spengler: Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes...
  Winston Zeddemore: The dead rising from the grave!
  Dr. Peter Venkman: Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... mass hysteria!
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  Anyone know Anthony Morris?

  by Eiben Scrood in

  1. jw
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  i listened to this district overseer's talk here:.

  http://www.archive.org/details/specialassemblyday-thetimeleftisreduced.

  i had never heard of the guy and was curious if perhaps he was decent.

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  notverylikely

  never heard of him, but i listened to part of that and it was pretty horrible...