Does God need to prove He exists?
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From: Ben Dolan on 8 Jul 2008 02:04 rbwinn <rbwinn3(a)juno.com> wrote: > > > According to scripture unless a prayer is asked in faith it will not > > > be answered. > > > Robert B. Winn > > > > And according to empirical evidence, a prayer asked in faith will not be > > answered either. > > What do you call empirical evidence? > Robert B. Winn You hang out in physics newsgroups and you don't know what empirical evidence is? I'm talking about peer reviewed, double-blind studies on the efficacy--or more precisely, the complete lack of efficacy--of prayer. And incidently, did it ever occur to your little Sunday school noodle that "according to scripture" really doesn't carry any weight in making a claim like this? Do you understand why, child?
From: Ben Dolan on 8 Jul 2008 02:04 rbwinn <rbwinn3(a)juno.com> wrote: > Well, atheism has nothing to offer. > Robert B. Winn Just reality, but I guess that's nothing you're interested in--or can even recognize, it seems...
From: Ben Dolan on 8 Jul 2008 02:04 rbwinn <rbwinn3(a)juno.com> wrote: > > > > > The spirit of a human being wants to stay in the body because that is > > > > > the best place for it until the person dies. > > > > > > Where in the body is it housed? > > > > > The entire body. > > > > That's adorable! A child scientist educating us atheists about > > human physiology! > > > > Tell me, Bobby, just how many angels CAN dance on the head of a pin? > > Why are you asking me that question? Because you claim to be knowledgeable in religious superstitions and other gobbledygook. Is it really that difficult for you to understand a simple question, child?
From: The Natural Philosopher on 8 Jul 2008 02:36 Steve O wrote: > > > "rbwinn" <rbwinn3(a)juno.com> wrote in message > news:8cfdd6f7-1a69-475a-b259-7a71bf07fe49(a)k30g2000hse.googlegroups.com... >> >> Spirit could also be called intelligence. >> Robert B. Winn > > Is that why you are so mean spirited? > I think you are on to something there. "Jesus, God of the thick?"
From: The Natural Philosopher on 8 Jul 2008 02:38
Dogmantic Pyrrhonist (AKA Al) wrote: > On Jul 7, 9:01 pm, The Natural Philosopher <a...(a)b.c> wrote: >> My beef with religion, is it clings to the language and simplistic >> worldviews of stone age people: re-visiting the Bible with modern >> knowledge, one is suprised at how sophisticated it actually is. > > Well, the written forms were laid down But the oral form goes WAY back. > after the Greek peoples came > out with a few gems like atoms, water displacement and so forth. Sadly I doubt your average Israeli peasant had heard of any of that. > I > don't think it was particularly sophisticated of those guys. Maybe > back when it was modified oral tradition from an assortment of other > oral traditions it was more at the forefront of science. > > Al |