Atheists, agnostics most knowledgeable about religion, survey says

Discussion in 'Religion and Spirituality' started by olias, Sep 30, 2010.

  1. stu

    stu

    You're doing it again.

    After what you've said and are still saying above, it's difficult to believe that's true.
     
    #311     Nov 24, 2010
  2. stu

    stu

    Clearly Lucrum still doesn't get that.

    You might start with metaphysics, my point being that you always need do the science to go any further.
    That's not "all it represents" Science is more than just metaphysics.
     
    #312     Nov 24, 2010
  3. stu

    stu

    Scientists know how much dark energy. And you're obviously very pissed about that.
     
    #313     Nov 24, 2010
  4. jem

    jem

    If stu is willing to argue with these guys.. he is willing to argue with you. He is unwilling to accept science if it conflicts with his worldview.



     
    #314     Nov 24, 2010
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  6. Lucrum

    Lucrum

    What, pointing out that there are unproven scientific theories and that these theories are not the same thing as proven laws or facts of absolute certainty?

    Refusal to acknowledge or believe reality, doesn't change it.
     
    #316     Nov 24, 2010
  7. stu

    stu

    No, I'm saying it's either in ignorance or deceit that anyone would suggest scientific theories are unproven in false comparison to "not the same thing as proven laws or facts of absolute certainty", or infer that they are just a theory, when in fact they are always far from both those descriptions.

    Scientific theories are valid, being grounded in logic, containing fact, are proven to a great degree and have substantive explanations of the natural world. They never are …just unproven.

    Like the two posts prior to yours, you're still trying to present a false argument based on something that evidently isn't true in reality.
     
    #317     Nov 26, 2010
  8. Lucrum

    Lucrum

    If it's "proven", it's no longer just a theory.
    If it's not proven it's just a theory. It may be a popular even widely accepted theory. But it's still just a theory.
     
    #318     Nov 26, 2010
  9. You idiot, it's a continuum and the "universe from nothing" speculation that you keep mindlessly parroting is a stretch, as was Hawking's speculation that the universe would collapse and time would reverse. Which he later had to retract.

    But your child-like understanding of science leads you to believe that scientists know much more than they really do. just like this link shows how you had what scientists understand about the universe BACKWARDS.
    http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&postid=2952513#post2952513
     
    #319     Nov 27, 2010
  10. It seems to me its the theologians who are the ones who should be put on the defensive. They're the ones who're cocksure about their beliefs and for no better reason than faith. Science overtly admits when they use the word theory that the bottom hasn't been plumbed yet as to the prospects for graduating a theory or hypothesis to the next level ...law. Theres reason and theres faith, and its a faith based on what some primitive writers prescribed. And you don't get to use agnostic perspectives to support christian beliefs. You have to defend Noah et al.
     
    #320     Nov 27, 2010