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Quote: Originally Posted by chozometroid I would say it's because the brain has been injured, and the ability to interpret the environment has been hindered, as well as hormone levels which regulate feelings of comfort or fear. Ability to interpret the environment does not change your personality and if your personality is independent of your physical brain and using it as an apparatus to experience the world, neither should hormone...

Quote: Originally Posted by Flamed Diving as was said earlier: Sophistry... *mumble mumble*... exegesis... *something or other* hermeneutics... *so on and so forth*... ergo, my understanding of the Bible is correct. You can't prove that my God isn't real. Quote: Originally Posted by Obni Either way, the distillation of her probable motives into a well presented but flawed bit of youtube sophistry neither adds nor subtracts from the...

Quote: Originally Posted by fitz0 Commas exist for a reason. ... someone has been reading too much into the ludicrous prophecies regarding the Intelligent Creation and subsequent speciation of several BILLION species from nothing 6000 years ago...by an immaterial all powerful and loving being. In the beginning The Lord Noodlyship created a singularity through which the reversed process of spaghettification arose giving rise to all the heavens...

Quote: Originally Posted by irishconvert To be honest I find some of the athiests on this forum are quite disrespectful as they attempt to make religious people feel stupid by using references to flying spagetti monsters and the link instead of trying to make an intelligent argument. The Flying Spaghetti Monster is an intelligent argument. I think the problem is that you don't understand why .

Quote: Originally Posted by Stargazer7 I totally agree we should respect each others views but equally-and that's the key point. I used to think exactly like you when I was 21. I've since studied the subject more and I don't think the religious belief is deserving of respect.

It might be tough to find four believers willing to publicly put their god(s) on the line, tbh.

Quote: Originally Posted by Sam Vimes Right so when I hear people say things like "everything happens for a reason" or asking why god would allow something bad to happen to them or generally talking about god's plan or using phrases like "god works in myterious ways" to explain things that appear horrific, it's not necessarily that this horrific event had some underlying greater purpose as part of...

I find this thread increasingly odd. I think the reason is because the whole premise of this guys position and assumption here is that Christians go through life, love, loss etc etc and their entire focus or faith in God is wholly centred around whether they are going to heaven or hell.. ..but this just isn't so for ( I think ) most of us...Yes, we live in 'hope' etc. but being a Christian is more than getting in the pearly...

Quote: Originally Posted by Malty_T Still think my council is wise? In the way of the great scientific method, I retract my stance based on this new evidence.

Quote: Originally Posted by donegalfella Just because you are predisposed towards theism does not make arguments for the contrary position unintelligent. Try reading what I actually wrote. I said using the flying spagetti monster is an attempt to be insulting to believers. Quote: Originally Posted by donegalfella It's hardly the fault of atheists that religious people cannot offer one single shred of scientific evidence to support their...