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Originally posted by FetchmyjunkAh, you mean lack of evidence like religions?
Is your confidence based on evidence or a lack of evidence?
Originally posted by FetchmyjunkIn other words, you don't accept scientific evidence? Like you drop a rock on your foot, it hurts? Because gravity is real, evidence shows that. I dive 300 feet into the ocean without scuba, I die. No O2, I would accept that as evidence for my belief I cannot dive 300 feet unaided into the ocean. So what is your beef?
Your confidence that your beliefs are true is based on a lack of evidence? Or do you have evidence for your beliefs?
Originally posted by SuzianneIt's not the faith of the followers I object to, it's the manufactures of the reason for that faith that I hate. The man made nature of the genesis of religion in the first place. Apparently mankind needs religion so there were religious scammers out there a few thousand years ago who decided to start a new religion that promised all sorts of things like living forever in some kind of heaven which attracts people who are duped into believing humans are so high on the spiritual totem pole as to be worthy of the attention of a god. As things unfolded after those religions were invented, nothing but religious wars were the result, something I have always said a god would not permit. A god would be so far above us morally speaking as to be really offended by men killing other men in its name, even assuming this god exists.
Every thought ever thought by the mind of man does not require that man to be a shyster.
Or do you honestly think that the first man to look up into the night sky and wonder if there might be a 'Great Spirit' watching over us immediately thought about how he might use this thought to scam others?
Faith exists quite well without deception.
Originally posted by sonhouseI am a scientist by trade, why wouldn't I accept scientific evidence? Do you think 'scientific evidence' is the only type of evidence that should govern belief?
In other words, you don't accept scientific evidence? Like you drop a rock on your foot, it hurts? Because gravity is real, evidence shows that. I dive 300 feet into the ocean without scuba, I die. No O2, I would accept that as evidence for my belief I cannot dive 300 feet unaided into the ocean. So what is your beef?
Originally posted by FetchmyjunkAh, sorry for misunderestimating you๐ What is your science specialty if I may ask?
I am a scientist by trade, why wouldn't I accept scientific evidence? Do you think 'scientific evidence' is the only type of evidence that should govern belief?
1.Do you believe rape is evil? yes/no?
2.Can science prove that rape is evil? yes/no?
Originally posted by sonhousePhysics.
Ah, sorry for misunderestimating you๐ What is your science specialty if I may ask?
Of course we DEFINE rape as evil and science can make up a statistic study of those who agree and those who don't agree but they can't prove or disprove a concept like evil.
Originally posted by FetchmyjunkRape is criminal, I would save 'evil' for the real bad ones, rape and killing the victim would qualify as evil, but so would people like Idi Amin or Pol Pot or a lot of other despots.
Physics.
Do you believe rape is evil? Yes/No?
Originally posted by sonhouseSo you agree you believe something to be true (raping and killing a victim is evil) even if science cannot prove it to be so?
Rape is criminal, I would save 'evil' for the real bad ones, rape and killing the victim would qualify as evil, but so would people like Idi Amin or Pol Pot or a lot of other despots.
Rape it bad enough by itself but I think we have to reserve evil for worse deeds, like the Boko Haram killing 8 year old boys for daring to want a western education. Killi ...[text shortened]... some from the actual 21st century๐
So what do you do in physics? Applied, research, teach?
Originally posted by FetchmyjunkBased on the mind map your behaviour appears to reveal on this forum, I've had you down as a 15 year old high school student who has latched on to a smattering of rhetorical tricks - encountered on the net and mimicked, presumably - which he deploys over and over and over and over again and which he seeks to pass off as in-good-faith 'discourse', for which he has perhaps received positive reinforcement from adults around him under the mistaken impression that his behaviour is precocious and productive. ๐
I develop the physics part of a STEM curriculum for government schools in the United Arab Emirates as part of a pilot program with Vanderbilt university.
Originally posted by FMFWould I be correct in assuming you were bullied as a kid?
Based on the mind map your behaviour appears to reveal on this forum, I've had you down as a 15 year old high school student who has latched on to a smattering of rhetorical tricks - encountered on the net and mimicked, presumably - which he deploys over and over and over and over again and which he seeks to pass off as in-good-faith 'discourse', for which he ha ...[text shortened]... lts around him under the mistaken impression that his behaviour is precocious and productive. ๐
Originally posted by FetchmyjunkNo you wouldn't be correct. If I'm wrong about you, then I'm wrong. But if your behaviour is an act you put on, and I've deduced the impression you were trying to give correctly, then I deserve some credit for my thumbnail sketch, I think. ๐
Would I be correct in assuming you were bullied as a kid?
Originally posted by FMFRead your post again it makes no sense.
No I wouldn't be correct. If I'm wrong about you, then I'm wrong. But if your behaviour is an act you put on, and I've deduced the impression you were trying to give correctly, then I deserve some credit for my thumbnail sketch, I think. ๐