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Re: Agnosticism by Maynman: 3:00pm On Jan 28, 2023 |
Workch: Darwin didn’t know about fossils right? |
Re: Agnosticism by Workch: 3:01pm On Jan 28, 2023 |
Maynman:hey here, download the Darwins paper for natural selection. https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.vliz.be/docs/Zeecijfers/Origin_of_Species.pdf&sa=U&ved=2ahUKEwjI1Lq9tur8AhUjgP0HHTvqD1oQFnoECAYQAg&usg=AOvVaw0uatI9ajtKJqqiZsJU-Q7e Go through it and show me where he provided fossil evidence |
Re: Agnosticism by Workch: 3:01pm On Jan 28, 2023 |
Maynman:hey here, download the Darwins paper for natural selection. https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.vliz.be/docs/Zeecijfers/Origin_of_Species.pdf&sa=U&ved=2ahUKEwjI1Lq9tur8AhUjgP0HHTvqD1oQFnoECAYQAg&usg=AOvVaw0uatI9ajtKJqqiZsJU-Q7e Go through it and show me where he provided fossil evidence |
Re: Agnosticism by Maynman: 3:02pm On Jan 28, 2023 |
Workch:What year was fossils found? Darwin didn’t know about fossils right? |
Re: Agnosticism by Workch: 3:02pm On Jan 28, 2023 |
Maynman:just open the book and show me where he linked evolution with fossil hey here, download the Darwins paper for natural selection. https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.vliz.be/docs/Zeecijfers/Origin_of_Species.pdf&sa=U&ved=2ahUKEwjI1Lq9tur8AhUjgP0HHTvqD1oQFnoECAYQAg&usg=AOvVaw0uatI9ajtKJqqiZsJU-Q7e Go through it and show me where he provided fossil evidence |
Re: Agnosticism by Workch: 3:03pm On Jan 28, 2023 |
Maynman:show me where he linked evolution and fossil in the book |
Re: Agnosticism by Maynman: 3:03pm On Jan 28, 2023 |
Workch: Waiting
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Re: Agnosticism by Nobody: 3:03pm On Jan 28, 2023 |
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Re: Agnosticism by Maynman: 3:04pm On Jan 28, 2023 |
Workch: Waiting
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Re: Agnosticism by Workch: 3:06pm On Jan 28, 2023 |
Maynman:lol, this guys. Atheists know how to ask for evidence, but they runway when you ask them too 😂😂 I'm sure that everyone will now see that Atheism is just same idea with theism but from an opposite angle. Both runway from evidence when it's not in their Favour. Bye dude |
Re: Agnosticism by Maynman: 3:06pm On Jan 28, 2023 |
Workch:Waiting
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Re: Agnosticism by Maynman: 3:08pm On Jan 28, 2023 |
You made this statement first, when i used it on you, you started wailing. Agnostics are hypocrites I hope you take similar position on other things without evidence. (“I don’t know whether Bigfoot exists; I don’t know whether Santa Claus exists, etc.”) Without taking positions similar to those, being agnostic toward god(s) is usually inconsistent.
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Re: Agnosticism by Workch: 3:12pm On Jan 28, 2023 |
Maynman:I take that back, darwin knew about fossils but darwin never knew how fossils got there. The first person to argue fossils for evolution was lamarck. He did that more than 20years after Darwins death. I was wrong thee |
Re: Agnosticism by LordReed(m): 3:12pm On Jan 28, 2023 |
Workch: I don't know if no one can know but we don't right now so the best we can do is speculate. I just like my own speculations to have a bit of reality in them. |
Re: Agnosticism by Workch: 3:13pm On Jan 28, 2023 |
LordReed:So why can't you just leave it at you don't know instead of you don't know if no one can know? Secondly, do you know if we can travel at the speed of light? |
Re: Agnosticism by Maynman: 3:16pm On Jan 28, 2023 |
Workch:Alright man, i also want to say that darwin worked on pre existing facts, evidences and he also craft his own evidences to arrive at his conclusions.
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Re: Agnosticism by Workch: 3:17pm On Jan 28, 2023 |
Maynman:How does this mean that Darwin used fossils to proof evolution? Tell me |
Re: Agnosticism by Maynman: 3:18pm On Jan 28, 2023 |
Workch: Where did i say he used fossils to proof evolution? Can you screenshot it? |
Re: Agnosticism by Bacteriologist(m): 3:21pm On Jan 28, 2023 |
Workch: Just because you think something is impossible doesn't mean it actually is. Skepticism teaches never to be 100% certain about anything. 100 years ago the humans of the time would have said it was "practically impossible" to suspend a 5000kg piece of metal in the air. Today, we have airplanes. Even the idea of smartphones would have been totally impossible to humans living as early as 30 years ago. Today we have chatGPT. It is self-absorbed to claim that just because evidence of a creator hasn't been provided now it never will. What you can do is argue for god being unlikely or why theists haven't provided evidence despite the time that they have had to do so. But it is ignorant to claim it is impossible to provide evidence for a god. Same with time travel, as science continues to discover new things and make bigger breakthroughs, who knows what is possible in the next 20 or 30 years talk less of 100 or 500 years. Agnosticism is a very valid position. I do agree with you on some level that we can never be too sure of anything and hard theists (that claim there is a god) and hard atheists (that claim there is no god) have the burden of proof. But in the same vein, if you're truly trying to be as skeptical as possible, you cannot claim that it is impossible to prove god or in fact prove any other thing. |
Re: Agnosticism by Workch: 3:21pm On Jan 28, 2023 |
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Re: Agnosticism by Maynman: 3:22pm On Jan 28, 2023 |
Workch: I can’t see “ Darwin used fossils to proof evolution”? |
Re: Agnosticism by Workch: 3:33pm On Jan 28, 2023 |
Bacteriologist:So it's possible that a God exist l? 100 years ago the humans of the time would have said it was "practically impossible" to suspend a 5000kg piece of metal in the air. Today, we have airplanes.does this also apply to God? Even the idea of smartphones would have been totally impossible to humans living as early as 30 years ago. Today we have chatGPT.atheism will be dead if you apply this logic to the existence of God But it is ignorant to claim it is impossible to provide evidence for a God.Everything cannot be possible, it's a fact. There are something that will be impossible, it's how the universe works. Same with time travel, as science continues to discover new things and make bigger breakthroughs, who knows what is possible in the next 20 or 30 years.sincerely, we have been doing trme travel since before the first MAN was lunched to space, but if you mean time travel like going back to live with dinosaur? That's fiction. The layman's understandkng of time travel and that of science is different. Agnosticism is a very valid position. I do agree with you on some level that we can never be too sure of anything and hard theists (that claim there is a god) and hard atheists (that claim there is no god) have the burden of proof. Trying to know what happened before big bang is like trying to move an object with mass at light speed. It's not possible in mathematics, in reality or in anyway you want to think about it. You know why? You will mathematically need infinte amount of energy to move any object, that is as little as 0.000000001 micrograms heavier than light photons at that same speed. It means that you need to use up all the energy in the universe and it will not still get at that speed. Some things are impossible. Everything cannot be possible. Same applies to looking back to before big bang, because "before big bang" doesn't not exist in science. My point is, some things are impossible because repeatable evidence says so. It's same reasons why I don't think the christian God is possible. Evidence says to |
Re: Agnosticism by LordReed(m): 3:35pm On Jan 28, 2023 |
Workch: Because you said no one can know, that is not something that can be determined at the moment. No I don't know. It doesn't look possible because of the energy required but who knows there might be work arounds we don't know about yet |
Re: Agnosticism by Maynman: 3:37pm On Jan 28, 2023 |
Workch:as long as you take a similar position on other things without evidence. (“I don’t know whether Bigfoot exists; I don’t know whether Santa Claus exists, etc.”) And also you would judge the probability of any gods’ existence to be 50.00000%. Any evidence you receive should tip your belief in one direction or the other. |
Re: Agnosticism by Workch: 3:40pm On Jan 28, 2023 |
LordReed:if I ask you if a God exist and you give this second answer, would that not be pure Agnosticism? |
Re: Agnosticism by Bacteriologist(m): 3:42pm On Jan 28, 2023 |
Workch: I know how time travel works. You're making this assumption based on our current understanding of science. A human living before planes were invented would also give you the mathematical impossibility of why a Metal couldn't possibly be suspended in air using density equations. Like I said, all that's required is a breakthrough in science and time travel in any manner could be possible. It's all about keeping an open mind. Skepticism does not teach close mindedness. And the fact that it is possible for evidence for god to be provided does nothing to invalidate the claim of an atheist. An atheist, quite simply, suspends belief until evidence is provided. So, the fact that evidence for god has not been provided (yet) very well justifies the position of the atheist. As usual, all your claims of something being impossible doesn't mean they actually are. You seem to be confusing "improbable" with "impossible." Please look into the difference of these two terms. |
Re: Agnosticism by Maynman: 3:44pm On Jan 28, 2023 |
Workch:Can we add s to this to make it, GodS. Is that also pure Agnosticism? If you say one god you are already on the side of monotheism. |
Re: Agnosticism by Workch: 3:49pm On Jan 28, 2023 |
Bacteriologist:I am making my assumption based on the current available evidence. The difference is evidence for or against. Skepticism means that you follow the evidence no matter what. We have evidence That you cannot travel at the speed of light or see anything beyond big bang. There are proofs even in mathematics for that. There's none for or against God. That's the difference for me. Another example is, it's impossibe for someone to enter a wall, we have evidence for this. We can test it. We cannot test "God exist or God doesn't exist" its why I am neutral |
Re: Agnosticism by LordReed(m): 3:53pm On Jan 28, 2023 |
Workch: It would be an agnostic answer and that's exactly the kind of answer I would give about the subject of the existence of gods. |
Re: Agnosticism by Workch: 3:54pm On Jan 28, 2023 |
LordReed:okay, i thought you were an atheist |
Re: Agnosticism by Maynman: 3:57pm On Jan 28, 2023 |
Workch:Atheism means non belief in god or gods. The capital G, is religion people trying to honor their various deities. Agnosticism is saying they don’t know if god or gods exist. That’s understood. If you look at the word “atheism”, it comes from “atheos” which means godless. Theos refers to the Olympus gods, before it was use in the Christian text, New Testament was written in greek. Atheists reject all gods. 1 Like |
Re: Agnosticism by Bacteriologist(m): 3:58pm On Jan 28, 2023 |
Workch: Correct. But you have completely gone off the rails here my friend. I am neutral because: "There is no current evidence for or against god" IS DIFFERENT FROM "I am neutral because it is impossible to provide evidence for or against god." The latter is your initial position. Kindly stay on it and don't deflect to the former. And FYI, there are gods that can be shown to not exist as a result of logical contradictions. |
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