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DaddyCoool: DaddyCoool:LoLz. Any time you see someone try to use quantum mechanics to prove magic ,there's no need to bother, you know the person has gotten lost in some internet rabbit hole of kookie jargons. |
DaddyCoool:Naa you wanted to sound like I was the unreasonable one who can't see your magic. What something can your magic get that I can't get without it? Can you magic yourself to become the richest man in the world? Or is your magic limited to what anybody can achieve anyway? |
frank317:LoLz. He is afraid of dealing with the powerlessness he feels about certain injustices, so he needs the comfort of this yeye fantasy. |
Speaklove:So because we don't have some stupìd heaven fantasy it means we are hopeless. LoLz. That is brainwashed thinking. We focus on the here and now and what we can do to have justice. No need for useless fantasies. Exactly why we strive to pursue justice here and now. Feeling powerless against people who hurt you is no reason to believe in a fantasy of justice after death. Do what you can now and stop dreaming of a tomorrow that never will be. |
DaddyCoool:But you said you can use your magic to make anything happen, why are you now changing it up? |
DaddyCoool:Great! Believe you have wings and take a picture of your wings to show us. |
Speaklove:No atheist will tell you they can extend justice to reach into the death of the perpetrators because it's obvious that death ends all. You who claim your god can, can show no evidence so it is merely a fantasy of yours. We who know nothing comes after death will strive in this one life we have to ensure justice is upheld as best as we can. We will not rely on a fantasy judge who never was. |
FiveFootNinja:Yep, that was me. Just as carried away in the fantasy as the rest of them. |
DaddyCoool:Except magic cannot be seen anywhere. Reality may be strange but it isn't like a fantasy tale. |
FiveFootNinja:Guy why you go revive this thread? You just want to remind me of my silliness those days bah. LoLz. |
DaddyCoool:The story has more plot holes than a sieve. |
Speaklove:At least atheists do not claim to have an omni present and all knowing god. How has your omni everything god provided justice for the crimes taking place in secret? Nothing. Your god is as silent as a stone. It is us humans regardless of religious affiliation that strive for justice. |
Gabrielshow24:There is no such consensus. Good for the some, I disagree with them. ---------------- Fine tuning doesn't necessarily mean that the same 'God' or 'process'👀 can't fine tune 'others'.Fine tune other what? It doesn't also mean that 99.99% percent ended as a failure.I said waste not failure. You mean a god wasting 99.99999999% of the universe is a good argument? ----------------- You seem not to have gone through the miracle of the sun's documentation.It's a story, there is no documentation. That's just one basis.Whether or not it fits scientific materialism is irrelevant. What matters is neither you or any other believer can demonstrate the reality of those miracles. ---------------- Based on the Scientific approach the miracles if at all they occurred will be just one time events.Then get your god to repeat it. Have the god's powers been exhausted? ---------------- We will keep going back and forth without any head way!Then give me the tools that are just as reliable as the scientific method. Simple. ------------------- Most of those things there are not relatively new.And they believed spirits could eat and be touched. Thus the believe of the Jews, was that God transcended all!!!Irrelevant. The so called transcendent god came to eat with his friend so he might as well do something special once again. --------------------- The bible provides context for spirits suggesting that they can take up physical forms at will!!!Great, let them come let's see them. It doesn't negate their original nature!!!Again irrelevant. They should demonstrate their being and/or powers or remain stories from an ancient compendium. |
Emusan:Very much is. This is the definition of evolution you were given: Evolution is the change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations. It occurs when evolutionary processes such as natural selection and genetic drift act on genetic variation, resulting in certain characteristics becoming more or less common within a population over successive generations. The more these changes occur and accumulate the more diversity you get. Exactly what is happening with the change in average height I gave as example. Provide evidence of these giants. You that can't provide a single proof of Evolution transition is talking about tale and PHYSICAL EVIDENCEYou're still looking for magic tricks. I have given you an example of an evolutionary change. Speciation and branch off events can also be evidenced. Read: https://evolution.berkeley.edu/evo-news/speciation-in-real-time/ Pure lie.LoLz. It's a hypothetical. I never said there's a gene in human's that can make them grow wings. I said it is possible given the right set of evolutionary conditions for it to happen but what we see now makes it unlikely. Just another lie, do ape brains also getting bigger?LoLz. You just keep shouting lie, lie with nothing to back it up. Meanwhile read: https://health.ucdavis.edu/news/headlines/human-brains-are-getting-larger-that-may-be-good-news-for-dementia-risk/2024/03#:~:text=A%20new%20study%20by%20researchers%20at%20UC%20Davis,surface%20area%20than%20those%20born%20in%20the%201930s. The pattern in human has remained the same, if human will be 100 millions years, human will continue to give birth to human and nothing like transition to another thing will ever occur.The pattern in humans has not remained the same. Anatomical modern human emerged about 200,000 years ago. Other forms of humans were present at some point also in the past, like Neanderthals. And you believe it.LoLz. You want pictures of fishes that lived before cameras were invented? You must be a joker. Does the ancestor of the common ancestor of your ancestors started with 2 eyes, four limbs, 1 nose, have brain or no brain?Yes it had a brain. Speaking so confidently as if he saw them with tailsNo need, we have vestigal tails. In fact some times children are born with tails poking out, read: https://scientificorigin.com/why-are-some-babies-born-with-a-tail When you don't even know how anything was like in just 500 thousand years ago.We do know what things were like 500,000 years ago because of both geologic and fossil evidence. How does evolution happened within Tree to living beings?I don't understand this question. Are you asking if trees evolved into humans? If that is the question then no. Like human begin to born a baby with a finger like wing or rock or instead of hair on the head we should be seen grasses which will show human are evolving at least human have being on earth for over 300,000 years.You keep asking for magic tricks and fail to understand what is being explained to you. I have no magic tricks to show you. |
Gabrielshow24:Of course you do, the challenge is out here in the open your subjective "indirect observational proofs" have no weight. Which is why we need objective evidences that anybody can interact with. Also, not everything in this world has direct observational proof, a lot of concepts rely on indirect evidences!!!All the things that matter do. ------------------- As touching the miracles we are saying similar things. I'm saying it can be dismissed because there's no eye witness account, save the bible, while you are asking for its repeatability.As I said we need objective demonstrations because then we can interact with it. Asking someone to go off of a story in an ancient compendium doesn't cut it in this day and age. Of course, that all depends on God if he wills to show but if not he will most likely use "physical processes".LoLz. So the all powerful god is bound by the rules of this universe? Doesn't sound all powerful or even like a god at all. ------------------- The assumption of God stems from an higher abstraction of morality.I disagree. More likely it seems from an abstraction of parent or guardian figures. Most of the ancient conceptions of gods was tied to the environment of the ancient in question because their lives were tied to their immediate environment. Some sociologist argue that 'God is society' but this falls short as different societies have different values and so and so forth until we reach the edges of the known universe.Like I already stated I strongly disagree. Morality is a concept that got elucidated as populations began to grow larger while god concepts arose before that. But even if the your god was a universal abstraction for morality, it still of no consequence if it cannot be demonstrated to be real. Besides leaping from universal abstraction for morality to created the universe is a very mighty leap indeed. To answer, your retort to assumptions.That is an assumption that is a relatively recent development. The ancients didn't write about their gods as though they were immaterial. Even the bible indicates that the god ate food, has bodily parts and so on. Physical methods fail woefully to prove or disprove immaterial things.The problem being these are all conceptual stuff. You are saying the god is responsible for tangible things. You cannot seriously be implying that a concept is responsible for everything we see. This by far is a direct Implication of God's nature!!!Again this is a relatively new concept. The bible depicts spirits as being visible and tangible. This is why we mostly use indirect evidences for God as most direct evidences can be subject to great scrutiny.Well then, it remains insufficient and I dunno what you want us to do with it. Mind you, there are some miracles that are documented such as the "miracle of the sun" with their repeatability entirely subject to God.LoLz. The god who never responds?[/quote]This above isn't a direct observational proof, it just leans more into those "display of Glory" narrative.[/quote]So basically just a story. Hence,the christian argument has always been that "materialism" is a good view but it fails to answer loads of question.As a methodological naturalist the only tools I know are all material or at least materially accessible. I welcome some new tools to investigate the immaterial, you just have to demonstrate that they are reliable. And at best, you can only use it to determine processes and laws which were set from the very "beginning" implying , permit me to say, the predation of mathematical laws.Which have so far have provided very reliable results. Produce your tools which can investigate the immaterial with the same reliability. Although some people argue against the predation of mathematical laws, that's a different story.Doesn't matter since you insist that the god is real here and now. Therefore what came before is not as important as here and now. Irrespective of whatsoever stance you choose, there are reasons to suggest that cosmological fine tuning occurred in our universe 👀.I don't believe there was any fine tuning. Even if there was it would not suggest an all powerful god at work since it implies there are constraints that cannot be overcome even by a god. If the god could create any universe it liked why would it create one in which it needs to fine tune it for life and thereby waste 99.9999999999999999999999% of the universe? It makes no sense given what we know of the universe. Back when we didn't know how large the universe is it would have seemed like a good answer. Now that we know I don't see any reason to hold on to a primitive idea. |
Lucifyre:Sometimes my brother, we dey try. |
Gabrielshow24:There is no straw man. This is what you yourself wrote: At best, Moses used "physical understanding/processes" to relate his message. Which means the author was using language of things he did understand to describe things he didn't understand. So how can we tell apart the imprecise language describing this, from the imprecise language describing or attributing events to a god. As you say: what's good for the goose is good for the gander!!! If the author is not describing a physical night and day here then he is not describing a god elsewhere. As there must be a time measurement(or perspective) to determine "a day" except if the "day", he(Moses) meant was based on the Lord's POV.How do we know the author was describing it from a god's POV since he does not use first person perspective in any passage? As a matter of fact the whole book is written in 3rd person perspective so where did you get that from? We can't substantiate its earthly(physical ) equivalence.Exactly! Your god stands unsubstantiated just like the words of this passage. Secondly, I have answered your rhetoric for you!What?! In any of our discussions have you requested direct or indirect observational evidences? You have always asked for direct observational evidences but now for this case you are satisfied with indirect observational evidences. Obviously, your methodology is incongruent and skewed. All direct physical evidences can be disproved with the simple question, were you there?🤔Incorrect and a straw man. I didn't ask you were you there to observe these miracles, I said they cannot be demonstrated to be real. Most direct observational evidences can be repeated with the same result given the same set of factors. Even the ones that cannot be repeated leave loads of data that can be observed. Where is either of these for these miracles? We have to make assumptions or have a foundational basis of truth inorder to call something reliable and true.Yes but the assumptions have to be congruent with reality, not based on some fairytale. Fairy godmothers have not been demonstrated to turn pumpkins into carriages therefore there is no reason to believe it is possible or do you believe the Cinderella story by faith? If those miracles cannot be demonstrated or showed to have left any physical trace then there is no reason to assume they are real. Hence what's good for the goose is good for the gander!!!Yes indeed, plenty of good for goose and gander. |
Gabrielshow24:Dude do you understand you are saying the exact argument people give for why a god doesn't exist? That it was merely the authors understanding of physical processes. One thing is certain you are attributing what we now understand of the universe to a god. You are actually regressing in understanding if you look at it. The ancient authors attributed to a god some things they did not understand about the world which we now understand and can definitely say no god is behind them. You on the other hand have regressed to the ancient authors position to say this thing I don't properly understand therefore it was a god that did it. Miracle in the bible is not direct evidence. Those are stories which have no practical demonstrability. Has anyone demonstrated praying and stopping the apparent motion of the sun? No. Has anyone demonstrated turning a stick into a snake? No. Has anyone demonstrated walking on water without aid? No. Has anyone demonstrated the ability to multiply food just by praying over it and dividing it? NO! You have to ASSUME those were real in other to consider them evidence, which just means any written fantastical story should be considered evidence. |
Gabrielshow24:There should be CLEAR AND DIRECT evidence. How can a god make something and you are unsure, you simply believe. Wow. Indirect evidence is what is called conjecture. Maybe I did but I wonder how you interpret the statement "And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day", a statement repeated for each day and say naa it wasn't an actual day and night period. |
Gabrielshow24:Can you not hear yourself? The god made everything yet there is insufficient evidence?! An oxymoron if I've ever heard one. |
Emusan:It is. Read again the definition of evolution you were given. So what if they had tales of giants? Where is the physical evidence? Of course everyone knows that's what evolutionists mean but what right thinking people are saying is that, for such to happen, there must be a change to human gene like what will make human to develop wings or something else which was never be part of our gene.Yes there could be a gene develop that could make us grow wings but it won't happen tomorrow and the environment has to favour that change for it to propagate into the population. The kind of changes that are more likely are to the shape our skulls, bone density, limb length, lung capacity, thoracic size and so on. This is because we can see things already happening like our brains becoming bigger, changes in nutrient availability, changes in air quality and so on. Its not magic. Nobody is telling you humans will become flying monkeys tomorrow. If one to be around during the evolution of fish, what will the people see?No single person would have seen it happen all at once but if they had been keeping records of the changes they would see something like the attached picture. Where you're missing it is, between the transition, what will people observed?The common ancestor of humans, apes and monkeys was a mammal that already had four limbs, 2 eyes, 1 nose, 1 mouth, 2 ears, a tail and other anatomical features you can see on any mammal. If there were people to observe and record the changes they would have see the tail get shorter and shorter till it is no longer visible. The spine will change curvature as bipedal motions becomes more and more used rather than going on all fours. Skull shape will be changing because the brain is getting bigger and diet is changing. Fingers, thumbs and toes change shape because of more terrestrial dwelling than arboreal. And so on and so forth. These changes will be observed over several million years not at once like a magic show. What transition do you think we should have observed by now?
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Emusan:Because evolution is not goal oriented. We aren't evolving toward a predefined goal. We evolve as a result of environmental pressures, so when a specie evolves into its environmental niche and that niche remains largely unchanged then you don’t see drastic changes. We see this happen over and over again. I heard of a specie of lizard that was an insect feeder that was taken to an environment that was very insect poor. The lizard start developing into a plant feeder. The jaws and teeth developed more in line with that of a herbivore. You can read more about that here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lepidosaur_herbivory |
Emusan:It is proof of evolution. The problem is you folk think evolution is a magic show where a person will suddenly sprout wings. We have hammered it over and over again it is the gene characteristics of the population of a species that changes and accumulates over successive generations. You will never see a monkey give birth to a human and no one who understands evolution will ever tell you that that is what happens. Our common ancestor continued to change and speciate to give rise to the branches of the clade that includes humans, apes, monkeys, etc. There is no magical leap from monkey to human or anything of the sort. |
Emusan:Ok I understand. Yes trees evolved before humans so yeah some species will emerge before others even though all living things are evolving. |
Emusan:Yes all living things evolve. I don't know what you mean by "at the same time" but they are all evolving, some more rapidly than others. |
Emusan:Evolution is the change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations. It occurs when evolutionary processes such as natural selection and genetic drift act on genetic variation, resulting in certain characteristics becoming more or less common within a population over successive generations. The more these changes occur and accumulate the more diversity you get. |
Emusan:That is not how evolution works, you've been told this over and over again. |
Emusan:Theory of Evolution. |
Emusan:Publish your findings in a scientific journal or win a Noble Prize for overturning the ToE. |
Infotubia9ja:These are probably out of focus pictures of planetary bodies. Nothing special. |
Gabrielshow24:This is why it is pointless showing a phoney like you anything. You didn’t read it, you went instead to your creationist quacks to read junk. Go look at real scientists work and stop LARPing with junk put out by quacks. |
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