Atheism Gets the Darwin Award!

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  1. Paul7

    Paul7 Well-Known Member

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    So because there are different forms of skepticism such as atheism, agnosticism, deism, etc., does it follow none of them can be true?
     
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    Exactly, everyone has a world view, including atheists.
     
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    I can't 'prove' God exists, just as you can't prove He doesn't, but I believe that His existence is much more likely to be true than not.
     
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    different issue but nice try. Supposedly there can only be one true god. Now if there can be many gods then your comparison could be valid.
     
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    Atheism is learned when a child is left to his own ways....

    Proverbs 29:15 "The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame."
     
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    Gee maybe you should do a bit of research as to what constitutes a belief system.

    And your post used “ semantic “ as a noun which it clearly is not. Always glad to educate the needy.

    And since there are agnostics you’re true or false choice is idiotic.

    Oh, and still waiting for you to explain how the unicorn analogy to god is a strawman argument. But before answering suggest you look up what a strawman argument actually consist of.
     
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    Maybe you should consider reading my posts for comprehension since I already posted it with a full explanation.
    semantics
    noun (used with a singular verb)
    Linguistics.
    1. the study of meaning.
    Nice try
    which totally does not apply to the distinctions between theist and atheist or subject matter being discussed
    One thing people learn quickly out here is that neoatheists have extreme difficulty with context, please quote what I actually said.
     
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    Everyone is BORN an atheist!

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    more neoatheist wasteland, you cant be anything until you have the ability to reason which a new born does not.

    You are back to using the debunked ludicrous definition that includes 'rocks are atheists'.

    You didnt know that the 3rd one from the left is Stalin, Mass Murderer?
     
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    Please tell me you understand how nonsensical of an argument that is.

    I believe I'm a human. Human is not a itself belief.
    I believe I'm right handed. Right handed isn't itself a belief.
    I believe I have curly hair. Curly hair is not itself a belief.
     
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    Thanks for confirming you are either unwilling or incapable of actually addressing any questions posed to you.
     
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    When in your opinion do humans develop the ability to reason?
     
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    CourtJester said:
    And we can’t prove Unicorns or the Easter Bunny don’t exist either. But since you claim proving a negative is easy please be so kind as to prove Unicorns do not exist.

    And you replied:
    please refrain from countering with strawman arguments.
     
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    Nice try but the word you used was “ semantic” not “ semantics” . God, you are just too easy!
     
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    So you don't know He exists. Right?
     
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    You two ladies stop derailing the thread. It is a violation of the "rules" so inhospitably enforced by the Powers That Be here.
    THE SUBJECT is Atheism Gets the Darwin Award. It refers to the claim by Richard Dawkins that the ONLY reason we are here is to reproduce.
    And since atheists do this so miserably, they are doomed to Darwinian Extinction. ho ho ho
    Hoist by their own tautological petard.
     
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    Stop your wordplay games, all right yguy? All of us know a very great deal more than we can "prove." Paul7 said he can't "prove God exists."

    You contorted and twisted that into something very different, and you think yourself clever when it is not remotely clever.

    "Almost nothing is known for certain except in pure mathematics." - Carl Sagan

    "Science doesn't do proofs." - Somebody
     
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    Indeed he did, but that's not all he said.
    I did no such thing. I merely drew a perfectly reasonable inference from what he said that you're ignoring.
     
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    That 30% number sounds made up to me. Esspecially considering how many more atheists there are in the west and less religious people than ever before.
     
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    Maybe both of you should learn that fighting over who used what logical fallacy on an internet forum is one of thw stupidiest things a person can do with their time.
     
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    Whats your definition of a world-view?

    It seems to me just a single opinion on a single topic. A world view is normally a whole set of opinions or at least guiding principles by which you view the world. It seems like a stretch to say atheism is any of that.
     
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    The OP has already been FACTUALLY DEBUNKED!

    Here is ADDITIONAL CREDIBLE INFORMATION that not only debunks the OP but establishes that it is 100% WRONG!

    https://www.pewforum.org/2016/10/26...us-upbringing-and-current-religious-identity/

    This probably explains why being Unaffiliated with any religion is the FASTEST GROWING segment in the entire nation while Atheism has almost DOUBLED in size.
     
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    Pew Research conducted the poll. You can see the Pew Research results at http://AtheismIsEvil.blogspot.com

    There are more PEOPLE than ever before. Universities throughout the world are converting impressionable youth to atheism, with the guiding help of Neo-Darwinism, that *complex* two step *scientific* process of:

    1. Random mutation, followed by
    2. Magic wand *selection*.

    It can do ANYTHING, even change straw into gold....
     
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    BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

    Asinine BLOG with ZERO CREDIBILITY and OUTDATED links all the OP has?

    Here are the CURRENT Pew Research results on Retention Rates.

    https://www.pewforum.org/2015/05/12...nd-intermarriage/pr_15-05-12_rls_chapter2-02/

    [​IMG]

    The 2014 Unaffiliated retention rate is 53% for the Unaffiliated which is a MASSIVE INCREASE from 2008 when it was only at 38%. That means that it is probably MUCH HIGHER than that NOW in 2019 given that trend.

    Too bad that those tables show that Catholic retention rates have FALLEN from 68% in 2008 to 59% in 2014.

    The FACTS are exposing the OP as utterly BOGUS!
     
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    You keep forgetting my existence, Koko. I proved God does not exist, at least not the God we think of in the West, and that's why I'm atheist now and not a fundamental Baptist.
     

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