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So there is no way to prove or disprove of God's existence. We have no testable hypotheses either way. Anyone's belief in God cannot be had based on the kind of public revelation that we use to convince each other of the objective truth of a scientific theory. It is all private revelation.

I believe in God, but there is nothing I can say that would demonstrate that what I believe is true. All I could do is appeal to someone in a rhetorical sense and try to persuade them.

So it is perfectly reasonable for anyone to reject what I believe as being true or believable. As they say, anything that is offered with no evidence can be dismissed with no evidence.

So there is no way to prove or disprove of the Flying Spaghetti Monster's existence. We have no testable hypotheses either way. Anyone's belief in the Flying Spaghetti Monster cannot be had based on the kind of public revelation that we use to convince each other of the objective truth of a scientific theory. It is all private revelation.

I believe in the Flying Spaghetti Monster, but there is nothing I can say that would demonstrate that what I believe is true. All I could do is appeal to someone in a rhetorical sense and try to persuade them.

So it is perfectly reasonable for anyone to reject what I believe as being true or believable. As they say, anything that is offered with no evidence can be dismissed with no evidence.
 

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So there is no way to prove or disprove of the Flying Spaghetti Monster's existence. We have no testable hypotheses either way. Anyone's belief in the Flying Spaghetti Monster cannot be had based on the kind of public revelation that we use to convince each other of the objective truth of a scientific theory. It is all private revelation.

I believe in the Flying Spaghetti Monster, but there is nothing I can say that would demonstrate that what I believe is true. All I could do is appeal to someone in a rhetorical sense and try to persuade them.

So it is perfectly reasonable for anyone to reject what I believe as being true or believable. As they say, anything that is offered with no evidence can be dismissed with no evidence.

I concur..with thus addendum:..Teaching this version of anti-intellectual logic to children is cruel, dangerous and harmful and will have painful and disastrous consequences in their future..
Appealing to ignorance, (absence of evidence is not evidence of absence) Believing in a myth;
Striving for an ideal, that "American Dream", "Our Way of Life", "One Nation Under God",
"God Bless The United States of America", The Corporate Sponsored Militaristic, Fear Mongering bully of the World..
 
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AquaEyes, Thank you for your links regarding abiogenisis, it was an interesting read and as per the norm one link leads to another to another :) Yet the words and phrases such as... suggests, might, depends on, however, concept... and many more kept popping up. I did not see at any time a suggestion that evidence produced gave a 100% iron clad gaurantee that this is how life evolved.

It depended always on the existence of the physical, which includes the presence of molecules, electons/protons, to produce a successful outcome set in a laboratory scene. Remember, there were no labs around when the Universe was created. Science assumes that there was or had to be always something there, to create something. It was interesting to read through the differing theories, albeit a bit speedily. To see lightning suggested as a precursor theory, to excite the elements to induce life was interesting, considering science still is not able to explain why lightning occurs and it's effects on the planet, yet able to explain the beginnings of the Universe and beginnings life is beyond me, well not totally. But for mine, I would go with the volcanic venting into the acidic oceans. Anyone who is a fisherperson would tell you the best fishing and oceanic life is where warm meets cool. Again, thank you for your links, but please, don't associate me with God botherers :) I am still searching in my own little mind for answers, in my own little way. One of the best if not the most mportant inventions of recent times is the sillycunt chip, allows sillycunts like me who came through a time of parents not being able to afford expensive encyclopedia. Yet it in turn, allowed a little freedom of thinking I spose, not to be polluted by others ideas and theories.

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, remember this thread? http://www.lpsg.com/13988-ufos-8.html
In this thread I made a suggestion in which just maybe, we are not the only Universe. I think you treated my idea a little childishly by suggesting I did not know what I was on about and in no way was it possible. You posted a link. To my surprise, in that link I discovered it was an idea/theory that was previously suggested, going back to the 70's-80's so I posted the theory from the link you gave me of Quantum Fluctuations to support my idea that other Universes may exist, there was no reply post from you in that particular thread. Oh yes, and my crap drawing :).

I had no idea at the time that Stephen Hawking had changed his mind on his early ideas to now be in support of Quantum Fluctuation ( I could be wrong, because I have not read his books) His latest ideas seem to be in support , where he says in a 2010 speech, "we are the product of Quantum Fluctuations"The Origin of the Universe - Stephen Hawking. Seems minds are able to change when they whish, to suit a theory which best suits their ideas of beginnings. Even though I like the ideas of quantum fluctuation I have a problem with it. Because if we were on the edge of an expansion, creation of other Universes would expand remnant antimatter into the Universe created before it, it would cause matter in the previous Universe to destruct when colliding with antimatter left over from the creation of the new Universe. Also the theory would depend on that space, dark matter, has no dimension, no boundary. Where if the Universe where singular, space or the vacuum the Universe was created may have a boundary. It has also been discovered by NASA, thanks to data received from the Hubble telescope, that dark energy (matter), which scientists supposedly, had down pat to be the energy that keeps the Universe together is not behaving as they had once previously thought. Thanks to observing Galaxy collisions. With all the theories that abound it still gives no answer as to how a collision of matter, where no matter, mass exists, or gravity, to draw matter together at a speed for a collision to create a Universe. Nor is there an answer at the moment, where the antimatter is disipated. Does it still remain as a Black Hole, a rip in the vacuum at the center of everything? For the matter to return to, to collide again? Maybe it explains why their are, or, a number of Black Holes, because of Universes appering from Quantum Fluctuation? Who knows.

Phil, There is only one thing I have found that is larger than the Universe, that is some scientists and theologians egos. Neither can tell me they have a 100% source or trail to the beginning. If you are willing to supply me with a signed warranty that this is how things began then I will accept it, only until another produces a better explanation on how it all started. But i don't think anyone will be around to in the end to find out :).

There are those scientists that believe in God, there are those that don't, yet those that don't, believe things go around and around. I wish sometimes I could spurt out all that goes through my mind, but it becomes distracting and I find myself going off in tangents left, right, center and reverse. Physics exists because of the physical, everything has to start from something. The oceanic gyres of the earth would not contain the remnants of plastic man has made since the 50's. If man had not of invented plastic, those mega tons of plastic garbage in our oceans would not exist. Yet it was invented, it exists, yet it poisons us, or will. It was invented, created from materials that already existed. Yet if those materials to create it did not exist, how would you come up with the idea of plastic?

By the way, on a side note to one of your assumptions in a previous post. I live in an area where we are exposed to cyclonic winds. When studying to become a builder we needed to do, or be practiced in wind bracing calculations. Klionewtons, when wind passes over a roof, ridge. It is the suction of the wind over the ridge that will pull, suck a roof off. A roof will not be blown off. An aircraft wing is designed for it to be sucked up as the air passes over it, a powered aircraft is thrust into the wind, not the other way around. Is the same reason why F1 vehicles have inverted wings to draw them to the ground as the faster they travel the more suction to the track. Is one of the many incorrect assumptions you seem to have made about myself and others.
 
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So there is no way to prove or disprove of the Flying Spaghetti Monster's existence. We have no testable hypotheses either way. Anyone's belief in the Flying Spaghetti Monster cannot be had based on the kind of public revelation that we use to convince each other of the objective truth of a scientific theory. It is all private revelation.

I believe in the Flying Spaghetti Monster, but there is nothing I can say that would demonstrate that what I believe is true. All I could do is appeal to someone in a rhetorical sense and try to persuade them.

So it is perfectly reasonable for anyone to reject what I believe as being true or believable. As they say, anything that is offered with no evidence can be dismissed with no evidence.

Yes. No argument here. That is a point I was trying to make. When it comes to presenting one's religious belief all one can make is a rhetorical argument. As a recent commenter pointed out, this can only be an argument from ignorance.

And when one offers an argument from ignorance, it can be replaced by any other argument from ignorance. This is the entire point of the Flying Spaghetti Monster (all hail his noodly appendages!) meme.
 
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Yes. No argument here. That is a point I was trying to make. When it comes to presenting one's religious belief all one can make is a rhetorical argument. As a recent commenter pointed out, this can only be an argument from ignorance.

And when one offers an argument from ignorance, it can be replaced by any other argument from ignorance. This is the entire point of the Flying Spaghetti Monster (all hail his noodly appendages!) meme.

I've seen flying spag. The big bang happened when it hit the wall and slid slowly to the floor. Gravity.
 
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Two very interesting books on abiogenesis.

Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution, by Nick Lane. Lane is an active researcher in the field of abiogenesis and he is an articulate and compelling science writer. This book is written for the layman.

Abiogenesis: How Life Began. The Origins and Search for Life. This is a collection of articles by Nick Lane and other researchers in the field. Although it is more technical, it is still a very interesting read where the technical stuff does not detract from the narrative.

The field has opened up in the last 20 years or so after the discovery of deep sea alkaline vents that seem to have enough ingredients, energy, and catalysts to scaffold a wide range of metabolic processes components.
 

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I did not see at any time a suggestion that evidence produced gave a 100% iron clad gaurantee that this is how life evolved.
That is a standard of proof that is of no relevance whatever to any empirical science. It does not mean that well-confirmed scientific findings, or even (as in the theory of abiogenesis) mere hypotheses informed by the totality of pertinent present scientific knowledge, are on an equal footing with the speculations of those without competence in the pertinent scientific fields.
Yes, but I don't see its relevance to what is under discussion in this thread.
Phil, There is only one thing I have found that is larger than the Universe, that is some scientists and theologians egos. Neither can tell me they have a 100% source or trail to the beginning. If you are willing to supply me with a signed warranty that this is how things began then I will accept it, only until another produces a better explanation on how it all started. But i don't think anyone will be around to in the end to find out :).
See my first comment, above.
 

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AquaEyes, Thank you for your links regarding abiogenisis, it was an interesting read and as per the norm one link leads to another to another :) Yet the words and phrases such as... suggests, might, depends on, however, concept... and many more kept popping up. I did not see at any time a suggestion that evidence produced gave a 100% iron clad gaurantee that this is how life evolved.

It depended always on the existence of the physical, which includes the presence of molecules, electons/protons, to produce a successful outcome set in a laboratory scene. Remember, there were no labs around when the Universe was created. Science assumes that there was or had to be always something there, to create something. It was interesting to read through the differing theories, albeit a bit speedily. To see lightning suggested as a precursor theory, to excite the elements to induce life was interesting, considering science still is not able to explain why lightning occurs and it's effects on the planet, yet able to explain the beginnings of the Universe and beginnings life is beyond me, well not totally.

THANK YOU.....



I am still searching in my own little mind for answers, in my own little way. One of the best if not the most mportant inventions of recent times is the sillycunt chip, allows sillycunts like me who came through a time of parents not being able to afford expensive encyclopedia. Yet it in turn, allowed a little freedom of thinking I spose, not to be polluted by others ideas and theories.

We have this is common...


Phil, There is only one thing I have found that is larger than the Universe, that is some scientists and theologians egos. Neither can tell me they have a 100% source or trail to the beginning. If you are willing to supply me with a signed warranty that this is how things began then I will accept it, only until another produces a better explanation on how it all started. But i don't think anyone will be around to in the end to find out :).

:rolleyes:
 
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Two very interesting books on abiogenesis.

Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution, by Nick Lane. Lane is an active researcher in the field of abiogenesis and he is an articulate and compelling science writer. This book is written for the layman.

Abiogenesis: How Life Began. The Origins and Search for Life. This is a collection of articles by Nick Lane and other researchers in the field. Although it is more technical, it is still a very interesting read where the technical stuff does not detract from the narrative.

The field has opened up in the last 20 years or so after the discovery of deep sea alkaline vents that seem to have enough ingredients, energy, and catalysts to scaffold a wide range of metabolic processes components.
Yes, I seemed to be persuaded with the theory life, on earth, began from volcanic vents into the ocean. Yet the elements to begin those events originated from where? Other theories include events such as organisms arriving from ice comets or asteroids impacting Earth. Yet how do organisms survive in ice, created in extreme heat, to survive in extreme sub zero tempratures and vacuum? Yet created in the beginning from what? If you say it began from molecules, that is not from nothing. Think before molecules. Think of having nothing to work with at all.
 
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That is a standard of proof that is of no relevance whatever to any empirical science. It does not mean that well-confirmed scientific findings, or even (as in the theory of abiogenesis) mere hypotheses informed by the totality of pertinent present scientific knowledge, are on an equal footing with the speculations of those without competence in the pertinent scientific fields.

Yes, but I don't see its relevance to what is under discussion in this thread.

See my first comment, above.

*< 100%....is still < 100%.

It's not relevant to be 100% sure your theory on creation or existence is right?:confused:
 

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Yet created in the beginning from what? If you say it began from molecules, that is not from nothing. Think before molecules. Think of having nothing to work with at all.

90% of my point....right there.

Science can't answer these questions....it can answer a shit ton of question I don't care enough about to even ask...but it CAN NOT answer this....therefore, in my mind, it's on the same level as every theological belief out there.
 
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That is a standard of proof that is of no relevance whatever to any empirical science. It does not mean that well-confirmed scientific findings, or even (as in the theory of abiogenesis) mere hypotheses informed by the totality of pertinent present scientific knowledge, are on an equal footing with the speculations of those without competence in the pertinent scientific fields.

Yes, but I don't see its relevance to what is under discussion in this thread.

See my first comment, above.

Gobbldygook :) So, if I restarted that particular thread you would have an answer? Considering you disagree with eminent Physics scientists? I don't fully agree with them, I run afoul because of my willingness to sit on the fence until there is a cause or good reason to fight for one side or the other. I don't just switch sides at the change of a tide.
 
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Gobbldygook :)
My post was perfectly coherent and well-phrased. If it was pitched over the level of your reading comprehension, that is your fault, not mine.
So, if I restarted that particular thread you would have an answer? Considering you disagree with eminent Physics scientists? I don't fully agree with them, I run afoul because of my willingness to sit on the fence until there is a cause or good reason to fight for one side or the other. I don't just switch sides at the change of a tide.
To equate your own confused statements with the positions of scientists is an outrageous presumption on your part.

Please stop trying to drag this thread into irrelevancies. If you want to settle old scores, don't do it here. If you continue in this vein, I will report your posts to the moderators.
 

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My post was perfectly coherent and well-phrased. If it was pitched over the level of your reading comprehension, that is your fault, not mine.

To equate your own confused statements with the positions of scientists is an outrageous presumption on your part.

Please stop trying to drag this thread into irrelevancies. If you want to settle old scores, don't do it here. If you continue in this vein, I will report your posts to the moderators.

I don't think it's about "settling old scores" I think his point is that it seems, in science, that it's ok to just switch sides and beliefs every time there's a new discovery, as opposed to just considering arguments and theories from both sides until one is prove "iron clad".

The flip flopping makes it all look so flimsy...
 

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I will report your posts to the moderators.

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Wtf is up with all this "I'm reporting you to the mods" bs. You're the 3rd person.... Are you all under the impression that the mods haven't already read this thread? That you all need to to their jobs? They're on it...TRUST ME. When someone get's out of line, they'll handle it. SMH....
 

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Yes. No argument here. That is a point I was trying to make. When it comes to presenting one's religious belief all one can make is a rhetorical argument. As a recent commenter pointed out, this can only be an argument from ignorance.

And when one offers an argument from ignorance, it can be replaced by any other argument from ignorance. This is the entire point of the Flying Spaghetti Monster (all hail his noodly appendages!) meme.
Yes..but when you appeal to ignorance;i.e "God's plan, "An Act of God", "God's Will", etc, It Can be and IS replaced with intelligent, irrefutable truth, evidence and facts
 
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*< 100%....is still < 100%.
And 0% is 0% and 50% is 50%. So what?
It's not relevant to be 100% sure your theory on creation or existence is right?:confused:
You manage to pack a remarkable number of confusions into a small number of words.

(1) Something is relevant or irrelevant to another thing: it is senseless to say simply that something is relevant or irrelevant, period. So I can't be sure what you are even trying to say.

(2) What I said was that 100% certainty is irrelevant to the practice of any empirical science. That means that all findings are subject in principle to the possibility of revision, qualification, modification, or rejection in light of future findings.

(3) How sure anyone feels about his theory is a matter of that person's biography, not a matter of interest to science.

(4) A "theory of creation" or a "theory of existence," at least as I understand those phrases, is outside the scope of science altogether. I have, admittedly, known some scientists to use the word "creation" when what they mean is the mere coming-into-being of the universe. But this is a misuse of the word. "Creation" does not mean mere coming-into-being but rather bringing-into-being by some independently existing being. Applied to the universe as a whole, that is a matter of theology, not science.
 
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*< 100%....is still < 100%.

It's not relevant to be 100% sure your theory on creation or existence is right?:confused:

Nothing in science is 100%. Newton's "laws" of motion are superseded by special relativity so should we just throw them out of the window? No. Science tries to explain phenomenon the best it can by the knowledge available to it. It gets better and more accurate as evidence and findings accumulate and empower or modify an already existing theory.

Oh but nothing like your "God did it." explanation, nothing beats that.

90% of my point....right there.

Science can't answer these questions....it can answer a shit ton of question I don't care enough about to even ask...but it CAN NOT answer this....therefore, in my mind, it's on the same level as every theological belief out there.

Here, I can answer it. Aliens did it. Try to refute me.
 

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I don't think it's about "settling old scores" I think his point is that it seems, in science, that it's ok to just switch sides and beliefs every time there's a new discovery, as opposed to just considering arguments and theories from both sides until one is prove "iron clad".

The flip flopping makes it all look so flimsy...

You're one of the most hypocritical people I've encountered on this forum. Are you really accusing someone else of flip flopping? About the only thing that has remained constant in your posts (in this thread) is that you believe in god.

You claim to be christian yet you've been the most aggressive and insulting participant in this thread, all the while claiming that atheists only believe what they believe so they can belittle others.

See you in hell.
 
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Nothing in science is 100%. Newton's "laws" of motion are superseded by special relativity so should we just throw them out of the window? No. Science tries to explain phenomenon the best it can by the knowledge available to it. It gets better and more accurate as evidence and findings accumulate and empower or modify an already existing theory.

Oh but nothing like your "God did it." explanation, nothing beats that.



Here, I can answer it. Aliens did it. Try to refute me.

Sounds much like most of the scientific and religious reasoning to me. Depends in what area of theory you fluctuate though. I prefer independent fluctuation :)
 
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