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You've made this analogy before and it's still a bad one, those aren't comparable Isaac Send a noteboard - 10/03/2012 03:43:08 PM
When you go to bed in the evening, you make the assumption based on your observations that you'll not be hit by a car. To be hit by a car while sleeping on the third floor is by far much more likely than there being a god, and you just ignore the possibility each night? That's stupid, man.


I seem to recall you never got around to rebutting it then either so I think it's in rather bad form to use it again with your having done it so recently.

You have absolutely no basis to be discussing the probability of any given thing considered 'super'natural, which is to say, not actually subject, in whole or part, to natural laws. You might as well be discussing the probability of a perpetual motion machine or faster than light travel, they pretty much are or aren't possible, and by known laws they essentially aren't, so the odds are basically 0 or 1, not 0.00000000000000001

You never calculated the probability but you assert it as a fact, and I really think if you're going to do that you should at least produce a shell framework, a Drake's Equation equivalent, before bringing it into play, because absent that you leave nothing for anyone to rebut and are simply using 'Argument by Assertion'
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Atheism: The Iconoclasm of the West? - 10/03/2012 05:42:56 AM 1291 Views
I think about as highly of athiesm as I do of christianity. *NM* - 10/03/2012 05:54:20 AM 356 Views
I would chide you on that basis for having a love/hate relationship with God, but who does not? - 10/03/2012 06:05:11 AM 522 Views
If the divine made men... - 10/03/2012 06:27:42 AM 516 Views
True, but by the same token, in denying our nature we deny the divine. - 10/03/2012 06:57:40 AM 531 Views
I was actually just saying in Skype this is the first post you've made in a long time I've enjoyed. - 10/03/2012 07:02:56 AM 550 Views
Thanks? It is all Dans fault, really. - 10/03/2012 07:21:19 AM 819 Views
But you do comparable things all the time! - 10/03/2012 08:35:31 AM 745 Views
You've made this analogy before and it's still a bad one, those aren't comparable - 10/03/2012 03:43:08 PM 630 Views
You said what I was thinking far more respectfully than I probably would have. - 11/03/2012 12:14:55 AM 597 Views
... and apparently it was a waste of time - 11/03/2012 03:27:04 AM 537 Views
Perhaps he just missed it in all my spam? - 11/03/2012 04:59:31 AM 608 Views
Basically what Isaac said. *NM* - 10/03/2012 07:22:07 PM 306 Views
who? *NM* - 11/03/2012 12:00:13 AM 287 Views
Me - 11/03/2012 03:31:51 AM 564 Views
You're right and wrong. - 10/03/2012 05:09:32 PM 941 Views
Re: You're right and wrong. - 11/03/2012 12:28:25 AM 848 Views
Nope, Buddhists are explicitly atheist and also explicitly Ontologically engaged - 11/03/2012 01:39:20 AM 849 Views
Actually, Buddhists are not explicitly atheist in the conventional sense of the world. - 11/03/2012 02:42:36 AM 649 Views
Yeah, that's very true. - 11/03/2012 03:27:09 PM 742 Views
My Buddhist readings are definitely Tibet-focused. - 11/03/2012 04:00:17 PM 795 Views
Duplicate post *NM* - 11/03/2012 03:28:58 PM 374 Views
What exactly do you mean by "The irreparable damage it inflicted in the Great Schism"? - 10/03/2012 07:57:59 PM 721 Views
That Byzantiums iconoclasm was one of the many wedges between it and Rome that led to the Schism. - 11/03/2012 12:27:05 AM 642 Views
Bull. Shit. - 11/03/2012 01:54:07 AM 712 Views
I did not say it was decisive, but that it did irreparable damage to the relationship. - 11/03/2012 04:23:43 AM 730 Views
Bull. Shit. - 11/03/2012 04:30:08 AM 593 Views
It is not like I just pulled it out of my rear, any more than my HS history text or Wikipedia did. - 11/03/2012 04:57:31 AM 671 Views
Bull. Shit. - 11/03/2012 05:14:01 AM 747 Views
Irreparable damage is damage that cannot be repaired, not necessarily serious or fatal. - 11/03/2012 10:34:57 AM 816 Views
ο κοπρος. του ταυρου. - 11/03/2012 02:19:11 PM 777 Views
Very edifying; can you do Mandarin or Swahili next? - 12/03/2012 05:47:23 PM 684 Views
No. Even English seems to be beyond your grasp. - 12/03/2012 06:29:50 PM 592 Views
Citing scripture does not justify telling me to kill myself. - 13/03/2012 12:08:02 AM 726 Views
I'm not telling you to; God is. - 13/03/2012 12:35:45 AM 509 Views
Or can only you use that sort of specious logic? *NM* - 13/03/2012 03:50:20 PM 261 Views
And re: particular bullshit - 11/03/2012 02:33:15 PM 701 Views
Re: And re: particular bullshit - 13/03/2012 12:07:42 AM 608 Views
Give it up already. You are wrong. - 12/03/2012 12:53:37 AM 896 Views

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