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03 Jul 2010, 12:12 am

iamnotaparakeet wrote:
Orwell's begging-of-question-type-sounding challenge.

I've tried to make it as fair as possible (I'm about to post the dedicated thread which asks for your approval on several key points). This is likely to be a rather time-consuming endeavor, so I would like some assurance that you take it seriously and I am not wasting my time. I have provided specific possibilities by which evolution might be refuted by the quantitative genomic data. If you can't agree to the flip side of that (that baraminology might be refuted) then the experiment is pointless. I'm not going to play "heads you win, tails it's a draw."


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03 Jul 2010, 12:55 am

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Omnipresence is usually not considered as philosophically important


Well, if you think about it, omnipresence gives the impression of a fourth dimensional being for which our form of time has no meaning since all time exists simultaneously for it (the fourth dimensional being). In that sense, it's fairly important because it gives a natural explanation for something that, for us, would be supernatural.


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03 Jul 2010, 1:08 am

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I am not wasting my time.



You are.

But aren't we all?


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03 Jul 2010, 4:14 am

iamnotaparakeet wrote:
DentArthurDent wrote:
iamnotaparakeet wrote:
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Oh, I see, that must be the "actual" argument utilized, how could I ever be so wrong.

That's what we keep asking ourselves!

Keep asking then, until the secular argument relies less on decrees and bullying over conclusions and more on scientific empiricism.


See statements like this makes we wonder if you are just a little confused. Just to simplify things for you religion decrees, science challenges, now I suggest you write that down on a card stick it into your wallet and whenever you get confused get it out and remind yourself which is which.


Oh yay, something to memorize. That's education right there....


Well its a concept that the average five year old could comprehend, but like I said I made it simple for you, so, you take it slowly, memorize the four little words and maybe, given time, you will come to understand their meaning.


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