Its amusing that CCCC complains about ad homs and insults, which is the very essence of his own response.
Not laughter material. You really should learn the difference between the unlearned personal smears some post - seemingly due to frustrated ignorance - and the logical, objective content-based critiques of posts and the ostensible reasoning. You know - the objective evidence-based critiques that cause your ilk to itch and chafe, right after you dash at the flame. If you learn that, it may help you be a better person - or, at least, a better poster.
Now, once again, maybe post the real reason(s) that your type come to get stuck on the glue paper strip?
There you go again, desperatley trying to turn the tables, playing a rightous man, the tragic victim even while being the aggressor, hurling insults even while complaining about what you reap.
You do precisely what you accuse your opponents of.
Hey Mr. Frustration - I'm not righteous - in the least. I added some more factual info about Riflehunter's stuff to that post - maybe go read it again.
It may help you understand the key differences between what you read and what you imagine - the realty of objectivity versus the fantasy on which you base your attacks. You undermine yourself and then try to sling insults as you drop into the pit of self-delusion. Try to get a hold on something solid.
Just face the facts; nobody knows how or why the BB happened, whether there was a before (a beginning to time), what set it off, whether it is cyclic, a part of a multiverse or something yet unimagined.
The fact is we don't know.
We don't know therefore there must be a creator is neither a sound argument or a justified belief.
It is you and your crew who are claiming to know.
You claim to know because you have read it in the bible, a set of books written in ancient times when people had no idea of the scope and scale of the universe when compared to what current science has discovered, so had no real understanding of how vast the universe is.
You don't know, but pretend that you do.
You do that for a number of reasons: to provide comfort and meaning, the promise of eternal life, reunion with loved ones, etc, understandable but unsupported by evidence.....which is where faith comes into play.
Nope..... If I am presented with something that is clearly artfully and skillfully crafted, I may not HOW it was crafted, but I will know THAT it was crafted.
You are just trying to re-package the "something from nothing" baloney.
You know no such thing.
You can't seem to able to tell the difference between faith and its assumption of truth and actual knowledge.
Plus you keep invoking the strawman 'something from nothing' no matter how many time it's pointed out that I made no such claim.
Instead of making your own special rules, read what is said before responding emotionally.
Back to third grade reading comprehension for you…..
Let me dumb it down for you…..try to follow closely….
Your doorbell rings and there is a package delivered….. you open it and find a small black sphere that some how plays Waltzing Matilda over and over again…. It won’t stop playing….you can’t turn it off….there are no switches, it just keeps on playing. You don’t know why or how does this….it just keeps on doing it.
You may conclude that this black sphere exists…..you do not know who sent it to you, but here it is, playing the tune over and over again…
You don’t know HOW it works, but you know THAT it works ….because it is sitting RIGHT THERE in front of you playing that song. You don’t even know WHY it works.
Further….if you really think hard, you realize that someone made it and then even sent it to you. Hmm…. Someone made something, knew you and sent it to you.
You might even say “Remarkable.”
Why are you acting so arrogant? Why are you so defensive? Why are you unable to offer a rationale argument without resorting to insults and ad homs.
Perhaps you are incapable of rational debate? Perhaps you resort to insults because that is all you are capable of?
I go with latter. Your pockets are empty and you have nothing rational to offer. You just don't have the abilty to deal with the issues being raised..
Try it. For instance, try to rationally explain why the God of the bible is said to create evil. Are you able?
