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I do not say existence and supernatural are contrary terms or that they are not. I simply say when something exists it is not supernatural. I also state quite separately, there can actually be nothing supernatural. Therefore when being specific, a term is not contrary or non-contrary to...

Perhaps it is to do with language, more specifically meaning and definition. For there is nothing in existence which can be supernatural. Should something exist, then it is not supernatural. QED.

I don't think you are describing free will. The ability to make a decision which holds consequences you cannot be free to decide over, is not free will.

It's nothing to do with being proven or science. There simply cannot be a supernatural anything which exists.

I know you did and I said your call to evidence, is more to do with science and not religion. Science is based on evidence. Religion is based on blind faith. Why do you poo poo science then call on a tool of science to evaluate with - apparently without realizing you have done so - to come...

Your proviso to see evidence is more to do with science, not religion.

That being so, you will be agnostic about Santa Claus's or mermaids' or The Spaghetti Monster's existence. In the absence of any kind of evidence for their existence, it will be reasonable to understand you hold as you describe, the logical presumption of agnosticism, which would require the...

Flew is said to have stated... "... the only reason which I have for beginning to think of believing in a First Cause god is the impossibility of providing a naturalistic account of the origin of the first reproducing organisms ". So that boils down to - I don't know how life could have...

Untrue. The whole point about faith is that intellect need have no part to play in it whatsoever. In essence, religious faith must be blind faith. What is so wrong with blind faith anyway, apart from only some people use conceit to try and pretend faith is something else than what it is...

Christians don't torture or kill each other any more mainly because Christians and Christianity could not establish their theocratic tendency. It used to be, to all intents and purposes, the next nearest thing to theocracy, with the power of God vested in Kings. But even the New Testament in...

I take your point but I think the discrepancy between our respective understandings on the matter might be twofold. First, I think you are presenting a too subtle analysis of a difference between killing for occupancy and killing for religious beliefs. Whilst I also think we may agree that...

A substantial part of the disagreement between sunni and shiite is connected with Muhammad's legacy of the Islamic State within the Arabian Peninsula along with its Muslim inhabitants. So therefore at its root, it is all to do with occupation. As Islam is Law and Religion combined, inevitably...

Northern Ireland is to do both with religion and British rule. Nevertheless surely the point is, why exactly would those Christian "brothers in faith" - Catholics and Protestants - murder kill and maim each other, by the thousands , over years and years, for any reason ? Sunni and Shiite...

"I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world." - Richard Dawkins

There is nothing you have said which would cause me any trouble understanding. Your idea is that it can't be proven God does not exist. In the same way then, it can't be proven the Tooth Fairy doesn't exist. Also it can't be proven that The Tooth Fairy is not more powerful than God. That...

By your own argument then it follows, in order to prove everything and anything anyone ever thinks of does not exist, you would have to poses the same attribute of omniscience. To prove the tooth fairy doesn't exist and that it isn't more powerful than God,, you would need to poses the...

It's the English Language, you just don't appear to comprehend it. But I will agree you don't seem to know what the hell you are saying from one post to the next. You declare there are no facts the next you say there are facts. Obviously the word and meaning of Natural presents a difficulty...

ok. throw out all "facts". But please remember that you have done so for a little later down this post. Throw out Gravity fact, and with it throw out the fact you made that... where things began is unknowable. Right there are no facts. Now what... and so what? How does that assist...

pattersb, I was trying to put to you that which Ricter had pointed out - ID'ers won't listen or try to understand any "facts". Especially those "facts" which do not leave ID as the only possible reasonable explanation. That is what ID is about. So your response was... " what do your...

Darwin was religious. He believed in the possibility of some kind of God creator due to what he considered to be design in nature. Darwin said he was agnostic. His wife who was a devout christian acknowledged he was not christian and His daughter, who was at his deathbed, herself said he did...