Why Evangelicals Are Fooled Into Accepting Pseudoscience

Can you imagine the ignorance of someone who would make such an idiotic statement? Hint: look in the mirror.

You can't even spell the word. Plenty of negatives CAN be proven. For example, a circle can't be squared and the proof of that goes back at least to the 1800s.
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can you imagine the ignorance of someone, who claims to have credits in science education,who still asks for proof of a negitive.
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You moron, having an opinion that there's no deity is absolutely a belief.

Could you stop making a total fool of yourself?
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If non belief is a belief, belief is a non belief.
Could you keep YOUR daft comments to yourself?
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because without your indoctrination from the bible you would not need to go to such lengths and contortions to twist what scientists say to make it fit what your religion tells you.
every objection you have ever posted boils down to this: i think its too complicated so it had to be god. you have never posted one piece of evidence that actually backs up what you believe.
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You are either a troll who knows better but chooses to be a liar like stu... or you beliefs are challenged and you are scared.

As a believer, I am not concerned if science finds proof that life evolved from inorganic matter or that there really are trillions of other universes.

But you are so scared that science is finding evidence of design in our universe... you continually lie about the current state of science.

It must be killing you that a very large majority of the scientists are coming out in print and telling you that you have a choice. ...

Belief in infinite universes or belief in an infinite creator.
its time you pick your belief and stop pretending there is no sign of a Creator and join 21st century.

There is a sign of a designer... but you can still choose to believe in a multiverse.
 
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let me ask you a question. exactly when did god cross over from the physical world to the metaphysical world?
i ask this because there are many examples of god showing himself in the physical sense in the bible. now you claim he can not be detected by natural means. either the bible is wrong or you are wrong.

What we call the physical is our sensory interpretation of the metaphysical. If we're considering God as some version of Abrahamic God then such a god, although metaphysical, would not be restricted from wilfully manifesting in a manner compatible with our sensory functions, especially given that the Abrahamic gods are 'omnipotent'. A pantheistic God, being in all things, including our neural and mental selves is never separate from us or our perceptions and thus could manifest as physical if such a God was capable of willing to do so and did will to do so.




Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from its readiness to fit in with our instinctual wishful impulses. (Sigmund Freud)

'Illusion' is pejorative; I prefer 'metaphor'. Our instinctual wishful impulses are responsible for the continuation of our species and neither they nor their representations in consciousness are per se bad things. Unfortunately, it is true that most systematized religions degenerate into belief packages that are passed down from generation to generation and foisted on the young before they develop an ability to think independently so that those destined to be independent thinkers must begin by fighting their way out of thinking what they are 'supposed to'. This is not to say that the independent thinker can't think his/her way back into religion contrary, perhaps, to Freud.




Richard Dawkins: Religious faith not only lacks evidence, its independence from evidence is its pride and joy, shouted from the rooftops.

Depends on what we think of as evidence; he probably means scientific evidence. Some of us think the divine element is self-evident in the beauty and improbability of the world. Others may feel they experience the presence of the divine directly and accept that feeling as evidence if not proof.
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has anyone ever called you fos? it must be nice to just make up a bunch of mumbo jumbo bs and expect people to believe it. i guess it works in churches but not so much in the critical thinking world. any evidence of what you claim? just one piece of evidence that the metaphysical exists.


We have heard talk enough. We have listened to all the drowsy, idealess, vapid sermons that we wish to hear. We have read your Bible and the works of your best minds. We have heard your prayers, your solemn groans and your reverential amens. All these amount to less than nothing. We want one fact. We beg at the doors of your churches for just one little fact. We pass our hats along your pews and under your pulpits and implore you for just one fact. We know all about your mouldy wonders and your stale miracles. We want a this year's fact. We ask only one. Give us one fact for charity. Your miracles are too ancient. The witnesses have been dead for nearly two thousand years.
-- Robert Green Ingersoll,
 
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and the designer is...wink,wink... biblegod.
have you been deluded so long that you actually believe what you write? anybody with a brain knows that id is code for "god did it".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAn_vQXBPtI&feature=related

at 4:40 in the video it documents how creationists just renamed their cause to have creationism taught in schools intelligent design.
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You are engaging in more sophistry.
I can see you would rather troll... than address the science.
 
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You are engaging in more sophistry.
I can see you would rather troll... than address the science.
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you dont ever present science. you quote philosophers, not scientists, who say. gee that looks too complicated to have happened naturally so it had to be god.
even they say some things look designed. but they are not. still you twist what they say to make it fit your indoctrination.
many things in nature look designed but are not. a snowflake looks designed. but it is not.
did you watch the video? probably not. you are only interested in things that bolster what you want to believe.
 
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I'm quite familiar with the scientific method and am aware that it's very effective when applied to a measurable reality. This, however, in no way indicates that science is the exclusive route to meaningful knowing. Most of the fundamental suppositions of science, including laws and principles of nature are generalizations arrived at through mere induction and may be much less constant than most people who place their faith in science might imagine.

There is no reason to believe that science can penetrate the phenomenal skin of reality without coming up with bizarre behaviors that present science with paradoxes that on discovery become predictable but defy true explaining because all theories are incomplete.

All science is incompletely descriptive and therefore inadequate to explain even the most basic aspects of existence without misrepresentation.

All science is subject to major paradigm shifts that recontextualiuze outdated theories and show them to be misrepresentative.

There is no reason to believe that anything in science contradicts the possibility of God.

The scientist is no more qualified to answer the God question because he is a scientist than is the plumber because he is a plumber or the pimp because he is a pimp.

What is it with you scientism types and the lack of understanding when it comes to science. you cant be that dense. i suspect you just choose willful ignorance because it allows you to rationalize nonsense.
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Excellant points,HH.
And if the global cooling scare of the 70's, has not happend yet;
some may prefer changing the name ''global warming'', to ''climate change''. The new name ''climate change'' is such a broadbrush, i like it.LOL.

One reason [small sample reason ] a global cooling scare semed so real, 1970s;
a Canadian river did actually freeze , up,PBS proved . Crop[cool ]related failure in Europe did happen , in the dark ages.[Cool ]:cool:

I dont know if the founder of the weather channel is a Christian.
 
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