13th July 2010, 5:48 PM
I'm actually going to have to back DJ on this, Darunia.
/sad face
Your position is essentially that "X must be true because you can't disprove it".
What? All I'm saying is that just because traveling at speeds approaching those of light is impossible today, does not mean it forever will be. Physics is not ultimately understood. Nobody can deny that. You don't know where it will be in a century.
Ironically, your fervent atheism is based on the fact that Creationists can't prove the existence of God.
Admittedly they are similar arguments at first glance, but boiling down atheism to "Creationists can't prove the existence of God" is comically stupid. My argument is not that since Creationists can't prove it, it's not true... my atheism exists entirely independent of Creationists, or any religious affiliation. My beef isn't solely with Creationists--though they are easy targets. I don't mean to launch into any crusade here, but basically all I know as a self-aware individual is what I can see. I see no deity. Religions claim and adhere to beliefs that transcend reality and invoke things that are, to my estimation, illogical and impossible. Most of these beliefs, furthermore, are founded and based entirely on spectral evidence.
I'm surprised you haven't told us we're all going to burn in the fires of hell.
Not hell. Goron penal colonies. Much worse.
/sad face
Your position is essentially that "X must be true because you can't disprove it".
What? All I'm saying is that just because traveling at speeds approaching those of light is impossible today, does not mean it forever will be. Physics is not ultimately understood. Nobody can deny that. You don't know where it will be in a century.
Ironically, your fervent atheism is based on the fact that Creationists can't prove the existence of God.
Admittedly they are similar arguments at first glance, but boiling down atheism to "Creationists can't prove the existence of God" is comically stupid. My argument is not that since Creationists can't prove it, it's not true... my atheism exists entirely independent of Creationists, or any religious affiliation. My beef isn't solely with Creationists--though they are easy targets. I don't mean to launch into any crusade here, but basically all I know as a self-aware individual is what I can see. I see no deity. Religions claim and adhere to beliefs that transcend reality and invoke things that are, to my estimation, illogical and impossible. Most of these beliefs, furthermore, are founded and based entirely on spectral evidence.
I'm surprised you haven't told us we're all going to burn in the fires of hell.
Not hell. Goron penal colonies. Much worse.
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