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Meaningless assertion, got anything better?
Nope, it’s what I can demonstrate, I can provide a logically cogent explanation for each of the preconditions of intelligibility, and as you have helped demonstrate no atheist can.
Again, a meaningless assertion. Science uses induction, so until you can explain how you can consistently use induction in a purely natural world your statement above is meaningless. Induction makes perfect sense in a Christian universe, so the Christian has no problem using science; the atheist refutes his own worldview when he appeals to science because science relies on assumptions (yes science relies on faith despite your assertion to the contrary) that could not be true if his atheism were true.
Wait, which is it?
Nope, knowledge exists because of religion, you had that backwards.
So while claiming that it is the religious who are dumbing down schools you misspell “dumbing”? Classic!
So?
So? Where do you come up with these arguments? There is no logical reason to believe that simply because everyone claims to have the right answer therefore nobody has the right answer.
Christianity.
Not true, Christianity is the only one that can even account for knowledge.
Not amongst Hindus, 1+1 equally 2 is illusion.
Fallacy of reification, science doesn’t “invent” anything, people do.
You sure seem to have quite the crush on science; I find that funny considering it’d be completely impossible if your atheism were true.
More meaningless assertions, have you figured out a way to account for the preconditions of knowledge yet? That’s what I am waiting for because making these silly assertions aren’t getting you anywhere.
That’d make morality impossible, which would in turn make science impossible. Do you really want to admit science is impossible?
Really? Prove it.
Science can’t “live” without objective morality though. Objective morality can’t “live” in an atheistic universe, therefore neither can science.
Then if someone defines their morality to be that rape is morally good behavior then you’d have no problem with them committing rape?
WHAT!!!!? So if there were no humans on the earth practicing science the world would just magically pop out of existence? How did the world exist prior to humans then? Were the dinosaurs practicing science keeping it in existence? What an absurd statement.
Not to Christianity because it presupposes Christianity is true a priori. Something that would only function if Christianity is true is certainly no danger to Christianity.
Considering you have yet to give me one single reason to believe the world is billions of years old it seems you are the one who is having trouble fitting that belief in with reality. Unless of course you have finally found that case where radiometric dating has accurately dated rocks of empirically known age…have you found it?
Assertion.
History doesn’t deal with “proof”, that’s logic and mathematics.
Doesn’t matter, one atheistic leader in the Soviet Union killed hundreds of times more people than all of those religious zealots did in hundreds of years. You guys win the “danger to society” contest; I will concede you that honor.
That just proves your ignorance when it comes to religions right there.
It astounds me the leap of faith you make when you assume certain conditions are true that could only be true if your view of reality were completely false.
Good thing a person’s philosophical and logical merits are completely independent of your opinion huh? Do you ever make any points that are not completely irrelevant?
This coming from the guy who asserts the earth is billions of years old but then cannot point to one single empirically verifiable reason for believing so? Ironic.
I still have a completely valid and un-refuted syllogism in the Dawkins thread proving God exists, so your statement above couldn’t be more erroneous.
Nope, demonstrated impossibility of the contrary, until you can account for the preconditions in a manner that is consistent with your atheism this will continue to be a demonstrated fact.
You just don’t get it do you? God HAS to do the things He says He does or else all knowledge would be impossible. So the same syllogism demonstrates that God indeed does what He says He does.
Merely asserting something is “scientifically tested and valid” certainly doesn’t make it so. Those words have meaning; empirical science is based off of direct observation and repeatability, so until you can verify radiometric dating repeatedly works on rocks of directly observed known age the method is not scientific at all.
Where did you get this? Some 4th grade textbook? You can explain the theory behind the method until you are blue in the face but until you can verify that it actually works in the real world on rocks of known age I am not going to just accept your promises that it works on rocks of unknown age, that’s completely unscientific.
How do you know this? What’s your control? You can’t use “known half-life to calculate unknown age” before you use “known half-life to verify known age”. Demonstrate the method works on rocks of known age before you try and sell anybody on it working on rocks of unknown age! Why is that so hard to understand? Is it because you know the method won’t work on rocks of known age?
I do believe scientific dating methods; unfortunately you haven’t provided any scientific dating methods because none of the methods you have provided are empirically verifiable by science.
Are you seriously going to tell me that all of this is based on your dating method that has never been empirically verified to even work? You based your entire view of history on this sort of magic snake oil? I am speechless…
Nope.
Insinuating that someone who has utterly destroyed you in debates over the last few weeks is “delusional” certainly doesn’t make you look very good :-P Unfortunately many Christians are ignorant of the facts when it comes to dating methods and will just buy your assertions that the method works even though it’s never been demonstrated to work. Not this Christian though, I hold my science to a bit stronger standard than that. You have to emperically demonstrate the method works before I will buy it.
Not sure what an astronomy professor has to do with radiometric dating, but the fact some college professor thinks the earth is billions of years old certainly doesn’t make it so. You’re going to have to demonstrate that it is really that old, I have yet to see anything from you that even comes close.
Unfortunately for you those methods listed in that video are even easier to refute. Several genera of trees can add more than one ring per year, and it just so happens that all of the trees supposedly dating back over 10,000 years belong to such genre. So those trees could easily be only 4,000-4,500 years old which would still put them post-flood. There is not a single example of a tree that only adds one ring per year that dates over 4,500 years old, funny how that works huh?
As for the ice core method, that’s loaded with numerous problems. One being that the visible layers of annual ice accumulation are only visible for a few thousand years, after that point the ice becomes very uniform and void of any visible layers. Yet, secular scientists ASSUME the annual accumulation amounts are the same even though they are no longer visible and they continue counting off the years. Of course, the visible data is completely consistent with the Creation model because you’d only expect to see actual visible layers of annual accumulation for a few thousand years followed by large amounts of ice deposited at very short periods of time leaving no visible annual layers behind. Couple this with the fact that when scientists try to find objects of empirically known deposit under the ice years after their deposit they end up being under hundreds of times more ice than expected given the dating method and you’ve got yourself a very flawed method of dating the earth. Do you have anything else?
…and yet you seem to be completely incapable of refuting my valid syllogism, that’s so funny how that works. It’s a shame you guys only talk a good game.
Comparing Christians to the Taliban, nice. I guess when you’re fresh out of ideas you can always resort to logically fallacious generalizations and personal attacks.
Was religious freedom not one of the things that made this country great or do you not count that American tenet?
Says the man whose worldview is completely contradictory.
I hope Christians don’t die off because that would leave only people whose views of reality completely refute themselves and who are hopelessly inconsistent in their worldviews. Christianity won’t ever die off though, so we don’t have to worry about that.
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