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    Maybe the atheist in your ranks is helping viewing figures!
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    Do Atheists pick on others (Off Topic version)

    And I can understand your desire to make faith equivalent to real world mechanics. Because faith in the supernatural must be such a tenuous and fragile thing, any chance to relate it to pressing a brake pedal will almost bring an abstract concept into the real world. I don't blame you, I would...
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    Do Atheists pick on others (Off Topic version)

    As you point out, there are really two distinct definitions of faith. The first, your faith that your brakes will work when you press the pedal, regardless of your own knowledge is built from an intrinsic understanding of the system by the engineers that built it. There is clear evidence of how...
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    Do Atheists pick on others (Off Topic version)

    I don't see the relevance in comparing the faith that an aeroplane can fly with the faith that an unevidenced supernatural being created the Universe just by speaking it into existence. There's a huge difference. That seems to stretch the limits of the definition of faith by several orders just...
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    The law in the gospel.

    The Theory of Evolution can explain that for you. It may seem, on the face of it and from a limited human lifespan, to be designed but repeated observations from multiple fields of study will tell you otherwise.
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    Do Atheists pick on others (Off Topic version)

    Who says there was nothing? If you propose a supernatural being that existed eternally before anything of the known Universe came to be then where did it exist and what form did it take? Why did it deliver life, and it's message from prophets only to a small outpost of a medium sized galaxy of...
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    Do Atheists pick on others (Off Topic version)

    If there was an eternal god, why did he decide to create life 6000 years ago after waiting for eternity without creating anything? Did it just get bored all of a sudden? From a deistic point of view it seems pretty improbable. If you try to fit the Abrahamic god of the bible into the picture it...
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    The law in the gospel.

    'Believe' isn't the correct word, I accept the science that, so far, best explains the natural world and universe as observed. There is no way of knowing and therefore no explanation for a 'first cause' so I don't have an opinion on that matter. Maybe there was no first cause, maybe the...
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    The law in the gospel.

    Noted. I'll try to behave, I'm not sure I honestly have a motive other than the curiosity about how people believe in the supernatural.
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    The law in the gospel.

    Religious scripture appears to be ancient ancestors description of an ideology along with invented ideas that try to explain the world they lived in because they knew no better. If I look at Genesis from your favourite (plagiarised) book for instance, it's clear that none of it fits with our...
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    The law in the gospel.

    If I was born to parents in a remote outpost who had no concept of god then I would be unlikely to make one up myself. Generally, children take the god concept from their parents or other social circles. I'm 48 years old.
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    Do Atheists pick on others (Off Topic version)

    I've no idea really, I'm not even sure that I know what a 'god' is if I'm honest. If you say that a supernatural being cannot be detected or measured then there will never be evidence.
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    Do Atheists pick on others (Off Topic version)

    Maybe in your world, certainly not in the arena of astrophysics. If there's a 'higher power' then it does a very good job of keeping itself hidden. Almost as though it doesn't exist. It would be quite a discovery if evidence of an omnipotent creator were seen, unfortunately I think you'll have...
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    Do Atheists pick on others (Off Topic version)

    If it makes you feel better then fine. Scientific theories are no conspiracy, your distrust is misplaced.
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    Do Atheists pick on others (Off Topic version)

    How many creation accounts by different gods have there been? They can't all be right can they? I say that a creation story is just a story not backed up by conclusive proof.
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    Do Atheists pick on others (Off Topic version)

    Theories can be modified in light of new evidence, yes. I don't see why that is a problem though. The only theory I know of about the beginnings of the Universe is the expansion theory of the big bang but that only goes back to a finite time after the expansion begins. It doesn't say anything...
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    Do Atheists pick on others (Off Topic version)

    Not in the scientific world it isn't. It doesn't matter much what you think a scientific theory is, it matters in science because it explains the natural world correctly. The wiki entry is suitable enough to explain; "A*scientific theory*is a well-substantiated explanation of some aspect of the...
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    Do Atheists pick on others (Off Topic version)

    A theory is not what you think it means then. Observation of evidence is always the starting point for science. A theory is not an assertion or a guess as in your example above.
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    Do Atheists pick on others (Off Topic version)

    If I don't see any evidence for something, what's wrong with "I don't know"? Seems a pretty rational answer to me. You seem determined to bring every position including atheism down to 'faith' when it has no such requirement. I suspect, because you know the tenuous hold that faith has on...
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    Do Atheists pick on others (Off Topic version)

    Oh OK. So there can be a reason why everything exists without an intelligent force behind creation? You seem to be comparing 'reason for existence' against 'nothing existing' which is irrational, it's not even the same argument.
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