[QUOTE=LaurV;397421]Oh, I just realized you two are arguing about my wife.. then I am very religious right now...[/QUOTE]

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[QUOTE=davar55;397393]Well, if you accept the arguments "resolved" in this thread, then
you accept that atheism is proven and there is no God.[/QUOTE]How very presumptuous of you. There are arguments on many sides here that anyone could have accepted as resolved, but not consider [i]your[/i] argument to be the correct one.

[QUOTE=retina;397426]How very presumptuous of you. There are arguments on many sides here that anyone could have accepted as resolved, but not consider [i]your[/i] argument to be the correct one.[/QUOTE]

Extremely presumptuous. :smile:

I really just wanted to plug my cosmology. Since science and religion
are totally at odds in my view, since the concept of a supernatural God
is antithetic to a rational science, since I've already presented an
alternative cosmological viewpoint that doesn't bow to Creationism,
I consider all holes plugged.

Of course, anyone else is entitled to their own opinions...

NIΨONANOMHMATAMHMONANOΨIN
 

Perspicuous puissant palindrome promulgated pertaining propinquitous pertinacious priests.
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nipson_anomemata_me_monan_opsin[/url]

[QUOTE=only_human;399899]Perspicuous puissant palindrome promulgated pertaining propinquitous pertinacious priests.
[URL]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nipson_anomemata_me_monan_opsin[/URL][/QUOTE]

Now [U]That[/U] is a mouthful! Interesting link, too. :goodposting:

[QUOTE=only_human;399899]Perspicuous puissant palindrome promulgated pertaining propinquitous pertinacious priests.
[URL]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nipson_anomemata_me_monan_opsin[/URL][/QUOTE]

Excellent vocabulary lesson. Nice link. However did you come across it?

Now we need a lounge "eight words" thread for pppppppp etc. !

:smile:

[QUOTE=davar55;399913]Excellent vocabulary lesson. Nice link. However did you come across it?

Now we need a lounge "eight words" thread for pppppppp etc. !

:smile:[/QUOTE]
I read about it at this link:
[url]http://www.fun-with-words.com/palin_history.html[/url]

Came across this quote from one of the greats today:
[quote]The meaning of religious freedom, I fear, is sometimes greatly misapprehended. It is taken to be a sort of immunity, not merely from governmental control but also from public opinion. A dunderhead gets himself a long-tailed coat, rises behind the sacred desk, and emits such bilge as would gag a Hottentot. Is it to pass unchallenged? If so, then what we have is not religious freedom at all, but the most intolerable and outrageous variety of religious despotism. Any fool, once he is admitted to holy orders, becomes infallible. Any half-wit, by the simple device of ascribing his delusions to revelation, takes on an authority that is denied to all the rest of us. . . . What should be a civilized man’s attitude toward such superstitions? It seems to me that the only attitude possible to him is one of contempt. If he admits that they have any intellectual dignity whatever, he admits that he himself has none. If he pretends to a respect for those who believe in them, he pretends falsely, and sinks almost to their level. When he is challenged he must answer honestly, regardless of tender feelings.

-- H.L. Mencken[/quote]

[QUOTE=ewmayer;407510]Came across this quote from one of the greats today:[/QUOTE]

Gotta love Mencken! :grin:

[QUOTE=ewmayer;407510]Came across this quote from one of the greats today:[/QUOTE]

Intellectual honesty is the great leveler of supernatural nonsense.

Good quote.

[QUOTE=davar55;407545]Intellectual honesty is the great leveler of supernatural nonsense.

Good quote.[/QUOTE]

Interesting that you would say that, because your voluminous opinings on several subjects - cosmology and 'free market capitalism' come to mind - could very well be described as 'supernatural nonsense'. Redefining various common terms of art in bizarre ways to suit your 'arguments', as you persistently do, is intellectually honest?

In fact when I read Mencken's 'Any half-wit, by the simple device of ascribing his delusions to revelation, takes on an authority that is denied to all the rest of us', I immediately thought of your numerous fact-free assertions regarding cosmology and similarly counterfactual ones regarding capitalism. In both areas your exegeses have the smell of religious-revelation-inspired zealotry about them.