Why I'm an Atheist

[Arm0r]

You all just need to stop posting in this thread, it's pointless. 

[[BTF]Sigma]

Vote to lock?

[Tubby]

You all just need to stop posting in this thread, it's pointless. 

ArmOr, the Jewish people who were living high up on the Massada fortress said much the same thing: 'It's pointless trying to defend ourselves from the invading Romans, so let's kill our own children lest they become subject to the Roman (heretic) beliefs...'

Is there some parallel here?

[Arm0r]

You all just need to stop posting in this thread, it's pointless. 

ArmOr, the Jewish people who were living high up on the Massada fortress said much the same thing: 'It's pointless trying to defend ourselves from the invading Romans, so let's kill our own children lest they become subject to the Roman (heretic) beliefs...

Is there some parallel here?

Yes tubby, jews slaughtering their own children is absolutely parallel to not posting in a thread to argue with some simpleton about his factless views.  You're special.

[Tubby]

You all just need to stop posting in this thread, it's pointless. 

ArmOr, the Jewish people who were living high up on the Massada fortress said much the same thing: 'It's pointless trying to defend ourselves from the invading Romans, so let's kill our own children lest they become subject to the Roman (heretic) beliefs...

Is there some parallel here?

Yes tubby, jews slaughtering their own children is absolutely parallel to not posting in a thread to argue with some simpleton about his factless views.  You're special.

That's great, ArmOr. Now, are you ready to debate why my argument is 'factless' and your argument is (supposedly) not?

I'm ready...

[|iR|Focalor]

Sigma, if you want to get your "facts" from Wikipedia, that's your call. Go for it.

I myself prefer to use my personal ability to discuss such things without recourse to the preconcieved, mass-produced notions which websites such as Wikipedia tend to offer.

Tell me something... did you graduate from the Stephen Colbert University with a degree in Truthiness?

[quadz]

another good reason to be a little removed from too much information whilst subsequently acknowledging that one has no facts.

So you're into epistemological nihilism?


 

[Tubby]

another good reason to be a little removed from too much information whilst subsequently acknowledging that one has no facts.

So you're into epistemological nihilism?


 

Wtf is epissedemologigal nihilism??? Wait.. I'll look it up on Wikipedia... 

[quadz]

Wtf is epissedemologigal nihilism???

It's OK to be ignorant; it's not OK to play stupid.

 

[Tubby]

Furthermore scientists have still failed to find a conclusive link between so called "cave men" to the transition of real humans, so darwinian theory is flawed.

Alpha, I think you'll find that any theory is inherently "flawed" in one way or another. That's what seperates theory from fact. Just because a theory is "flawed", however, doesn't disprove it in it's entirety. Sure, there are gaps in the Darwinian model, but maybe all that means is that we haven't (yet) figured out how to explain those gaps.

Unfortunately, many of us resort to supernatural / religious belief to 'fill in the gaps', which seems to be the human default fall-back - the equavalent of a car air-bag protecting us from too much damage when we crash into a wall.

Just because we can't answer the questions you asked today, Alpha, doesn't mean we won't be able to answer them tomorrow.

[|iR|Focalor]

Wtf is epissedemologigal nihilism???

Upisseddermatology lolwut?

Just because we can't answer the questions you asked today, Alpha, doesn't mean we won't be able to answer them tomorrow.

Try this one on for size: Just because YOU can't answer a question, doesn't mean someone else can't. Since you obviously have an aversion for knowledge found books, it's probably best if you didn't propose anymore theories or ridiculous airbag parables.

[Tubby]

Just because we can't answer the questions you asked today, Alpha, doesn't mean we won't be able to answer them tomorrow.

Try this one on for size: Just because YOU can't answer a question, doesn't mean someone else can't. Since you obviously have an aversion for knowledge found books, it's probably best if you didn't propose anymore theories or ridiculous airbag parables.

Focalor, go to your local library and grab any book in the non-fiction section. Any book. Chances are there will be 'facts' in that book which will have been outdated and contradicted by more recent 'facts'.

This applies as much to you and your precious 'books of knowledge' today as it did to those who argued the 'facts' in those dusty old library books yesterday... As it will apply to those who argue the 'facts' of tomorrow... ad nauseum.

[quadz]

Focalor, go to your local library and grab any book in the non-fiction section. Any book. Chances are there will be 'facts' in that book which will have been outdated and contradicted by more recent 'facts'.

This applies as much to you and your precious 'books of knowledge' today as it did to those who argued the 'facts' in those dusty old library books yesterday... As it will apply to those who argue the 'facts' of tomorrow... ad nauseum.

And as the discoverer of this great profundity, you've elected to embrace a position of epistemological nihilism?

[Whirlingdervish]

epistemological nihilism = the new NO U.

 

[reaper]

Focalor, go to your local library and grab any book in the non-fiction section. Any book. Chances are there will be 'facts' in that book which will have been outdated and contradicted by more recent 'facts'.

This applies as much to you and your precious 'books of knowledge' today as it did to those who argued the 'facts' in those dusty old library books yesterday... As it will apply to those who argue the 'facts' of tomorrow... ad nauseum.

If you have a new theory, that explains everything, and is more accurate, let's hear it.

Let's take the stretch and say you weren't trying to reinvent natural selection.  We're back to my original post, where you get owned again and again : (