cuchulain

At least I'm honest.

A map said so...it must be true. Not made up at all by people who wanted the land.

Now to quarantine them and let evolution work...

I remember a writing excercise in high school. We picked out something in the room and made up a story about it. Fiction based on real objects isn't proof of anything beyond a writing about something.

In my opinion, any christian that doesnt believe in science should lose access to everything it provides...but i bet they'd clam up quick if that were the case.

I think that sometimes questions about one thing can inadvertantly lead to answers about another, and sometimes the answer for metaphysical inquiries might not be knowable at the time they are asked but later are shown(because it was asked and investigated) to have natural, reasonable non metaphysical cause. I can't help but consider the ever diminished 'god of the gaps' and Bill O'Reilly spouting about the unexplained things like the tide and not knowing how it works...

Not knowing, or being unable to know, leaves the default of either untrue or don't care...for me. I can't know, given current info, whether exodus really happened as claimed. Therefor i reject the claim. A claim is not true until disproven...it is true when proven, to me.

Left off the 'genuine interest'...guess you can't rightly claim atheists have no genuine interest and that equally defeats your point so its. best not to admit you were wrong, eh?

Lets see how long that lasts...

Yep. Back to refuting the logic...

Dan said it precisely...but now that we have also agreed to what he said he will go back to refuting it... even though he said it first.

You dont believe in zeus even though you can't disprove he exists... Your logic is clearly flawed.

Look at dan's posting history vs atheists and in conjunction with fellow believers. His comprehension level is magically different, he gives believers the benefit of the doubt, and tries...TRIES noticably not to insult them. Atheists have repeatedly pointed out the insult that his comprehension just cannot grasp, he will disagree with things he himself has said if we say it, and he continually plies the SAME insult... Yep. That's the definition of bias.

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Disbelief: The inability to accept something that is true. This is the insult you repeatedly bait with, dan. That we cant handle the truth. Time to grow up, man.

My view does change. I consider it wisdom to change when shown to be wrong. Your quote is in error, for example. It speaks for all atheists as if we all believe that. But your view doesnt seem to allow for change when shown to be in error. Just my observations.

Various unknown writers and some of the books were left out...they like to gloss over that.

The bible isn't cohesive because the main character, existing separate from time, changes halfway through. As does the message. The theme? In the beginning books, god is all about killing if you dont follow the law, lots of stonings. Bears maul 42 kids because one made fun of his prophet, but 41 did nothing and still bit it...and the bible doesnt specify the perp being one of the dead. From that to a theme of forgivness, the opposite of revenge or justice? No...not a consistent character at all.

Seems like a faulty assumption.

Had to have that last word 😂

Can you define argument? It's classically meant as a person's point in a debate, so when you say that the argument is getting silly, I responded by saying it takes two...unless you want to play the unwitting participant. But you complained about the silly argument...then kept going. I think that is silly as well. Or do you need to have the last word in a silly debate?

Takes at least two to keep an argument going, Dan...

Samuel Clemens said it best for me. "religion was invented when the first con man met the first fool".

Its not that i like or dislike the message,part is good and part is bad. Its simply that i dont believe it, much like you don't believe greek mythology. I view it in the same light. I thought zeus was a villain, much the same as i view the chrisrian god...but i view both as fictional villains.

I don't believe your Bible so scripture about how to discern spirit in an effort to prove scripture true is logically failed... and ultimately circular. I respect your right to believe, but I don't.