A beginner's guide to being an atheist, by Richard Dawkins

Hume said:
What is there to know about atheism?
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There's not much to know, but somehow Cy doesn't even know that.

The absolute most hilarious thing about Cy's war on atheism is that he claims he reads all this philosophy and stuff, yet he can't get his head around something as simple as lacking belief in a claim.
 
gmark77 said:
There's not much to know, but somehow Cy doesn't even know that.

The absolute most hilarious thing about Cy's war on atheism is that he claims he reads all this philosophy and stuff, yet he can't get his head around something as simple as lacking belief in a claim.
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I think he believes there is an actual Church of Atheism, like a satanic cult.
 
Cypress said:
So here we get an admission that you are not a professional zoologist, and despite taking undergraduate classes in zoology, you don't have any experience as a professional zoologist, and aren't in a position to say what they do.

Every famous zoologist widely known to the public* was famous for studying some aspect of animal behavior, which includes population dynamics, distribution, interactions with the environment.

* Jane Goodall, Diane Fossey, Charles Darwin, Alfred Wallace, Richard Dawkins, Farley Mowat.​

Carl Linnaeus was famous for classification and taxonomy, but that's just basically accounting, not hard science. If aliens came to earth to study animals, they would come up with their own nomenclature and classification schemes. So classification and taxonomy are just human conventions that don't tell us anything fundamentally real.
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Science is not a religion, Cyborg.
 
Cypress said:
ftfy

"[The] laws of motion include those that govern the movement of the planets in the solar system and the expansion of the universe itself. Whether you're using general relativity or the original Newtonian version of gravity"

- Paul M. Sutter, astrophysicist at SUNY Stony Brook​
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www.space.com

What makes Newton's laws work? Here's the simple trick.

Lagrange found that the difference between an object's kinetic energy and potential energy unlocked something deeply profound about the universe.
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A theory of science doesn't govern anything.
The Universe has no known boundaries. What is 'expanding'?

The Theory of General Relativity has not replaced the Theory of Gravitation by Newton.

You are just posting random shit now, hoping that something sticks. Buzzword fallacies.
 
gmark77 said:
There's not much to know, but somehow Cy doesn't even know that.

The absolute most hilarious thing about Cy's war on atheism is that he claims he reads all this philosophy and stuff, yet he can't get his head around something as simple as lacking belief in a claim.
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The obsession continues. LOL
 
gmark77 said:
yet he can't get his head around something as simple as lacking belief in a claim! :mad:
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ftfy

"Simply lacking a belief" is just a psychological state of mind. It's not a truth claim.

My cat lacks belief in God. That does not make her an atheist.

Atheism, as almost universally accepted by the seminal atheist authors and influencers of the last 150 years is a belief that there is nothing like a god, a tao, a universal spirit, and that matter and energy adequately explain life, the universe, and everything.
 
Cypress said:
ftfy

"Simply lacking a belief" is just a psychological state of mind. It's not a truth claim.

My cat lacks belief in God. That does not make her an atheist.

Atheism, as almost universally accepted by the seminal atheist authors and influencers of the last 150 years is a belief that there is nothing like a god, a tao, a universal spirit, and that matter and energy adequately explain life, the universe, and everything.
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That's a new one for me and a very good one. :thup:

You've posted before about "new age" West Coast Buddhists. The same analogy seems to apply to atheists; there's the "when you're dead, you're dead" atheists and then there's who believe in a post-mortem existence minus the old geezer on a golden throne religious belief. Neither group nor anyone in between, can prove their beliefs even as they belittle the beliefs of others.

One thing I think we all can agree upon is that government nor any other group should be forcing their beliefs upon others.
 
gmark77 said:
Try debating the point without lying!:cuss:
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ftfy

"Simply lacking a belief" is just a psychological state of mind. It's not a truth claim.

My cat lacks belief in God. That does not make her an atheist.

Atheism, as almost universally accepted by the seminal atheist authors and influencers of the last 150 years is a belief that there is nothing like a god, a tao, a universal spirit, and that matter and energy adequately explain life, the universe, and everything.
 
Dutch Uncle said:
That's a new one for me and a very good one. :thup:

You've posted before about "new age" West Coast Buddhists. The same analogy seems to apply to atheists; there's the "when you're dead, you're dead" atheists and then there's who believe in a post-mortem existence minus the old geezer on a golden throne religious belief.
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Just not wanting to accept the Christian god, but being open to other religious themes hardly can qualify one as an atheist. The dictionary doesn't define atheism as "someone who is angry at Christianity", lol

Dutch Uncle said:
Neither group nor anyone in between, can prove their beliefs even as they belittle the beliefs of others.

One thing I think we all can agree upon is that government nor any other group should be forcing their beliefs upon others.
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Agreed.
 
Cypress said:
ftfy

"Simply lacking a belief" is just a psychological state of mind. It's not a truth claim.

My cat lacks belief in God. That does not make her an atheist.

Atheism, as almost universally accepted by the seminal atheist authors and influencers of the last 150 years is a belief that there is nothing like a god, a tao, a universal spirit, and that matter and energy adequately explain life, the universe, and everything.
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Spinoza’s and Einstein’s god.
 
Cypress said:
Just not wanting to accept the Christian god, but being open to other religious themes hardly can qualify one as an atheist. The dictionary doesn't define atheism as "someone who is angry at Christianity", lol


Agreed.
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Agreed, but it seems to be the most common form of "atheism" online. "I hate Christians!" LOL

Last night I was thinking about your, my and the general atheist line about morality vs. logic. Specifically eugenics, which we agree is logical albeit immoral in most human cultures. Notice how many atheists run from this discussion. They like to brag about having morals doesn't require religious beliefs yet refuse to admit where social moral standards originated. Even funnier is their running from the "logical" solution of putting people in pain, suffering or otherwise lacking quality of life out of their misery.

Do they run because they agree and don't want to say or because they disagree but don't want to admit it?
 
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