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To get a better philosophical understanding of materialism and naturalism versus theism read John C Lennox's work and also he has a grear youtube interview on DW with Jordan Peterson.
sorry I am not sympathetic, you're rich, beautiful and smart.... and yet you make yourself and women to be victims because they have to endure menopause... news flash we are going to die!!
Not only do atheists think we believers in God are foolish, but they are hostile and angy with us. Why? I am not hostile and angry with atheists. How does my belief in God affect the life of any athiest? Why dos my belief matter to any atheist? I find this anger and hostility most interesting. I am not imvested in the beliefs of others UNLESS a belief manifests in an action that threatens my life or liberty. So, atheist, please explain your strong emotional reaction to my belief in God?
The basis of most atheist beliefs is anger over human suffering. They will say, "What sort of god would create human suffering, or fail to prevent human suffering?" They then conclude that a god cannot possibly exist. Its interesting that atheiest accept that every part of the human body has a functional pupose,including the brain, but have no explanation for a brain belief in a diety since the beginning of time. What purpose does this universal belief serve?
Actually Eric, there is evidence that the earth is an oval disk shape, and not a globe. Not that majority belief proves anything, but the globe earth shape is a more recent belief. Most, like Eric, have not examined the "flat-earthers " evidence....or their arguments. In the scheme of things however, the shape of the earth is not of significant importance. The existence of God, or not, does matter.
@James-ll3jb You are the poster child of the impulsive emotional responder. In debates or discussions, attack the argument with YOUR evidence, not childish mudslinging.
@James-ll3jb Yeah, well they locked up Galleleo for being criminal with his science claims. Oops, they discovered he was right. There was no debate. You made a claim about Eric M. I asked you to support with evidence. You didn't because you couldn't. BTW: MISSTATING others is known as lying. And no one should have a conversation with a liar. 👋
Very interesting discussion. I wonder about its relevance, though, in light of the groundbreaking work of Granville Sewell of the University of Texas at El Paso, one of the top mathematicians in the US, as well as a born-again Christian and author of excellent apologetics books (inspired by C.S. Lewis, no doubt). Sewell has derived a math equation (using a multivariate quantum algebra technique called partial integration--it's said only 3 people in the world can follow it) that proves there are infinitely many different entropies, one for each type of order. For example, the order present in a well-designed jumbo jet is just the negative of the jumbo-jet-entropy, and is unrelated to thermal entropy. It is merely a historical accident that thermal entropy given by the familiar formula dS = dQ/T, which measures uniformity of temperature, is the one studied by physicists like Clausius in the 1800s. Thermal entropy has little or no relevance to the type of order present in intelligently designed machines and living things. They have completely different units. But thermal entropy works well for calculating the work you can get from a steam engine, like the one in your talk. Here is a link to one of Sewell's many peer-reviewed articles on this subject, "On Compensating Entropy Decreases" published in the highly prestigious journal _Physics Essays_ www.math.utep.edu/faculty/sewell/articles/pe_sewell.pdf (although I highly doubt any atheist-naturalist-materialist can understand it) A lot of people are saying that Sewell's work has completely turned the science of thermodynamics on its head. Everything scientists thought they knew about thermodynamics is either wrong or has to be rethought. This is the normal course of things. Man-made dogmas have to be questioned and even abandoned in many cases. A growing number of scientists are even questioning whether entropy is a physical concept at all, or just a man-made contrivance. Sewell himself suggests that since entropy must be defined differently for each situation (Q/T only works for thermal entropy), and is very difficult to define in some situations (evolution of life from dead matter), it is more relevant to think in terms of the underlying concept of probability. And then there is no need to consider Maxwell demons or angels. Either way, Sewell's discovery has completely undermined the atheist/marxist-liberal-globalist/materialist compensation argument, which makes the fatal logical error of equating living order/negentropy to thermal order/negentropy from the sun (again, they have different units, so they can't be the same, as should be obvious to anyone with a _modicum_ of common sense). Thus the lowly atheist is left without the slightest hope of reconciling materialist evolution with the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics, which forbids spectacular increases of order of each individual type when only natural forces are in operation. As Thomas Eddington as memorably said, "If your theory contradicts the Second Law of Thermodynamics, I can offer you no hope! It is false!" And as Dembski has also memorably said, "Materialism is toast!" Praise God, from Whom all blessings flow!
"Marriage and religion cannot be based on a mood, it has to be based on commitment " Yesss! Thank you for putting it into words so perfectly. God bless GK Chesterton and Dale Ahlquist for this terrific lecture.
Pela primeira vez falou alguem que chamou atençao pro obvio que os jornalistas da CNN (por contrato) tem que finger não ver.o massacre sem precedente nos ultimos tempos.
How pathetic. A bunch of strawman arguments. Not surprising. Atheism is not dead because it was never alive. It is a response to a single question. If you are asked if you "believe" in any gods? And you say no. You are an atheist. Also, this guy keeps quoting pseudoscience and pseudo history. He argues the definition of pseudoscience.
If Jesus is immutable and hence unchangable due to his being constubstantial with the Father, then why would the devil try to tempt him during the 40 days in the desert? I think that Jesus was mutable while he was alive by the fact of his humanity, and the factor that made him essentially immutable at that time was his obedience. Of course, after he rose and ascended he was fully Devine and then immutable.
I was struck when I read about the Nicean creed that it included a cannon that upheld the sanctions on those who served as soldiers in the Roman army such that they should be denied communion for different periods of time. So its hard to know what to believe when it comes to judging how Christianity weakened the Roman army at a time when several other things were also contributing to the breakdown of the Roman army.
Yes. In fact being a fascist Christianity is so hot and fashionable right now. Look how people just give them money. I'm taking about tens of Mullins just to condemn atheists.
The projection in these fools is amazing. This is just a guy selling yet another grift (in this case a book) to a bunch of true believers and hoping to pick their pockets with a repeat of a bunch of sad repeatedly debunked apoligetics. And the absolute lies that science somehow supports religion is utterly embarrassing.
EVERY SINGLE religion on this planet is predicated on one set of irrational beliefs or another, and in over two thousand years of searching, with literally unlimited resources devoted to the search, not ONE atom of irrefutable proof of even ONE supernatural event or being brought forward - what rational person WOULDN't be an atheist?
this is a tart irony.... the CS Lewis society heralding Augustine.... please investigate Oxford scholar Ken Wilson who corrects some of this non-sense.... Augustine did more to pervert biblical Christianity, establish the Romans Catholic vice grip on theology and most importantly pervert the loving character of God than ANY man who ever lived...
This is exactly the kind of attitude and philosophy that results in hatred and violence against unbelievers. This man's feelings are the drive that led to the Dark Ages. If you insist that no one has any meaning or morality unless they follow YOUR GOD, you are an oppressive tyrant. He actually claims that an atheist cannot love their children. What could be more dangerous?
