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To your knowledge, Banno, has that ever been tested. Lots of balls falling strike against each other and have different mass distributions to influenc...

I agree with what Pinprick had to say about your thesis.

I know about shifting the burden of proof...and that was not the gist of my comment. By definition...anything not established as IMPOSSIBLE...is, at v...

Unless you can establish that it is impossible...of course it is possible. Which, essentially, is what you are asking.

I asked you a reasonable question...and got an answer I thought to be questionable. So I asked about it. In response you have indicated that you lied....

You are free to think or not think whatever you want, Daniel. A prisoner might think it to be an ethical bargain. They should be free to think that. W...

Seems to me that if a criminal wants to earn time off his/her sentence by volunteering to test drugs or vaccines (or to help shorten the time for test...

Thank you, Tim.

Then why say you KNOW there are no deities?

YOU MADE AN ASSERTION. The assertion was that you KNOW there are no deities. YOU decided to answer the question...and you decided to answer it the way...

"Don’t get Wood involved..."...did not sound like advice. It sounded like an order. But I am willing to accept you meant it as advice. Which I reject.

You made an assertion in a philosophical forum thread. YOU do have an obligation to prove it.

YOU do not get to tell me what I should or should not do in my responses, Wheatley. Try out whatever you want.

I have not said you do not know. You have said that you do. Prove that you do.

I am not confusing them, Tim. I am asking Wheatley about the difference. What do you think of his response that he KNOWS there are no deities?

You KNOW there are no deities? C'mon. This is a philosophy forum.

Are you saying you KNOW there are no such things as deities...or are you saying you "believe" there are no such things as deities?

Do you have a "belief" on the issue, Wheatley? Do you "believe" there is no God...or no gods?

Not the most outrageous idea I've ever heard...although not fully baked. I could see asking for volunteers from individuals serving long sentences...w...

I moved from Catholicism to agnosticism at a fairly early age...mid to late 20's. That was a major move. Still an Agnostic...and I'm gonna be 84 in a ...

Life on Earth may be a virus more deadly to the universe at large than the coronavirus is to humans. The last thing that humans ought to be thinking o...

If there is ambiguity in a word's meaning...the individual using it ought to explain how the word is being used. I am an agnostic (I explain that each...

If a person wants to "believe" (guess) there is a GOD...and that guess brings the person comfort and contentment in some measure...why would that be a...

Yeah...ya gotta wonder about that. But some really fine minds once posited, "A more perfect Union..."...and that doesn't seem to make much sense eithe...

AMEN! He sounds like he was being sarcastic! :lol: What does Trump have to do finally to scare the sheep?

You are absolutely correct, NOS. The trouble with these leftists is that they all want to disregard the part of the perjury laws that say that if you ...

The major problem with any arguments for or against the existence of any gods is that none of them are truly logical. It is impossible to come to the ...

Okay, we may be at an impasse, Banno. Perhaps it is that I do not accurately understand what you were trying to convey with the expression, “God is no...

Okay. Wow! Very complicated way of answering my question to you. You could just as easily said...YES. Of course I disagree. There are fundamental flaw...

Thanks, Eric. I do not disagree with you...or with TMF for that matter. I live life as it is for me...whether it is an persistent illusion (as Einstei...

First of all...that "definition" you offered is something taken from Wikipedia...and has the following disclaimer included: This article has multiple ...

I didn't say you said that you did. (Mostly I agree with the posts you make, Banno...and I agree with the underscore of this OP.) My argument goes to ...

With this comment, you are playing into the hands of people against whom you seem to be arguing. The notion of whether or not gods exist...IS a worthy...

How very often I have seen the sentiment you illustrated in your post, Jorn. "To those who believe in God, no explanation is needed." Reworded to be m...

"God almost certainly exists" is a probability assertion. There is absolutely NO WAY to arrive at that conclusion using LOGIC, REASON, SCIENCE, OR MAT...

You sounded as though you were going to challenge the statement of mine that you quoted... ...but you didn't. Your commentary comes across like, "They...

Could be. I try to converse with everyone, but some conversations ARE harder than others. In my opinion, any discussion of whether any gods exist or n...

ANYONE reading this thread quickly realizes that NO ONE HERE can show that "it is more likely that there is at least one god than that there are none"...

I don't. "Belief" for the most part, is nothing more than a guess or an opinion. But it is never, ever, under any circumstances KNOWLEDGE. (This is no...

Okay...thanks.

Michael, I suspect you may have deleted my post here. In another thread where I participate, you mentioned deleting posts for various reasons. "FYI, I...

You are correct in what you infer, that there is NO UNAMBIGUOUS evidence of fine-tuning. The problem with your argument is the use of the singular "Go...

You can posit things that CANNOT be detected...and may not even be detectable. You can posit things like the Red Queen in Alice in Wonderland. I can a...

If there are definitions of "exists" that require human confirmation...it is idiotic. And I suspect you are confusing "detectablility" with "detection...

I do not find it strange at all. Here is my take on the issue...which I have posted several times already: I do not know if gods exist or not; I see n...

ABSOLUTELY NOT.

I am saying that exists means to exist. ANYTHING that exists...whether we can detect it or not...EXISTS. Surely you do not think that we humans know e...

On this question...NOTHING WRONG WITH "BELIEFS" AT ALL. On this question, "beliefs" are essentially guesses about what IS. Some guess there is a GOD. ...

We are in a lot more agreement on this, 180, than I thought we'd be able to get. Thanks.

Aquinas made good ARGUMENTS. His conclusions sucked. Essentially he was saying that things happened because of "God"...rather than "We do not know why...