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To: Olog-hai

I went through this about 8 years ago too. In the same boat; I no longer found the arguments for theism persuasive.


21 posted on 05/04/2014 12:55:09 PM PDT by GunRunner
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To: GunRunner

What “arguments for theism” were you faced with?

Do you think DNA wrote itself? It is a computer program after all; ask computer programmers.


24 posted on 05/04/2014 12:57:35 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: GunRunner

“Went through this...” Sounds funny. As if every believer doesn’t doubt at some point. This is the essence of faith, some doubt but have faith, some don’t have faith. You sound like it was a revelation to you. It’s the standard human condition.


28 posted on 05/04/2014 1:00:44 PM PDT by HMS Surprise (Chris Christie can STILL go straight to hell.)
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To: GunRunner

Read Lee Strobel’s “Casr for a Creator. You’ll be impressed, I think. Bob


92 posted on 05/04/2014 2:57:44 PM PDT by alstewartfan (She's frosty as the face of Phineus Leaves me feeling igloominious. Al Stewart)
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To: GunRunner; Olog-hai

So your cognition is less than up to the understanding that the complexity of the DNA code is beyond accident?
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244 posted on 05/05/2014 1:07:13 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: GunRunner

“I no longer found the arguments for theism persuasive.”

What did you find persuasive, in theism’s stead?


271 posted on 05/05/2014 4:24:23 PM PDT by RinaseaofDs (.)
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To: GunRunner
I no longer found the arguments for theism persuasive.

1. Your belief in argumentation itself assumes, without justification, that there are prescriptive, abstract, universal, unchanging laws of logic and reason.

2. Your belief also assumes, without justification, that the unaided reason of a finite individual that is limited in the scope of its use and experiences can pronounce on what is universally true (descriptively) or is in a position to dictate (prescriptively) universal laws of reason and to assure us that these prescriptions for the brain will somehow prove applicable to the ever-changing world of matter in motion outside your individual brain.

Cordially,

334 posted on 05/05/2014 7:52:10 PM PDT by Diamond (He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people,)
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