What evasive answers? I’ve been direct. All your replies have been pure sophistry and evasion.
BTW, that reply of yours is another argumentum ad hominem.
Posted on 10/01/2012 11:16:12 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Over the past few centuries, science can be said to have gradually chipped away at the traditional grounds for believing in God. Much of what once seemed mysterious—the existence of humanity, the life-bearing perfection of Earth, the workings of the universe—can now be explained by biology, astronomy, physics and other domains of science.
Although cosmic mysteries remain, Sean Carroll, a theoretical cosmologist at the California Institute of Technology, says there's good reason to think science will ultimately arrive at a complete understanding of the universe that leaves no grounds for God whatsoever. …
Another role for God is as a raison d'être for the universe. Even if cosmologists manage to explain how the universe began, and why it seems so fine-tuned for life, the question might remain why there is something as opposed to nothing. To many people, the answer to the question is God. According to Carroll, this answer pales under scrutiny. There can be no answer to such a question, he says. …
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I understand. It's a theological fishing expidition. I've learned to recognize those, and choose not to participate.
Only one way to achieve Life Everlasting.
What evasive answers? I’ve been direct. All your replies have been pure sophistry and evasion.
BTW, that reply of yours is another argumentum ad hominem.
This statement means what?
Evasion. Again. Why?
The buttons you are attempting to push have been disabled.
What buttons?
Just answer the questions.
The short answer is no.
What evasive answers? I’ve been direct. All your replies have been pure sophistry and evasion.
BTW, that reply of yours is another argumentum ad hominem.
You play dumb pretty good, but not good enough. I’ve seen this script played out too many times.
With all due respect, you’re coming across as very paranoid. You are seeing “scripts” where none exist, never mind loaded questions where there are none.
As far as the loaded questions go, that appears to be getting dragged in from another thread. Bad practice, that.
I guess two can play at the same game. But honestly, I find it a pyrrhic victory and am saddened by your efforts to demean the level of conversation.
Virtual particles are used in quantum mechanics to come up with the most precise calculations and predictions in science … (IOW, fudging the math by creating standards that may not exist)
Scientists maneuver through the world just as we do, but being more formal about it with definitions and powerful instruments to improve the senses (scientific instruments do not have any effect on human senses)
You're jumping to conclusions, making things up, or just plain ignorant. I'm not sure which one, but I'm pretty sure you're an unreliable source for judging science (personal attacks; which is DU/liberal fare)
I watched them happen right here, noob. Don't tell me what I witnessed before you got here never happened.
Why not? Your very use of the term (along with your throwing in another ad hominem just now) declares a one-sided viewpoint as well as a desire to “start” such “wars” all over again. Especially manifested in your original reply to the thread.
I don’t see anything wrong with my original reply to the thread that wasn’t wrong with the post it was in response to. You simply got answered in kind.
Try being objective versus subjective, then.
My response was no less objective than the post I replied to.
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