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To: DittoJed2
Why is there something rather than nothing?

I don't yet know, but am satisfied with that.

I feel no need to say I don't know, therefore "Giant Invisible Bearded Guy".

How do you explain human nature?

As a complex accumulation of naturally selected behavioral traits.

What happens to a person at death?

They become food for microorganisms.

How do you determine right and wrong?

By appealing to a rationally derived and objective moral code.

How do you know that you know?

By testing what I think I know, against the confines of reality.

5 posted on 09/17/2003 1:08:12 PM PDT by OWK
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To: OWK
Why is there something rather than nothing?

I don't yet know, but am satisfied with that.

That may be good and well from a personal standpoint, but it is a question that most folks need an answer to. Evolution/Atheism, by removing the Creator from the course of events has ended up with a huge Creator-sized hole in their theory that none of their naturalistic explanations can touch. You don't get something from nothing in the natural world at all. Even if there are protons, those are SOMETHING.

I feel no need to say I don't know, therefore "Giant Invisible Bearded Guy".

Cute.

How do you explain human nature?

As a complex accumulation of naturally selected behavioral traits.

And the personal coming from impersonal matter? And the idea of an objective basis for morality?

What happens to a person at death?

They become food for microorganisms.


Sad point of view.

How do you determine right and wrong?

By appealing to a rationally derived and objective moral code.

It isn't objective. It may be rationally derived, but it is derived from human beings preference and opinion- subjective elements which vary from person to person, group to group. As such, morality changes as society changes. There is no stable objective moral code in atheism.

How do you know that you know?

By testing what I think I know, against the confines of reality.

And what is reality? How do you test what reality is in order to know that reality is "real"?
8 posted on 09/17/2003 3:19:07 PM PDT by DittoJed2 (It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains.- Patrick Henry)
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To: OWK
How do you determine right and wrong? . . . By appealing to a rationally derived and objective moral code.

LOL

79 posted on 09/19/2003 8:09:30 PM PDT by Tribune7
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