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To: CarolinaGuitarman; All
I don't have time to argue with 25 people. I can't type 500 words a minute. If you view that as cowardly, I really don't care.

I suggest you all stay and commiserate on the reasons why atheists, who believe man is a machine, cannot live like machines. Atheists go home and hug their kids (love is just a meaningless chemical process remember?), grieve at funerals of loved ones (wait! - isn't grief a mere chemical process in the brain? - just ignore those tears!), and live AS IF life has meaning. They live not as if they were the machines they say they are, but live as if life had meaning. They pretend. To say man is a machine is one thing, but to live consistently like this is true is quite another. This is a hopeless dichotomy and a dilemma that the atheist cannot solve. Atheists refuse to live the ultimate logic of their beliefs.

I will leave you all to ponder that problem. Good luck.

181 posted on 10/02/2005 5:59:16 PM PDT by SmartCitizen
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To: SmartCitizen

Most evolutionists are not atheists so your entire post is moot.

"If you view that as cowardly, I really don't care."

I wasn't really that interested in whether you cared, to be honest. I was just stating a fact. :)


182 posted on 10/02/2005 6:13:26 PM PDT by CarolinaGuitarman ("There is a grandeur in this view of life...")
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To: SmartCitizen
I suggest you all stay and commiserate on the reasons why atheists, who believe man is a machine, cannot live like machines. Atheists go home and hug their kids (love is just a meaningless chemical process remember?), grieve at funerals of loved ones (wait! - isn't grief a mere chemical process in the brain? - just ignore those tears!), and live AS IF life has meaning. They live not as if they were the machines they say they are, but live as if life had meaning. They pretend. To say man is a machine is one thing, but to live consistently like this is true is quite another. This is a hopeless dichotomy and a dilemma that the atheist cannot solve. Atheists refuse to live the ultimate logic of their beliefs.
Once again I suggest you read post 111 and learn why the fallacy of composition is something you should try to avoid in your thinking. Consciousness is an emergent property of a functioning human brain. It exists on a higher order of abstraction than the neurons & molecules that it's made up of. The two worlds are totally compatible, just like water's wetness & fire-retardance are totally compatible with the fact that its components have neither.
187 posted on 10/02/2005 10:55:55 PM PDT by jennyp (WHAT I'M READING NOW: my sterling prose)
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