It’s funny that you should find this site so unfamiliar. Going to post #1701and using your expression, “going to Sidon to get to Galilee,” the second entry I came across is errantskeptics.org. It must be, then, that Mark 7:31 is generally material for scripture scoffers?
“I never mentioned the Ten Commandments”
The only instance of which I am aware where the word of God is directly dictated and inscribed in stone. Even the relating of that story is part of divinely inspired (“Divinely breathed into”) Holy Scripture. That you would regard it as “dictation” is hardly surprising. For a materialist no further understanding is possible.
“Citation?”
Scripture and translation. Comprehension issues?
“Get through, arrive at, etc. all the same thing.”
“Does that include “to get to” and “to reach”? “All the same thing” in any context?
(Dawkins)“neither tries nor claims that God can be proven a true or a delusion by scientific means”
“I think that it (the existence of a supernatural creator, a God) is a scientific question. My answer is no.”
“If we have nothing to discuss, if any discourse is "impossible", then why do you persist?”
Why do you ask? You’ve encouraged me to continue. Now again, here you are begging for the last word. Very well, you may have the last word.
“That's why I gave you the opportunity to save face and have the last word, but you tried to turn my generous offer into something else
Generous offer? “Hasta la vista, baby” is a generous offer? Oh, I see.
From your post # 1698 - “Me begging for the last word? LOL! Never. Please continue, by all means!”
”Continue”? means “end it”? Hoo wooda thunk. Typical of the propagandist, you forget the last moment and think not of the next moment in your effort to deal with the present moment.
“That's rather stupid, imo.”
Demeaning a poster. That would be sufficient to send you whining to the RM. I will simply shrug, and consider the source.
What can I say, great minds think alike. :)
The only instance of which I am aware where the word of God is directly dictated and inscribed in stone.
You know, that doesn't surprise me at all, although it is basic knowledge.
In the Thirteen Pillars of Jewish Faith," pillar 8 states:
"The entire Torah is God-given. Every word in the Torah was dictated to Moses by God."
In fact, the The Torah Service (Seder K'riat haTorah) says
"This is the Torah that Moses put before the children of Israel, dictated by God and transcribed by Moses"
And then there is this from another Jewish site, the The Reluctant Messenger:
According to Jewish history, God dictated the Torah to Moses one letter at a time. The Levites were instructed to copy the Torah under rigorous conditions and safeguards so that they wouldn't lose a single letter
And again, in Who composed the original Torah, the Jewish sources unequivocally repeat the same message:
Unlike other prophets, Moses did not experience God's revelation as an overwhelming occurrence. It is thus written, "God spoke to Moses face to face, as a man speaks to his friend" (Exodus 33:11)...The entire Torah was therefore written by Moses as dictated by God. This included all the happenings recorded in it from the time of creation."
Why should I trust some "bornagainer" to tell me what the Jews know best about their scriptures? In fact, your apparent ignorance is rather appalling since the dictation of the Torah (the entire Law, all five books,) by God to Moses, letter by letter, word by word, is basic knowledge that one owuld expect from anyone who claims to be Bible literate.
Gosh, you are comedian, but don't give up your day job. :)
“I think that it (the existence of a supernatural creator, a God) is a scientific question. My answer is no.”
One more time: the question was: "Knowing science can one establish God as a delisuon?" (or words to that effect) Dawkins acknowledges the difficulty of the question of God's (non)existence, then acknowledges that the specific questions posed to him was scientific and that the answer is no, i.e. that one cannot establish that God is a delusion based on science.
Why do you ask? You’ve encouraged me to continue.
I did and I still do You are the one who insists that it is futile, that there is nothing to discuss, yet you persist. Why?
Demeaning a poster. That would be sufficient to send you whining to the RM. I will simply shrug, and consider the source.
Don't get your hopes up. There was no ad hominem. I was not demeaning anyone personally, but rather stating a general idea that persisting in futile endeavors, especially when they are recognized as having no basis, and where no further discussion is possible, as stupid. I stand by my statement.