Are you an atheist? (1 Viewer)

[Mike375]

Then what's good for the goose is good for the gander

You don't post opinions. You are totally reliant on links or quotes from a thread.

 

[Mike375]

I still don't see where it fits in

I am sure you can find a link for the answer.

 

[Rich]

To illustrate what I mean when tuning in a badly tuned radio a small adjustment will either get it better or worse while a large change even in the right direction is likely to overshoot and make things worse.

Until one day there is a fequency being broadcast that just happens to match where the big change on the tuner landed.

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That's why digital tuning was added

 

[Rich]

I am sure you can find a link for the answer.

No link exists and I don't believe in fairy tales, soooooooooooooo

 

[Mike375]

As far as I am concerned the gradualist approach to evolution appears the most likely. The odds against a macro change occuring in one generation just seem too great for me. I can't make that leap of faith.

Say a large mutation occurs occurs 1 in every 100,000 births. They all fail but they do keep repeating. Then a time arrives where the conditions mean the large mutation is suitable. If that occurs is does not exclude very gradual change.

 

[Rich]

You don't post opinions. You are totally reliant on links or quotes from a thread.

Well that's odd, I've flipped back through just a couple of pages and found five links posted by you and only one by me, seems that you can't count either

 

[Mike375]

Well that's odd, I've flipped back through just a couple of pages and found five links posted by you and only one by me, seems that you can't count either

Show me one opinion with some detail you have posted.

 

[Rich]

Show me one opinion with some detail you have posted.

That's why digital tuning was added

again I rest my case

 

[Darth Vodka]

Millions of years of gradual change is a problem with lizard to snake and any other case where it is not half an eye compared to no eyes

er...what??

 

[Rabbie]

Say a large mutation occurs occurs 1 in every 100,000 births. They all fail but they do keep repeating. Then a time arrives where the conditions mean the large mutation is suitable. If that occurs is does not exclude very gradual change.

It is very unlikely that the same macro mutation would keep recurring. Mutation are by their nature random. Believing that most changes are likely to be small does not exclude the rare occasions when a macro mutation does hit it lucky.

 

[Alisa]

The difficulty with being an atheist is the highest sources of their information are blokes like Hawkings and Davies, but they bail out themselves. They have said themselves that physics can't provide the answer.

I would say that the difficulty with being an atheist is that I am defined by what I don't believe, not by what I believe. The very word means NOT a theist. But if I am NOT a theist, what am I? In general, it seems that people are incredibly uncomfortable with not having a "story" for everything. It is just human nature. Since the begining of time we have had myths and legends and gods and godesses, etc., all of which we used to tell stories about how and why things happen. I can look at all of that with respect for the history and heritage and comfort it provides, while still maintaining my perspective that those "stories" don't actually explain why things happen. Things happen according to natural laws. This universe is a natural universe. Many religous folk put words in my mouth - if you are an atheist, you believe everything that every scientist ever wrote, or you believe that (evolution, physics, fill in the blank) explains everything. Not true. All scientific knowledge is limited by human perspective. That doesn't make it false. That makes it relevant to our persepctive of the world. I simply accept that the origin of the universe is a mystery. I believe in being curious, and not taking the easy way out by just saying, it was supernatural. No. It was natural and we may never understand it.

 

[Pauldohert]

Good for you, Now stop going on about it like some polarized, webbased jehovas witness.

 

[Alisa]

I would also like to point out that we now have a statistically valid sample (n>30) of people who come to the Access World Forums and are interested in a topic titled Are you an atheist and who care to vote for one of the available options. The people who come to the Access World Forums and are interested in a topic titled Are you an atheist and who care to vote for one of the available options are 42% atheist, 19% agnostic, and 39% believers (note, percentages may not total to 100% due to rounding). I find that the fact that people who come to the Access World Forums and are interested in a topic titled Are you an atheist and who care to vote for one of the available options are much more atheistic than the population at large makes me feel more at home here.

 

[KenHigg]

Good for you, Now stop going on about it like some polarized, webbased jehovas witness.

What's it to you if Mike and Alisa want to discuss this at length? Stop reading it if you don't care for it -

 

[Alisa]

What's it to you if Mike and Alisa want to discuss this at length? Stop reading it if you don't care for it -

I stopped caring what Paul thinks when he diagnosed me with Aspergers syndrome via a web forum. Although who knows, Paul could be on the cutting edge of the future of psychiatric care. Maybe in the future all those with mental illnesses will be quickly diagnosed and cured simply by wasting time at work on internet forums.

 

[KenHigg]

I stopped caring what Paul thinks when he diagnosed me with Aspergers syndrome via a web forum. Although who knows, Paul could be on the cutting edge of the future of psychiatric care. Maybe in the future all those with mental illnesses will be quickly diagnosed and cured simply by wasting time at work on internet forums.

In a lot of cases one really need not look much past the signatures around a forum to get a glimpse of a persons mentality -

 

[Pauldohert]

Reapeatedly stating your beliefs and refusing to enter into a debate with those who are seen as less intelligent - becomes a little annoying at times.

Of course I should stop reading this drivel!

 

[Pauldohert]

I stopped caring what Paul thinks when he diagnosed me with Aspergers syndrome via a web forum.

I think you will find, in your search for the truth - that I simply said you shared a few characteristics - and maybe a doctor should look at it.

No diagnosis was made.

 

[KenHigg]

I see you haven't yet quenched your appetite for drivel

 

[Rabbie]

I would also like to point out that we now have a statistically valid sample (n>30) of people who come to the Access World Forums and are interested in a topic titled Are you an atheist and who care to vote for one of the available options. The people who come to the Access World Forums and are interested in a topic titled Are you an atheist and who care to vote for one of the available options are 42% atheist, 19% agnostic, and 39% believers (note, percentages may not total to 100% due to rounding). I find that the fact that people who come to the Access World Forums and are interested in a topic titled Are you an atheist and who care to vote for one of the available options are much more atheistic than the population at large makes me feel more at home here.

I would hate to think that people are voting here out of a wish to seem intelligent.