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I'm finally down to one game at a time after playing an average of 10 at a time for over a year. One of the great parts: getting emails to remind you to go procrastinate. It's turn based strategy, so you can hide it whenever your boss walks in without affecting your game.
Well, I'm going to fall for the troll even further...
I believe in a God/Goddess. I have had many spiritual experiences that are evidence to me for the existence of a loving deity. But I fully realize these are all subjective evidence, not objective. So while I strongly object to someone claiming there is no evidence for any sort of god, I don't claim my experiences are reproducible knowledge.
I know that the solar system is 4.56 billion years old. Now it helps that I am a geochemist. I know people who've reproduced some of the relevant measurements, and I understand the evidence that indicates that age for the solar system. It's objective and derived from experiments that anyone who doesn't start out with a huge bias can reproduce with the proper equipment and materials.
I know that evolution happens. I'm not a biologist, but I've read reviews of enough studies to see that there is strong objective evidence that evolution occurs. As I understand it Intelligent Design has accepted that evolution occurs, but argues that it has been guided by an mind (the Judeo-Christian God's) rather than random luck. A lot of the evidence in support of evolution discussed in this thread has been proving that evolution happens, not whether evolution happens through random chance vs. a grand master plan. But then again, ID is essentially untestable. There is no evidence that will get Christians to let go of their belief that God had an active part in creating humankind.
I'm ok with candidates for the presidency believing that evolution is guided by Intelligent Design. I'm not ok with them pushing for ID to be taught in schools as an alternate scientific theory. I'm not ok with them denying the evidence that evolution happens.
Essentially all of Slashdot's arguments over atheism/agnosticism/deism, as well as the general debate about evolution vs ID boils down to people not respecting the boundaries between objective vs. subjective evidence and knowledge vs. belief.
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http://warfish.net/war/home I'm finally down to one game at a time after playing an average of 10 at a time for over a year. One of the great parts: getting emails to remind you to go procrastinate. It's turn based strategy, so you can hide it whenever your boss walks in without affecting your game.
Well, I'm going to fall for the troll even further... I believe in a God/Goddess. I have had many spiritual experiences that are evidence to me for the existence of a loving deity. But I fully realize these are all subjective evidence, not objective. So while I strongly object to someone claiming there is no evidence for any sort of god, I don't claim my experiences are reproducible knowledge. I know that the solar system is 4.56 billion years old. Now it helps that I am a geochemist. I know people who've reproduced some of the relevant measurements, and I understand the evidence that indicates that age for the solar system. It's objective and derived from experiments that anyone who doesn't start out with a huge bias can reproduce with the proper equipment and materials. I know that evolution happens. I'm not a biologist, but I've read reviews of enough studies to see that there is strong objective evidence that evolution occurs. As I understand it Intelligent Design has accepted that evolution occurs, but argues that it has been guided by an mind (the Judeo-Christian God's) rather than random luck. A lot of the evidence in support of evolution discussed in this thread has been proving that evolution happens, not whether evolution happens through random chance vs. a grand master plan. But then again, ID is essentially untestable. There is no evidence that will get Christians to let go of their belief that God had an active part in creating humankind. I'm ok with candidates for the presidency believing that evolution is guided by Intelligent Design. I'm not ok with them pushing for ID to be taught in schools as an alternate scientific theory. I'm not ok with them denying the evidence that evolution happens. Essentially all of Slashdot's arguments over atheism/agnosticism/deism, as well as the general debate about evolution vs ID boils down to people not respecting the boundaries between objective vs. subjective evidence and knowledge vs. belief.