you've got his first premise all wrong, btw. it's not "everything has a cause...." or "anything humans can imagine must have a cause", it is "everything that begins to exist has a cause". there's a big difference. current scientific evidence shows the universe began to exist, therefore, the universe has a cause. since time and space came into existence with the universe, the cause must be beyond time and space.
No, he is saying religion is evil and since it is impossible to prove a negative the burden of proof lies with the one making the claim
It's possible to prove a negative. For example, I can prove that there is not a elephant in the room with me right now.
Religion is an evil that preys on the willfully ignorant. Once we outgrow religion only then will the human race truly advance at a more rapid pace.
You can't judge the truth of a viewpoint based on the behavior of its adherents. The issue is not "how much evil has been done by people in the name of religion", the issue is "which system of beliefs is true?". Atheism is simply another system of beliefs which should be judged against the evidence to determine its truthfulness.
This is an extreme mischaracterization of william lane craig. can you point me to a representative sample of his debates on youtube where he "doesn't obey any of the rules" and "flaunts" it?
Dawkins' continued avoidance of william lane craig just makes it look like he doesn't want to try to defend his arguments against the tough logical and scientific scrutiny that would result.
My wife had an HTC phone and I found the Sense UI to be terrible. It slowed down her phone because it was so resource hungry and most of the changes in Sense didn't really add any value, they were just flashy changes meant to impress people. I flashed cyanogenmod and she loved it.
I love HTC's hardware, but would never buy one of the phones again unless they improve their awful UI.
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sure, like use it to sweep up all our space debris. unless it breaks apart and makes more debris, that is.
great job, keep up the good work! I'll convert some of my figures, it's worth giving your site a try.
yes i completely agree, that is probably the reason why. still rather disappointed, though.
it would be super cool to be able to rsync my figures to my account. that's probably asking too much though. plus they don't take .eps files??
you've got his first premise all wrong, btw. it's not "everything has a cause...." or "anything humans can imagine must have a cause", it is "everything that begins to exist has a cause". there's a big difference. current scientific evidence shows the universe began to exist, therefore, the universe has a cause. since time and space came into existence with the universe, the cause must be beyond time and space.
No, he is saying religion is evil and since it is impossible to prove a negative the burden of proof lies with the one making the claim
It's possible to prove a negative. For example, I can prove that there is not a elephant in the room with me right now.
Religion is an evil that preys on the willfully ignorant. Once we outgrow religion only then will the human race truly advance at a more rapid pace.
You can't judge the truth of a viewpoint based on the behavior of its adherents. The issue is not "how much evil has been done by people in the name of religion", the issue is "which system of beliefs is true?". Atheism is simply another system of beliefs which should be judged against the evidence to determine its truthfulness.
This is an extreme mischaracterization of william lane craig. can you point me to a representative sample of his debates on youtube where he "doesn't obey any of the rules" and "flaunts" it? Dawkins' continued avoidance of william lane craig just makes it look like he doesn't want to try to defend his arguments against the tough logical and scientific scrutiny that would result.
Why have you refused to debate William Lane Craig? Will you please accept his challenge and debate him on the existence of God?
My wife had an HTC phone and I found the Sense UI to be terrible. It slowed down her phone because it was so resource hungry and most of the changes in Sense didn't really add any value, they were just flashy changes meant to impress people. I flashed cyanogenmod and she loved it. I love HTC's hardware, but would never buy one of the phones again unless they improve their awful UI.
Why not build several, perhaps 3, at the time?
I doubt it would make the project three times as expensive.
yeah, probably more like 4-5 times more expensive. government-run projects, you know...