which includes recouping their investment in you as a customer.
What does that mean? what investment does a cell phone company make when I walk in the door asking for service?
Are you gonna ask us next to "Open the curtains and admire God's beautiful word, and know that even global warming happens for a reason"? Where to they teach you to talk like this? In some Texaco-city, "Cowboy wanna pump-pump"-bar, or is this Sunday and your last glass at communion? Sell christian somewhere else, we're all stocked-up here! (Noise of Heaven's gates loudly slamming shut follows)...
"atheism is the scientific approach to the problem of god"
That definitely sounds like something I would say, and I happen to believe it. Science, and specifically the scientific method, may be brought to bear on the issue of god. You can test the hypothesis and many have. So here goes...
1. God created the earth in six days then rested on the seventh (or any of the many variations on this theme).
2. The solar system was the result of an accretion disk of dust from the remains of older super-novae.
The second hypothesis has been proven beyond any serious doubts, while the first shred of evidence of the first is still missing after at least four thousand years of looking for any, thus making it the least successful human endeavor ever (yes, worse than the space elevator).
It's not so much that I believe in the non-existence of god, but rather that we have no need for the hypothesis of his existence to explain the world as we experience it(I'm paraphrasing Lavoisier here).
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which includes recouping their investment in you as a customer. What does that mean? what investment does a cell phone company make when I walk in the door asking for service?
Are you gonna ask us next to "Open the curtains and admire God's beautiful word, and know that even global warming happens for a reason"? Where to they teach you to talk like this? In some Texaco-city, "Cowboy wanna pump-pump"-bar, or is this Sunday and your last glass at communion? Sell christian somewhere else, we're all stocked-up here! (Noise of Heaven's gates loudly slamming shut follows) ...
I meant Laplace. Sorry.
That definitely sounds like something I would say, and I happen to believe it. Science, and specifically the scientific method, may be brought to bear on the issue of god. You can test the hypothesis and many have. So here goes ...
1. God created the earth in six days then rested on the seventh (or any of the many variations on this theme).
2. The solar system was the result of an accretion disk of dust from the remains of older super-novae.
The second hypothesis has been proven beyond any serious doubts, while the first shred of evidence of the first is still missing after at least four thousand years of looking for any, thus making it the least successful human endeavor ever (yes, worse than the space elevator).
It's not so much that I believe in the non-existence of god, but rather that we have no need for the hypothesis of his existence to explain the world as we experience it(I'm paraphrasing Lavoisier here).