Atheism is a belief.

Discussion in 'General Philosophy' started by Tht1Gy!, Nov 3, 2007.

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I know how to use a dictionary.

  1. Yes, and I incorporate its info.

    57.1%
  2. Yes, but I still like to make up definitions as I go along.

    20.4%
  3. No, I believe in "Truthiness"

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  1. S.A.M. uniquely dreadful Valued Senior Member

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    hypothesis: there is a God.

    by scientific method: need only one observation to falsify a hypothesis.

    please provide said observation.

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  3. Enmos Valued Senior Member

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    God is unknowable, right ? Thus unfalsifiable.
     
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  5. superluminal I am MalcomR Valued Senior Member

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    Wrongo bub-ette.

    hypothesis: there is a God.

    by scientific method: need many repeatable observations and corroborating experimental or model-based data to confirm a hypothesis.

    please provide said repeatable observations and corroborating experimental or model-based data.
     
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  7. superluminal I am MalcomR Valued Senior Member

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    And that too.
     
  8. (Q) Encephaloid Martini Valued Senior Member

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    The scientific method is often misunderstood and misused by the misguided.

    A hypothesis is essentially a proposal intended to explain certain facts or observations.

    Therefore, when one hypothesizes an omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent god, one is assumed to have observed such a phenomenon and wishes to better understand it.

    The misguided though, seem to think that a complete lack of such an observation coupled with myth and superstition constitutes such observations and deserves credit as a hypothesis.
     
  9. S.A.M. uniquely dreadful Valued Senior Member

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    Hmm really? So you are saying that all hypotheses are based on observation?
     
  10. superluminal I am MalcomR Valued Senior Member

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    AArrrgggghhhh!!!

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  11. Enmos Valued Senior Member

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    LOL
     
  12. S.A.M. uniquely dreadful Valued Senior Member

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    You're such a sweetheart!!!

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  13. iceaura Valued Senior Member

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    You argue well. Please send tithes to my girlfriend's cat (that is the God we have failed to falsify) - I will provide you with the necessary PO Box, etc, if your credit cards are maxed.
     
  14. superluminal I am MalcomR Valued Senior Member

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    I know. Right back atcha, kiddo.
     
  15. S.A.M. uniquely dreadful Valued Senior Member

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    I already have a cat. (see avater for sample)
     
  16. iceaura Valued Senior Member

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    My girlfriend's cat is your God, however - unless you can provide observational evidence otherwise.

    You are behind on your tithes.
     
  17. S.A.M. uniquely dreadful Valued Senior Member

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    I asked my cat. She said your cat is a lesser god, as can be proved by decapitation

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    PS I have to live with my cat.
     
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  18. (Q) Encephaloid Martini Valued Senior Member

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    The indoctrinated cultist is forced NOT to accept that which questions their cult thinking processes and inadvertently make up things which they thought they heard as opposed to what was actually said.
     
  19. S.A.M. uniquely dreadful Valued Senior Member

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    The assumption was yours.

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    Or is it your contention that by assumption you simply imply something you do not actually mean?
     
  20. (Q) Encephaloid Martini Valued Senior Member

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    The indoctrinated cultist has confirmed in their minds that which they made up is now a factual statement which they thought they heard. Again, their deceptions are not of their own making, but are a result of triggered cult defense mechanisms.
     
  21. S.A.M. uniquely dreadful Valued Senior Member

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    So it would seem

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    Being as it were the philosophy section, however, could you be persuaded to elaborate on the differences between your thought processes and mine where observation and hypothesis are concerned?

    These statements would be a good starting point.
     
  22. iceaura Valued Senior Member

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    You can decapitate your cat. The God Cat is not subject to any such whim of yours.

    You, however, are subject to the whims of the Cat - unless you can make some kind of disconfirming observation ? (I believe that was your own criterion). Prudence would argue for generous placation of the Cat, lest it grow wrathful.
     
  23. S.A.M. uniquely dreadful Valued Senior Member

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    I did and my rebuttal would be to decapitate your cat.

    Following that, I am willing to pay tithe every time it mews.

    Send it over.

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