What the Hell is Up with "Proof of God"?

There is a legendary "clip" involving bella and shewolf.

Attempts to point out that atheism can be and often is simply a refusal to accept contentions about the existence of any deity, rather than a denial of the possibility of a deity were ignored, or characterized as agnosticism which the "unrealized" agnostic would not admit.

How Hot...

What is this? This is seriously the stuff I can't stand about A2K now. What is this?

neologist wrote:

As far as having my point of view ridiculed, I take that as victory by default.

Diana Mertz Hsieh's definition of ad hominem: "rejecting or dismissing another person's statement by attacking the person rather than by disproving the statement." SOURCE

Your position is fallacious by the very definition you provide. If someone ridicules your point of view, you have "won" nothing. Ridiculing your point of view is not a personal attack, it does not constitute an ad hominem. Follow along closely, and i'll go slowly:

"Your point of view is idiotic, and without reasonable foundation."--is not an ad hominem.

"You eat poop sammiches and howl at the moon, why should anyone believe you?"--is an ad hominem.

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As for your sense of humor, you demonstrated that you were depraved from the day one.

Bella Dea wrote:

How Hot...

What is this? This is seriously the stuff I can't stand about A2K now. What is this?

u r mean, bella!

That does not mean that in the future, as humanity learns more about the universe that we inhabit, that the mysteries of the world will be revealed to us.

Momm...eeee- Bella called wandeljw a poopiehead!

OH yeah!

Well, you have dog breath!

Phoenix32890 wrote:

That does not mean that in the future, as humanity learns more about the universe that we inhabit, that the mysteries of the world will be revealed to us.

Abso-tively . . . i can see no reason to believe that there are such mysteries which will be revealed to us.

What could this mean?

Thank you for maintaining the high standards of this board, Bella.

For Pete's sake, in 1492 most people thought that the earth was flat, until Columbus proved them wrong.

Actually, navigators knew that the Earth was round; they were just unable to determine how big it was. Columbus was wrong; he thought the Earth was much smaller than it actually is. Witness his naming of Native Americans as "Indians."

Others were wrong, too, they thought the Earth was much larger and that there was no way to carry enough provisions to reach Asia.

Setanta wrote:

Phoenix32890 wrote:

That does not mean that in the future, as humanity learns more about the universe that we inhabit, that the mysteries of the world will be revealed to us.

Abso-tively . . . i can see no reason to believe that there are such mysteries which will be revealed to us.

What could this mean?

That there are no mysteries?

That what we learn will not be considered to have been a mystery?

That we won't learn anything?

You guys are just to smart for me.

You misspelled "too."

What it means is, that i was quickly taking advantage of what appears to me to be an error in how Phoenix expressed herself, before she realized it and had a chance to edit.

Did you look up sottise yet?

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What could this mean?

neologist- Just think about it. Think about what people knew of the universe 500, 400, 100, even 50 years ago. If you could go back in time and talk to a person who lived centuries ago, I would bet that he would be absolutely shocked by what we know today.

For Pete's sake, in 1492 most people thought that the earth was flat, until Columbus proved them wrong. Many religionists believe that there are things that are supernatural, and unknowable. I believe that everything in this universe is natural, and if humanity does not blow ourselves up to smithereens, eventually people will have an understanding of the entire workings of the universe. (But definitely NOT in our lifetimes.)

Magellan's crew almost proved them right--they were eating the leather in the ships' rigging by the time they reach what became known as the Philippine Islands.

Did you look up sottise yet?