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@SecularOutpost @LacanianC It is those who confuse miracles with magic and snake oil salesmen that have to insist. Their midnds and their God are too limited as to their God being able to come into this world as a bastard following the rape of a virgin by a Roman soldier. They believe that a God so low

@yuyileal333 @realCarola2Hope And the best thing is that he devised an ingenious process to achieve this jewel of fine tuning called evolution, the orderly unrolling of his plan. A process harnessing randomness to avoid bias with the tight control of a feedback loop using programmable memory. Survival fitness

@realCarola2Hope A true masterpiece! Beautiful! Thank you, dear Carolina!

The more science advances, the more difficult it becomes to be an atheist. Look at this: the most detailed image ever of a single human cell. Your body contains 37 trillion of them. This is divine engineering. God’s masterpiece.

@zemacplayer @ABridgen But ivermectin ;-)

⚠️This is recycled 2016 hype from Moms Across America/CHD. Their “independent lab” used a cheap ELISA screening test (explicitly not confirmatory and prone to false positives in complex liquids like vaccines). Trace glyphosate (0.1–2.7 ppb) is ubiquitous in food, water, and the environment from widespread herbicide use — levels thousands of times below EPA safety limits (RfD 1 mg/kg/day). No peer-reviewed evidence shows harm from such minuscule vaccine contaminants. Regulatory bodies and fact-checkers have repeatedly called it misleading alarmism.

A brave independent lab tested 5 common childhood vaccines and every single one came back POSITIVE for glyphosate, the toxic, cancer causing ingredient found in Roundup The MMR vaccine had levels 25x higher than the others tested. Please watch and see why.

@limitandmind Reality is a brute fact. ITS evidence that is to obvious to see for critical sinkers

It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. If you don't keep your feet, you may end up regurgitating unhelpful slogans that obfuscate reality. > The "absence of discriminating evidence" is the entire game. Taking me on this journey only gets us to where we already were...evaluating the evidence for and against different god claims. Otherwise we are collapsing into the same boring mantra that we hear all the time "there is no evidence for god." > Parsimony is misapplied if explanatory power is not equal. If you hold that the universe is brute, as many atheists do, the theist has an explanatory advantage, and I don't have to believe Zeus is real or treat his claim of divinity as equally serious as the Christian God to get there. Which feeds into the next point. > All deities are obviously not in the same reference class. The slogan treats them as if they are. The Greeks never considered their deities to be the sufficient ground of their existence. Overall, I think it's clear how unhelpful to the conversation the slogan is. When both atheists and theists are saying it's time to retire this one, it may be time to retire it and move on.

@WayneTurton @HazelAppleyard Funny, the fist thing I saw too :-)

@HazelAppleyard Meanwhile, those in their right minds...

No one in their right mind sees either of those things.

@cloisteredoystr @PhilosophyOfPhy The denial of a higher authority and a final judgement is the opium of the masses - and social media :-)

@PhilosophyOfPhy same as Darwin and Attenborough, they saw horror in nature as being evidence against the God of the Bible......but then Fry is a homosexual so he doesn't like being condemned by the God of the Bible either

The Problem of Evil, Explained in 60 Seconds. Most debates about religion ask: "Does God exist?" Stephen Fry asks a much more uncomfortable question: "If He does, is He good?" This is a masterclass in the Epicurean Paradox. By citing "bone cancer in children" and "insects that burrow into eyes," Fry shifts the burden of proof from man’s faith to the Creator’s morality. It’s not just a critique; it’s a moral demand for accountability.

@AchimBetke12460 @PhilosophyOfPhy But puberty is to ride that high and mighty self and he is full of apples :-)

@PhilosophyOfPhy First you need to get over your high-&-mighty Self. you are in no position to define, or judge God. you are a fertilized egg, who survived, multiplied itself millions of times with no appreciation for the coding that allows you live. We don’t & won’t know what God is. Be humble.

@gaperton @PhilosophyOfPhy But that’s what you expect of a pubertarian - to question the morality of the father by declaring your own superior. Some people take forever to come out of puberty

@PhilosophyOfPhy He judges god himself, trying to impose his morals even on the the source of the whole existence. That's astonishing arrogance.

@PhilosophyOfPhy It’s an intellectual fail. He is still sulking because he didn’t get his pony from Santa and he’s on the naughty list :-)

@Geonauta2000 @bernd_siemer @Rainmaker1973 As we postulate god existed eternally how do you define nothing? Did existence begin to exist?

@4teatwo @bernd_siemer @Rainmaker1973 Sure, believing that EVERYTHING came out of NOTHING is quite reasonable (for an atheist). Go for it, dude, believe what you will.

Scientists have created one of the most detailed 3D reconstructions of a human cell (eukaryotic cell) ever produced. This groundbreaking model, often termed a "Cellular Landscape Cross-Section Through a Eukaryotic Cell," combines data from X-ray tomography, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), and cryo-electron microscopy to map molecular structures in extreme detail.

@ThoughtfulCafe @aquavitae96 Not Boris Becker and tennis :-)

@4teatwo @aquavitae96 Which rules applied but were broken?

God cannot make a rock He cannot lift because He’s omnipotent. The omnipotence paradox does not expose the irrationality of omnipotence. It exposes the irrationality of those who accept the paradox as a real problem.

@Geonauta2000 @bernd_siemer @Rainmaker1973 You can only create things that do not exist. If life is eternal in God it cannot be created. If you postulate God creates life it would require him not to be life

@4teatwo @bernd_siemer @Rainmaker1973 Why creating life would make God dead? That is a logical somersault, isn't it?

@Geonauta2000 @bernd_siemer @Rainmaker1973 The odd thing is that most people think God created life - which would make him dead :-) life, the ability to move energy and matter at will, is eternal and with God

Darwin NEVER tried to explain how life began. “On the Origin of Species” is ONLY about how life EVOLVES once it already exists. The very first living cell? He left that mystery untouched. “There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one…” — but even that line was more poetic than scientific. He admitted the actual origin was beyond his theory.No abiogenesis. No “from nothing.” Just evolution from life that was already there.Nature’s engineer, not its inventor. #Darwin #Evolution #ScienceHistory I love his theory of Evolution, FYI.

@aquavitae96 Think that the ability to break your own rules denotes omnipotence thus think Boris is great

@aquavitae96 He can as he can then make himself so that he can lift the rock. Even if he would make a rock that he could not lift himself into would be his wish to do so which would not deduce from his omnipotence. Could he make laws so good that he would obey them himself? Only idiots would

@JusBrierley Isn’t mythology a poetic description of truth?

More Than Mythology: Why Molly Worthen changed her mind Ep 15 of The Surprising Rebirth documentary podcast is out now. New Atheists popularised 'Jesus Mythicism'. But in recent years the trend in academia has gone in the opposite direction as research sheds new light on the reliability of the story of Jesus in the Gospels. I speak to thinkers such as @johnpauldickson, @profntwright, Lydia McGrew and @DrPJWilliams about why we can trust the New Testament. I also hear the story of Molly Worthen, a professor of religion who was recently shaken out of her agnosticism after investigating the evidence for Jesus. justinbrierley.com/surprisingrebi…

@JusBrierley That Jesus existed is not to be doubted, but the fairytale about his coming to be in and going out of this world is what is embarrassing.

@bernd_siemer @Geonauta2000 @Rainmaker1973 It happened by a process called evolution, a process with the purpose to ensure the propagation of life against adverse circumstances. It uses random variations for an unbiased optimisation controlled via a feedback loop into the programmable memory - intel. designed :-)

@Geonauta2000 @Rainmaker1973 So you believe that something that is way more complex than a cell happened by accident to create cells out of nowhere?

@Johnny2Fingersz @SpeedWatkins Hume would most likely say any nonsense considering that he demanded miracles, e,g. The signs and wonders that point towards God to be transgressions of his own laws by himself 🤡

@SpeedWatkins Mind reading the dead, this is a novel new philosophical technique

"We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further" It is objected this is effective rhetoric but a bad argument. I argue it’s effective rhetoric because it contains an implicitly plausible argument. @rickygervais

@darwintojesus NdGT is under no obligation to make sense

Imagine calling yourself a scientist and saying this.

@Mr_TOlson @darwintojesus Atheism is a worldview like non stamp collecting is a hobby

@darwintojesus With that atheistic worldview, how does he justify science?