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In reply to the discussion: "Atheism: A personal relationship with reality." [View all]rug
(82,333 posts)31. Patronized comes from pater, son.
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Here's the Billboard: Being positive won't make any difference, the radical theists will be outraged
Fumesucker
Jan 2013
#1
Passive-aggressive, rancorous posts are OK when you make them for GAWD.
2ndAmForComputers
Feb 2013
#112
The same way you can have a personal relationship with someone who may or may not have lived...
Fumesucker
Jan 2013
#4
Reality is more than human beings. Everyone has personal relationships with people.
rug
Jan 2013
#10
If you cannot see it, hear it, taste it, smell it, or touch it - then it doesn't exist. Now that's
humblebum
Jan 2013
#34
It can also be reasoned that there is a high certainty that God is real. In any case,
humblebum
Feb 2013
#67
Well. if you insist on being technical, then I will change the term "proof" to "evidence."
humblebum
Feb 2013
#69
"However, there is plenty of subjective evidence to suggest the existence of God. "
gcomeau
Feb 2013
#73
Your argument, I believe, was for any evidence for the existence of God. One could use
humblebum
Feb 2013
#74
Actually, they are arguments, but they are not arguments that you accept. And yes, we are discussing
humblebum
Feb 2013
#78
You and I both know that these arguments can never be won. But you are more than welcome
humblebum
Feb 2013
#81
Actually people like me realize that subjective evidence very much exists and we also realize
humblebum
Feb 2013
#87
"evaluating evidence in a supernatural framework is an impossibility" - well, considering your
humblebum
Feb 2013
#94
Yes, you did mention that there is a difference between proof and evidence, but you failed to
humblebum
Feb 2013
#100
No one is debating your methodology and it is very straight forward. What is being debated now
humblebum
Feb 2013
#109
I still say you don't know everything about evaluating evidence. And I have dodged nothing.
humblebum
Feb 2013
#111
You have received very sufficient explanations of methodologies used to determine
humblebum
Feb 2013
#144
"...the universe looks exactly as it does as if there were no God." Really? And
humblebum
Feb 2013
#157
Probably because after the existence of neutrinos was first postulated, evidence for
humblebum
Feb 2013
#114
So are you saying that the existence of neutrinos was not empirically proven
humblebum
Feb 2013
#118
It's more as if you are decreeing that you do not believe in the evidence of neutrinos,
humblebum
Feb 2013
#124
I never said that you could see gravity or taste an electromagnetic field, nor implied such,
humblebum
Feb 2013
#127
"scientists were able to predict the existence of black holes" - so then they did not observe data,
humblebum
Feb 2013
#141
So you have now plainly stated that empiricism (or logical empiricism) were not used
humblebum
Feb 2013
#150
"including those which do not rely on direct observation." - so who is talking about
humblebum
Feb 2013
#151
That was beautifully put. I too feel that human experience is much more complex than
humblebum
Feb 2013
#154
I can't understand why something someone (atheists) don't believe in upsets them so much. There must
demosincebirth
Jan 2013
#51
Deepens? I watched Prop. 8 pass, watched gays and lesbians lose their civil rights...
Moonwalk
Feb 2013
#132