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Atheists are embracing Gods and creationism
The Spectator ^
| June 8, 2016
| Daniel Jackson
Posted on 06/08/2016 7:14:12 AM PDT by Heartlander
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To: Heartlander
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06/08/2016 7:16:41 AM PDT
by
oblomov
To: Heartlander
Idiots.
Sometimes very intelligent people can be huge idiots.
Probably often more than sometimes.
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posted on
06/08/2016 7:20:01 AM PDT
by
ifinnegan
(Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
To: Heartlander
I always thought “The Matrix” (at least the original movie) had Christian undertones.
The story is that the reality we live in is not the ultimate reality. That there is a reality beyond this life we are experiencing, and that other reality is what is important.
Isn’t that exactly what the Bible teaches? There is more than just this physical world. That we are living in a reality that is part of a larger reality.
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posted on
06/08/2016 7:21:09 AM PDT
by
Brookhaven
(Hillary Clinton stood next to the coffin of an American soldier and lied to his parents' face)
To: Heartlander
If you assume any rate of improvement at all, then the games will become indistinguishable from reality, even if that rate of advancement drops by a thousand from what it is now. Then you just say, okay, lets imagine its 10,000 years in the future, which is nothing on the evolutionary scale.
Using that logic, CPU die traces will be One Billionth of the smallest subatomic particle in just a short while.
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06/08/2016 7:22:37 AM PDT
by
Dr. Sivana
("There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don't care who gets the credit."-R.Reagan)
To: Heartlander
.. Elon Musk, the billionaire inventor and entrepreneur, the twenty-first centurys answer to Howard Hughes ..
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posted on
06/08/2016 7:31:43 AM PDT
by
Byron_the_Aussie
(We cannot allow Hillary Clinton to become the next Angela Merkel)
To: Heartlander
If you can do better, leave a comment.OK. Many elements of this thought process fit well within the schematics of Mormonism. So it's not as new as they might suppose.
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06/08/2016 7:37:35 AM PDT
by
Migraine
(Diversity is great -- until it happens to YOU.)
Revelation is about the march to a one world new agey religion, with a splash of transhumanism and human hybrids thrown in. The modern church has scrubbed some of the implications of Genesis 6, but the world marches onward toward it nonetheless.
To: Heartlander
>>The paper suggests that if we arent living in a simulation, civilisation will end before we are able to reach the posthuman age
That's going to be enormously disappointing to the Transhumanist/Postgenderist miscreants who are busily abominating nature into their self-worshiping image.
Maybe Musk and Co. should lighten up on their Substance D consumption.
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posted on
06/08/2016 7:46:15 AM PDT
by
HLPhat
(It takes a Republic TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS - not a populist Tyranny of the Majority)
To: Heartlander
"Seven hundred years later, the Summa Theologica is no longer considered proof of anything."
Sez who? The cosmological proof of God, which is just a refined version of Aquinas' and Aristotle's "first mover" proof, is still as strong as ever. That's why the atheists invented the silly concept of multiverses; to get around the cosmological argument.
To: ifinnegan
Sometimes very intelligent people can be huge idiots.
Probably often more than sometimes.
Romans 1:22
22 Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools
Same Ol' Ba'al manure, different municipal toilet.
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06/08/2016 7:49:31 AM PDT
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HLPhat
(It takes a Republic TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS - not a populist Tyranny of the Majority)
To: Brookhaven
2 Corinthians 4:18New International Version (NIV)
18 So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.
To: circlecity
Agreed - and I find the multiverse idea somewhat ironic - an infinite amount of universes and we live in one of the lucky ones. But theoretically with infinite universes, you could have a universe with god-like beings and even a universe with Dawkins as a televangelist. But ultimately it is all still meaningless... The brain becomes just another organ following physics and chemistry there is not free will no self no morality no reason or logic.
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06/08/2016 7:59:47 AM PDT
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Heartlander
(Prediction: Increasingly, logic will be seen as a covert form of theism. - Denyse O'Leary)
To: oblomov
To: oblomov
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06/08/2016 8:17:01 AM PDT
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Heartlander
(Prediction: Increasingly, logic will be seen as a covert form of theism. - Denyse O'Leary)
To: ifinnegan
"Sometimes very intelligent people can be huge idiots."
You mean like Steven Hawkings' assertion in his last book that "anything as elegant as gravity would have had to have been able to create itself." LOL. He's so obsessed with eliminating God in favor of "reason" that he's willing to jettison the fundamental logical foundations of the scientific method itself.
To: Heartlander
There are also many liberal secularists and atheists who have resurrected the idea of god in a new form - the Singularity.
There is no all knowing, all seeing, omniscient power - but they want to invent it via advanced artificial intelligence.
There is no heaven, but they want to invent mind-uploaded technology to give themselves digital immortality.
There is no hell, but if you don’t invent the super-AI to solve all our problems, the world will roast, all life will die, throw in apocalyptic prediction here.
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posted on
06/08/2016 8:37:56 AM PDT
by
tbw2
To: circlecity
Self-invention requires divine intervention or a sci-fi time travel paradox plus intelligence.
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06/08/2016 8:38:51 AM PDT
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tbw2
To: tbw2
"Self-invention requires divine intervention or a sci-fi time travel paradox plus intelligence."
Yet in neither of those instances do you really have self creation. Self creation is a logical absurdity.
To: Heartlander
Hilarious! They are willing to believe we live in a simulation but unwilling to believe “In the beginning God created...”. So funny!
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06/08/2016 8:52:44 AM PDT
by
wastoute
(Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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