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  1. Looncall

    John William Draper, a contemporary of Darwin, called it the "Mohammadan Theory of Evolution..!!!

    Islam later opted fir ignorance and superstition instead of science. Modern muslims cannot take credit for islam's golden age.
  2. Looncall

    Noah's Arc and the Flood?

    To persist in supporting ancient myths in the face of irrefutable physical evidence that the mythical events did not occur shows a shocking disregard for truth.
  3. Looncall

    Evolution, violence and the existence of God

    Consider the meteor of the time of the demise of the dinosaurs: an Iridium-rich layer, dateable to that time, is found everywhere in the world. No such traces are found for Noah's flood, which should have left obvious signs of devastation. Further,several sophisticated societies continued...
  4. Looncall

    On absolute truth and its source, the God: the cyclic definition and proof

    Gibberish. Not even intelligible English. Religion does terrible things to the intellect, doesn't it?
  5. Looncall

    Evolution, violence and the existence of God

    I gather that the shape on Mt Ararat has been debunked. Anyhow, a global flood would leave global traces. There are none, so no such flood. No amount of intellectual tap dancing can rescue Genesis. To me, the whole thing looks like a ploy by clerics to inflict morbid guilt and dependence on the...
  6. Looncall

    Evolution, violence and the existence of God

    It doesn't seem odd at all. People necessarily live near water and so are likely to have folk tales about floods. In any case, a global flood as recent as the Noachian one would leave easily-detected traces. None such are found, therefore no such flood happened. Reality does trump myth, after...
  7. Looncall

    Evolution, violence and the existence of God

    However, there is no evidence that the Genesis account is more than an ancient folk tale. I don't think you are justified in arguing from a story that may very well not have happened at all. Genesis is a very powerful part of the Great Scam of the clerics, though.
  8. Looncall

    Present arguments for atheism

  9. Looncall

    Present arguments for atheism

    What spark? The difference between living and non-living things is the arrangements of their parts. "Elan vitale" thinking is so nineteenth century. I see no reason to consider writing religious experiences off as delusion to be foolish. We are all human and subject to the same mental quirks...
  10. Looncall

    Present arguments for atheism

    Scientific hypotheses have the advantage of being backed up by our knowledge of physics and chemistry, and by observations. At least some of the constraints around these explanations are pretty well known. We don't yet know if detailed explanations are unobtainable; people are working hard on...
  11. Looncall

    Experiencing God

    to msiamcanadian: That's nice for you. However, I would like to know how you determine whether what you experience is actually what you interpret it as. As you present it, your account is unconvincing.
  12. Looncall

    Present arguments for atheism

    Quality and consistency of personal experiences surely tells us something, I agree. The question is what it tells us something about; something supernatural or something about human psychology? The big problem is how to tell which it is. If a proposition cannot be, or has not yet been, verified...
  13. Looncall

    Present arguments for atheism

    Religions offers quite a lot. The problem is that almost none of what it offers can be verified. Consequently, it falls into the category of "made up stuff".
  14. Looncall

    Present arguments for atheism

    You're welcome to it. Have fun with it!
  15. Looncall

    Present arguments for atheism

    The situation is like escaping from a bear: I don't have to run faster than the bear, I just have to run faster then you. If theists cannot present a convincing case for their position, there is no work left for atheists to do.
  16. Looncall

    Richard Dawkins Facepalms at Deepak Chopra

    The references are "before" and "after'". Your analogy is irrelevant.
  17. Looncall

    Richard Dawkins Facepalms at Deepak Chopra

    Bah, more word salad. Consciousness, as usually understood, is clearly a process. You are using the word in some other sense. How about making that sense clear? Or, better yet, using a more suitable word? If all things are changing, they are still changing even if there no thing that does not...
  18. Looncall

    Is the universe conscious of itself...

    How do you determine that any of this is true? Please show your workings.
  19. Looncall

    oneness doctrine true or false

    I think that all this shows that there is no matter of fact at hand, or at least no means of discovering fact, so imagination runs riot.
  20. Looncall

    There are no mistakes in Quran

    No, those are not homeopathy. Homeopathy involves using substances diluted into nonexistence, based on a silly "like cures like" theory. New age woo: non-mainstream superstition used to support obvious scams.
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