SuperWatto posted:I assume your statement of 'there is no outside' stems from lack of observation? Apologies for my ignorance. I'm trying a go at coming at this purely theoretically. And I would think: anything that grows needs nurturing. If the universe grows, that's gotta come from somewhere. If the universe just moves around between big crunches and big bangs, it'd be like the universe is breathing - and what it's breathing has to come from somewhere. And if it's not cyclical, then it has a starting point, which to me would also imply external triggering.
SuperWatto posted:I assume your statement of 'there is no outside' stems from lack of observation?
SuperWatto posted:anything that grows needs nurturing.
SuperWatto posted:If the universe grows, that's gotta come from somewhere.
VadersLaMent posted:Dang, VR just walks in outta nowhere.
SuperWatto posted:Don't worry folks; nobody reads that crap. Because look what it says at the bottom: - This title requires a minimum order of 10,000 copies.
nancyallen posted:However atheists read the Bible, correct? Those who follow religion also read anti religion books. Yet their arguments are not undermined. If anything what they read increases their resolve.
nancyallen posted:You may dispense with the ad hominem attacks. They are not going to work. On the web site...well, there are atheists who do this all the time. They protest religious symbology and freedom of worship. You cannot have it both ways, you cannot support atheist's rights to protest religion and th condemn religion's right to protest atheism.
nancyallen posted:Which is why I qualified the statement by saying 'there are atheists who do this all the time.' Were I to say 'atheists do this all the time' then that would be a sweeping generalization. What I'm saying is, atheists, not all atheists but some, protest against religion. Is it or is it not fair for those who follow religion to protest against atheism?