Re: What is SCIENCE?

On 3 Nov 2003 20:50:02 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dan Still) wrote:

>robpar wrote...
>> 
>> No idiot there are no such thing as an EXatheist. Anyone intelligent
>> enough to reject the brainwashing is too intelligent, to fall for the
>> superstitious nonsense of religion. However the number of idiots that
>> claim to be former atheist are legion. 
>> ...
>> As to a open mind indeed I do have an open mind. That's how I
>> became an atheist. Thinking for myself.
>
>You know, that first paragraph doesn't sound like the description of
>an open-minded person.  What if some new, great evidence for god
>turned up?  Would the super-intelligent person believe it?  By
>definition, an open-minded person would have an open mind towards it. 
>Someone set on denying the truth would not.  You sound like more in
>the second group.

Except of course that there isn't any evidence at all - if there had
been, people like you would have taken great pleasure in rubbing our
faces in it. 

>>    If there is a god and he wants me to believe in him, all he has to
>> do is prove he exist. No problem for a all powerful being. However no
>> lying  half wit bible thumper  could ever convince me that his sky
>> pixie is real.
>
>True.  That would be no problem... if God chose to do that.  Looks so
>far like He has chosen not to.

Either demonstrate that it exists outside your overworked imagination
to do that, or shut the fuck up about it. Because you're begging the
very question you're supposed to be answering. 


>Dan