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Merry Christmyth from the Atheist Foundation of Australia
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My last post was a bit vague, so I’m not entirely sure if we’re on the same track here, but anyway…
<<That is dark matter/dark energy have all the properties of Yahweh other than intelligence.>>
Well, there is also the fact that dark matter/energy is a prediction whereas God is a blind guess.
Dark matter/energy is also useful in that it helps to explain something; a god does not. Inserting a god in as an explanation for something is a dead end; it is an excuse to not look any further. There are no models of the universe in which the presence of a god is required, productive or useful.
<<Nothing science has discovered in the last century or three disproves God.>>
And nor is it required to. The burden of proof is another thing that has been covered extensively on this thread.
That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.
<<…I admire your chutzpah in believing that your post totally demolished a way of thinking.>>
Well, I didn’t say “totally demolished”, I said “discredited”. But yes, over the course of this whole thread, I guess you could say I totally demolished a way of thinking. Please point out how I haven’t, if you don’t agree.
<<I note within these threads a certain absolutism among the activist atheists...'you're either with us or against us'. So in my post, since I hadn't come out unequivocally opposed to any thought of the divine, I must be, according to AJ et al, an advocate for Yahweh.>>
Please point to where I said you were an advocate for Yahweh (or anything of the sort).
Forgive me, though, if I ever confuse agnostics and theists. If there’s one thing I’ve learned in my years on OLO, it’s that agnostics (please do see my discrediting on the common use of that term too) and theists make the same errors in reasoning as each other and argue using the same logical fallacies. And no other thread on OLO has demonstrated that more than this one.
It’s a bizarre phenomenon.
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