I think he's talking about my cat. She loves me, is quite light for a cat, and demands worship...
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I think he's talking about my cat. She loves me, is quite light for a cat, and demands worship...
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Hypothetically, if something can explain literally every question man can think of, would that mean that something is true?
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If you think it's possible for there to be an answer for every question man has ever had and will ever have then I'm saying yes, you should care about Christian theology. Doesn't mean you have to believe it, but you should care because it's a pretty bold claim to say the truth about everything can be known. Again, no one is forcing you to believe it. Feel free to believe the truth about everything can never be known.
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We have yet to establish that Mr. anonymous is talking about Christian Theology. All we have gotten to this point is "Love. Light. Holy. Etc. Etc.".
I asked if we were talking about a "God" that allegedly walked and talked in a garden that has no evidence of having existed, poofed people and animals into existence, and later, in a manner contrary to the modern understanding of genetics, populated the planet with a tiny group of individuals and animals that survived a global flood in an unbuildable boat, a flood that killed the dinosaurs in a manner that only *appears* to be 65 million years ago, because the Earth is really only somehow 6000 years old, yet remains, by every object measure to date indistinguishable from nothing, and he said "no".
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Because I could literally explain every question man can think of...that won't make the explanations true though.
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All that shows is that you're not that "something" that can explain the truth behind every single question man can think of. I'm not that "something" either, but it's possible that "something" exists that can do this. What's wrong with me believing that "something" can explain the truth behind every question man can think of?
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Ask the same questions and get the same answeres. We're not talking about the god that you have preconceived through your repetition of this same question. Ask unique questions and you might get new answeres.
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Just so you aren´t barking up the wrong tree:
There´s nothing wrong with you believing this.
There´s something wrong with your idea that "this something exists" is a rational conclusion.
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I merely explained to you what it is that people here tell you (and what it is they don´t tell you).
Just so you don´t keep misrepresenting them.
(Why they think it is not a rational conclusion is the content of their post.
Why I think it is not a rational conclusion I have told you in detail and multiple times. You would just have to start actually reading and trying to comprehend the countless and detailed posts I wrote back then. That discussion is over, as far as I am concerned).
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Isn't it rational to conclude that science can explain truths that are not yet known?
Isn't it also rational to conclude that science can't explain everything in the universe?
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If its rational to conclude that science can explain truths that are not yet known, why isn't it rational to conclude that something can explain all truths that are not yet known?
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It would make it "probably" true.
Off course, everything here depends on what you mean by "explain".
There's explanatory power and then there's "explanatory power".
For example, evolution theory has explanatory power when it comes to explaining the diversity of life.
The statement "god dun it!!" has zero explanatory power.
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Depends what those things are.
I'ld rather say something like "when it comes to explaining the phenomena of reality, science is the best methodology we know of to try and do that..."
Again, that depends. I think we can't make any sweeping statements about this.
What is true is that science seems to be the best method to date to come up with explanations of the phenomena of reality.
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As I said, I am not having this absurd discussion again with you.
I just wanted to tell you that and how you were mistaken in your reception of what people here tell you.
It´s not "You mustn´t beiieve in an afterlife" (as you pretended was their intention), it is "The existence of an afterlife is not a rational conclusion."
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I'm not concerned with what's right and wrong here, I'm concerned with what we all agree is rational thinking. The two statements I made are rational statements and the fact that you have difficulty agreeing with me is showing me that maybe you're not thinking rationally.
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