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    Obscure & Useless

    9.999... = 1 is one of those results in mathematics that isn't intuitive but that we have to put up with because otherwise very useful and basic assumptions have to be discarded. There are other examples. The Banach-Tarski paradox (which isn't obscure from the perspective of a mathematician)...
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    God Salts Reality With Miracles

    That's twice I've noticed you making a sweeping , generalized, and vague statement. Since you never responded to my last reply to one of those, I won't bother going into detail with this one. As I'm sure somebody will explain, your post is wrong. I can't find a single sentence in it that's...
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    Schrödinger's Evolution

    I read that thread. It was answered well. In general, (that is, every example I can remember), the pattern is that you posit a question in an OP, someone answers it, and then you eventually say that no one answered it.
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    Scientific American: "Ok, We Give Up..."

    Thanks! I'll be picking up both when I have the chance.
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    Scientific American: "Ok, We Give Up..."

    Luckily, I work every day with practitioners of an altruistic moral philosophy they call Chrisitanity. Whether or not its what you refer to I don't know, but it's pretty sweet. Do you have any references/sites/books/sources that would help me see Christianity from your perspective? I must say...
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    Explain the Big Bang

    No, the Invisible Pink Unicorn. No, Jesus. No, it was Vishnu. No, wait, it was Kali. The Flying Spaghetti monster. In the beginning was only Muspelheim and Niflheim. No, in the beginning it was chaos and then gaia came out of the chaos and created Uranus the sky. With all these explanations...
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    Mathematical Precision of the Bible

    Sometimes people quote those they disagree with to refute them. I am suggesting you have not provided the context needed for me to evaluate Talk Origins' use of the statement. In fact, not all atheists are perfectly alike or believe the exact same things. For example, my friends and I disagree...
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    so what place do giants take in evolution

    even if it is, there are people who seriously have this little critical thinking ability. I've met them, live and in the flesh. sorry about your hope for humanity ^_^
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    Scientific American: "Ok, We Give Up..."

    I don't know who you refer to, but in fact, there were some people here (mostly not in this subforum) did drive me towards Christianity. They presented a version of Christianity that appealed to me fairly strongly. My leanings towards Christianity were partially logical and partially...
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    Scientific American: "Ok, We Give Up..."

    we'd say you were a bad one and that you hint at being persecuted quite often, when really you could remove a lot of criticism from your life quite easily by just not reading the forum. If that's not an option, then you've got two choices - learn how to reason or deal with it. But, while...
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    Mathematical Precision of the Bible

    First, this is Talk Origins quoting karl popper, and without a link I can't verify if its talk origins' actual views. Second, this is not the statement you made. A close reading will, in fact, suggest that Popper may have believed that mathematics is not the best kind of evidence. From this...
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    Mathematical Precision of the Bible

    Who is "they"? before I get to the fact that I disagree with "they" for multiple reasons, who is "they"?
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    "I'm not an expert, BUT......."

    And for every example of evidence based medicine hurting people you provide I could probably provide ten examples of it directly saving someone's life , and if you allowed a little statistical reasoning many many more (I'm talking about vaccines), and if you allowed just helping people even...
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    Would someone with a college education explain this, please?

    That's not explaining the miracle. That's explaining how the miracle could not have actually happened. It's usually related to the so-called miracle being proposed as something that should be taught, as fact, to our children, which is where most of us (non-literalists) start to care. I only...
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    For Non-christians Only

    What he said. Maybe not for the same reasons, but the words fit.
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    Would someone with a college education explain this, please?

    Ah, I see. My status as a 'newbie' is important somehow, though you haven't really explained how. Besides that, I see a false dichotomy, also known as "the fallacy of the excluded middle". You present a series of options and assert that your list is complete. You also don't attribute the...
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    Would someone with a college education explain this, please?

    If something's incorrect, but someone (or multiple others) do it, that makes it okay for you to do it? That's how I'm reading your post. Am I understanding you right?
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    Would someone with a college education explain this, please?

    There is more than two options, (this being an example of the "fallacy of the excluded middle"), and I am interested to see if you can find some.
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    So this is Christian science,is it ?

    I have to say, I never expected to see the "time cube" tag on this forum, but I'm almost glad to. I must also say I've never seen this particular rejection of mathematics and science. It's kind of neat.
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    What’s in it for me?

    What are you saying here? I find your post difficult to parse.