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Huh? Your criteria for evidence is that the supernatural is the least likely possibility? That's more an a priori commitment to naturalism than anything else. And it makes little sense when you are asking for evidence for God (a supernatural being) to have as part of the criteria for evidence...

Really -- this is your criteria for evidence: something that can be explained in no other way? Is there anything you can think of that can fit this criteria?

You think Christianity ruined Pascal? Based on ...?

Birdman -- thanks for your comments and glad to see you stand for what you believe in. As they say, stand for something or you'll fall for anything. And it's great you've had a good understanding from people about your faith -- I must admit, I don't get the hardest of times myself (usually)...

More cows than sheep? My goodness, didn't realise that Waikato had the single largest population of cows in the world. :D :D :D (Sorry, couldn't resist)

Does the Pope write great rap music? Do you base your entire religious worldview on "The Crocodile Hunter"? Is Billy Ray Cyrus (or Kamahl) your favourite musical artist? Do the majority of Australian ride kangaroos to work? I think these questions are equivalent to yours!!! :D :D :D :D

Hi keeki, You know what? You can't know for certain that this life is not a trick -- no-one can. No matter whether they are Muslims, Christians, atheists, Buddhists -- anything. But you know what also? It doesn't matter. No, really it doesn't. We can't live our lives wondering whether it...

Arikay: I'm will be debating that Darwinism and most expressions of neo-Darwinism are incompatible with theism. There are some views of that are not.

A world ruled by mechanistic/deterministic causes (assumed by Darwinism -- but not all forms of evolution do) is incompatible with theism -- that's what I am saying. What do *you* think Darwin is saying here? That Darwinism is compatible with Deism or a "First Cause" and that is all we...

Firstly, theology is much more than an intepretation of a sacred text -- it is a systemetic way of looking at the universe. Secondly, there is no reason why science should be a priori assumed correct and theology/philosophy wrong. For example, many biologists (e.g. E.O. Wilson) will reject...

I'm saying that you can't nicely segregate science and theology if the science itself is based on metaphysics which directly contradict theology. I plan on debating this with someone, rather than having endless threads going on here -- are you interested? Read the link to Arikay, and read...

I don't respond to adolescent like demands, sorry. That makes no sense at all. No, it's not strange -- it would be quite strange if you said otherwise. It's the standard line these days.

You deserve to be banned. But we forgive you.

Tell you what, to give you a feel for a similar stance to mine on this see URBILD's posts on this thread: http://pub18.ezboard.com/fhavetheologywillarguescienceandreligiousbelief.showMessage?topicID=307.topic

I just don't expect scientists to do the same. They do their part of studying the natural world, which is just one bit of the evidence I use to come to a conclusion. And if Science makes a call on the directed vs undirected issue (i.e. the probability of it), which it has in the past, and...

I don't care about agreement. I'm not interested in hearing the same things stated continuously though. Yes. And I think many scientists would argue that there is a HIGH probability that evolution has no need for direction.

Yes, I can show this and will demonstrate it in my debate. I'm not willing to spend the time getting references for you right now.

Yes, atheism has been falsified a long time ago -- the billions of religious experiences over history show that. It has absolutely zero predictive power if I am to accept the standard "lack of belief in God" definition. Add anything to that definition and you are no longer talking about atheism...

I give up with you. You are only capable of saying the same thing over and over.

O boy. Well, that should be enough to provide this thread with another hundred replies or so.