It was in the 1859 issue.
No, I think it’s just that you notice athiests more. That’s all. (Theist here)
God as typically described is logically contradictory, violates every law of physics (an innate consequence of his supposed omnipotence), and has no evidence for his existence, just for starters. Science can’t really go any farther than that, and that’s more than far enough for just about anything but God to be declared impossible. The fact that people don’t consider the nonexistence of God a settled matter is due to them giving the question a special privileged status, and to just plain ignoring how ridiculous and impossible a claim it is.
There’s a much better chance that my arms will suddenly turn into snakes and eat me than there is of God being real.
Wouldn’t it be more fitting to worship Thor on Thursdays?
I occasionally believe in god. Usually when the words ‘My period is late…’ are uttered. At times like that, it’s nice to have someone to alternately curse out and beg that this not be happening.
Yes, it has. Unfortunately, you still get people claiming God is real and evolution is false. I haven’t heard anything about geocentrism, but there’s probably still some idiots that believe in that, too.
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In any case, saying “you’re calling me ignorant just because I disagree with you!” isn’t really a valid claim when one side has no evidence whatsoever to support their views. It’s perfectly valid to say “You are ignorant because you disagree with me” when the all of the mountains of logic and evidence are on their side.
Yeah. Also, you worship Athena twice? Morgoth’s gonna be piiiiiiissed…
18% of the American population believe that the sun orbits the Earth according to Gallup.
Where do you believe their corporeal bodies are, just as a matter of interest?
It was in the issue right after they decided there was definitely no invisible pink elephant under my bed and no fairies at the bottom of the garden. Interestingly, to date the issue of whether there is a teapot orbiting Saturn has not even been seriously investigated, let alone scientifically settled. So I believe there is one. And I’m sure you do too. Right?
To say nothing of his lack of supplication to the great and terrible Cthulhu. I’a! I’a! Cthulhu fhtagn!
I believe in negative one gods, so that cancels out the OPs belief, and we can proclaim the intertoobs to be god(belief) free!
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oh and nominate me for some sort of prize for solving one of the great engineering feats of modern society(and I better win!)
And breakfast. Someone make me breakfast.
This post is best read with silly brain version 1.0
Good Lord, God has a HUGE Net presence! The trouble is finding quality over the quantity. Google up “The Internet Monk”, read the articles & comments, and then go to the various links on the side. Intelligent Theism abounds on the Net!
Over at Oxymoron.com, no doubt.
O Great Cthulhu! We eagerly await your devouring the universe, and ask only that, if it be Your will, You wait until we have finished this Denny’s Grand Slam Breakfast. Amen
Why would this mean you were the only believer on the internet? If 95% of the people on the internet believed in God, this could still happen.
Exactly. The big thing with the Internet is that social inhibitions are off. You’re seeing what a lot of people want to say.
The other thing is that our brains really don’t process the large number of people. We’re used to a certain level of participation from the smaller groups, but now that it’s larger, we assume the group is a larger proportion.
Finally, there’s always confirmation bias. I didn’t see you saying anything about the various people who do not respond in that manner. Heck, I thought it was pretty well known around here that I am a Christian.
I thought you were an atheist. I mean, it doesn’t help that I’m not really great with names and I tend to forget which conversations I’ve had with which posters after a certain amount of time but there you go. Plus you don’t tend to participate in religious threads as much as the others if my memory serves correctly.
No, I don’t believe there is one. Of course, I don’t regard that belief as a scientific fact, the same way heliocentrism or evolution are facts.
You could never prove that there is no teapot orbiting Saturn, no matter how hard you looked there would always be a small possibility that it was there, tucked in behind, or even frozen inside, a piece of ice. On the other hand there is no evidence to support the teapot theory and lots of good reasons to think there is no teapot. If you’re happy to consider the non-existence of God to be in the same league of non-fact as the non-existence of the teapot, then I’m not about to stop you, just remember the evidence for God is exactly the same as the evidence for the teapot regardless of how many people believe it to be otherwise.