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firm believer 225 29.92%
Deist 23 3.06%
Theist 29 3.86%
Agnostic 148 19.68%
Atheist 327 43.48%
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Old 02-03-2014, 03:50 PM   #4681
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Some people live in Twilight Zone.
Yeah, seriously. Even the gangsta rap lip-syncing, skateboard-stunting, marijuana-binging free spirits at my high school were fans of Bill Nye.

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Old 02-03-2014, 03:52 PM   #4682
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You've never heard of Bill Nye the Science Guy?
No. Don't know if he's ever been on TV over here or not.
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Yeah, usually people who believe aliens built the pyramids, and Illuminati conspiracies.
 
Old 02-03-2014, 03:53 PM   #4683
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And, uhh, tell me, whose his opponent?
There is a scientist and a non-scientist. The non-scientist is entering a battle of wits, but he's apparently unarmed.
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Laissez faire!
Don't use terms unless you know what they mean. How, exactly, do you apply that term to this thread? And what does the thread title of "Solar Eclipse" have to do with the link you posted??

And didn't you say you were leaving? "Farewell", and all that??
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ow-4175480525/

Didn't you then say we should 'rest assured' that you were only here for technical topics?
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...4/#post5091211

Please...stop trolling this site. If you believe that knob who's going to debate Mr. Nye, that's fine. MANY folks knew about this debate for some time now. And while I don't agree with Dawkins, I can respect his right to his opinion, and know the truth when I hear it. This sums it up nicely:
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"But that is better than supplying the creationists with what they crave: the oxygen of respectability in the world of real science."

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Old 02-03-2014, 04:20 PM   #4684
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Good point right there. I am very interested in this debate, only to see Bill Nye just own this Ham character.

Btw , Bill Nye is awesome and I loved watching his show when I was a kid. Too bad my math skills were crap, but he did make science fun and made me curious about it.

I hope he keeps inspiring more younger people to take up engineering fields and learning maths and sciences, otherwise we may as well slip back into the dark ages.

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Old 02-03-2014, 04:25 PM   #4685
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Good point right there. I am very interested in this debate, only to see Bill Nye just own this Ham character.
Yes, he will, but someone in the comments on that article summed it up nicely:

"Debating creationists is like playing Chess with a Pigeon. They'll knock all the pieces over, crap on the board and then fly off to their flock and declare victory." Which is what normally happens...something will come up that they can't refute and you'll get a non-sequitur type answer that derails everything, or Mr Nye will answer honestly and say "We don't know yet", and presto! "See! They don't have the answers!"

Lather-rinse-repeat. Same story, different troll.
 
Old 02-03-2014, 04:33 PM   #4686
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And merged with the Megathread. As a fan of such debates I will definitely look into this one.
 
Old 02-04-2014, 12:08 PM   #4687
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{...}Yeah, usually people who believe aliens built the pyramids, and Illuminati conspiracies.
Who said anything about belief? But if you won't use your curiosity you will never filter BS out.
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{...}but he did make science fun and made me curious about it.{...}
Well..i would agree that he makes science fun
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Agdvt9M3NJA
but he is not only one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1t5_iGN0xE
Kinda reminds me of my physics teacher at school who used real life examples and was fun!
 
Old 02-04-2014, 12:28 PM   #4688
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Cool

Didn't take a scientific mind to wright:
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Yeah, seriously. Even the gangsta rap lip-syncing, skateboard-stunting, marijuana-binging free spirits at my high school were fans of Bill Nye.
Oh snap did you grow up a hater or just (not to include all) overly religious, (now to all) get out of the box or is it from under the bridge?

(:Edit.)

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Old 02-04-2014, 01:21 PM   #4689
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That's funny, the gangsta rap lip-syncing, skateboard-stunting, marijuana-binging free spirits at my high school were pretty nice people.

---

Y'know, you will never change the mind of someone whose mind is already made-up i.e. "closed." Such that I really don't think it does anyone any good to try.

As for me, I embrace both. I'm delighted to have a sense of wonder, of impossible bigness, of unfathomable mysteries the likes of which I know I will never understand. I really don't want a "'small, nice, pocket-sized' God." I don't want to feel like the end of life is reduced to a choice between a heavenly golden carrot or a flaming burning stick. I'm not afraid of "the discovery of geologic time," nor of the important role of evolution, partly because I have always realized that Genesis Chapter 1 is a poem, as well as an allegory. (An earthly sphere covered by water, surrounded by neither sun nor moon nor stars, that somehow nevertheless isn't frozen solid? Comes with the territory. The book is what it is.) And I'm not looking for a substitute "certainty." I have no need nor expectation of "certainty."

Don't give me a simple, easy-to-understand God that is wrapped-up in human concerns and comprehensible by the human mind. I know that "the entire elephant" does not look like that. I'm cool with ... delighted, even ... not to "know." Or even to pretend to. And so I look askance at those who say in so many words that they do. Study the books for what they are ... "books." Embrace them for what they are, not for what they aren't and realistically can't be. If you believe in [a] God, then He isn't limited by books either. Better to admit being a babbling fool about such things than to pretend to be smart. We weren't "there when the foundations of the world were laid." We don't know, and we never will, no matter how hard we try. (And it's okay to try. Just don't get in your fellow-traveler's face about it.)

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P.S. "Googling around," I encountered this rather interesting and scholarly article :
In the Beginning: Biblical Creation Myths vs. Others Around the Mediterranean.
Enjoy!

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Old 02-04-2014, 01:53 PM   #4690
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Now THAT is a helpful post, thanks sundialsvcs.
 
Old 02-04-2014, 01:55 PM   #4691
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I don't see differences, religious or not, people grow from there surroundings and mistakes to learn from (or brake free of...) in my opinion science can\is bring a vastly superior education on right from wrong. The poll reflects a tiny span of humanity and when we consider how short our lifespan (even how much we change in it➞) compared to the blink of the eye "back to the start of it all"(—human concept not possible in infinity again IMH↻.) Just look at human history if we learn to teach only "facts," stupidity may fade away?

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Old 02-04-2014, 04:32 PM   #4692
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I don't see differences, religious or not, people grow from there surroundings and mistakes to learn from (or brake free of...) in my opinion science can\is bring a vastly superior education on right from wrong.
The risk, of course, is that "science" can become your "substitute religion." Your "substitute source of 'certainty.'" (I'm using the word "you" in an impersonal sense, BTW ...) I think that it is entirely reasonable to think that people do want to know "for certain," and if they reject religion as a source, they might embrace science instead.

But ... "science" is very limited, too. It's just a different production of human observation. It, too, cannot answer the Eternal Questions. "Scientific philosophy" pursuits can explore a conjecture, say, that "evolution is the 'origin of [all] species' (and everything else)," and maybe it can do so without encountering demonstrable contra-indications (at least as seen by the philosopher in question), but is that ... Truth? Well, no. It can't be. You can push beyond the limits of science, just as surely as you can push beyond the limits of religion.

"Scientific philosophy" is an excellent tool for organizing conjecture ... for exploring where the limits of "what we know" do or don't (or rather, could or couldn't) be. But people who don't understand the ground-rules of this exercise mistake "the absence of apparent contra-indication" for "therefore, proof that The Answer does lie in that particular direction or conclusion." It doesn't. I personally suspect that Charles Darwin discovered part of a very important finding but probably not all of it. That he probably did identify "The Origin of Species," but not necessarily also "Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order ... etc." (And note that he never said that he did.) (A system for self-adaptation makes sense, and can be observed. But an avenue across the major boundaries between life-form types? I doubt it. I suspect that a preventive mechanism exists in biology, even if we haven't identified it yet.) Yet, until that future discovery is made, and if it is made, we won't "Know."

Either way, I think, we're stuck with not having our "certainty." We can "know" with a little-K, but I think we're simply stuck short of the big-K "Know" that we all want. The Eternal Questions ... Answered. And placed into a tidy, tiny box.

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Old 02-04-2014, 04:45 PM   #4693
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My religion (science be damned LOL) proves to me that facts change like religions and people, it maybe the only thing we can be sure of. But, if it defies common sense; real problem is define common sense, can religion or science do this better? One has an actually defined "teaching" the other preaching... I say let the "The Eternal Questions" go but $$$, tradition and power!?.

"A nation is a group of persons united by the common error of their ancestry and a common dislike of their neighbors." -Karl W. Deutsch http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_is...#Forgetfulness

:Edit\add: had to go to my part time job so now that I'm back here are edits and a new thought...

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Old 02-04-2014, 08:51 PM   #4694
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Problem is common sense ain't common. (E.g:)

Should we have a death penalty circling the idea that killing (or vengeance) is OK in some ways, in turn keeping the root problems that lead back to "needing" capital murder? (&c...)

It would it be better to do away with all religions, tradition and nations as ("unimaginable tracks of) time" will do it anyway.
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...I think that it is entirely reasonable to think that people do want to know "for certain," and if they reject religion as a source, they might embrace...
Lottery tickets, alcohol, depression, $, &c,,, learning to enjoy life for all?

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The risk, of course, is that "science" can become your "substitute religion." Your "substitute source of 'certainty.'" (I'm using the word "you" in an impersonal sense, BTW ...) I think that it is entirely reasonable to think that people do want to know "for certain," and if they reject religion as a source, they might embrace science instead.{...}
Science is just one source for truth same goes for religion but i agree that there are more sources out there. Quest for truth should be main goal for truth-seekers instead regardless of source.
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Seek truth and you will find a path. ~Frank Slaughter

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