Now tell us that particle accelerators are European Cathedrals.
YOU screwed up. Monasteries are Universities. I DEMAND a correction.
Now,google SCHOLASTIC and TELL me what church it talks about. Go read some Descarte and Kant and come back when you at least know enough about what you are talking about to construct a decent argument.
Don't YOU know the origins of the words "SCHOLASTIC" and "SCHOLASTICISM"? I guess not. That makes you an IGNORANT PROTESTANT, doesn't it? Now run along before I send the IRA hunting for you.
YOUR ANALOGY SUCKS, So forth and so on. Ya da, ya da, ya da...
Verifiable MIRACLES, like verifiable THEORIES, are in the eye of the beholder. Of course, some eye those things that can never be, and others eye those things that consistently ARE! Just being a dreamer does not make you bad. Just DO NOT expect me to accept YOUR dreams as reality.
What would an Atheist be without GOD?
HAPPY!
I tried to stop this thread, not ban the religious. hell, some of my best friends are religious. Maybe I am, YOU do not know. YOU do not NEED to know.. Anyway. We were minding our own business when the GOD DAMNED proselytizing started.
If YOU want to close this web site you are going about it in an ASS BACKWARDS way. But then, what else could I expect, what with your religiosity and all.
Using religion to obtain answers for scientific theories and questions is a habit of the intellectually lazy and the chronically STUPID.
You see, it amounts to THIS (
http://imgsrv.gocomics.com/dim/?fh=f694 ... 85&w=900.0).
People BITCH about science and EVOLUTION, but then when their life is on the line they seek SCIENCE, not the Clergy. Science is much, much more consistent than miracles. So why is that? Simple. Science is better at curing things than religion is at healing them. IT is a numbers game. Stay OUT of Las Vegas since YOU seem NOT to be able to count.
Religion may be "infallible" but scientists dispute science all day long. By the way, you need to read some Steven Hawking to find out about what it was like before the "Big Bang"
sensenbender (imported) wrote: Tue Jul 13, 2010 4:35 pm
A friend of mine is an astrophysicist and former director of the Hubble project, but even he can’t explain the Butterfly Nebula and other similar heavenly bodies that are nearly perfectly symmetrical over hundreds of millions of miles. Can you? Scientists generally assert that concepts not subject to empirical proof are simply ‘untrue’, like voodoo. Yet, paradoxically, they are willing to speculate about the unknown causes of such phenomena as life and symmetrical nebulae. Why do they rule out the unknown causes of voodoo? Prejudice, pure and simple.
Prejudice is neither Pure OR Simple. That is another asinine phrase that is over-used by the folks who are bible-thumpers and prefer rules to reason.
BUT Hey!,. and it was YOU comparing religion with Voodoo, Not me...
It is Dodo bird-like to claim that something is true because you cannot prove it is NOT true.
So go stick your head back in the sand and leave ME alone. Do that and I promise not to kick your ass again because it is hanging out in plain view.
What if I claimed that I was YOUR father? Yes, it IS TRUE! It is true until YOU prove that it IS NOT true. How would you do that? Would you STOOP to using DNA as proof?
That, my friend is SCIENCE, and NOT religion.
The religious-bullies are so hypocritical that I cannot stand them. They scream religion until they are down to their last breath and then they expect science to bail them out when their faith fails them.
No, I stand by MY conviction that science and religion should NOT be mixed. If you DO mix them your explanations get more and more blather-like and you have to keep making up more and more lies as you go along to justify the ones that you told previously. You see, it is like when the Pope imprisoned Galileo for telling the TRUTH in the face of DOGMATIC LIES that the religious had accepted for years.
Religion is AFRAID of science because science uses reason and usurps the pseudo-authority of those who would expect you to drink Jim Jones kool-aid with your family. YOU claim that the Modern world has no standards and then YOU make up standards from religious scripture "interpreted" by those who claim divine right. Then you try to DESTROY science that proves otherwise. NOPE! I don't need any more of your lies today. Go HOME!
When you get there tell your mother that I said HI and that I am sorry about how much shame that you have brought to her! Tell her that I should have used a FUCKING CONDOM!
:shakemitk
...and when you crawl under the porch, I HOPE THAT SHE BITES YOU!
(Converts?) 
