Dr Chan is LOL cat (repost)

Impossible statement to make !?

You'd need to know what the 'thing' is that you are claiming does not exist.

You might as well say "+7^56%64 does not exist" - and when asked what '+7^56%64' is - answer (if honest) "I have no clue what you (and I) are talking about".

God doesn't exist is literally similar (epistemologically rather than culturally) the same (not similar, but actually the same) as saying "colorless green ideas sleep furiously".

Ie: it's a nonsense statement, a category mistake, as much as it follows very basic rules of syntax.

category mistake

This is all nonsense. The thing we are talking about is an omnipotent power. My comments were purposefully flippant. But you are making a merely semantic point about a serious substantive claim. A preponderance of scientific and logical evidence exists to cast doubt on an omnipotent being, and your semantics do nothing to counter that weight.

Oh, and the guy who coined this phrase, "colorless green ideas sleep furiously," Noam Chomsky, is an atheist.

chukker vs tynan

Natural selection is anything but random !

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Numbers and rape figures with a little teleology doesn't make an argument, the theologists are a few steps ahead of you here, and the Calvinists have passed the finishing line before you have heard the starting gun if this is your reasoning !

You are correct that I mis-spoke about natural selection. As you can see from my response to Tom, however, the driving force of evolution, which of course is not random, is random genetic variation.

On free will, blah, blah, blah, disease and natural disasters. And also, unintelligent designs common in nature.

chukker vs tynan

Now that I've busted out my secret "blah, blah, blah" argument, this should get good ...

Wikipedia has spoken!

"Two major mechanisms determine which variants will become more common or rare in a population. One is natural selection ... Over many generations, adaptations occur through a combination of successive, small, random changes in traits, and natural selection of the variants best-suited for their environment.[4] The other major mechanism driving evolution is genetic drift, an independent process that produces random changes in the frequency of traits in a population."

[I cut out two sentences on natural selection that discuss fit between organism and environment, which is the non-random part. What makes it possible is random variation.]

Wikipedia has spoken!
End of argument folks, move along, nothing to see here...

can i get a large coke, medium salted pop-corn and a bag of minstrels please?

sure can i see some id?

I'd like to see what Leibniz and Calvin have to say about this:

**Leading Causes of Death in Children Under Five Years of Age, Estimates for 2000-2003

          ****(Source:                World Health Organization, The World Health Report 2005)**
                                     **Rank**           **Cause**                         **Numbers                (thousands per year)**

                                                   1 Neonatal causes                          3,910     
                                                   2 Acute respiratory infections                         2,027  
                                                   3 Diarrheal              diseases                         1,762
                                                   4 Malaria                         853
                                                   5 Measles                         395
                                                   6 HIV/AIDS                         321

Nearly 2 million children under 5 die from diarrhea every 4 years. That's only half a million per year! Nice one, God.

god would have given you that goal matt :D

if god exists then so does the devil. and if so, he better start coming good on our fuckin deal soon.

This is brilliant.

YouTube- Arj Barker - Great Debate - Does God Have a Sense of Humour

YouTube- Der Hund von Baskerville

saw horatio's doppleganger from the future on the sartorialist.

or is that todd?

meh.

torratio

Nah, this is Todd

repost i know, but i just saw it and thought it should be on the page twice. one of the best things ever.

^ i think that's more like you tom.

fuck, life is so sweet right now.

todd: