Re: victims of faith

2012-09-15 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 14 Sep 2012, at 19:10, meekerdb wrote: On 9/14/2012 6:10 AM, Stephen P. King wrote: The "evidence" has strong indications of being manipulated for the purpose of a political agenda. It is certainly cherry-picked by minions of the fossil fuel industry. The way that the sensors are dis

Re: Re: victims of faith

2012-09-15 Thread Roger Clough
so that everything could function." - Receiving the following content - From: Stephen P. King Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-09-14, 12:48:22 Subject: Re: victims of faith On 9/14/2012 9:04 AM, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Alberto G. Corona That's why I stick to orthod

Re: victims of faith

2012-09-14 Thread meekerdb
On 9/14/2012 11:10 AM, Stephen P. King wrote: On 9/14/2012 1:10 PM, meekerdb wrote: On 9/14/2012 6:10 AM, Stephen P. King wrote: The "evidence" has strong indications of being manipulated for the purpose of a political agenda. It is certainly cherry-picked by minions of the fossil fuel i

Re: victims of faith

2012-09-14 Thread Stephen P. King
On 9/14/2012 1:10 PM, meekerdb wrote: On 9/14/2012 6:10 AM, Stephen P. King wrote: The "evidence" has strong indications of being manipulated for the purpose of a political agenda. It is certainly cherry-picked by minions of the fossil fuel industry. I would agree with you if the fossil

Re: victims of faith

2012-09-14 Thread meekerdb
On 9/14/2012 6:10 AM, Stephen P. King wrote: The "evidence" has strong indications of being manipulated for the purpose of a political agenda. It is certainly cherry-picked by minions of the fossil fuel industry. The way that the sensors are distributed and their data is weighed is the su

Re: victims of faith

2012-09-14 Thread Stephen P. King
rom:* Alberto G. Corona <mailto:agocor...@gmail.com> *Receiver:* everything-list <mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com> *Time:* 2012-09-14, 07:27:26 *Subject:* Re: Re: victims of faith Roger: right But there are two types of people: the ones that know that bel

Re: victims of faith

2012-09-14 Thread Stephen P. King
On 9/14/2012 4:02 AM, Alberto G. Corona wrote: There are different kinds of beliefs. The believer that has no strong evidences, know that he believe. He know that he believe. The second kind of believer does not know that he believe, because he live in a environment where the evidences are unco

Re: Re: Re: victims of faith

2012-09-14 Thread Roger Clough
owing content - From: Alberto G. Corona Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-09-14, 07:27:26 Subject: Re: Re: victims of faith Roger: right But there are two types of people: the ones that know that believe, that know that they are unfounded and the others that believe that known, who don? kno

Re: Re: victims of faith

2012-09-14 Thread Alberto G. Corona
ere's no God, we'd have to invent him > so that everything could function." > - Receiving the following content - > From: Alberto G. Corona > Receiver: everything-list > Time: 2012-09-13, 14:45:42 > Subject: Re: victims of faith > > > 2012/9/13 Stathis

Re: Re: victims of faith

2012-09-14 Thread Roger Clough
would say, "If there's no God, we'd have to invent him so that everything could function." - Receiving the following content - From: Alberto G. Corona Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-09-13, 14:45:42 Subject: Re: victims of faith 2012/9/13 Stathis Papaioan

Re: victims of faith

2012-09-14 Thread Alberto G. Corona
There are different kinds of beliefs. The believer that has no strong evidences, know that he believe. He know that he believe. The second kind of believer does not know that he believe, because he live in a environment where the evidences are uncontested in the environment where he lives. For ex

Re: victims of faith

2012-09-13 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 4:45 AM, Alberto G. Corona wrote: > I suppose that you mean that there are histories that everyone would > identify as bullshit. Well, this changes nothing. A myth by definition > is something believed by a group of people in the past. Most of them > as intelligent or more

Re: victims of faith

2012-09-13 Thread Alberto G. Corona
2012/9/13 Stathis Papaioannou : > On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 8:22 PM, Alberto G. Corona > wrote: >> There is no difference at all between religious mitifications and other >> mitifucatuons . See form, example the paper about Darwin that I posted. >> religion is a label that appears when the mith is

Re: victims of faith

2012-09-13 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 8:22 PM, Alberto G. Corona wrote: > There is no difference at all between religious mitifications and other > mitifucatuons . See form, example the paper about Darwin that I posted. > religion is a label that appears when the mith is old enough it has enough > believers and

Re: Re: Re: Re: victims of faith

2012-09-13 Thread Roger Clough
verything-list Time: 2012-09-12, 15:25:42 Subject: Re: Re: Re: victims of faith On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 7:47 AM, Roger Clough wrote: ?> God, being inextended, If God is not extended then He must be very small and that could be the reason we don't see Him. God is like a ger

Re: victims of faith

2012-09-12 Thread Bruno Marchal
-- Receiving the following content - From: Bruno Marchal Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-09-11, 15:05:44 Subject: Re: victims of faith On 11 Sep 2012, at 15:56, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Jason Resch What do we have that machines don't ? Intelligence, consciousnness, awareness. feelin

Re: Re: Re: victims of faith

2012-09-12 Thread John Clark
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 7:47 AM, Roger Clough wrote: > God, being inextended, > If God is not extended then He must be very small and that could be the reason we don't see Him. God is like a germ. > is invisible to the scientific method and logic > I think you're correct about that, God make

Re: Re: victims of faith

2012-09-12 Thread Alberto G. Corona
nvent him > so that everything could function." > > - Receiving the following content - > *From:* Alberto G. Corona > *Receiver:* everything-list > *Time:* 2012-09-12, 07:22:14 > *Subject:* Re: victims of faith > > Note that the natural definition of Truth an

Re: Re: victims of faith

2012-09-12 Thread Roger Clough
on." - Receiving the following content - From: Bruno Marchal Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-09-11, 15:05:44 Subject: Re: victims of faith On 11 Sep 2012, at 15:56, Roger Clough wrote: Hi Jason Resch What do we have that machines don't ? Intelligence, consciousnn

Re: Re: victims of faith

2012-09-12 Thread Roger Clough
nt him so that everything could function." - Receiving the following content - From: Alberto G. Corona Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-09-12, 07:22:14 Subject: Re: victims of faith Note that the natural definition of Truth and reality that arises from a evolutionarily-inform

Re: Re: Re: victims of faith

2012-09-12 Thread Roger Clough
27;s no God, we'd have to invent him so that everything could function." - Receiving the following content - From: John Clark Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-09-11, 16:51:53 Subject: Re: Re: victims of faith On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 7:50 AM, Roger Clough wrote: > Belief

Re: Re: victims of faith

2012-09-12 Thread Roger Clough
we'd have to invent him so that everything could function." - Receiving the following content - From: meekerdb Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-09-11, 12:47:05 Subject: Re: victims of faith On 9/11/2012 5:58 AM, Jason Resch wrote: > On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 6:54 AM, Ro

Re: victims of faith

2012-09-12 Thread Alberto G. Corona
Note that the natural definition of Truth and reality that arises from a evolutionarily-informed theory of biology psichology and sociology (sociobiology) is very simple: True and existent is whatever that make individuals and groups to be successful. Men and women "exist in reality" as objects of

Re: Re: Re: victims of faith

2012-09-12 Thread Roger Clough
- Receiving the following content - From: Craig Weinberg Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-09-11, 12:21:57 Subject: Re: Re: victims of faith On Tuesday, September 11, 2012 10:49:31 AM UTC-4, rclough wrote: Hi meekerdb How can you demythify something that actually happened ? Jesus re

Re: Re: victims of faith

2012-09-12 Thread Alberto G. Corona
no God, we'd have to invent him > so that everything could function." > > - Receiving the following content - > *From:* Alberto G. Corona > *Receiver:* everything-list > *Time:* 2012-09-11, 08:25:34 > *Subject:* Re: victims of faith > > every stateme

Re: victims of faith

2012-09-12 Thread Alberto G. Corona
There is no difference at all between religious mitifications and other mitifucatuons . See form, example the paper about Darwin that I posted. religion is a label that appears when the mith is old enough it has enough believers and the object of mitification is far away in time. People are reluct

Re: Re: victims of faith

2012-09-11 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 12:48 AM, Roger Clough wrote: > Hi meekerdb > > > How can you demythify something that actually happened ? > > Jesus really died on the cross and was resurrected. There's no point arguing with you if you believe things like that. -- Stathis Papaioannou -- You received

Re: Re: victims of faith

2012-09-11 Thread John Clark
On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 7:50 AM, Roger Clough wrote: > Belief in God is a gift from God, you cannot achieve it on your own. > OK but have you ever asked yourself why that should be? If God exists then that is the single most important fact about the universe, but why would the most powerful thin

Re: victims of faith

2012-09-11 Thread Bruno Marchal
ger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 9/11/2012 Leibniz would say, "If there's no God, we'd have to invent him so that everything could function." - Receiving the following content - From: Jason Resch Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-09-11, 09:04:05 Subject: Re: Re: victims of

Re: victims of faith

2012-09-11 Thread Bruno Marchal
uld function." - Receiving the following content - From: meekerdb Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-09-10, 16:02:09 Subject: Re: victims of faith On 9/10/2012 12:50 PM, Alberto G. Corona wrote: This paper of an evolutionist scientific denounces the mytification of Darwin, the

Re: victims of faith

2012-09-11 Thread meekerdb
On 9/11/2012 5:58 AM, Jason Resch wrote: On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 6:54 AM, Roger Clough wrote: Hi meekerdb Science is science and religion is religion and never the two shall meet. I'm not sure about this Roger. The goal of a true science and true religion, in my opinion, is the search of tr

Re: Re: victims of faith

2012-09-11 Thread Craig Weinberg
> Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net > 9/11/2012 > Leibniz would say, "If there's no God, we'd have to invent him > so that everything could function." > > - Receiving the following content - > *From:* meekerdb > *Receiver:* everything-list

Re: victims of faith

2012-09-11 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 10 Sep 2012, at 22:02, meekerdb wrote: On 9/10/2012 12:50 PM, Alberto G. Corona wrote: This paper of an evolutionist scientific denounces the mytification of Darwin, the spread of false claims that enhance his figure and even the creation of a physical temple around these myths. http:/

Re: victims of faith

2012-09-11 Thread Jason Resch
googlegroups.com Time: 2012-09-11, 10:53:27 Subject: Re: victims of faith I had a typo in my previous email. I meant to say that "NOT" all religions claim certainty. Some teach uncertainty or humbleness in the search for truth. On Sep 11, 2012, at 8:47 AM, "Roger Clough"

Re: victims of faith

2012-09-11 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 10 Sep 2012, at 21:17, Alberto G. Corona wrote: snip To summarize, religion is part of human nature. Yes. And with the most antic definition of those who have invented science, *including* theology, we can say that computer science confirms and generalizes this: all self-referential

Re: Re: victims of faith

2012-09-11 Thread Roger Clough
ontent - From: Jason Resch Receiver: everything-list@googlegroups.com Time: 2012-09-11, 10:53:27 Subject: Re: victims of faith I had a typo in my previous email. I meant to say that "NOT" all religions claim certainty. Some teach uncertainty or humbleness in the search for tr

Re: victims of faith

2012-09-11 Thread Jason Resch
function." - Receiving the following content - From: Jason Resch Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-09-11, 08:53:41 Subject: Re: victims of faith On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 7:45 AM, Stathis Papaioannou > wrote: But what is unique about religion is that its proponents make factual sta

Re: Re: victims of faith

2012-09-11 Thread Roger Clough
- Receiving the following content - From: meekerdb Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-09-10, 16:01:28 Subject: Re: victims of faith On 9/10/2012 12:50 PM, Alberto G. Corona wrote: This paper of an evolutionist scientific denounces the mytification of Darwin, the spread of false claims tha

Re: victims of faith

2012-09-11 Thread Jason Resch
Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 9/11/2012 Leibniz would say, "If there's no God, we'd have to invent him so that everything could function." - Receiving the following content - From: Jason Resch Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-09-11, 09:04:05 Subject: Re: Re: victims o

Re: Re: victims of faith

2012-09-11 Thread Roger Clough
n." - Receiving the following content - From: Stathis Papaioannou Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-09-11, 08:45:03 Subject: Re: victims of faith On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 10:25 PM, Alberto G. Corona wrote: > every statement about whatever, included "reality"

Re: Re: victims of faith

2012-09-11 Thread Roger Clough
n.net 9/11/2012 Leibniz would say, "If there's no God, we'd have to invent him so that everything could function." - Receiving the following content - From: Stathis Papaioannou Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-09-10, 19:43:38 Subject: Re: victims of faith On Tue

Re: Re: victims of faith

2012-09-11 Thread Roger Clough
erything-list Time: 2012-09-10, 19:43:38 Subject: Re: victims of faith On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 5:17 AM, Alberto G. Corona wrote: > that is not fair. 99.99 believed in God or in gods They differ in the > details. Atheists are a minority. > > In a deeper sense, atheists do believe i

Re: Re: Re: victims of faith

2012-09-11 Thread Roger Clough
everything could function." - Receiving the following content - From: Jason Resch Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-09-11, 09:04:05 Subject: Re: Re: victims of faith On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 7:50 AM, Roger Clough wrote: > Hi Alberto G. Corona > > Religious communion with God

Re: Re: victims of faith

2012-09-11 Thread Roger Clough
- Receiving the following content - From: Jason Resch Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-09-11, 08:53:41 Subject: Re: victims of faith On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 7:45 AM, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: But what is unique about religion is that its proponents make factual statement

Re: Re: victims of faith

2012-09-11 Thread Jason Resch
On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 7:50 AM, Roger Clough wrote: > Hi Alberto G. Corona > > Religious communion with God and prayer are transcendental so > not computable. > > Even those of the past who looked down on the "barbaric" and "uncivilized" native people believed they could be converted and saved.

Re: Re: victims of faith

2012-09-11 Thread Jason Resch
On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 6:54 AM, Roger Clough wrote: > > Hi meekerdb > > Science is science and religion is religion > and never the two shall meet. I'm not sure about this Roger. The goal of a true science and true religion, in my opinion, is the search of truth. In the Bahá'í Faith, it is sa

Re: victims of faith

2012-09-11 Thread Jason Resch
On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 7:45 AM, Stathis Papaioannou wrote: > But what is unique > about religion is that its proponents make factual statements which > they proudly profess to believe in the absence of any supporting > evidence, while disallowing such reasoning for bizarre beliefs > different to

Re: Re: victims of faith

2012-09-11 Thread Roger Clough
content - From: Alberto G. Corona Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-09-11, 08:25:34 Subject: Re: victims of faith every statement about ?hatever, included "reality" is made with mental concepts . ?he definition of truth, reality , factual, religion, depend on axioms or unpr

Re: victims of faith

2012-09-11 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 10:25 PM, Alberto G. Corona wrote: > every statement about whatever, included "reality" is made with mental > concepts . The definition of truth, reality , factual, religion, depend on > axioms or unproved statements. I presented a computational-evolutionary, > falsable,

Re: victims of faith

2012-09-11 Thread Alberto G. Corona
every statement about whatever, included "reality" is made with mental concepts . The definition of truth, reality , factual, religion, depend on axioms or unproved statements. I presented a computational-evolutionary, falsable, exposition of what religion is: a part of a wider class of phenomen

Re: victims of faith

2012-09-11 Thread Alberto G. Corona
2012/9/10 meekerdb : > On 9/10/2012 12:50 PM, Alberto G. Corona wrote: > > This paper of an evolutionist scientific denounces the mytification of > Darwin, the spread of false claims that enhance his figure and even > the creation of a physical temple around these myths. > > http://www.epjournal.ne

Re: Re: victims of faith

2012-09-11 Thread Roger Clough
From: meekerdb Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-09-10, 16:02:09 Subject: Re: victims of faith On 9/10/2012 12:50 PM, Alberto G. Corona wrote: This paper of an evolutionist scientific denounces the mytification of Darwin, the spread of false claims that enhance his figure and even the cr

Re: Re: victims of faith

2012-09-11 Thread Roger Clough
- Receiving the following content - From: meekerdb Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-09-10, 15:49:44 Subject: Re: victims of faith Having obfuscated the meaning of "God" as much as possible, let's see if we can also fuzz-up the meaning of "believe in" - because,

Re: Re: victims of faith

2012-09-11 Thread Roger Clough
Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-09-10, 15:17:21 Subject: Re: victims of faith that is not fair. 99.99 believed in God or in gods They differ in the details. Atheists are a minority. In a deeper sense, atheists do believe in gods. problably modern atheism is one the most basic, new and thus,

Re: victims of faith

2012-09-10 Thread meekerdb
On 9/10/2012 12:50 PM, Alberto G. Corona wrote: This paper of an evolutionist scientific denounces the mytification of Darwin, the spread of false claims that enhance his figure and even the creation of a physical temple around these myths. http://www.epjournal.net/wp-content/uploads/ep055269.pd

Re: victims of faith

2012-09-10 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 5:17 AM, Alberto G. Corona wrote: > that is not fair. 99.99 believed in God or in gods They differ in the > details. Atheists are a minority. > > In a deeper sense, atheists do believe in gods. problably modern > atheism is one the most basic, new and thus, primitive religi

Re: victims of faith

2012-09-10 Thread meekerdb
Having obfuscated the meaning of "God" as much as possible, let's see if we can also fuzz-up the meaning of "believe in" - because, above all, we really really want to be able to say "We believe in God." and we want to be able to say "You really believe in God." and if you think you don't it is

Re: victims of faith

2012-09-10 Thread meekerdb
On 9/10/2012 12:50 PM, Alberto G. Corona wrote: This paper of an evolutionist scientific denounces the mytification of Darwin, the spread of false claims that enhance his figure and even the creation of a physical temple around these myths. http://www.epjournal.net/wp-content/uploads/ep055269.pd

Re: Re: victims of faith

2012-09-10 Thread Alberto G. Corona
ng the following content ----- >> From: Alberto G. Corona >> Receiver: everything-list >> Time: 2012-09-09, 15:50:53 >> Subject: Re: victims of faith >> >> So you have a very strong belief: That almost all but a few >> enlightened people like you in the

Re: Re: victims of faith

2012-09-10 Thread Alberto G. Corona
y, "If there's no God, we'd have to invent him > so that everything could function." > > - Receiving the following content - > From: Alberto G. Corona > Receiver: everything-list > Time: 2012-09-09, 15:50:53 > Subject: Re: victims of faith > > S

Re: victims of faith

2012-09-10 Thread Alberto G. Corona
that is not fair. 99.99 believed in God or in gods They differ in the details. Atheists are a minority. In a deeper sense, atheists do believe in gods. problably modern atheism is one the most basic, new and thus, primitive religions, as I will show here: Seeing the development of religion whe

Re: Re: victims of faith

2012-09-10 Thread Roger Clough
he following content - From: Alberto G. Corona Receiver: everything-list Time: 2012-09-09, 15:50:53 Subject: Re: victims of faith So you have a very strong belief: That almost all but a few enlightened people like you in the History of humanity are a bunch of silly idiots. This sense of superior

Re: victims of faith

2012-09-09 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 5:50 AM, Alberto G. Corona wrote: > So you have a very strong belief: That almost all but a few > enlightened people like you in the History of humanity are a bunch of > silly idiots. Actually, almost everyone in the history of humanity has thought that 99.99% of all relig

Re: victims of faith

2012-09-09 Thread Alberto G. Corona
So you have a very strong belief: That almost all but a few enlightened people like you in the History of humanity are a bunch of silly idiots. This sense of superiority, combined with a voluntary repression of doubt certainly can susbstitute any lack of absolute meaning of life at least for some

Re: victims of faith

2012-09-09 Thread John Clark
On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 7:30 AM, Roger Clough wrote: > > > > What I find curious about atheists is that because > one can prove neither that there is a god or not, > both theism and atheism must rely on faith-- that > their position is true. > I can't prove God doesn't exist but I can prove He's s