Re: Re: victims of faith

2012-09-15 Thread Roger Clough
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 orthodoxy and the creeds. Hard to go wrong

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

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

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 Papaioannou : On Wed, Sep 12

Re: Re: victims of faith

2012-09-14 Thread Alberto G. Corona
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 Papaioannou : On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 8:22 PM, Alberto G. Corona wrote

Re: Re: Re: victims of faith

2012-09-14 Thread Roger Clough
: 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? know that they are unfounded

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

Re: victims of faith

2012-09-14 Thread Stephen P. King
*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 believe, that know that they are unfounded and the others that believe

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

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 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

Re: Re: Re: Re: victims of faith

2012-09-13 Thread Roger Clough
: 2012-09-12, 15:25:42 Subject: Re: Re: Re: victims of faith On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 7:47 AM, Roger Clough rclo...@verizon.net 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

Re: victims of faith

2012-09-13 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 8:22 PM, Alberto G. Corona agocor...@gmail.com 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

Re: victims of faith

2012-09-13 Thread Alberto G. Corona
2012/9/13 Stathis Papaioannou stath...@gmail.com: On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 8:22 PM, Alberto G. Corona agocor...@gmail.com 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

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

Re: Re: victims of faith

2012-09-12 Thread Alberto G. Corona
him so that everything could function. - Receiving the following content - *From:* Alberto G. Corona agocor...@gmail.com *Receiver:* everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com *Time:* 2012-09-11, 08:25:34 *Subject:* Re: victims of faith every statement about 爓hatever, included

Re: Re: Re: victims of faith

2012-09-12 Thread Roger Clough
- 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 really died on the cross

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: victims of faith

2012-09-12 Thread Roger Clough
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, Roger Cloughrclo

Re: Re: Re: victims of faith

2012-09-12 Thread Roger Clough
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 rclo...@verizon.net wrote: Belief in God is a gift from

Re: Re: victims of faith

2012-09-12 Thread Roger Clough
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-informed theory of biology psichology

Re: Re: victims of faith

2012-09-12 Thread Roger Clough
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. feelings-- in short

Re: Re: victims of faith

2012-09-12 Thread Alberto G. Corona
content - *From:* Alberto G. Corona agocor...@gmail.com *Receiver:* everything-list everything-list@googlegroups.com *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-informed theory of biology

Re: Re: Re: victims of faith

2012-09-12 Thread John Clark
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 7:47 AM, Roger Clough rclo...@verizon.net 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

Re: victims of faith

2012-09-12 Thread Bruno Marchal
: 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. feelings-- in short, we have life, machines don't And what

Re: Re: victims of faith

2012-09-11 Thread Roger Clough
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, primitive religions, as I

Re: Re: victims of faith

2012-09-11 Thread Roger Clough
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, above all, we really really want to be able to say

Re: Re: victims of faith

2012-09-11 Thread Roger Clough
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 creation of a physical

Re: victims of faith

2012-09-11 Thread Alberto G. Corona
2012/9/10 meekerdb meeke...@verizon.net: 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.

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

Re: victims of faith

2012-09-11 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 10:25 PM, Alberto G. Corona agocor...@gmail.com 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

Re: Re: victims of faith

2012-09-11 Thread Roger Clough
: 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 unproved statements. I presented

Re: victims of faith

2012-09-11 Thread Jason Resch
On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 7:45 AM, Stathis Papaioannou stath...@gmail.comwrote: 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

Re: Re: victims of faith

2012-09-11 Thread Jason Resch
On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 6:54 AM, Roger Clough rclo...@verizon.net 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

Re: Re: victims of faith

2012-09-11 Thread Jason Resch
On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 7:50 AM, Roger Clough rclo...@verizon.net 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

Re: Re: victims of faith

2012-09-11 Thread Roger Clough
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 stath...@gmail.com wrote: But what is unique about religion is that its proponents make factual statements which

Re: 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, 09:04:05 Subject: Re: Re: victims of faith On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 7:50 AM, Roger Clough rclo...@verizon.net wrote: Hi Alberto G. Corona Religious communion with God and prayer

Re: Re: victims of faith

2012-09-11 Thread Roger Clough
-09-10, 19:43:38 Subject: Re: victims of faith On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 5:17 AM, Alberto G. Corona agocor...@gmail.com 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

Re: Re: victims of faith

2012-09-11 Thread Roger Clough
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, Sep 11, 2012 at 5:17 AM

Re: Re: victims of faith

2012-09-11 Thread Roger Clough
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 is made with mental concepts

Re: victims of faith

2012-09-11 Thread Jason Resch
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 faith On Tue, Sep 11

Re: Re: victims of faith

2012-09-11 Thread Roger Clough
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 that enhance his figure

Re: victims of faith

2012-09-11 Thread Jason Resch
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 stath...@gmail.com wrote: But what is unique about religion is that its proponents make factual statements which

Re: Re: victims of faith

2012-09-11 Thread Roger Clough
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 truth. On Sep 11, 2012, at 8:47 AM, Roger

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.

Re: Re: victims of faith

2012-09-11 Thread Craig Weinberg
/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 javascript: *Receiver:* everything-list javascript: *Time:* 2012-09-10, 16:01:28 *Subject:* Re: victims of faith On 9

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 Cloughrclo...@verizon.net 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,

Re: victims of faith

2012-09-11 Thread Bruno Marchal
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 spread of false claims that enhance his figure

Re: victims of faith

2012-09-11 Thread Bruno Marchal
, 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 faith On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 7

Re: Re: victims of faith

2012-09-11 Thread John Clark
On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 7:50 AM, Roger Clough rclo...@verizon.net 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

Re: Re: victims of faith

2012-09-11 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 12:48 AM, Roger Clough rclo...@verizon.net 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 --

Re: Re: victims of faith

2012-09-10 Thread Roger Clough
: 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 superiority, combined

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

Re: Re: victims of faith

2012-09-10 Thread Alberto G. Corona
, 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 So you have a very strong belief: That almost all but a few enlightened people

Re: Re: victims of faith

2012-09-10 Thread Alberto G. Corona
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.pdf Victims of faith are we all, and also

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.

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 just

Re: victims of faith

2012-09-10 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 5:17 AM, Alberto G. Corona agocor...@gmail.com 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,

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.

victims of faith

2012-09-09 Thread Roger Clough
Hi John Clark 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. Roger Clough, rclo...@verizon.net 9/9/2012 Leibniz would say, If there's no God, we'd have to invent him

Re: victims of faith

2012-09-09 Thread John Clark
On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 7:30 AM, Roger Clough rclo...@verizon.net 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

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

Re: victims of faith

2012-09-09 Thread Stathis Papaioannou
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 5:50 AM, Alberto G. Corona agocor...@gmail.com 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