Originally posted by Sadako of Girth
Anti-theism can arise from a disgust at the slavery implied in belief.
Are you saying that Dennett, Dawkins, Hitchens, Harris are dumb?
How is an asseration sentient and intelligent enough to be comparable to a human? The idea can be intelligent, but you cannot logically use that definition to apply as some sort of cognitive comparative against a sentient.
Don't you think that's silly?
Idea A is an intelligent idea.
Person 1, holds idea &, which contradicts Idea A.
Conclusion: Person 1 is automatically dumb.
Originally posted by Sadako of Girth
There collective list of credentials alone would refute that dumb label if so..
Incorrect premise has lead to an incorrect conclusion. Additionally, we can get quite philosphical and say that the credentials themselves are not an indication of intelligence, merely an exposure to knowledge and an ability to produce that knowledge in an individualistic way in consort with their experiences.
We can go a step further than that and say that their "intelligent" is actually debatable, to begin with, on a relative scale. Where is this scale? Why is it arbitrary?
Originally posted by Sadako of Girth
Who do you believe Ptolomy, or Gallileo on Heliocentricity?
Ptolomy was the proponent of geocentricity. Gallileo recanted his heliocentricity belief (under extreme pressure, of course...and I believe he continued to believe it).
"Who is Copernicus" is the correct answer.
Alex, "Astronomers" for 500, please.
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I need to edit this, though: I DO get your point.
However, all we have to do is put ourselves in another star-system OR use math to predict with 100% accuracy where a planet ould be based on the heliocentric model.
Originally posted by Sadako of Girth
Cause people who claimed to be god's boys, who acted as middle men between humanity and "god", and claimed like usual to know his plans methods etc and looked like the fools they were once it was pointed out that we revolve around stars, not the other way round.
Ancient texts, and characters in them have zero effect on our universe."Prove otherwise" would be the point, anyhow.
Well...0 effect is actually wrong. Very very very very little effect COULD be right. lol!