religion

[RobotElvis]

Originally Posted by paulgiamatti [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Eliseus, RobotElvis and G13 are disqualified from this discussion. They can't even differentiate between the ideas of belief and atheism, or religion and evolution. If you want to be caught in their web of circular logic and unfalsifiable claims, then by all means go right ahead. They are not approaching this conversation from a rational standpoint and are therefore removed from consideration for any semblance of rational debate.

I do have a response for Toofliss though, but I don't think I have time to get around to it today.

"Neither lastly would our observer be driven out of his conclusion, or from his confidence in its truth, by being told that he knows nothing at all about the matter. He knows enough for his argument; he knows the utility of the end; he knows the subserviency and adaptation of the means to the end. These points being known, his ignorance concerning other points, his doubts concerning other points, affect not the certainty of his reasoning. The consciousness of knowing little need not beget a distrust of that which he does know."
Paley's '_Natural Theology_,' chap. i