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Posted on January 14 at 1:44 p.m. (Suggest removal)
I know ghost, I can't believe their are two atheists living in Pike County. What is the world coming to? You should probably blame the parents.
Posted on January 14 at 11:29 a.m. (Suggest removal)
YEM beat me to that fictious email. Glad there is someone here that doesn't just accept a statement at face value. Reminds me of the email about the bailout claiming every adult could receive around $450,000 if the goverment issued the bailout proposed to the finanical sector to individuals instead when it was actually about $450/person. So many people just accepted it and didn't do the math themselves. Maybe they just wanted to believe it.
Posted on January 14 at 11:24 a.m. (Suggest removal)
auburnfan: So you are saying your believe out of fear? It seems that is the most common reason for believing in God, however I believe a God that functions on fear to be not so kind and benevolent as people make him out to be. To me he seems more like an insecure bully, "kiss my shoes or I'll beat you up" kind of guy. As for the repercussions of believing in God, see my comment to shiftingshadows. Lastly, believing simply to hedge your bets probably doesn't work but is like burning the candle at both ends.
Virtuous: I have seen that conversation many times over the past few years, sometimes the student is some random Christian, sometimes it is Albert Einstein (who isn't even a theist), but it always involves an arrogant atheist professor getting debunked. The best part of the story is that is it totally fabricated. That is right, it never happened. Seems a little deceptive that some Christian made up this story to further his/her cause. It is not surprising as this is often the case with these stories. Take the "Seven Promises of a Promise Keeper" books or the "Perceptions" commericals from various churches in the area, they are almost always fictious and passed around from one church to another and passed off as fact.
Nevertheless, let me tackle the dialogue between this student and professor as if it really happened. First off, both 'heat' and 'cold' are subjective terms. They are what are called "secondary qualities". The secondary qualities refer to how humans experience a very real phenomena: the movement of atomic particles. The terms 'heat' and 'cold' refer to an interaction between the human nervous system and various speeds of atomic particles in their environment. So what we 'really' have is temperature. The terms 'heat' and "cold' are merely subjective terms we use to denote our relative experience of temperature. The same goes for "light" and "darkness" being subjective secondary qualities. So the entire argument is specious. He has not 'proven' that 'cold' does not exist, or that 'cold' somehow exists without any ontological status, what he has done is shown that 'cold' is a subjective term.
Also, maybe you should take a class on logic because there is so much wrong with this statement: "We could not do it...so there has to be a God."
Negative proof much?
Posted on January 14 at 11:23 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Bamabunny: If you do not want your children to be taught about ambiogenesis and evolution then I suggest you transfer them to a private school as this is required in the state bilogy curriculum. If your student's biology teacher actually teaches it I do not know, but if a teacher doesn't teach it regardless of their reasoning then I do not give much credit to that teacher.
shiftingshadows: I suppose I comment on this subject because it bothers me greatly that in this age people are still basing a large portion of their lives on superstitious religious beliefs that put the brakes on scientific research that could potentally save millions of lives around the world. Instead these people ask the ill and starving to merely pray for God to help. That's moral unapprensible to me. Also, there are quite a few religious people that feel that their religion supercedes the rights and freedoms of others. Denying someone a right because the Bible says it is wrong is no justification for doing so in my opinion.
Posted on January 13 at 4:21 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Well I pity you, living your life for a god that doesn't exist. I guess as long as we are all happy, even if that mean deluding yourself. As a teacher, at least I can teach your children to use reason and logic regarding these decisions.
Posted on January 13 at 2:01 p.m. (Suggest removal)
I suppose they do need more room to hold the drugs from these recent raids until they are able to resell them on Dunbar.
Posted on January 13 at 1:59 p.m. (Suggest removal)
"When Joshua Allen was just a “kid,’ he noticed that whatever he did, his shadow did the exact same thing."
How observant of him. Harvard material I say.
Oh, and that is just good writting Mrs. Threadwell.
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Posted on January 13 at 1:51 p.m. (Suggest removal)
I wonder if those salaries increases include his salary also?
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Posted on January 13 at 1:49 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Keg party at Curtis Blair's house!
On County approves salary changes for Revenue Commission employees
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Posted on January 14 at 1:45 p.m. (Suggest removal)
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