Recent content by Mike

You "proved" that unicorns didn't exist basically by saying "because we have never observed one". If you call this proof then you have to accept it as proof when someone applies the same argument to god or anything else. But you don't. You are just a big contradiction. Just because it's called...

You cannot prove that something does not exist. All you can do is show people that there is no reason to believe it. In many cases it's as simple as "because you pulled that out of your ***". In other cases, it's required that you refute the points brought up from the other side. Either way...

I don't believe that. You replied to Ballistic's post which was made well after ballin4life's (and not even directed directly at you). You also ignored one of my posts from beforehand showing why your arguments for the "improbability of universal constants" don't work even after i repeatedly...

Dre conveniently ignores this point. He does this a lot actually.

It's not a bad question to ask. Hawking states that the universe began in a point of space and time, but I've also read that the space and time were brought into existence by the Big Bang. Not having any sort of formal education on the subject, you can see why that would confuse me. While it is...

Actually Dre's point is that the observable universe was created with time and space already existing, so how did time and space come about? I'm not sure if there's an explanation for that.

@ballin4life: Explanations are on the previous pages. It's not necessary to repeat them on every post. This thread is just becoming one huge circlejerk... @Ganonsburg: No, only those holding a position have burden of proof. Someone without a position only has burden of proof if he needs to...

No, actually this is where I honestly say "I don't know" instead of force myself to take a position. Although I would argue that this very topic is completely absurd and has no potential for a good debate. Um, yes I can. Because it's TRUE. Hardly. I'm not here to argue against points that...

Nobody has shown that its existence is necessary for anything. You attempt to argue that the universe must have a "first cause" and then that this cause must have a number of characteristics that are either arbitrary or internally contradicting (such as having free will and the capacity to act...

The statement is logically consistent because for the second half of the statement to have meaning, the first has to be a relation; and assuming you do exist, the first is NOT a relation. The statement does not imply that the moon will ever be made of cheese.

So how is it logically derived that this god cannot be impersonal? Logic is a system we use to derive truths from other statements assumed to be true. There is NO other use for it. Somehow you manage to come up with the claims you make, but they are either illogical or based on arbitrary...

This needs to be justified (but don't bother trying, it can't be). This also needs to be justified and further explained. What do you mean by "personal" and why does the lack of it make it similar to the big bang in a relevant way. Also, why is asking "what caused the big bang" even a...

Here's the thing about the universe: an underlying reality does not exist. It just doesn't. Seemingly clear observables such as the order of events and length of objects will be different depending on your frame of reference - and neither one of them will be "wrong"! Because of this, we cannot...

We can observe things that cockroaches cannot. And because we live in the same universe as them, anything we find existing will exist for the cockroach as well. Do you understand that if a reality is not limited to only things that are observable, then all realities must contain an infinite...

You are putting words into my mouth. I never claimed that a god cannot exist. It doesn't matter if our perceptions "correlate to reality". If such a reality cannot be observed through our perceptions, then it is not a reality at all - it is irrelevant! Anything that is observable is said to be...