Faith and Reason
Jean Buridan presented a “logical” proof of the existence of God:
- God exists.
- Neither of these sentences is true.
The two statements can be reconciled only if God exists.
Replace sentence #1 with any statement at all and you’ll better understand why I’m an empiricist and not a rationalist. Merely because something must logically be so, does not imply actual existence. That being said, I can almost guarantee there exist solid logical and rational refutations of this proposition. It’s a play on an idea called “Plato’s Beard”, which leads to some very complicated situations, yet has been shown to be false in numerous ways.
“God so loved the world that he made up his mind to damn a large majority of the human race” - Robert Green Ingersoll
Get off our country.
"All of this massive cosmological churning and destruction (which is paralleled, by the way, on our own earth where 99% of all species that have ever existed have gone extinct) could be part of a plan. There is no way an atheist could prove it’s not. But it’s some plan, isn’t it? With mass destruction, pitiless extermination, annihilation going on all the time. And all of this set in motion on a scale that’s absolutely beyond our imagination…in order that the pope can tell people not to jerk off."
— Christopher Hitchens (via sixtyforty) (via friendlyatheist)
Check out Sam Harris and Michael Shermer as they unfathomably put up with Deepak Chopra’s nonsense…
Penny Arcade! - The God Of Abraham, Isaac, And Jacob
Heck, I don’t even need a video game to do that.
"I don’t think we’re here for anything; we’re just products of evolution. You can say, ‘Gee, your life must be pretty bleak if you don’t think there’s a purpose,’ but I’m anticipating a good lunch."
— Dr. James Watson, Co-discoverer of the structure of DNA (via Wallbase.net)
(via Dump.com)
Pinocchio is God.
(via photofile.name)
Still trying to figure this one out…
There are those who honestly believe this.
