Comments on: How Did I Miss This? http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2006/12/30/how-did-i-miss-this/ by Hemant Mehta Tue, 14 Feb 2012 02:01:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: DDrake http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2006/12/30/how-did-i-miss-this/#comment-117935 DDrake Wed, 23 Jan 2008 18:21:03 +0000 http://friendlyatheist.com/2006/12/30/how-did-i-miss-this/#comment-117935 To Darsch "I'm not an atheist and I don't think I can call myself a pantheist. We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many different languages. The child knows someone must have written those books. It does not know how. The child dimly suspects a mysterious order in the arrangement of the books but doesn't know what it is. That, it seems to me, is the attitude of even the most intelligent human being toward God. We see a universe marvelously arranged and obeying certain laws, but only dimly understand these laws. Our limited minds cannot grasp the mysterious force that moves the constellations. I am fascinated by Spinoza's pantheism, but admire even more his contributions to modern thought because he is the first philosopher to deal with the soul and the body as one, not two separate things." Attributed to A. Einstein. Although he did not believe in a personal God, one cannot say that Albert did not believe in God. And I think he went far beyond using the term "God" as a comparison to "Mother Nature." To Darsch

“I’m not an atheist and I don’t think I can call myself a pantheist. We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many different languages. The child knows someone must have written those books. It does not know how. The child dimly suspects a mysterious order in the arrangement of the books but doesn’t know what it is. That, it seems to me, is the attitude of even the most intelligent human being toward God. We see a universe marvelously arranged and obeying certain laws, but only dimly understand these laws. Our limited minds cannot grasp the mysterious force that moves the constellations. I am fascinated by Spinoza’s pantheism, but admire even more his contributions to modern thought because he is the first philosopher to deal with the soul and the body as one, not two separate things.”

Attributed to A. Einstein.

Although he did not believe in a personal God, one cannot say that Albert did not believe in God. And I think he went far beyond using the term “God” as a comparison to “Mother Nature.”

]]> By: Meryl http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2006/12/30/how-did-i-miss-this/#comment-108490 Meryl Sun, 30 Dec 2007 06:08:21 +0000 http://friendlyatheist.com/2006/12/30/how-did-i-miss-this/#comment-108490 Uh a penis fits in his mouth ...does that mean god wants him to blow guys? Uh a penis fits in his mouth …does that mean god wants him to blow guys?

]]> By: Friendly Atheist » Atheist’s Paradise http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2006/12/30/how-did-i-miss-this/#comment-61130 Friendly Atheist » Atheist’s Paradise Mon, 13 Aug 2007 01:39:20 +0000 http://friendlyatheist.com/2006/12/30/how-did-i-miss-this/#comment-61130 [...] references the banana argument and Get Out of Hell Free cards. So you know it must be [...] [...] references the banana argument and Get Out of Hell Free cards. So you know it must be [...]

]]> By: Paul http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2006/12/30/how-did-i-miss-this/#comment-47590 Paul Mon, 25 Jun 2007 10:05:12 +0000 http://friendlyatheist.com/2006/12/30/how-did-i-miss-this/#comment-47590 Hey Rick, so just how would you go about proving "God"? Just curious, Paul Hey Rick,

so just how would you go about proving “God”?

Just curious,
Paul

]]> By: Richard Wade http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2006/12/30/how-did-i-miss-this/#comment-40493 Richard Wade Mon, 11 Jun 2007 09:04:02 +0000 http://friendlyatheist.com/2006/12/30/how-did-i-miss-this/#comment-40493 Hey Alex, welcome. If you understand it well enough, could you explain in lay terms what the Plasma Universe Theory is? It sounds interesting. I've never completely liked he Big Bang Theory myself. Too noisy. How Comfort and Cameron get from the Big Banana Theory to the Big God Theory by way of the Big Bang Theory is way beyond my ability to follow, but the consensus around here is they've got nothing but the Big Fart in a Gale Theory. The Plasma Universe Theory doesn't have the word "Big" in it, which is a plus right from the start and if you can't fit a banana into it for the first several billion years, great! Hey Alex, welcome. If you understand it well enough, could you explain in lay terms what the Plasma Universe Theory is? It sounds interesting. I’ve never completely liked he Big Bang Theory myself. Too noisy.

How Comfort and Cameron get from the Big Banana Theory to the Big God Theory by way of the Big Bang Theory is way beyond my ability to follow, but the consensus around here is they’ve got nothing but the Big Fart in a Gale Theory.

The Plasma Universe Theory doesn’t have the word “Big” in it, which is a plus right from the start and if you can’t fit a banana into it for the first several billion years, great!

]]> By: Alex Leckie http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2006/12/30/how-did-i-miss-this/#comment-40481 Alex Leckie Mon, 11 Jun 2007 07:16:48 +0000 http://friendlyatheist.com/2006/12/30/how-did-i-miss-this/#comment-40481 Hey everyone just discovered the site and have found some interesting things. but i would just like to add that last year for my year 10 science project we had to choose a scientific issue and i decided to do antimatter as it has always fascinated me, but what came as a big surprise to me is that a lot of scientists have begun to stop supporting the big bang theory as it does not explain the existance a massive collections of antimatter in our universe and instead have moved to towards the "Plasma Universe Theory" Just thought id share that. Hey everyone just discovered the site and have found some interesting things. but i would just like to add that last year for my year 10 science project we had to choose a scientific issue and i decided to do antimatter as it has always fascinated me, but what came as a big surprise to me is that a lot of scientists have begun to stop supporting the big bang theory as it does not explain the existance a massive collections of antimatter in our universe and instead have moved to towards the “Plasma Universe Theory”

Just thought id share that.

]]> By: Brent Galloway http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2006/12/30/how-did-i-miss-this/#comment-27684 Brent Galloway Mon, 14 May 2007 12:39:14 +0000 http://friendlyatheist.com/2006/12/30/how-did-i-miss-this/#comment-27684 The bannana proves that god has homoerotic fantasies or is a woman. Well, that statment isn't any dumber than the statment "The bannana proves God's existance." The bannana proves that god has homoerotic fantasies or is a woman.

Well, that statment isn’t any dumber than the statment “The bannana proves God’s existance.”

]]> By: Barney http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2006/12/30/how-did-i-miss-this/#comment-5571 Barney Sun, 11 Feb 2007 21:34:39 +0000 http://friendlyatheist.com/2006/12/30/how-did-i-miss-this/#comment-5571 If he hadn't put his fist in front of his crotch everyone would have seen the boner he was getting from his pal's homoerotic banana play. To which you'll notice he is completely oblivious, and has to tell Kirk that he's being serious when Kirk starts giggling. That said, yes this is funny. But the counterpoints were poor and unnecessary. I'm a theist -- a similar situation would be if I pretended to be an atheist and made a video about a pineapple to prove that God doesn't exist, and then another video pointing out how asinine that is. If he hadn’t put his fist in front of his crotch everyone would have seen the boner he was getting from his pal’s homoerotic banana play. To which you’ll notice he is completely oblivious, and has to tell Kirk that he’s being serious when Kirk starts giggling.

That said, yes this is funny. But the counterpoints were poor and unnecessary. I’m a theist — a similar situation would be if I pretended to be an atheist and made a video about a pineapple to prove that God doesn’t exist, and then another video pointing out how asinine that is.

]]> By: David Jackmanson http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2006/12/30/how-did-i-miss-this/#comment-4822 David Jackmanson Tue, 30 Jan 2007 12:53:10 +0000 http://friendlyatheist.com/2006/12/30/how-did-i-miss-this/#comment-4822 If God is perfect, why doesn't he send a media adviser to Kirk, who would tell him: "Dude, DON'T sit with your fist in front of your crotch." ? If God is perfect, why doesn’t he send a media adviser to Kirk, who would tell him:

“Dude, DON’T sit with your fist in front of your crotch.” ?

]]> By: Carl Wong http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2006/12/30/how-did-i-miss-this/#comment-2797 Carl Wong Tue, 02 Jan 2007 14:04:32 +0000 http://friendlyatheist.com/2006/12/30/how-did-i-miss-this/#comment-2797 Ray Comfort and Kirk Cameron lack credibility since they are implying that Albert Einstein believed in a personal God like they do. The following are all quotes from Albert Einsten: “It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly…I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms…I cannot conceive of a personal God who would directly influence the actions of individuals, or would directly sit in judgment on creatures of his own creation…I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the kind that we experience in ourselves…I believe in Spinoza's God who reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists, not in a God who concerns himself with the fates and actions of human beings… The idea of a personal God is quite alien to me and seems even naïve” (See http://www.positiveatheism.org/hist/einprayr.htm) Ray Comfort and Kirk Cameron lack credibility since they are implying that Albert Einstein believed in a personal God like they do. The following are all quotes from Albert Einsten:
“It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly…I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own — a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms…I cannot conceive of a personal God who would directly influence the actions of individuals, or would directly sit in judgment on creatures of his own creation…I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the kind that we experience in ourselves…I believe in Spinoza’s God who reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists, not in a God who concerns himself with the fates and actions of human beings… The idea of a personal God is quite alien to me and seems even naïve” (See http://www.positiveatheism.org/hist/einprayr.htm)

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