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Originally posted by TheBandit795
Originally posted by lilblam
And that's the problem isn't it? Why does evidence have to convince you of truth?
??? Are you saying that having evidence doesn't mean it's true???
Just see stuff for what it is, EVIDENCE. And POSSIBILITIES. But why assume it's true! How much evidence did it take to convince someone that God exists? Imagine how much evidence it could take to convince them afterwards that God, infact, does NOT exist. That's almost impossible for some people after their belief is strong enough. Belief tends to ignore evidence to the contrary!
What if science does find out that God does exists?
So we are only dealing with the Christian concept of a creator God.
Originally posted by Esoterica
liblam, when you eat a ham sandwich, you believe that it will taste like ham. You don't do the math in your head and decide odds are good that it will (If you claim that you do, your are bull#ting). You have faith that it will taste like ham.
To say that before anything existed, a God existed, is an oxymoron. Such a statement can neither be understood nor conceived by our minds. It can not possibly be true and here is why. If a God existed, then that God is something. And something is not nothing. So the universe could not have possibly come from nothing. It must have come from something. Thom's law explains that.
Originally posted by TheBandit795
Do you have any proof that the god you just described does not exsists? Other than "that's just the universe"?
Originally posted by lilblam
Lol I don't do either. Why should I BELIEVE it tastes like ham. Oh and there's no need to do any math. It looks like ham sandwich, and smells like a ham sandwich, and the environment that I receive it in is a plausible setting (not a bunch of drunk friends giving me something with a blindfold on). So I give it a high probability for potentially tasting like one too. BUT. Why should I believe? Or do math? I simply smell it, and HOPE it is and just bite into it. I don't believe it is. What if I BELIEVE THAT IT IS and it turns out to be a turkey sandwich with a ham-smelling spray on it. See where belief can lead you?
Originally posted by Esoterica
To say that before anything existed, a God existed, is an oxymoron. Such a statement can neither be understood nor conceived by our minds. It can not possibly be true and here is why. If a God existed, then that God is something. And something is not nothing. So the universe could not have possibly come from nothing. It must have come from something. Thom's law explains that.
That's semantics arguing at it's worst.
BTW, google pulls up no reference to Thom's Law besides this website and the one it was copied from.
Originally posted by Esoterica
Originally posted by lilblam
Lol I don't do either. Why should I BELIEVE it tastes like ham. Oh and there's no need to do any math. It looks like ham sandwich, and smells like a ham sandwich, and the environment that I receive it in is a plausible setting (not a bunch of drunk friends giving me something with a blindfold on). So I give it a high probability for potentially tasting like one too. BUT. Why should I believe? Or do math? I simply smell it, and HOPE it is and just bite into it. I don't believe it is. What if I BELIEVE THAT IT IS and it turns out to be a turkey sandwich with a ham-smelling spray on it. See where belief can lead you?
Belief can lead you to be wrong. Doesn't mean you don't do it.
Probability=math
And no, you do not entertain in your conscious mind for even a second that it won't taste like ham.
Originally posted by lilblam
Because what I just described WAS the universe. Why would you want to call it God? Call it whatever you like, it's still the same thing. It's EVERYTHING. So if you wanna say God is that omnipresent, omnipotent, kind of thing that exists in absolutely everything at all times, why not just call it "everything". Unless EVERYTHING THAT EXISTS does have its own separate consciousness, but why would it be separate from us, are we not part of the everything?
Originally posted by lilblam
Ok screw Tom and his law.
Ok not his law. The law applies.
Do you NOT agree that you cannot have something out of nothing?
Do you think an all-powerful God could violate that? Do you really think so?
Originally posted by Esoterica
Originally posted by lilblam
Ok screw Tom and his law.
So you're admitting you amde up Thom's Law? OK, one strike to credibility.
*** WRONG. The law isn't mine, look it up. Look at the link. Check Google. I said SCREW IT as in forget it was made by Thom, it's the LAW that's important, not that author.
Ok not his law. The law applies.
English, do you speak it?
***Attack my English, that gives YOU tons of credibility. I said: "Fine, let's say it's NOT his law since you're so sure it doesn't exist on Google, who really cares whose law it is". The next sentence: "The law still applies to reality, no matter who says it. If Thom didn't say 1+1=2 we don't care either".
Do you NOT agree that you cannot have something out of nothing?
I've seen evidence going both ways ont his issue, so to have one's mind made up is to believe. You lose.
****WRONG. You've never seen ANY evidence of something EVER coming out of nothing. Now you're lying, you lose!
Do you think an all-powerful God could violate that? Do you really think so?
Do you really think asking a quesiton twice makes your side more correcT? And since when does pointing out the obvious flaws in your argument make me believe in God? I may just think you're an idiot and a hypocrite.
Originally posted by lilblam
So you're admitting you amde up Thom's Law? OK, one strike to credibility.
*** WRONG. The law isn't mine, look it up. Look at the link. Check Google. I said SCREW IT as in forget it was made by Thom, it's the LAW that's important, not that author.
Originally posted by lilblam
*** WRONG. The law isn't mine, look it up. Look at the link. Check Google. I said SCREW IT as in forget it was made by Thom, it's the LAW that's important, not that author.
***Attack my English, that gives YOU tons of credibility. I said: "Fine, let's say it's NOT his law since you're so sure it doesn't exist on Google, who really cares whose law it is". The next sentence: "The law still applies to reality, no matter who says it. If Thom didn't say 1+1=2 we don't care either".
****WRONG. You've never seen ANY evidence of something EVER coming out of nothing. Now you're lying, you lose!
*** Get hung up on sentence structure, after being hung up on my English. Yup more points for you. I asked it twice on PURPOSE so people like you can ignore the logical argument and complain that I asked it twice, there happy?
Oh by the way, calling me an idiot and hypocrite is your judgement and opinion. It doesn't really add to your credibility nor your intelligence. Man you're really hurting yourself here, I'd advise you stop while you're ahead... oh wait you're not anymore, are you?
[Edited on 8-1-2004 by lilblam]
Originally posted by lilblam
but Higg's field is still not NOTHING. It's some sort of particles, it's something. If there is 0, NOTHING, absolutely NOTHING ever, there'd ALWAYS be absolutely NOTHING. You can never get SOMETHING out of NOTHING. And by nothing I don't mean invisible substances or energy. I mean NOTHING. If there is ANYTHING at ALL there, then yes creating other things out of it is possible. But not something out of absolutely ZERO. Does that make any sense? I mean, Higg's Field still is a FIELD, it consists of at least something. But not nothing. Why call nothing Higg's field if it already has a name, nothing lol
I hope that made sense to you guys.