On Mon, 12 May 2008 17:40:02 +0200, "thomas p." <gudloos@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
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> wrote in
alt.atheism;
>
>"Bill Bowden" <wrongaddress@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> skrev i en meddelelse
>news:96ab010e-561f-41fc-8daa-05bfec6c4621@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> On May 11, 7:22 pm, "L. Raymond" <badaddress@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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>>> > Why is the speed of light
>>> > 299,792,458 metres per second? Why not 300,000,000?, or 400,000,000?
>>>
>>> When you shake up a box of washers and bolts, why don't the .75" bolts
>>> slip into the holes of the .25" washers?
>>>
>>> --
>>> L. Raymond
>>
>>
>> Sorry I wasn't clear. My point about the speed of light was the
>> ralation****p of time and space, not inches or meters. It doesn't
>> matter how you measure things, feet, yards, meters, furlongs, or
>> other. The point is there is an absolute relation****p between time and
>> space, (some amount of time equates to some amount of space) and one
>> wonders why the relation****p is what it is? Either there was some
>> design to it and it's necessary for other things to work, or it was
>> just always so. But "always" is a term that implies infinity,
>
>"God" is a term that implies infinity.
infinite; stupidity, ignorance, broken logic, the whining of mental
toddlers ala 'santa claus,' and nothing positive.
>and
>> there isn't any way we can get to the present from an infinite point
>> in the past. I'ts too far to go. I think there are some bible
>> references to the effect we will never know all the answers, and so
>> faith is required.
>
>No, the admission that we do not know the answers is all that is
required.
Notice the cretin doesn't indicate we know ****loads more than was known
two millenia ago.
>Not knowing "all the answers" cannot possibly justify faith.
It does to mental toddlers.
>> I'll do some more research and find some references to the Bill of
>> Rights in the bible to make you happy. Gotta to go bed now.
>
>It will be truly amazing if you find sup****t for freedom of religion in
the
>Bible. The Commandments forbids freedom of religion, and there is
certainly
>no allowance in the Bible for the freedom to not believe in any god.
>Furthermore, since you have said that you are "fairly illiteratae of
>Biblical passages, it is odd that you made such a claim in the first
place.
Motor mouths like Bowden are unwilling/incapable of thinking else they
would have realized the problems they've created for themselves.
>Of course that is just me being picky.
Nope. You're working from his stated claims. That he torpedoes himself
is a common problem for the superstitious.
Stoney
"Designated Rascal and Rapscallion
and
SCAMPERMEISTER!"
When in doubt, SCAMPER about!
When things are fair, SCAMPER everywhere!
When things are rough, can't SCAMPER enough!
/end humour alert
alt.atheism military veteran #11
{so much for the 'no atheists in foxholes' rubbish}
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