Sounds like yer mum.

slander!

I never knew God and I had so much in common..

yep - that's pretty much what the jews and christians think of the god of the old testament too.

Ya can't pick and choose, bbs. Otherwise nothing in the bible is valid.

he forgot petulant and immature

richard dawkins. haha.
he's just bitter about growing up with the name dork.

he forgot petulant and immature

well, those apply to Dawkins at times too, so he can't exactly apply those to his most hated of entities now, can he?

i don't believe in the bible as a holy book Rachel - so no nothing in there is valid as a framework for organised religion. Some of it's awwight - be nice to your friends, let whales teach you about life, that sort of shit.

So you might as well pick and choose.

He gives an awesome talk on this weeks Background Briefing:

link

Dawkins Is a very serious man. good overview of him in that wired mag article i posted on my aetheist thread.

this God is sounds like a pantheon.

It's true, the bible was written by men.

C'mon, give him a break. He's not claiming to be Jesus or a replacement for the messiah. Yet.

well, those apply to Dawkins at times too, so he can't exactly apply those to his most hated of entities now, can he?

he can, because he's not asking us to worship him.

i'm about half way through this book.

Have you read a CWA cookbook gobetween??

Shiiiit, bbs. Why not base your life on the teaching of Pippi Longstocking then?

*i don't believe in the bible as a holy book Rachel - *

em...what did I say?

yep - that's pretty much what the jews and christians think of the god of the old testament too.

really? i'd think that jews take the "old testament" fairly seriously.

Dawkins Is a very serious man. good overview of him in that wired mag article i posted on my aetheist thread.

he's got a pretty bad track record handling any sort of criticism nonester. like a lot of researchers, he's a bit precious at times. but still, the God Delusion's pretty timely.

In fact, I thought jews didn't like that whole Jesus thing in the NT?

hahaha I'm a shit stirrer...HAHA

but really modi's is pretty funny. classic modi.

HAHAHAHA the dumbest shit I've read since frankies post

But undeniably true.

we can't verify this.
we don't know about the belief systems of most living things on this planet, so we can't say that the statement is true or false.

christ. i should get back to homework if i'm going to be snarkus-logicus on the innernet.

exactly..I mean look at the behaviour of bees. is the queen bee a living god?

You could claim it's not true, I suppose. That would be the whole ''we don't know how plants and microbes think, but that doesn't mean they aren't thinking''

Which is pretty much a bullshit high school stoner thing to say.

not really modi. Bees exhibit behaviour as if the queen is a god. there is no question. really. are you in a bees mind? do bees think?

how come we think animals are not sentient? cos we eat them that is why. Animals are sentient my friend. they think they have beliefs.

Come on! It's a trick answer! Even if animals and plants didn't lack the brain capacity for religious belief, religion is a human societal construct that would be completely irrelevant to them.

but other animals have complex society's.

basil seal - the majority of living things on this earth are microbes, which don't have neurons, let alone abstract thought.

Even though insects are the most numerous creatures on the planet, they are dwarfed in number by the billions of trillions of microbial life that existed way before anything else, and will persist long after anything we can see will be extinct.

Bacteria IS god

how can bacteria be god? it has to form something. God is quintessence.(haha what a word) God is elemental.

I, for one, welcome our microbe overlords!

there may be a giant eye in the sky which sees and interprets all life as a single system and applies meaning to it. this eye may know the meaning of life. dude.

I welcome the quintessence. I float in the quintessence.

A giant brown-eye?

dig it.

Like the FBI and the CIA?

you realise that scientists study clumping patterns in worms.

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