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Belief in the "flat Earth"
Started this discussion. Last reply by Secular Forces 2013 Apr 9, 2010. 3 Replies 0 Likes
This is slightly off-topic, but some might find it interesting.I've been reading lots of blogs and forum posts and in many of the discussions about beliefs, I have seen references to the claim that…Continue
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nick altman replied to Manning Bartlett's discussion Belief in the "flat Earth"
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Becca replied to Manning Bartlett's discussion Belief in the "flat Earth"
"Eratosthenes was the first guy we know of who very accurately measured the circumference of the earth, he had a 1% error which is pretty damn good for hiring someone to pace out very long distances. I think it's likely that people here and…"
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Belief in the "flat Earth"
This is slightly off-topic, but some might find it interesting.I've been reading lots of blogs and forum posts and in many of the discussions about beliefs, I have seen references to the claim that "people once believed the Earth was flat".So I thought I'd correct this one as it really isn't true - at least not in the popularised sense.The Bablylonians certainly thought the Earth was flat and the Egyptians may have also. However the world was known to be spherical from at least the time of the…See More
Manning Bartlett replied to Armand's discussion So we Christians are idiots then?
"Intelligent people who persist with religious beliefs are not idiots, they have either not had access to better information, or they have chosen dogma over reason. (I personally define "dogma" as "adhering to a belief which your own…"
Manning Bartlett commented on Manning Bartlett's blog post The Axioms of Atheism
"Look my apologies if you feel slighted - I don't slam anyone ever. You are clearly an intelligent human being whose insight I would love to benefit from. My frustration was that you seemed to be persisting with a misinterpretation despite…"
Manning Bartlett commented on Manning Bartlett's blog post The Axioms of Atheism
"Thank you. In future I'm happy to debate you, but please try to read what is written first. You clearly leapt to some truly bizarre interpretation of what I was saying (ie. "evidence is a deception") and then doggedly criticised that…"
Manning Bartlett replied to Sally Morem's discussion Are religious experiences the result of brain damage? in the group ORIGINS: UNIVERSE, LIFE, HUMANKIND, AND DARWIN
"A very interesting article. As a teenager I had a few "religious experiences" which (at the time) I believed were direct communication with God. As I grew older and my scepticism grew I had great difficulty figuring out what these…"
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Manning Bartlett commented on Manning Bartlett's blog post The Axioms of Atheism
"John D - I get the strong impression that you didn't actually read what I wrote, so I can't really reply. I really have no idea why you think I was claiming "evidence is a deception"."
Becca commented on Manning Bartlett's blog post The Axioms of Atheism
"Atheism is the lack of belief in gods - it's not a refutation of anything. What are gods? Well frankly I don't really care, it's not my job to define what others mean when they say 'god.' However it should be obvious by now…"
Manning Bartlett commented on Manning Bartlett's blog post The Axioms of Atheism
"Thanks for that comment - it has made me think a bit more carefully. At no stage was I planning to "redefine" atheism. Atheism is simply the refutation of theism, but this requires a definition of theism first.
Your observation leads me…"
Фелч Гроган commented on Manning Bartlett's blog post The Axioms of Atheism
"You can, and should be encouraged to, formulate proofs against theism. But don't in the process try to redefine atheism. It is a null hypothesis - nothing more. All proofs will do is support the null.
There are 1000's of posts beyond…"
Manning Bartlett commented on Manning Bartlett's blog post The Axioms of Atheism
"I don't think this subject is remotely a dead horse - I've spent years researching this angle and have never seen any analysis that follows this line. Your definition of athiesm "to deny the gods" doesn't mean anything…"
Фелч Гроган commented on Manning Bartlett's blog post The Axioms of Atheism
"The dead horse you're flogging is already reduced to a skeleton and even that is crumbling. With a bit of luck, maybe some time in the next millenium, these threads will finally die out and people will reflect on how quaint all the semantic…"
Manning Bartlett commented on Manning Bartlett's blog post The Axioms of Atheism
"Hmm, in your denial you are confirming the axiom. We cannot prove that the universe is invariant, yet we believe it to be so. There cannot (by definition) be any evidence about future circumstances, so it cannot be proven.
Theism takes the reverse…"
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