Religion poll

[z31maniac]

That video is fantastic! Nice work!

[Das Delfin]

What's wrong with this thread, and how would you edit the poll? I figured I'd get a response like yours and decided it would be more interesting to see how people cross the line one way or the other instead of a basic poll listing all the major religions.

1. it's a joke with prerequisites of self awareness, humility, and a sense of humor. I'm having "faith" in you at this point

2. I would read "religion" as "organized religion" meaning the act of going to church, being part of a set of rules you don't get to discover on your own etc.

[BraveUlysses]

Ah, but have you ever looked at a banana?

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaaaaaa

[ForcedFirebird]

But he opened the banana up side down. lol

[cale]

Eating and breathing through the same hole is excellent. So if you miss swallow you choke to death.

Intelligent design indeed.

Ah, but have you ever looked at a banana?

[ForcedFirebird]

That's just like a narcissistic confirmation bias. Humans are not perfect at all. Humans are garbage.

Wasn't meat to come across as humans (or human nature) as much as life itself. Then to ponders not only are humans living, we are sentient. All the complexities for life, to support life, then to have (cough) intelligent life that can manipulate it's surroundings, even enough to go out of that bubble and/or explore it's surroundings, or seek out other life forms - just doesn't seem accidental to me (hence my lottery/decillion analogy).

I guess it's a Spinozistic view on things.

[roguetoaster]

Eating and breathing through the same hole is excellent. So if you miss swallow you choke to death.

Intelligent design indeed.

You could use that same weak argument to discount evolution. OTOH, we do have a mechanism to prevent us from using the wrong tube for the wrong thing, which counters both of those points.

Maybe that intelligence blithely expects us to be able to know when to breath in and when to swallow, but that's a lot to expect of modern humans.

[z31maniac]

Eating and breathing through the same hole is excellent. So if you miss swallow you choke to death.

Intelligent design indeed.

[Hooffenstein HD]

it's hard to say that we are not "designed" since everything works out so

That's just like a narcissistic confirmation bias. Humans are not perfect at all. Humans are garbage.

[ForcedFirebird]

I didn't say that he believes in god, but the fact that he mentions it is highly probable that intelligent design influenced the creation of the universe is very similar to what I said earlier.

EDIT: I got click-baited lol.

[cale]

Apparently I'm not alone in my thinking. Just read this...

http://worldnewsdailyreport.com/step...ghly-probable/

You should probably go read the disclaimer on that site before linking it again...

WNDR assumes however all responsibility for the satirical nature of its articles and for the fictional nature of their content. All characters appearing in the articles in this website – even those based on real people – are entirely fictional and any resemblance between them and any persons, living, dead, or undead is purely a miracle.

[z31maniac]

Click bait headline:

Believe != highly probable
"that he believed that “some form of intelligence” was actually behind the creation of the Universe"

Swing and miss.

Try again.

[ForcedFirebird]

Apparently I'm not alone in my thinking. Just read this...

http://worldnewsdailyreport.com/stephen-hawkins-admits-intelligent-design-is-highly-probable/

[cale]

^ agreed, I regret winding him up.

[z31maniac]

How can you not proof gravity? How can you not proof the expansion? Now we even just proved relativity last year. Even if the singularity was proven, we would still have to go deeper.

You are missing the point I was making, and zooming in on a detail. We don't even have theories yet as to why/how the singularity even exploded in the first place, so to dismiss any "hypothesis" is just as silly.

...to add, the static universe was a theory, considered fact, so nothing can be dismissed.

Roguetoaster hit the nail on the proverbial head...

This post hurt my head.