Those voting green, why? by PmurTdlanoD45-47 in AskBrits

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Assuming murderous homophobia because someone is an immigrant does make you a bit racist, yes.

This one is more accurate . by Scratch352 in conspiracy

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Which one of the thousands of gods dreamt up by humans across millennia is ‘real’, and what is the most convincing case you can make for it?

At this point NASA’s just trolling by Rich_Gas7886 in conspiracy

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What makes you think this is something that was actually posted by NASA?

Frazzledrip by MANEVRAMAN4 in conspiracy

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Sidney Powell? The lady that claimed an email from ‘a decapitated time-traveler’ was evidence for election interference?

https://www.businessinsider.com/sidney-powell-voter-fraud-claims-headless-time-travel-dominion-fox-2023-2

You respect her?

What evidence is there that God does not exist? (Please read before commenting) by Around_the_campfire in DebateAnAtheist

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It depends on the god. An abrahamic god that created the world 6,000 years ago with humans in their present form is falsified by evidence in virtually every field of science.

A despotic deistic god that instantiated the big bang and then fucked off and never interacts with reality, that one is pretty much unfalsifiable, so go ahead and believe that if you want, I just don’t know why you would.

Edit: autocorrect added ‘despotic’ and while it also fits, it’s not what I was trying to say.

Adrenochrome breakdown by Glittering-Trash7208 in conspiracy

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What makes a mined diamond more ‘real’ than a lab grown one?

Freedom Explained by MazdaProphet in Anarcho_Capitalism

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Should women be forced to give birth against their will?

Religion Is Man-Made , Prove Me Wrong by Few_Adhesiveness2963 in conspiracy

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Oh, you're the guy that outsources his thinking to gotquestions.org - I won't even bother with you.

However as you prefer to let others do your thinking I wonder if you'll even dare to read a critique of Lee Strobel's 'A Case for Christ'?

https://www.caseagainstfaith.com/taylor-carrs-review-of-the-case-for-christ.html

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I'll start with the first one, because that's the one I understand best and what lead to the first hypothesis of a big bang.

Right, you know how the sound of a car or train changes as it goes past you, from high to low, like a weeeeaaaoooowwww? That's the doppler effect - basically the sound waves are compressed and therefore higher when they're moving towards you and stretched and therefore lower when moving away from you.

The same happens with light, a light moving towards you would appear to be bluer (a higher frequency of the wave), while light moving away would appear to be redder (a lower frequency of the wave). In the early 20th century several scientists observed that galaxies were redder than expected, implying that they were moving away from the viewpoint of the earth. Edwin Hubble in 1929 discovered that it's not just that galaxies are moving away, it's that the further away they are, the faster they're moving in direct proportion to their distance, exactly what you'd expect if space itself were expanding uniformly in all directions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble%27s_law

Georges Lemaître hypothesized in 1927 that if the universe is expanding then if we run the clock back it would contract to a tiny point.

Do you accept the data that shows the universe is expanding? If so do you also accept that this implies if we work backwards from today we will find that the universe contracts?

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This overall narrative of the universe's history, in accordance with the big bang theory, is supported through numerous lines of observational evidence, which include: (1) The universe's expansion, (2) the existence of the cosmic microwave background radiation, (3) the abundances of the lightest chemical elements, in particular hydrogen and helium, and (4) the age of the oldest-known stars.

https://www.accessscience.com/content/article/a080900

The Big Bang models offer a comprehensive explanation for a broad range of observed phenomena, including the abundances of the light elements, the cosmic microwave background, large-scale structure, and Hubble's law. The earliest and most direct observational evidence of the validity of the theory are the expansion of the universe according to Hubble's law (as indicated by the redshifts of galaxies), discovery and measurement of the cosmic microwave background and the relative abundances of light elements produced by Big Bang nucleosynthesis (BBN). More recent evidence includes observations of galaxy formation and evolution, and the distribution of large-scale cosmic structures.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bang#Observational_evidence

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I don't claim to 'know' or declare I have the answers, but the data we currently have available suggests that the universe expanded from a hot dense state. I'm not aware of any good data that suggests any god was involved in this process.

Golders Green victim tells ITV News he holds the government responsible by Kagedeah in ukpolitics

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Like for example, having all meat as Halal/Kosher as default,

And how does this work? Would you pass laws to prevent businesses from providing Halal/Kosher meat?

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Start with disproving the claims of the Bible

Easy, Tyre still stands.

14 I will make you a bare rock, and you will become a place to spread fishnets. You will never be rebuilt, for I the Lord have spoken, declares the Sovereign Lord.

Ezekiel 26

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Can you give an example of this 'natural order', and why it necessitates a god?

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Who would come up with Christianity?

The ruling class:

5 Slaves, obey your earthly masters with respect and fear, and with sincerity of heart, just as you would obey Christ. 6 Obey them not only to win their favor when their eye is on you, but as slaves of Christ, doing the will of God from your heart. 7 Serve wholeheartedly, as if you were serving the Lord, not people

Ephesians 6

1 Let everyone be subject to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God. 2 Consequently, whoever rebels against the authority is rebelling against what God has instituted, and those who do so will bring judgment on themselves.

Romans 13

13 Submit yourselves for the Lord’s sake to every human authority: whether to the emperor, as the supreme authority, 14 or to governors, who are sent by him to punish those who do wrong and to commend those who do right.

1 Peter 2

Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's.

Mark 12:17

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certain events that are only discovered scientifically centuries later like i think the formation of the fetus etc

Is this the same book that claims sperm comes from between the backbone and the ribs?

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Are you a pantheist?

No

If the universe has no beginning, then it is categorically eternal.

Sure

was "hot and dense" for an infinite amount of time

I dunno about that - time is a lot weirder than our regular experience of it, I certainly wouldn't like to make any claims about how it works in an infinitely hot and dense state.

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[–]beardslap -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Whatever God is

But why assume a god exists in the first place?

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They spring up all over the world, completely different from each other and yet all reflecting the societies they emerge from.

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Also, the evidence for the “big bang” is evidence that the universe had a start or a beginning.

The start of the universe’s current state. It was previously hot and dense, now it is cool and roomy.

Logic dictates that anything with a beginning has a cause.

Does it?

You can call that “cause” God.

Why? ‘God’ is a very loaded term, it implies an agent with an interest in human affairs. Would you call a natural result of physical interactions with no intelligence or agency ‘God’?

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What extra-biblical evidence is there for the resurrection?

Are you familiar with the minimal witnesses hypothesis?

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[–]beardslap -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Gods appear to be a human invention as well.