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  Captain Blargh September 7, 2011 at 12:30 pm

  Wow. There are few times when I’m genuinely speechless, but I think this is one of them.

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    neil September 7, 2011 at 1:17 pm

    I know exactly what you mean. I really couldn’t believe what I was hearing! Truly astounding.

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• 'Jesus even loves brummies' » Blog Archive » Why are we here? Dawkins thinks aliens might be to blame I Neil Powell - The diary of reluctant and newbie church planters September 7, 2011 at 5:49 pm

  [...] be to blame « A Faith To Live By. [...]

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  David Young September 14, 2011 at 6:51 pm

  I have absolutely no idea how likely it is that the Tooth Fairy exists and I would not want to put a figure on it.

  I have no more of an idea about how the universe came into existence than you have about how your god came into existence. I simply do not believe that your god exists, although I do believe the universe exists.

  I have no idea how life started on earth, just as I have no idea what the builders who constructed my flat had for lunch on the third day of their work.

  My postman might be a serial killer.

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    neil September 14, 2011 at 9:07 pm

    Thanks for taking the time to comment.
    Just checking: Did you really mean to write ‘how your god came into existence’?

    An intelligible definition of god implies an eternal being.

    By definition a god cannot come into existence c.f. Fallacy of category mistake.
    http://www.answers.com/topic/category-mistake

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      David Young September 15, 2011 at 8:27 am

      It is not a category mistake. Your belief system assumes a god exists, but has no explanation for why it does. Rather than explain where this god comes from, you simply move the goalposts and state that it had no origin (with no evidence to support this). Oddly enough, the idea that the universe could be caused by something other than a god but without an entity to create itself isn’t seen by the average believer as being in any way comparable as an explanation, for some reason.

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• Francis Crick, Fred Hoyle, Richard Dawkins and the origins of life « A Faith To Live By November 16, 2011 at 9:22 am

  [...] while back I posted a short film clip in which Richard Dawkins not only admitted that we have ‘no idea’ how life began on [...]

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• Gli scienziati ancora oggi non hanno idea di come sia iniziata la vita | UCCR November 26, 2011 at 12:06 pm

  [...] Così gli scienziati si sono rivolti direttamente agli alieni, come ad esempio il Premio Nobel non credente (in Dio, ma in tantissime altre cose), Francis Crick, il quale ha ipotizzato che «essi sono venuti sulla Terra miliardi di anni fa con una navicella spaziale e hanno piantato i semi della vita». Questa nozione è chiamata panspermia guidata. Nelle versioni meno surreali, si vuole che i microbi siano arrivati sul nostro pianeta attraverso asteroidi, comete o meteoriti, o alla deriva giù come coriandoli. Ma anche questa è una risposta a cui in pochi realmente aderiscono (di recente anche Richard Dawkins, come riporta questo interessante blog) [...]

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• Happy Christmas Richard Dawkins and thanks for all your good work! « A Faith To Live By December 13, 2011 at 10:11 am

  [...] of atheism. His own (albeit qualified) support for infanticide, his admission that he has no idea how life began on the planet, his own recognition that for the atheist there is no good and evil all demonstrate how unliveable [...]

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