Originally Posted by kakariki
Hi SoSick,

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Not a misquote since someone else spoke it but... generally a quote is suppose to direct you to look it up and finish reading more of the same...can't expect to know all about everything from a quote or two.. but anyway it just reiterates the point he is making about materialism.


I would like to believe that readers would research into quotes more fully, but I doubt that is often the case. This quote was cut in such a way that it did not include the contrasting side.


This isn't accurate. The final sentence does not contribute to the argument significantly.

"The eminent Kant scholar Lewis Beck used to say that anyone who could believe in God could believe in anything. To appeal to an omnipotent deity is to allow that at any moment the regularities of nature may be ruptured, that miracles may happen."

That's merely and appeal to emotion. Perhaps not everyone is afraid to evaluate the evidence and find out for themselves whether or not God exists. Denying it on an a priori basis out of fear is not what reasonable people do, is it?

Dark Matter + Dark Energy = Dark Truth

"We find that such evidence demonstrates that the ID argument is dependent upon setting a scientifically unreasonable burden of proof for the theory of evolution." - Judge Jones Kitzmiller case
http://www.talkreason.org/articles/Falsify.cfm

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