"you are simply blindly regurgitating what someone else has thought. you haven't done the work yourself. you simply have a great deal of faith in the men who tell you what to think..."
Oh, teh irony, it hurtss uss preciousss! A definite case of...:
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@CousinTed
"And can we see your degree in theology?"
universalyellow has clearly studied the subject at Oxford or Cambridge for decades, thus not for nothing is he an Emeritus Professor of Theology, therefore he is perfectly qualified to discuss the subject.
...or just not.
>:D
@Canadiest
"Nothing could be further from the truth. People that trust science are trusting the scientific consensus, the body of work that came before and the connected research of today. Below the Einsteins and Hawkings of science are hundred of people checking, retesting and running the numbers again.
It's not anything like one man designing the space shuttle or for that matter even a modern television. Science also doesn't have the wide territory of saying something without any validity or rebuttle that religion demands to free of"
I'm not Alan Turing, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs or Sir Tim Berners-Lee. Yet, I can build/repair/upgrade computers and install OSs(it's my job after all; would I have gotten the job if I couldn't?!) I have no specific training or degree in IT, I'm basically self-taught. I know how to use the WWW. Does that mean I can't work on computers and/or use them, universalyellow?
I can read. Therefore I can understand the Bible. And from my viewpoint as an Atheist, I know how to use your own Scripture against you.
'Know your enemy and know yourself, and you will not be imperiled in a hundred battles'
-Sun Tzu, "The Art of War"
A 'freethinker' am I? Good. (emphasis added):
'Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible; thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.'
-Bertrand Russell
"your a freethinker"
My what is a freethinker? Knee? Elbow? Cock?!
X3
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