I don't believe in atoms. There isn't sufficient proof for them.
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Everyone has his own definition of "sufficient proof". For example, "Last Thursdayism" suggests that the universe didn't exist before last Thursday and everything was created then with a false appearance of great age, including all our memories. This can't be disproved.
Sirius is free to use any definition he wants; in which case, his disbelief in atoms is perfectly reasonable. What's not reasonable is to decide what's "true" first based on personal prejudices, and then apply one definition of "proof" to stuff he's already decided is "true" and another definition to stuff he disagrees with. For example, it wouldn't be reasonable to say atoms don't exist despite good evidence that they do, and then turn around and accept the validity of the Bible despite good evidence that it's bullshit.
If you're a fundie I can only assume that your definition of proof is "written in an ancient document".
Then I have good news: There is a philosophical apporach to the concept of atoms dating back to the ancient greeks.
Believe and evidence, two nouns that don't go together in a single piece. And for the record, there is evidence for them. That you don't understand it, it's another problem altogether.
It's funny because of the link in the signature and all his other replies, such as "And I use mystical powers to harness the strength of nature and hurl lightning bolts."
Clearly, a serious poster.
You know that with a sufficently powerful electron microscope (some variant on the scanning-tunneling type I believe) that you can actually see and even move atoms, right?
Aw, hell. Get this guy some gold leaf and an alpha source...
This reminds me of the Ogden Nash Poem about the boy who didn't believe in Santa Claus. The denouement is something like:
'[now] ...said the irate saint,
It's I who is, and you who ain't...'
hahahahah
yeah just...yeah.
Sorry Sirius, but the doctor just called, and he finalized the diagnosis. You're terminally retarded. You also have a complex called Religioues Fundametex. It causes people to have little to no brain cells.
Oh yeah. Sarcasm. It's still funny!
That thread hurts my eyes.
Atheism is "WAAAAAAH!"? No. Maybe in Bizarro World.
Atheism has killed more than religion? You're wrong. Plain and simple. That is a fabrication.
hahahahaha....oh wait, you're being serious?
let me laugh even harder!
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Let me show you a picture:
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This is an electron microscope image of a sheet of graphene. Each of those white circles is a carbon atom. The gray lines between them are regions of high electron density because the atoms are bonded to each other in a hexagonal lattice. Note the overlaid scale and schematic of the lattice at the lower right.
There are your atoms. There are many such pictures scattered across the net. Wikipedia as a good selection.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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