No, Richard Dawkins does not exist. I have never seen him. Science has given a full and satisfying explanation of the book alleged to be his handiwork. It is but a collection of fortuitously ordered a's, b's and c's, recombined from previous patterns. There is the alphabet, there is a book of nursery rhymes and there is "The God Delusion" - and one developed from the other, though some of the details of which is the most primitive remain to be sorted out. The links between them may still be missing, but Science will have that worked out at any moment. Anyone who doubts this fact is either lying, mad or stupid (or wicked, but I'd rather not think about that possibility).
Having settled the case, I congratulated myself on my acute use of logic and reason. After lunch, I have another pressing question to tackle.
Do I exist?
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Nice effort, poor execution.
Keep trying, leather, keep trying.
Yes, that's it exactly. Books give birth to Chick tracts, which grow up to be the next generation of books, and so forth. In other words, knight-in-black-leather, is your straw man wearing black leather, too?
You're clever.
Not wise, but clever.
(In the words of Black Willow from Buffy the Vampire Slayer:) Bored now...
No, you don't exist, I have never seen you. (Ah, too easy.)
Can some sweet, gay leather-wearing Albertan take one for the team and marry KIBL so he can finally have non-fornicating sex and relax?? I think he's losing it and teetering on the edge of de-conversion, for real.
Dawkins can be seen on video. You can buy an airline ticket and go see him. You can't do that with your imaginary everywhere-but-nowhere god. If can manage to talk without drooling, and ask nicely, Dawkins may autograph a book for you, verbally confirming that he wrote it and even giving you a sample of his handwriting. Go try that with your god. Until you can justify your creation myth by the same standard, STFU.
"Having settled the case, I congratulated myself on my acute use of logic and reason."
Just give yourself a big ol' pat on the back for your massive failure at logic.
"Do I exist?"
I wish it were true that you didn't.
just a figure of my imagination sent from my self-hating region of the brain to make me crazy.
Where your analogy fails hard, aside from the fact that there are many, many ways of verifying that Dawkins exists, is that, unlike God and Jebus, you don't need to rewrite the laws of physics in order for it to be possible for Dawkins to exist.
No, if you existed, I would have seen you, and I think I would remember something so painful as encountering someone as stupid as yourself.
Sarcasm? oh my, don't attempt it or your head might explode XD....
Nice try though, completly wrong, but nice try xD
The difference being that there is evidence that Dawkins exists, beyond the claims of a book.
As for whether you exist, remember: Cogito ergo sum.
Yeah, except for, y'know, that time I met him last year when he was giving a lecture.
Still not met this 'God' chap giving a lecture, though.
It is but a collection of fortuitously ordered a's, b's and c's, recombined from previous patterns. There is the alphabet, there is a book of nursery rhymes and there is "The God Delusion" - and one developed from the other
KIBL seems to be grasping at the fist hint of a ghost of evolutionary theory, or somewhere short of the "enough monkeys" idea. Wrong, of course, but heading towards that general direction. I imagine the first organisms that tried to climb up out of the ooze were about this successful. If K had about several million years (and progeny, perish the thought) to persevere the kibl bugs might just form a whole idea.
Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum.
I think I think, therefore, I think I am.
Given that there doesn't seem to be any coherent thought process going on in this post, and given that according to Descartes the ultimate proof for one's self is cognition, I would have to say, no. You don't exist.
And yes this is just a very round about way of saying you're stupid.
This would make an *awesome* alternative metal punk song.
The God Delusion is alive!
The God Delusion is alive!
The God Delusion will multiply!
The God Delusion will sail to an uncharted world!
The God Delusion dump tea in a harbour!
The God Delusion is alive!
The God Delusion is alive!
The God Delusion will multiply!
The God Delusion will burn in Vietnam!
The God Delusion will land on the moon!
The God Delusion is alive!
The God Delusion is alive!
The God Delusion will multiply!
The God Delusion will elect a monkey!
The God Delusion thinks it's wrong to waterboard!
The God Delusion thinks it's wrong to pollute!
Chapter 11 disagrees
Chapter 11 disagrees
Will Chapter 11 post junk on a message board?
The God Delusion will repent!
The God Delusion will repent!
Will Chapter 11 think the world is about to end?
The God Delusion will repent!
The God Delusion will repent!
(Feel free to use this in any real song ^_^)
You know, I can see the point you're trying to make, and yet it's still idiotic. I'm sure Dawkins appreciates you trying to equate him to God, though. That's what gives him his power.
Well except for all the audio and video of him, the speeches he freqently gives, his legal documentation and the possibility that you COULD actually meet him one day...you've got kind of a good argument.
Well except for all the audio and video of him, the speeches he freqently gives, his legal documentation and the possibility that you COULD actually meet him one day...you've got kind of a good argument.
[No, Richard Dawkins does not exist. I have never seen him. ]
What you mean is "I've never met him".
I've never met Johnny Depp, but that doesn't mean he dosen't exist.
>> Anyone who doubts this fact is either lying, mad or stupid (or wicked, but I'd rather not think about that possibility).
>> Having settled the case, I congratulated myself on my acute use of logic and reason.
The sheer irony overload on my meter caused it to melt at lava-hot temperatures and burn an 8-foot deep hole in the ground.
1) Given some common axioms, I could prove that Richard Dawkins exists just from physical stimuli.
2) I actually do take some things by faith. That's what axioms are for. I could be a brain in a jar being fed images for all I know, but it's far better for me and people around me that I assume they exist.
Confused?
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