1. US Treaty with Tripoli

Comment #135189 by NoSuchThingAsAtheism on February 28, 2008 at 5:09 pm

I don't see what difference it makes anyway. So what if the founding fathers *did* believe in mother goose - it doesn't make it true, nor is it a good reason to base modern day laws on the quackings of mother goose.

2. Interview with Richard Dawkins

Comment #134500 by NoSuchThingAsAtheism on February 27, 2008 at 10:34 pm

It's funny how the believers always come on thinking they have the ultimate knock down argument the atheists will never be able to answer, and get demolished every time. Its also funny that every single one of their objections to the god delusion was dealt with in the book.

3. Evidence can't shake your faith if your faith excludes it as evidence

Comment #133748 by NoSuchThingAsAtheism on February 26, 2008 at 4:52 pm

Paul is clearly working very hard to deceive himself. Rather than produce some evidence for his belief system, he suggests that even if there was evidence we would simply dismiss it as a hallucination. But there isn't any to dismiss, so what does it matter anyway? No "angel of the Lord" has ever appeared before me, hallucinatory or otherwise. It is believers who concoct elaborate excuses for contrary evidence. And most people can tell the difference between a dream and reality. *When* an angel appears before me, I will definately change my mind. Strangely, it has never happened.

This is a common theme among believers these days. Rather than defend their positions, they suggest that truth is "relative" or depends on context, to the point that one can actually believe anything one chooses. All claims are equally valid, evidence or no. If propositions supported by evidence can be doubted and disbelieved, then propostions which have no evidence or which contradict the evidence certainly don't fare any better.

4. Evidence can't shake your faith if your faith excludes it as evidence

Comment #133211 by NoSuchThingAsAtheism on February 25, 2008 at 9:37 pm

Right up until the end, I thought this was a parody of christian stupidity.