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Re: God doesn't believe in atheist

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Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
> 
> The Starmaker wrote:
> 
> > Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
> >> SteveGG amok-crossposted across 5(!) newsgroups without Followup-To:
> >> > It takes hundreds of thousands of years for anything to transverse just
> >> > one galaxy, including god's thoughts, so god would have to be a very
> >> > slow thinker !
> >>
> >> Your logic is flawed because a lifeform that we, at our current stage of
> >> development, would accept as a deity, could have discovered laws of
> >> physics
> >> that we have not discovered yet.  Keep in mind:
> >>
> >>   “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from
> >>   magic.”
> >>
> >>     –Clarke’s third law
> >>
> >> which can been rephrased as
> >>
> >>   “Any sufficiently advanced extraterrestrial intelligence is
> >>    indistinguishable from God.”
> >>
> >>     –Shermer's last law
> 
> Your newsreader is broken.  Get a better one.  There were properly declared
> and encoded Unicode characters in my posting, not the character salad that
> you made out of them.
> 
> >> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarke%27s_three_laws>
> >>
> >> However, the existence of such a lifeform grows the more unlikely the
> >> more we develop our understanding of our universe.
> >
> > The guy with the pointed ears is quoting...science fiction writers!!!
> 
> I have quoted *one* person who was *also* a science-fiction writer:
> 
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke>
> 
> The other, Michael Shermer, “is an American science writer, historian of
> science, founder of The Skeptics Society, and Editor in Chief of its
> magazine Skeptic, which is largely devoted to investigating pseudoscientific
> and supernatural claims.”  I understand that he received a B.A. in
> psychology, and a B.A. and a Ph.D. in the history of science.
> 
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Shermer>
> 
> What degrees have you received, “The Starmaker”?
> 
> > THAT'S INSANE!!!!
> 
> No, it is not.  Consider, for example, Asimov’s robots, and the ST:TNG
> android, Data, and compare with current robotics and the beginning of real-
> life androids.  Consider “2001: A Space Odyssey” and compare with the
> International Space Station.  Consider the Star Trek tricorders and compare
> with real-life smartphones (and, most recently, a working medical instrument
> that is based on the medical tricorder and has won the Google XPrize).
> Consider Picard’s desktop mini-computer and compare with my laptop.
> Consider the Universal Translator and compare with Google Translate.
> Consider the Impulse drive and the Warp drive and compare with current
> developments in propulsion like ion thrusters.  And so on.
> 
> Science and technology have informed science-fiction at least as much as
> science-fiction has inspired scientists and inventors.  It is a fallacy to
> discredit an idea just because it comes from from science-fiction.
> 
> > British science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke formulated three adages
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarke%27s_three_laws
> 
> You are not paying attention.  I have already cited that.
> 
> > God had a dream...so he painted his dream.
> >
> >
> > He took out his pen and drew a tree.
> 
> It is a dream … a *pipe* dream of yours and other creationists, who are
> unable to grasp the wonders of reality.
> 
> But we know since more than a century now that this is not how it happened.
> 
> Instead: The tree formed, after billions of years of natural selection, from
> symbiotic plant cells, 


What kind of nonsence is this, "What came first, the tree or the plant?" 



He took out his pen and drew a tree...now where do you think the second tree came from?



I've heard of the 'tree of Life', but i never heard the 'plant of life'....give me a break with ypur pointed ear nonsence...

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