hammar

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	601 reputation	bio	website	github.com/ahammar	visits	member for	1 year, 9 months
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Feb 22	comment	Is it appropriate to capitalize pronouns referring to Jesus Christ? Atheists don't believe in the existence of any gods, so I often use lower case when I'm not talking about any particular god, but capitalize when talking about the God of Christianity. It has nothing to do with whether he deserves it or not. It is simply a way of distinguishing between the general and specific cases.
Feb 22	comment	Atheism is the default position. Isn't the burden of proof on the Christian to assert that God exists? Sounds like the old argument from ignorance to me. "We don't understand everything about quantum mechanics yet, therefore God."
Feb 17	comment	Is “the ends justify the means” compatible with Christianity? @Narnian: Atheism is not the claim that there are no gods. It is only the dismissal of the claim that there are gods. The default position is a question about what we should assume in the absence of evidence. Your claim that there is an "overwhelming" amount of evidence is irrelevant for that question. Also, the claim that there are no gods (which as I pointed out goes beyond the atheist position) is falsifiable, just like the no-unicorns claim is falsifiable (I could falsify it by showing you one). So my question remains: What makes them different with respect to the default position?
Feb 17	comment	Is “the ends justify the means” compatible with Christianity? @Narnian: Then please point out the flaw in my reasoning. So far all you've done is say "no, you're wrong!", which isn't a constructive argument.
Feb 17	comment	Is “the ends justify the means” compatible with Christianity? @RonMaimon: I was talking about claims. The existence of magical beasts was just an example of unfalsifiable claims which most people agree there is insufficient evidence to believe in. I was trying to point out that for unfalsifiable claims the only reasonable default position is to dismiss them. Of course, many believers think they do have sufficient evidence for their beliefs, and the validity of that evidence is a different debate. However, I'm curious about why Narnian seems to think belief should be the default position in absence of evidence.
Feb 17	comment	Is “the ends justify the means” compatible with Christianity? @Narnian: Do you also disagree about non-existence being the default position for leprechauns, unicorns and fairies? If not, what makes the God hypothesis different? They are all unfalsifiable claims; by that standard you would have to believe in all of them, as well as any other unfalsifiable claims I could come up with.
Feb 12	comment	Jesus's genealogy: 28 generations or 41 since David? @DavidStratton: That link is broken, at least for the moment (HTTP 502 errors).
Feb 8	comment	End of the world “calculations” @cwallenpoole: That sounds a lot like the unexpected hanging paradox.
Feb 7	comment	Do those who pray to saints ascribe to them the quality of being able to hear many people at once? "Time has no meaning in heaven" - Got a source for that?
Feb 7	comment	Is there a way to prove the God of the Bible? Of course, these arguments have all been refuted in several ways. However, the main problem is that even if these arguments were all valid, they merely prove a god, not the God of Christianity.
Feb 7	comment	How is Christian worship different than Christian religion? The meaning of "establishment" in the First Amendment is summed up by the lemon test, which details the requirements for legislation concerning religion.
Feb 7	comment	Are God, Son (Jesus) and The Holy Spirit Same? I always found this formulation rather confusing. Perhaps it would help to clarify what the "is" relation means here. Clearly, it does not mean "is the same as", as that would imply that they are all the same (by transitivity), so what does it mean? "Is part of"? "Is a role of"? "Is a kind of"? Something else?
Feb 6	comment	Neurotheology and God "the God hinted at by scientific research" What research? Or is that a quote from the book?
Feb 3	comment	What arguments would you give to teenagers who are unconcerned about eternal life? @AffableGeek: I voted to close because this is asking for opinions, not an answer. It might be more of a problem with the phrasing than with the question itself, though. Especially the "What would you ..." title makes this seem more like an open-ended discussion than a question with a definite answer.
Feb 2	comment	What symbols are unique to the various denominations? I've seen the first one (Chi Rho) in several Lutheran churches here in Norway, so I don't think that one's exclusively Catholic. Also, see Christian symbolism.
Jan 25	accepted	How old is old earth creationism?
Jan 24	comment	How does a Roman Catholic reconcile a preference for purely procreative sex with the Song of Solomon? @PeterTurner: Clearly, Americans need to watch more British humor.
Jan 24	comment	How does a Roman Catholic reconcile a preference for purely procreative sex with the Song of Solomon? Most of them aren't. For example, studies show that 98% of Catholic women in the US have used some form of contraception, despite the official ban.
Jan 24	asked	How old is old earth creationism?
Jan 22	comment	How can the Son not know what the Father knows? He gave up some perks. After all, he performed miracles, didn't he?