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Title: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: suckmymuscle on January 30, 2012, 05:05:05 PM
  Inspiring truth!

 


SUCKMYMUSCLE
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: johnnynoname on January 30, 2012, 05:06:26 PM
shut up, faggot
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: suckmymuscle on January 30, 2012, 05:09:04 PM
shut up, faggot

  Lol, unexpected meltdown from aptly named "no name". ;D Maybe you should stop obesseing about how I make you feel, "no name". :P You'll end up giving yourself a stroke. ;D

SUCkMYMUSCLE
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: johnnynoname on January 30, 2012, 05:10:21 PM
  Lol, unexpected meltdown from aptly named "no name". ;D Maybe you should stop obesseing about how I make you feel, "no name". :P You'll end up giving yourself a stroke. ;D

SUCkMYMUSCLE

to that, I have this reply


shut up, faggot
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: tbombz on January 30, 2012, 05:11:01 PM
"physicists believe the universe is governed by scientific laws. these laws must hold without exceptions, or they wouldnt be laws. that doesnt leave much room for miracles... or god"



this guy understands that quantum mechanics is based on the idea that the laws of physics break down at the quantum level


and yet he says stupid shit like that


lol
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: V Man on January 30, 2012, 05:12:08 PM
Scientists don't believe in a God, yet they treat everything this guy says as if it is the word of God.
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: johnnynoname on January 30, 2012, 05:12:16 PM
lol at tbombz posting in this thread

big shock huh


Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: Nails on January 30, 2012, 05:13:37 PM
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Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: johnnynoname on January 30, 2012, 05:13:42 PM
btw, I know that tbombz does this thing where he ignores my posts because i flame him but fact of this matter is that i know what he does on this website and it is very obvious
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: tbombz on January 30, 2012, 05:14:35 PM
Scientists don't believe in a God, yet they treat everything this guy says as if it is the word of God.
that generalization is unfair to thoughtful scientists and damaging to the opinions of the lay.

but you make a valid point
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: Fortress on January 30, 2012, 05:15:16 PM
Religion is one of several reasons why the human species is headed for destruction.

Not that I care.
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: tbombz on January 30, 2012, 05:15:31 PM
btw, I know that tbombz does this thing where he ignores my posts because i flame him but fact of this matter is that i know what he does on this website and it is very obvious
i read your posts, i just dont respond very often, because i usually dont have anything to say to you. what is it that i do on this website that is obvious ?
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: johnnynoname on January 30, 2012, 05:16:20 PM
i read your posts, i just dont respond very often, because i usually dont have anything to say to you. what is it that i do on this website that is obvious ?

shut up, faggot
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: suckmymuscle on January 30, 2012, 05:16:30 PM
"physicists believe the universe is governed by scientific laws. these laws must hold without exceptions, or they wouldnt be laws. that doesnt leave much room for miracles... or god"



this guy understands that quantum mechanics is based on the idea that the laws of physics break down at the quantum level


and yet he says stupid shit like that


lol


  Actually, quantum mechanics allows physicists to make predictions with 99.98% accuracy on the behavior of particles. the laws of physics do not break down at the quantum level. The only discrepancy is integrating quantum mechanics with general relativity, but just because there is no working model now it doesen't mean there never will be. I think you should STFU before you embarass yourself more than you already did in that thread.

  And "this guy" know s athing or two more about than you about what happens on the quantum level even though he is a cosmologist. You are a nobody with a degree in anal plumbing.

SUCKMYMUSCLE
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: johnnynoname on January 30, 2012, 05:17:34 PM
btw,


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fucking moron
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: mitchyboy on January 30, 2012, 05:18:31 PM
How true it is. My wife believes all good people will either not die or be resurrected, and live forever here on earth. Of course its only people who are of her same religion who are gonna be saved. ::) It really is so simple to see, that most cant see it. They are afraid of death. Unable to come to terms with the fact that someday, they simply wont exist. So to they stroke their hair, like a small frightened child, and say its not so, you wont die, you can live forever. Every single religion has the same belief, same story different version.

I have posted in the religion threads and found most theists are smart, well intentioned, albeit scared of there own mortality, people.
When i finally realized there IS no god, my life became so much clearer. I stopped drinking so much, and life in general improved greatly.
When you realize this all you get, one chance to live your life, you start to make better use of it. I yearn for the day when religion is Finlay recognized for what it is.  A place to stick your head in the sand, and not deal with the world and life.
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: tbombz on January 30, 2012, 05:19:31 PM
 Actually, quantum mechanics allows physicists to make predictions with 99.98% accuracy on the behavior of particles. the laws of physics do not break down at the quantum level. The only discrepancy is integrating quantum mechanics with general relativity, but just because there is no working model now it doesen't mean there never will be. I think you should STFU before you embarass yourself more than you already did in that thread.

  And "this guy" know s athing or two more about than you about what happens on the quantum level even though he is a cosmologist. You are a nobody with a degree in annal plumbing.

SUCKMYMUSCLE
 you are postulating that the laws dont break down

that is all you are doing

virtual particles, the communication between electrons, quantum fluctuations..etc. the current laws of physics do not allow for these things to occur, but they are observed to happen. yes, at the quantum level our laws of physics break down.

maybe one day we can come up with an explanation for the cause of these things. but then the question remains: what was the cause of that cause? what causes cause to cause in the first place ?  :)
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: hardgainerj on January 30, 2012, 05:20:11 PM
Scientists don't believe in a God, yet they treat everything this guy says as if it is the word of God.
wow youre ignorant
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: MAXX on January 30, 2012, 05:20:16 PM
lol @ tbombz talking about advanced physics as if he knows what he's talking about.  (http://www.audi-tt.ru/forum/phpBB2/images/smiles/facepalm.gif)

Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: hardgainerj on January 30, 2012, 05:20:49 PM
annihilation seems alot more scary than hell to some bible thumpers 
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: johnnynoname on January 30, 2012, 05:21:08 PM
lol @ tbombz talking about advanced physics as if he knows what he's talking about.  (http://www.audi-tt.ru/forum/phpBB2/images/smiles/facepalm.gif)



be careful MAXX or he will ignore your posts too

oh brother
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: tbombz on January 30, 2012, 05:22:02 PM
How true it is. My wife believes all good people will either not die or be resurrected, and live forever here on earth. Of course its only people who are of her same religion who are gonna be saved. ::) It really is so simple to see, that most cant see it. They are afraid of death. Unable to come to terms with the fact that someday, they simply wont exist. So to they stroke their hair, like a small frightened child, and say its not so, you wont die, you can live forever. Every single religion has the same belief, same story different version.

I have posted in the religion threads and found most theists are smart, well intentioned, albeit scared of there own mortality, people.
When i finally realized there IS no god, my life became so much clearer. I stopped drinking so much, and life in general improved greatly.
When you realize this all you get, one chance to live your life, you start to make better use of it. I yearn for the day when religion is Finlay recognized for what it is.  A place to stick your head in the sand, and not deal with the world and life.
every religion says that your actions on earth are of eternal importance to your well being and happiness.
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: suckmymuscle on January 30, 2012, 05:23:45 PM
 you are postulating that the laws dont break down

that is all you are doing

virtual particles, the communication between electrons, quantum fluctuations..etc. the current laws of physics do not allow for these things to occur, but they are observed to happen. yes, at the quantum level our laws of physics break down.

maybe one day we can come up with an explanation for the cause of these things. but then the question remains: what was the cause of that cause? what causes cause to cause in the first place ?  :)

  What a dishonest shitbag you are. You argue the same shit that has been addressed and dismissed over and over again ad nauseum simply out of pride. I have already answered the issue of what "caused" the first cause(what a stupid tautology) in this thread http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?topic=398910.0 (http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?topic=398910.0) but you act like I never answered it.

SUCKMYMUSCLE
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: V Man on January 30, 2012, 05:24:24 PM
wow youre ignorant

Actually, think what you want...but anybody who thinks that any man is so intelligent that he could not possibly be wrong about something, is the one who is ignorant.

Scientist are human, and make mistakes...history has shown this many times.
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: mitchyboy on January 30, 2012, 05:24:34 PM
This is not religion, this is commen sense lol. If i do bad things and hang a round bad people, bad things are gonna happen to me.

Its not rocket surgery. ::)
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: johnnynoname on January 30, 2012, 05:26:02 PM
btw.......... who is "Stephen Hawkins"?



i mean, i know i'm just the dumb guy who is trolling this thread with "shut up, faggot" but i, at least, know that the guys name is Stephen Hawkings


way to go SMM---you are totally proving to us that you are not dumb  ::)
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: dr.chimps on January 30, 2012, 05:26:06 PM
tbomz: the child left behind.    
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: tbombz on January 30, 2012, 05:26:45 PM
 What a dishonest shitbag you are. You argue the same shit that has been addressed and dismissed over and over again ad nauseum simply out of pride. I have already answered the issue of what "caused" the first cause(what a stupid tautology) in this thread http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?topic=398910.0 (http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?topic=398910.0) but you act like I never answered it.

SUCKMYMUSCLE
dishonest ? you just claimed to have explained "what caused the first cause"  ;D
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: Natural Man on January 30, 2012, 05:29:16 PM
he s the only one who s affraid of the dark and wants everyone to join him in it, to feel less lonely.
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: che on January 30, 2012, 05:29:35 PM
shut up, faggot

haha ;D
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: johnnynoname on January 30, 2012, 05:30:38 PM
he s the only one who s affraid of the dark and wants everyone to join him in it.

what are your thoughts on tbombz wanting to show strangers that he is "smart"?

overcompensation for not being heard as a child?
perhaps, he was shunned by local intellectuals (kinda like a failed version of that bar scene from Good will hunting)?
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: tbombz on January 30, 2012, 05:32:25 PM
what are your thoughts on tbombz wanting to show strangers that he is "smart"?

overcompensation for not being heard as a child?
you think i sound smart johnny ?  :)

i feel like im saying pretty simple, common sense types of things. nothing complicated or too involved. 

but im glad you think it sounds smart !
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: johnnynoname on January 30, 2012, 05:33:12 PM
you think i sound smart johnny ?  :)

i feel like im saying pretty simple, common sense types of things. nothing complicated or too involved. 

but im glad you think it sounds smart !

looks like I stuck a cord
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: V Man on January 30, 2012, 05:33:19 PM
see, because there is no such thing as "Stephen Hawkins"


But there is a "Ronnie Hawkins"


Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: tbombz on January 30, 2012, 05:34:39 PM
looks like I stuck a cord
and would it make you happy if you had ?
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: johnnynoname on January 30, 2012, 05:35:00 PM

But there is a "Ronnie Hawkins"




btw I got rid of my "see, because there is no such thing as "Stephen Hawkins" post cuz i didn't think it was particularly comedic

just a afternote there, folks
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: johnnynoname on January 30, 2012, 05:36:32 PM
and would it make you happy if you had ?

shut up, faggot
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: Natural Man on January 30, 2012, 05:37:11 PM
you think i sound smart johnny ?  :)

i feel like im saying pretty simple, common sense types of things. nothing complicated or too involved.  

but im glad you think it sounds smart !
he didnt say he thought you were or sounded smart, he asked why you always have to pretend you are smart, why you act as if you were smarter than others. Looks like you also have reading comprehension troubles.

You re just a poor, ignorant, badly raised lost kid with a low self esteem, the end of a lineage of sinners. There is no doubt in my mind nobody would give you the time of the day in real life. You re just an immature and hurt little child who wants to get noticed by adults but dont know how. 
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: tbombz on January 30, 2012, 05:40:19 PM
Actually, think what you want...but anybody who thinks that any man is so intelligent that he could not possibly be wrong about something, is the one who is ignorant.

Scientist are human, and make mistakes...history has shown this many times.

And how is not this the most reprehensible ignorance, to think that one knows what one does not know? But I, O Athenians! in this, perhaps, differ from most men; and if I should say that I am in any thing wiser than another, it would be in this, that not having a competent knowledge of the things in Hades, I also think that I have not such knowledge.

When I left him, I reasoned thus with myself: I am wiser than this man, for neither of us appears to know anything great and good; but he fancies he knows something, although he knows nothing; whereas I, as I do not know anything, so I do not fancy I do. In this trifling particular, then, I appear to be wiser than he, because I do not fancy I know what I do not know.

I am called wise, for my hearers always imagine that I myself possess wisdom which I find wanting in others: but the truth is, O men of Athens, that God only is wise; and in this oracle he means to say that the wisdom of men is little or nothing... as if he said, He, O men, is the wisest, who like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing. And so I go on my way, obedient to the god, and make inquisition into anyone, whether citizen or stranger, who appears to be wise; and if he is not wise, then in vindication of the oracle I show him that he is not wise; and this occupation quite absorbs me, and I have no time to give either to any public matter of interest or to any concern of my own, but I am in utter poverty by reason of my devotion to the god.


...if, I say now, when, as I conceive and imagine, God orders me to fulfill the philosopher's mission of searching into myself and other men, I were to desert my post through fear of death, or any other fear; that would indeed be strange, and I might justly be arraigned in court for denying the existence of the gods... then I would be fancying that I was wise when I was not wise. For this fear of death is indeed the pretense of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being the appearance of knowing the unknown; since no one knows whether death, which they in their fear apprehend to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good. ...this is the point in which, as I think, I am superior to men in general, and in which I might perhaps fancy myself wiser than other men — that whereas I know but little of the world below, I do not suppose that I know: but I do know that injustice and disobedience to a better, whether God or man, is evil and dishonorable, and I will never fear or avoid a possible good rather than a certain evil.
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: johnnynoname on January 30, 2012, 05:40:49 PM
he didnt say he thought you were or sounded smart, he asked why you always have to pretend you are smart, why you act as if you were smarter than others. Looks like you also have reading comprehension troubles.

You re just a poor, ignorant, badly raised lost kid with a low self esteem, the end of a lineage of sinners. There is no doubt in my mind nobody would give you the time of the day in real life. You re just an immature and hurt little child who wants to get noticed by adults but dont know how. 

are you also saying that a internet forum (filled with men, mind you) allows him to have a voice and opinion that could possibly be heard?
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: tbombz on January 30, 2012, 05:41:33 PM
he didnt say he thought you were or sounded smart, he asked why you always have to pretend you are smart, why you act as if you were smarter than others. Looks like you also have reading comprehension troubles.

You re just a poor, ignorant, badly raised lost kid with a low self esteem, the end of a lineage of sinners. There is no doubt in my mind nobody would give you the time of the day in real life. You re just an immature and hurt little child who wants to get noticed by adults but dont know how. 
 ;D

what happened to your obsession with the bible that you were so keen on revealing to everyone just a few months ago?
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: da_vinci on January 30, 2012, 05:41:44 PM
 you are postulating that the laws dont break down

that is all you are doing

virtual particles, the communication between electrons, quantum fluctuations..etc. the current laws of physics do not allow for these things to occur, but they are observed to happen. yes, at the quantum level our laws of physics break down.


And so...this somehow turns out that it's a reason to come up with an imaginary friend in the sky.?


The cause of the cause? Funny thing is - the existence/appearance of universe out of "nothing" is explainable scientifically. I'd like to hear who could explain the creation of something SO complex as "god"? (the cause of the cause, remember?).

Oh, I can see the theistic "logic" comming - "It was always there". Well - I can tell the same about the Universe. It was always there.



To quote Freud, the biggest strenght of religion is hard-wired in human nature. In other words - fear.
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: Mr. Magoo on January 30, 2012, 05:42:54 PM
haha at this thread
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: tbombz on January 30, 2012, 05:45:59 PM
And so...this somehow turns out that it's a reason to come up with an imaginary friend in the sky.?

The cause of the cause? Funny thing is - the existence/appearance of universe out of "nothing" is explainable scientifically. I'd like to hear who could explain the creation of something SO complex as "god"? (the cause of the cause, remember?).

Oh, I can see the theistic "logic" comming - "It was always there". Well - I can tell the same about the Universe. It was always there.

To quote Freud, the biggest strenght of religion is hard-wired in human nature. In other words - fear.

well was the universe always there or did it come out of nothing? you should make up your mind ! .. or admit you have no idea where the universe came from, if it came from anywhere at all..  :)

one thing- no, science can not explain how the universe can come from nothing. if you think so, id love to shed some light on the issue for you.. so please indicate what you might have been refering to
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: johnnynoname on January 30, 2012, 05:46:09 PM
how is it that the fact that Tbombz gettng anal pleasure from another man is actually a redeeming quality compared to what makes up the rest of his personality?
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: tbombz on January 30, 2012, 05:47:19 PM
how is it that the fact that Tbombz gettng anal pleasure from another man is actually a redeeming quality compared to what makes up the rest of his personality?
and what part of my "personality" dont you like johnny bo bonny ?
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: da_vinci on January 30, 2012, 05:50:22 PM
Another thing that's nice to see, is that according to Media Gallup statistical study, National Academy Of Sciences, full of the smartest people in the world, with the highest IQ - 93% are atheists, 7%- agnostics. Goes in correlation with another study that shows - the lower average IQ of the country is - the higher percentage of religious people there (Africa being amongst the leaders).
 I'd put it in other words - the lower is an understanding of nature sciences - the higher probability of religiousness. (because atheism is NOT a doctrine or "theory", it's a STATE OF MIND that has been EDUCATED, like that of a child who has found out that there's NO FUKKIN SANTA. He does not become an "AtheSanta" he is the same child, but with a new information that's in tune with an actual reality. He has been LIED to, and believed in a NICE idea that made his ego "smile" and feel "good", but once he realized that was simply a lie, no matter how tempting, he can't start believeing in it once again no matter what, at least if he's mentally sane/stable.).
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: da_vinci on January 30, 2012, 05:54:22 PM
well was the universe always there or did it come out of nothing? you should make up your mind ! .. or admit you have no idea where the universe came from, if it came from anywhere at all..  :)

It came out of nothing (if it "came" from anything, yes), I was just giving an example.
 

Quote
one thing- no, science can not explain how the universe can come from nothing. if you think so, id love to shed some light on the issue for you.. so please indicate what you might have been refering to
Science explains perfectly the evolution of the universe from a "get go" ("Big bang"). If you think a "holly book" can explain it better than you are highly misguided individual. But many ppl are, anyway..
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: MAXX on January 30, 2012, 05:54:49 PM
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: tbombz on January 30, 2012, 05:55:42 PM
It came out of nothing (if it "came" from anything, yes), I was just giving an example.
 
 Science explains perfectly the evolution of the universe from a "get go" ("Big bang"). If you think a "holly book" can explain it better than you are highly misguided individual. But many ppl are, anyway..
the big bang theory begins with a dense and hot state of mass energy, it does not explain where it came from, or how long that state existed before expanding. 
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: da_vinci on January 30, 2012, 05:58:17 PM
the big bang theory begins with a dense and hot state of mass energy, it does not explain where it came from, or how long that state existed before expanding.  

Does "God" (gazillion times more complex "creature") automatically becomes an "explanation" in this case? Or is it a situation where just a gap of information still exists? (oh yes... theists doesn't like "gaps", they doesn't like 'em so much that they wrote a book that explains EVERYTHING perfectly without any gaps and questions. That book even explains itself. What a smart move, eh?).
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: tbombz on January 30, 2012, 06:03:15 PM
Does "God" (gazillion times more complex "creature") automatically becomes an "explanation" in this case? Or is it a situation where just a gap of information still exists? (oh yes... theists doesn't like "gaps", they doesn't like 'em so much that they wrote a book that explains EVERYTHING perfectly without any gaps and questions. That book even explains itself. What a smart move, eh?).

define god?

biblical god, or just a thinking being responsible for creating the universe?

in either case, the definition of god still contains "the creator", and everyone who believes in such a thing also understands his existence to be incomprehensible.


if your asking me if god exists, fuck, i dont know if he does or doesnt.

but science sure as hell can not explain the universe.

Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: Mr. Magoo on January 30, 2012, 06:04:22 PM
Theres am ambiguity in saying that everything that exists has a cause, and saying that there is a cause for everything that exists. The cosmological argument trades on that ambiguity. Analogous to saying "1. every person that exists has a mother, 2. so there must be a mother for every person that exists." 1 follows from 2 (if there was a mother for every person that exists (i.e. super mother), then every person that exists would have a mother) but 2 does not follow from 1.

If I could figure out how to type the universal and existential quantifier, I would write it out in logical form to note the ambiguity.
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: tbombz on January 30, 2012, 06:05:01 PM
you assert god would be complex.

why not simple?

hmmm...

seems you like to make guesses at things then pretend those guesses are facts..
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: JBGRAY on January 30, 2012, 06:06:08 PM
The real fear is that there is nothing...we just have our one life as a blip..and thats it.  Fear of absolute oblivion is not being exactly cowardly, it might be one of the scariest things to contemplate.  Imagine....a great person like Mother Theresa or Gandhi or General Patton  ;D get the same "reward" as a Jeffrey Dahmer or Jerry Sandusky.  It seems somehow...unjustified.

For me, I want to believe that there is God and Heaven and an eternal afterlife and that walking on the "narrow path" will grant me access to Heaven.  However, logic dictates that men do not rise up from the dead.....that seas do not open up to create paths for people......that snakes do not talk.......that people do not walk on top of water.

Now, if a Rapture happens or the oceans turn to blood, then yes...by logic, I will assume that this particular religious doctrine is true.

In the meantime, perhaps I should just live my life to the fullest that I can.
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: tbombz on January 30, 2012, 06:07:12 PM
Theres am ambiguity in saying that everything that exists has a cause, and saying that there is a cause for everything that exists. The cosmological argument trades on that ambiguity. Analogous to saying "1. every person that exists has a mother, 2. so there must be a mother for every person that exists." 1 follows from 2 (if there was a mother for every person that exists (i.e. super mother), then every person that exists would have a mother) but 2 does not follow from 1.

If I could figure out how to type the universal and existential quantifier, I would write it out in logical form to note the ambiguity.

every human being(common definition) was born by a woman(mother), therefore every human being that exists has a mother whom it was born from.


Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: B_B_C on January 30, 2012, 06:07:55 PM
Quote from: uberman link=topic=

You re just a poor, ignorant, badly raised lost kid with a low self esteem, the end of a lineage of sinners. There is no doubt in my mind nobody would give you the time of the day in real life. You re just an immature and hurt little child who wants to get noticed by adults but dont know how. 

a diarrhea of words and a constipation of thought

http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?topic=402694.0
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: tbombz on January 30, 2012, 06:09:36 PM
The real fear is that there is nothing...we just have our one life as a blip..and thats it.  Fear of absolute oblivion is not being exactly cowardly, it might be one of the scariest things to contemplate.  Imagine....a great person like Mother Theresa or Gandhi or General Patton  ;D get the same "reward" as a Jeffrey Dahmer or Jerry Sandusky.  It seems somehow...unjustified.

For me, I want to believe that there is God and Heaven and an eternal afterlife and that walking on the "narrow path" will grant me access to Heaven.  However, logic dictates that men do not rise up from the dead.....that seas do not open up to create paths for people......that snakes do not talk.......that people do not walk on top of water.

Now, if a Rapture happens or the oceans turn to blood, then yes...by logic, I will assume that this particular religious doctrine is true.

In the meantime, perhaps I should just live my life to the fullest that I can.
you cant imagine a world in which the bible is just a story book but yet a "god" still exists?  ??? this is not a possibility to you?

you never witnessed a man rise from the dead. have you ever witnessed an event without a cause?
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: gcb on January 30, 2012, 06:13:05 PM
"physicists believe the universe is governed by scientific laws. these laws must hold without exceptions, or they wouldnt be laws. that doesnt leave much room for miracles... or god"



this guy understands that quantum mechanics is based on the idea that the laws of physics break down at the quantum level


and yet he says stupid shit like that


lol


What a stupid statement. The laws do not break down - we simply don't understand them entirely. The laws we now understand are simply an approximation.
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: da_vinci on January 30, 2012, 06:16:17 PM
define god?
biblical god, or just a thinking being responsible for creating the universe?
in either case, the definition of god still contains "the creator", and everyone who believes in such a thing also understands his existence to be incomprehensible.
if your asking me if god exists, fuck, i dont know if he does or doesnt.
but science sure as hell can not explain the universe.

"God" is an unseparatable variable from a religion, and religion is a DOCTRINE, so it has some kinf of a "book" that explains "God". If you think you came with your own "idea" of god than think again lol.. Well actually yeah.. if you'd be persistent enough - you could come up with some kind of new wave religion too (with your own explanation of god).

So people who "believe" in god automatically assume the explanation of it is "incomprehensible". Is that because they haven't even tried or is there some other reason?

And if you think science does not explain the universe, I can assure you - there's nothing out there that explains it more ACCURATELLY, unless you could suggest something more stable and reliable than mathematics and logic. Can you?

And if science does not explain EVERYTHING (oh my...who could've thought that it wasn't going to propose - "I am science, so I can explain everything, leaving no space for any doubt." like religion does) it does not mean something insanely more complex and completely unprovable like friggin "god" automatically becomes an "explanation". If you think so, I suggest to refresh your common sense (at least).
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: A Professional on January 30, 2012, 06:16:41 PM
Hey TooManyDongz...
Why are you such a nasty character? What kind of man post his pics for all to see and then proceeds to shamelessly describe in detail what its like to get fucked up the ass by an old exploitative pedophile. You are seriously debased... less than pig shit on the bottom of my shoe. You truly have no standards or sense or morals.
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: tbombz on January 30, 2012, 06:17:08 PM
What a stupid statement. The laws do not break down - we simply don't understand them entirely. The laws we now understand are simply an approximation.
mass-energy can never be created nor destroyed.

virtual particles.

how is that law in any way compatible with that fact ?

 :)


and please, give me an example of how it would be possible to arrive at a "all encompassing universal theory of everything"   ;D
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: Mr. Magoo on January 30, 2012, 06:18:02 PM
every human being(common definition) was born by a woman(mother), therefore every human being that exists has a mother whom it was born from.




lmao, cute attempt at trying to sound smart without understanding a word of my post.

Note the difference between saying #1 "For every object X, there is an Object Y, such that X is caused by Y" and saying  #2 "There is an object Y, for every object X, such that X is caused by Y". The 1st follows from the 2nd. The 2nd does NOT follow from the first. The cosmological argument seeks to draw 2 from 1 (since everything that exists has a cause (#1), there must be a cause for everything that exists (#2), and that cause is 'God'). Analogous to the mother example. Every person that exists has a mother (#1). It does NOT follow that there is a mother for every person (i.e. a "Super Mother) (#2). If There was a super mother, then 1 would follow. But 2 does not follow from 1. The Cosmological argument trades on an ambiguity.
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: johnnynoname on January 30, 2012, 06:20:32 PM
btw, I have a message to deliver from someone who is reading this thread:

""between SMM cut and pasting and Tbombz thinking he has an iq above 68, I am splitting my guts laughing" signed, avesher"
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: PJim on January 30, 2012, 06:21:12 PM
lmao, cute attempt at trying to sound smart without understanding a word of my post.

Note the difference between saying #1 "For every object X, there is an Object Y, such that X is caused by Y" and saying  #2 "There is an object Y, for every object X, such that X is caused by Y". The 1st follows from the 2nd. The 2nd does NOT follow from the first. The cosmological argument seeks to draw 2 from 1 (since everything that exists has a cause (#1), there must be a cause for everything that exists (#2), and that cause is 'God'). Analogous to the mother example. Every person that exists has a mother (#1). It does NOT follow that there is a mother for every person (i.e. a "Super Mother) (#2). If There was a super mother, then 1 would follow. But 2 does not follow from 1. The Cosmological argument trades on an ambiguity.

So you mean to tell me, Tdongz was talking nonsense?
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: tbombz on January 30, 2012, 06:21:59 PM
"God" is an unseparatable variable from a religion, and religion is a DOCTRINE, so it has some kinf of a "book" that explains "God". If you think you came with your own "idea" of god than think again lol.. Well actually yeah.. if you'd be persistent enough - you could come up with some kind of new wave religion too (with your own explanation of god).

so if i, or somebody, came up with a religion that was based around an incomprehensible god, limited the description of him to supernatural creator, and said nothing more...    then at that point you would accept it as a posibility, but not up untill that point?

So people who "believe" in god automatically assume the explanation of it is "incomprehensible". Is that because they haven't even tried or is there some other reason?

by definition the supernatural is incomprehensible. does that not make sense to you? if not, why?

And if you think science does not explain the universe, I can assure you - there's nothing out there that explains it more ACCURATELLY, unless you could suggest something more stable and reliable than mathematics and logic. Can you?

there certainly isnt. though if god does exist, god would certainly be a more accurate explanation, since it would be all encompassing

And if science does not explain EVERYTHING (oh my...who could've thought that it wasn't going to propose - "I am science, so I can explain everything, leaving no space for any doubt." like religion does) it does not mean something insanely more complex and completely unprovable like friggin "god" automatically becomes an "explanation". If you think so, I suggest to refresh your common sense (at least).

did i say that god exists? did i say that because science cant explain reality that god exists? i never said either. science cant explain reality. tis all ive said. and its a fact. by the way, you keep asserting god is "insanely complex", and on what ground may i ask? how did you come to know this ?
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: tbombz on January 30, 2012, 06:24:34 PM
lmao, cute attempt at trying to sound smart without understanding a word of my post.

Note the difference between saying #1 "For every object X, there is an Object Y, such that X is caused by Y" and saying  #2 "There is an object Y, for every object X, such that X is caused by Y". The 1st follows from the 2nd. The 2nd does NOT follow from the first. The cosmological argument seeks to draw 2 from 1 (since everything that exists has a cause (#1), there must be a cause for everything that exists (#2), and that cause is 'God'). Analogous to the mother example. Every person that exists has a mother (#1). It does NOT follow that there is a mother for every person (i.e. a "Super Mother) (#2). If There was a super mother, then 1 would follow. But 2 does not follow from 1. The Cosmological argument trades on an ambiguity.
   who is using the cosmological argument ?  did i contradict your post ? or did i offer an alternative ?  ;)
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: PJim on January 30, 2012, 06:26:22 PM


I wish you'd stop with these absolutes.
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: tbombz on January 30, 2012, 06:26:46 PM
I wish you'd stop with these absolutes.
which absolutes?
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: PJim on January 30, 2012, 06:28:28 PM
which absolutes?

"science cant explain reality"
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: tbombz on January 30, 2012, 06:30:58 PM
"science cant explain reality"
oh, it cant. certain things are absolute. a circle is a circle. 1+1=2.  science, which depends on empirical data, can never speak on metaphysics. any assertion about the cause and origin of the universe and its laws its necessarily out of ignorance. science can certainly explain the mechanical cause and effect of the universe to the extent which causality exists, but beyond that point there is no grounds for experimentations.
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: Nomad on January 30, 2012, 06:46:12 PM
derp...atheists are just another form of hipsters. OOOH LOOK AT ME I DONT BELIEVE IN WHAT YOU BELIEVE I AM SPECIAL FUCK YOU YOU AR STUPID.

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A scientist has calculated that there is a 67% chance that God exists.

Dr Stephen Unwin has used a 200-year-old formula to calculate the probability of the existence of an omnipotent being. Bayes' Theory is usually used to work out the likelihood of events, such as nuclear power failure, by balancing the various factors that could affect a situation.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2004/mar/08/highereducation.uk1
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: G_Thang on January 30, 2012, 06:47:25 PM
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: che on January 30, 2012, 06:54:59 PM
(http://thumbs2.tangasmix.com/tmix/albums/userpics1/1/16646/full/5/29012012031335.jpg)
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: suckmymuscle on January 30, 2012, 07:06:52 PM
dishonest ? you just claimed to have explained "what caused the first cause"  ;D

  You are an even bigger shitbag than I previously thought...

SUCKMYMUSCLE
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: suckmymuscle on January 30, 2012, 07:11:47 PM
the big bang theory begins with a dense and hot state of mass energy, it does not explain where it came from, or how long that state existed before expanding. 

  This goes to show how much you know of cosmological physics. It is actually known almost precisely(down to decimal places) for how long the singularity existed before expanding. And it is known exactly what was it's composition one billionth of a second after it started expanding.

SUCKMYMUSCLE
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: Shockwave on January 30, 2012, 07:13:16 PM
lmao, cute attempt at trying to sound smart without understanding a word of my post.

Note the difference between saying #1 "For every object X, there is an Object Y, such that X is caused by Y" and saying  #2 "There is an object Y, for every object X, such that X is caused by Y". The 1st follows from the 2nd. The 2nd does NOT follow from the first. The cosmological argument seeks to draw 2 from 1 (since everything that exists has a cause (#1), there must be a cause for everything that exists (#2), and that cause is 'God'). Analogous to the mother example. Every person that exists has a mother (#1). It does NOT follow that there is a mother for every person (i.e. a "Super Mother) (#2). If There was a super mother, then 1 would follow. But 2 does not follow from 1. The Cosmological argument trades on an ambiguity.
The thing youre forgetting, is that if you go back far enough you more than likely can trace back to a single mother, lol.
I see what youre getting at, but your wording is poor. The way youre wording it DOES sound like its yes to both, as every person came from a mother, and there is a mother for every person. Now Im making the assumption you were getting at the fact that there is not ONE SINGLE MOTHER for every person that exists. Which, technically speaking their may be depending on how our species came together and how much inbreeding occured in the begining  ;D ???
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: suckmymuscle on January 30, 2012, 07:13:56 PM
mass-energy can never be created nor destroyed.
virtual particles.

how is that law in any way compatible with that fact ?

 :)


and please, give me an example of how it would be possible to arrive at a "all encompassing universal theory of everything"   ;D

  Not true. Mass can be created by quantum fluctuations of the zero-point field according to mathematical models of string theory that make valid predictions that can be tested and verified. And the fact that energy cannot be created in no way means it cannot have an origin explained by laws of pparticle physics that we don't know yet.

SUCKMYMUSCLE
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: Shockwave on January 30, 2012, 07:14:27 PM
  This goes to show how much you know of cosmological physics. It is actually known almost precisely(down to decimal places) for how long the singularity existed before expanding. And it is known exactly what was it's composition one billionth of a second after it started expanding.

SUCKMYMUSCLE
Im not away of it, but how do they explain how singularity came into existance, where the matter came from or what formed it? And how do they determine how long the singularity existed before it started expanding?
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: PJim on January 30, 2012, 07:15:48 PM
The thing youre forgetting, is that if you go back far enough you more than likely can trace back to a single mother, lol.
I see what youre getting at, but your wording is poor. The way youre wording it DOES sound like its yes to both, as every person came from a mother, and there is a mother for every person. Now Im making the assumption you were getting at the fact that there is not ONE SINGLE MOTHER for every person that exists. Which, technically speaking their may be depending on how our species came together and how much inbreeding occured in the begining  ;D ???

Shhh, are you with us or with Tdongz  >:(
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: polychronopolous on January 30, 2012, 07:22:22 PM
(http://cdn.jimonlight.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/stephen-hawking-chicks.jpg)

Livin' the good life!  8)
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: Shockwave on January 30, 2012, 07:26:15 PM
Shhh, are you with us or with Tdongz  >:(
Not really either, I believe that we as humans have no idea what or how the beginings of the universe happened, we can guess based on things that we observe, but its so far beyond our comprehension (at this time) that all were doing is guessing. Yes we can explain how the universe started expanding an when, but really were no closer to explaining HOW that matter came into existance. We can guess, that is all.
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: gcb on January 30, 2012, 07:30:12 PM
mass-energy can never be created nor destroyed.

virtual particles.

how is that law in any way compatible with that fact ?

 :)


and please, give me an example of how it would be possible to arrive at a "all encompassing universal theory of everything"   ;D

Just because you don't understand the laws does not mean they are breaking down - there is not necessarily a god in the gaps.

We may never find the all encompassing theory of everything, that doesn't mean that it doesn't exist.
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: suckmymuscle on January 30, 2012, 07:33:14 PM
Im not away of it, but how do they explain how singularity came into existance,

  This is the fundamental problem of cosmology, but there are theories that matter is "created" when branes from the timeless quantum field "collide" leading to stability which creates matter and with it the space for the matter to occupy - because one of the conditione sine qua non for matter to exist that there must be space for it to occupy.
 
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where the matter came from or what formed it? And how do they determine how long the singularity existed before it started expanding?

  The matter didn't come "from" anywhere. By asking "from where?" you are assuming a place, which assumes the existence of space. Space and time only exists when matter is.

  As for how physicists know the amount of time the singulairty was compressed, I don't know what is the relevance of this question, but it was instantaneous since time appeared with matter(the singularity) and that amount of mass cannot be constrained within the space of a needle point.

  But the exact amount of time is a very good question, but assuming that all matter in the singularity appeared instantaneously, then it was trillionths of a second. Assuming that matter "gradually" appeared in the singularity, then the time would be variable as more matter would "bend" time and space as it were created.

SUCKMYMUSCLE
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: SomeKindofMonster on January 30, 2012, 08:56:50 PM

I haven't read much of this thread but there are too
many people that have had experiences with the supernatural
(celebrity ghost stories for example) to negate the probability
that there is something beyond this life. There are probably
100's of millions of people that have had different experiences
and to completely negate the possibility of life after death
seems foolish.
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: chess315 on January 30, 2012, 09:15:15 PM
I'm not sure that video is legit. In the past stevens went out of his way to avoid saying such things I think someone just voiced over that.
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: disco_stu on January 30, 2012, 09:22:03 PM
i had shoulder surgery and reacted to the anaesthetic and was clinically dead.

they put me in an induced coma and i came to three days later.

while i was dead i....





didnt remember or dream or know a thing...just went under, then woke up- three days later...didnt realise the hell my family went through and them talking to me, holding hands and so on...

so im thinking, when you die, its just lights out baby...nothing..nudda..n o trip down a tunnel..no lights..no afterlife...you are just worm meat.
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: The Abdominal Snoman on January 30, 2012, 10:03:40 PM
How wild would it be if Hawkins was some sort of AI experiment that died awhile ago but they loaded his brain with a computer to keep him alive?
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: da_vinci on January 30, 2012, 10:36:07 PM
so if i, or somebody, came up with a religion that was based around an incomprehensible god, limited the description of him to supernatural creator, and said nothing more...    then at that point you would accept it as a posibility, but not up untill that point?


I meant - you'd have NO idea of what the word "god" is if there was no religion (with a DOCTRINE, that EXPLAINS it). Ok, let's take a god without a religion. WHat's that? AN entity.....to believe in? Uh...that's it? What's about that?

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by definition the supernatural is incomprehensible. does that not make sense to you? if not, why?

It's a logical falacy, called "Elephant in the room". Read upon it: http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/The_Dragon_in_My_Garage

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there certainly isnt. though if god does exist, god would certainly be a more accurate explanation, since it would be all encompassing


Oh really?? Just because there's a lack of data on a certain issue - it's somehow appropriate to take an indefinitely MORE complex explanation that hasn't been proven IN ANY WAY at all, as a "missing variable".? (that's basically what religious nuts do in every case when they can't explain something. It's an ACT OF GOD!!). Have you at least any idea what "logic" is, in this case?

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science cant explain reality.


Science CAN explain reality, and it DOES, it's actually the only thing that does it siccesfully and is FULLY predictable and testable. I have no idea what are you talking about, by saying that, and I'm not sure you have it either..

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fact. by the way, you keep asserting god is "insanely complex", and on what ground may i ask? how did you come to know this ?


SOmething that created EVERYTHING is a lot more difficult to explain (as the reality proves) then the evolution of the universe itself (which is explaineble perfectly).


So afterall - I have no idea what makes you (or anyone else) think that there "may be or IS something called "god" ". Could you elaborate? I personally have NO proof, not even remotely tangible one to even let that idea slip to my mind, aside that I've been lied to, like many people in some period during my childhood by people who were as clueless and afraid of death as many others..
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: maxkane69 on January 30, 2012, 10:41:00 PM
(http://cdn.jimonlight.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/stephen-hawking-chicks.jpg)

This picture is the reason why he doesen't believe in God! ;)
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: asbrus on January 30, 2012, 10:41:18 PM
define god?

biblical god, or just a thinking being responsible for creating the universe?

in either case, the definition of god still contains "the creator", and everyone who believes in such a thing also understands his existence to be incomprehensible.


if your asking me if god exists, fuck, i dont know if he does or doesnt.

but science sure as hell can not explain the universe.




But then where did that creator come from? Saying that it 'always existed' is just as plausible as saying that the universe 'always existed'. So in the end, all you're really doing is substituting one question (about the creator) for another one (about the universe), and creating an extra level of indirection, which would tend to violate Occam's Razor.
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: Parker on January 30, 2012, 11:16:47 PM
Scientists don't believe in a God, yet they treat everything this guy says as if it is the word of God.
Man has a worship complex, whether it be the Sun, public figures, mountains, rain, a volcano, a rock, Gods, a bird,Science, vagina, etc...

And then the authorities of such subjects are accorded "priesthood" or "prophet" status, and man hangs onto everything they say...

"I went to the mountaintop, and met the almighty prophet, he maybe ugly, bitter that he'll never walk again, or bend over the woman of dreams and give her doggystyle, and he might only talk thru a computer,
but I believe he is unbiased and his words are true and bring meaning....God doesn't exist, because he said so...never mind that nobody showed up for his Time Traveler's party"


The man has reached mythical proportions, one could say the proof that god exists is that he could become a great scientist and authority on his esteemed subject, yet if he were born during Hitler's time in Germany, chances are he would never have lived the life he has---or survived.
Had he been born in ancient Sparta, well you know the deal.
Sometimes we all need to count our blessings, from God or the society we live in.
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: asbrus on January 30, 2012, 11:23:48 PM
Scientists don't believe in a God, yet they treat everything this guy says as if it is the word of God.

N0T TRUE. N0T EVERY THING THAT HAWKINGS SAYS IS AGREED BY 0THERS IN THE SCIENTIFIC CIRCLE.
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: deceiver on January 30, 2012, 11:37:08 PM
lol @ tbombz talking about advanced physics as if he knows what he's talking about.  (http://www.audi-tt.ru/forum/phpBB2/images/smiles/facepalm.gif)



yeah, he can't even grasp elementary level math... sure as hell he knows what he's talking about  ;D ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: Parker on January 31, 2012, 01:16:25 AM
i had shoulder surgery and reacted to the anaesthetic and was clinically dead.

they put me in an induced coma and i came to three days later.

while i was dead i....



didnt remember or dream or know a thing...just went under, then woke up- three days later...didnt realise

the hell my family went through and them talking to me, holding
 hands and so on...

so im thinking, when you die, its just lights out baby...nothing..nudda..n o trip down a tunnel..no lights..no
afterlife...you are just worm meat.
sorry dude, your soul was still tethered to your body...
You were not dead...because if you were, you wouldn't be here to type what you just dead..."clinically dead", is not the same
as a shot to dome and one in the heart dead...
Then you are "motherfvcking dead".
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: NarcissisticDeity on January 31, 2012, 01:37:10 AM
you assert god would be complex.

why not simple?

hmmm...

seems you like to make guesses at things then pretend those guesses are facts..

the fucking irony of this statement.
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: Mr. Magoo on January 31, 2012, 02:36:58 AM
The thing youre forgetting, is that if you go back far enough you more than likely can trace back to a single mother, lol.
I see what youre getting at, but your wording is poor. The way youre wording it DOES sound like its yes to both, as every person came from a mother, and there is a mother for every person. Now Im making the assumption you were getting at the fact that there is not ONE SINGLE MOTHER for every person that exists. Which, technically speaking their may be depending on how our species came together and how much inbreeding occured in the begining  ;D ???

actually the wording is correct. It's the common use of the english language that introduces the ambiguity. In logical form it appears clearly. I paraphrased exactly (the #1 and #2 statements) what the logical form would say if I could figure out how to type the universal and existential quantifiers.
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: lovemonkey on January 31, 2012, 02:49:17 AM
 Not true. Mass can be created by quantum fluctuations of the zero-point field according to mathematical models of string theory that make valid predictions that can be tested and verified. And the fact that energy cannot be created in no way means it cannot have an origin explained by laws of pparticle physics that we don't know yet.

SUCKMYMUSCLE

One of the main critiques of string theory is the very fact that the theory does not make any observable predictions. So you got that one wrong.

Predictions are not the be all, end all of science though. Evolution doesn't make any predictions for example.
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: pillowtalk on January 31, 2012, 06:10:02 AM
"physicists believe the universe is governed by scientific laws. these laws must hold without exceptions, or they wouldnt be laws. that doesnt leave much room for miracles... or god"



this guy understands that quantum mechanics is based on the idea that the laws of physics break down at the quantum level


and yet he says stupid shit like that


lol


 Actually, quantum mechanics allows physicists to make predictions with 99.98% accuracy on the behavior of particles. the laws of physics do not break down at the quantum level. The only discrepancy is integrating quantum mechanics with general relativity, but just because there is no working model now it doesen't mean there never will be. I think you should STFU before you embarass yourself more than you already did in that thread.

  And "this guy" know s athing or two more about than you about what happens on the quantum level even though he is a cosmologist. You are a nobody with a degree in anal plumbing.

SUCKMYMUSCLE
Tbumbz, just goes from thread to thread making himself look a total cunt, WTF.
Is it some weird desire that you have to be seen as intellectual.
Mate, I have to tell you that if that is your motivation, you have FAILED in epic fashion.
You wade into these subjects, with zero working knowledge of the basics & make yourself look a dick every time I have seen so far.
Looking a total cunt is becoming pathological with you, you run at it with full speed, most odd.
Why do you do this Tbumbz?? What is your problem..............

PT
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: Hurricane Beef ! on January 31, 2012, 06:22:08 AM
  Inspiring truth!

 


SUCKMYMUSCLE

THE BEEF would hate God if THE BEEF lived like that. No, wait, THE BEEF would never hate God.

THE BEEF
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: Tito24 on January 31, 2012, 07:28:22 AM
tbombs is smart
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: Swede! on January 31, 2012, 07:43:10 AM
oops

This is a little gem that was brought to my attention. 

I can not take credit for the beauty in the following information and will keep the source anonymous as to show respect for the fellow forum member.

It was brought to my attention that a gimmick here by the name of 'Cigaretteman' has been "nuthuggin" Suckmymuscle on various threads as of recent.. 

Well, the truth has revealed that the paraplegia-inducing, canine destroyer who just so happens to be a genetically engineered superhuman has been using a gimmick to reply to his own posts, LOL!

It's been an outing waiting to happen and light should be shed upon this fountain of truth.

Closely examine CigaretteMan's early posts and their striking similarity to SMMs posts and the truth shall set you, or better said him, free: 

SMM:
http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?action=profile;u=4908;sa=showPosts (http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?action=profile;u=4908;sa=showPosts)

Cigaretteman:
http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?action=profile;u=27918;sa=showPosts (http://www.getbig.com/boards/index.php?action=profile;u=27918;sa=showPosts)

"1"

pWnd

omg I can't believe I haven't caught on that earlier.. looking at the post history it's so fucking obvious lmao!


mwaaaa ha ha ha ha ha ha, total outing, this is the icing on the cake, this is!!!!

SMM, I can see you're online, you little snivelling cunt, what's the matter, is the going too rough, now? ;D Is your monster 200 points IQ not of any use to you in this situation? :P

Come on lad, give us one of those famous 50pt font meltdowns ;D


Definately the same poster....can you say OWNED once again ?

GEEZUS,the shit just keeps on a coming! ;D

ROFLLLLLL hahah that gimmick account is so obvious wtf? how did I miss that?

Hahah , Onemorerep destroying SMM rectum.
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: lovemonkey on January 31, 2012, 07:43:47 AM
 Actually, quantum mechanics allows physicists to make predictions with 99.98% accuracy on the behavior of particles.

Source on this?
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: Butterbean on January 31, 2012, 08:32:08 AM
How true it is. My wife believes all good people will either not die or be resurrected, and live forever here on earth. Of course its only people who are of her same religion who are gonna be saved. ::)

What religion is your wife mitchy?
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: chess315 on January 31, 2012, 08:36:12 AM
 
     physicists and people like hawkins usually go out of there way to kiss christians ass and twist words to suit them because the last thing a researcher wants to say is god doesnt exsist.  
    
   It is very possible a creator dose exist in that we may come from other life else where in the universe but not in the super natural biblical sense.

  Saying there is no god is a public death sentence much like saying fag,fatty or other such statements. Hell he has a line to the pope and has on many occasions answered requests to word stuff as to not say there is no god from the vatican. Which in itself proves how much of a fraud the church is to call physicists and try to buy them off.
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: dr.chimps on January 31, 2012, 09:28:14 AM
tbombs is smart
Stephen Hawkins smart. Kid should have stayed in school.  
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: MORTALCOIL on January 31, 2012, 09:31:43 AM
Stephen Hawkins smart. Kid should have stayed in school.   

The school would have left then.
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: the trainer on January 31, 2012, 10:30:45 AM
Scientific people need to shut up, they know nothing of what they speak of all they have is a bunch of theory that they change everyday.
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: B_B_C on January 31, 2012, 01:31:58 PM
Scientific people need to shut up, they know nothing of what they speak of all they have is a bunch of theory that they change everyday.
latest word from God is that she is bored with this debate particularly among a group of boys not content with the body she gave them
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: the trainer on January 31, 2012, 01:41:21 PM
latest word from God is that she is bored with this debate particularly among a group of boys not content with the body she gave them

God is not a woman because if he was with all the mood swings that women have we would all be dead by now.
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: tbombz on January 31, 2012, 01:42:37 PM
 This goes to show how much you know of cosmological physics. It is actually known almost precisely(down to decimal places) for how long the singularity existed before expanding. And it is known exactly what was it's composition one billionth of a second after it started expanding.

SUCKMYMUSCLE
 ;D how long did it exist ?


 Not true. Mass can be created by quantum fluctuations of the zero-point field according to mathematical models of string theory that make valid predictions that can be tested and verified. And the fact that energy cannot be created in no way means it cannot have an origin explained by laws of pparticle physics that we don't know yet.

SUCKMYMUSCLE
"virtual particle" , maybe you missed that part of my post.  

Just because you don't understand the laws does not mean they are breaking down - there is not necessarily a god in the gaps.

We may never find the all encompassing theory of everything, that doesn't mean that it doesn't exist.
the current laws of physics break down at a certain level, meaning that certain basic concepts we previously agreed upon as being laws no longer hold true.. its not that I dont understand whats going on, its that NOBODY DOES.

its not that we may never find that theory, its that the idea of such a thing is completely illogical and necesarily impossible.


I meant - you'd have NO idea of what the word "god" is if there was no religion (with a DOCTRINE, that EXPLAINS it). Ok, let's take a god without a religion. WHat's that? AN entity.....to believe in? Uh...that's it? What's about that?

It's a logical falacy, called "Elephant in the room". Read upon it: http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/The_Dragon_in_My_Garage
 

Oh really?? Just because there's a lack of data on a certain issue - it's somehow appropriate to take an indefinitely MORE complex explanation that hasn't been proven IN ANY WAY at all, as a "missing variable".? (that's basically what religious nuts do in every case when they can't explain something. It's an ACT OF GOD!!). Have you at least any idea what "logic" is, in this case?

not that there is a lack of data, its that data itself is necessarily incapable of providing any information on metaphysics.

why are you ASSuming god is so complex?

 

Science CAN explain reality, and it DOES, it's actually the only thing that does it siccesfully and is FULLY predictable and testable. I have no idea what are you talking about, by saying that, and I'm not sure you have it either..
 

SOmething that created EVERYTHING is a lot more difficult to explain (as the reality proves) then the evolution of the universe itself (which is explaineble perfectly).

the "evolution of the universe". which universe? what about the possibility of other universes outside of our own? what about universes that existed before ours?  :) nonetheless, science cant actually "explain" the evolution of our universe, it can only describe the events that happened. no explanation for why or how is reachable.  


So afterall - I have no idea what makes you (or anyone else) think that there "may be or IS something called "god" ". Could you elaborate? I personally have NO proof, not even remotely tangible one to even let that idea slip to my mind, aside that I've been lied to, like many people in some period during my childhood by people who were as clueless and afraid of death as many others..

as a child i was about where you and the rest of the athiests in this thread are at intellectually. not once in my youth at any age did i ever think that god existed and i always rejected it as a fairy tale, stories of magic, and a way for scared people to avoid thinking of death.  but my thoughts have evolved past that unsophisticated and unwise and foolish presumptious way of being. i dont know god exists. to say so would be a lie. just like if you said you KNEW he didnt. that would also be a lie. but my experience of causality , and other logical things, have encouraged me to believe that diety of some sort is probably responsible forcretaing this world.



But then where did that creator come from? Saying that it 'always existed' is just as plausible as saying that the universe 'always existed'. So in the end, all you're really doing is substituting one question (about the creator) for another one (about the universe), and creating an extra level of indirection, which would tend to violate Occam's Razor.
 i ask, lets say you are out in the wild and stumble upon a highly advanced computer capable of making decisions on its own and sustaining and reproducing itself. would you think it more reasonable to assume an extremely intelligent person was responsible for creating that computer than to assume that computer just popped into existence out of nothing and for no reason at all ?

surely both an eternal and uncaused universe and an eternal and omnipotent god are incomprehensible...
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: tbombz on January 31, 2012, 01:51:34 PM
yall need to read this over and over till ya understand

oh, it cant. certain things are absolute. a circle is a circle. 1+1=2.  science, which depends on empirical data, can never speak on metaphysics. any assertion about the cause and origin of the universe and its laws its necessarily out of ignorance. science can certainly explain the mechanical cause and effect of the universe to the extent which causality exists, but beyond that point there is no grounds for experimentations.
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: Dr.Ill on January 31, 2012, 01:58:52 PM
tbombz, Why would you argue physics with a goob like suck men off?  As a radiation physicist, you can read through his cut and paste threads, and tell he has absolutely no idea what he is saying, my advice to you, don't pick on the special ed child anymore.   ;D

And my second question is for those that say scientist do not believe in God, there are several of us that believe in God.  Actually through my degree, I actually feel science has proven there is a God with the lack of answers that we do have!
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: tbombz on January 31, 2012, 02:02:19 PM
tbombz, Why would you argue physics with a goob like suck men off?  As a radiation physicist, you can read through his cut and paste threads, and tell he has absolutely no idea what he is saying, my advice to you, don't pick on the special ed child anymore.   ;D

And my second question is for those that say scientist do not believe in God, there are several of us that believe in God.  Actually through my degree, I actually feel science has proven there is a God with the lack of answers that we do have!
i like arguing with people. its a hobby of mine.  ;D
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: tweeter on January 31, 2012, 02:27:44 PM
You can't really ask what happened before the big bang because time itself resulted from the big bang. Therefore, any cause would have to exist outside the scope of space-time.
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: NarcissisticDeity on January 31, 2012, 02:27:55 PM
i like trolling. its a hobby of mine.  ;D

I agree
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: lovemonkey on January 31, 2012, 02:30:18 PM
yall need to read this over and over till ya understand


So science can never find the answers but you can?? This is in fact what you're saying.
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: dr.chimps on January 31, 2012, 02:30:40 PM
i like arguing with people. its a hobby of mine.  ;D
If you could only invest your prodigious logic, mental acrobatics and 'arguing' in a scholastic investment...
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: Shockwave on January 31, 2012, 02:32:12 PM
tbombz, Why would you argue physics with a goob like suck men off?  As a radiation physicist, you can read through his cut and paste threads, and tell he has absolutely no idea what he is saying, my advice to you, don't pick on the special ed child anymore.   ;D

And my second question is for those that say scientist do not believe in God, there are several of us that believe in God.  Actually through my degree, I actually feel science has proven there is a God with the lack of answers that we do have!
Ive noticed this, for some reason, many scientists like to insinuate that "scientists" dont believe in god, period.
Honestly I believe from reading responses and from dealing with people in general, that atheists are just as afraid of being wrong and comforted by their choice as much as they believe theists are scared of being wrong.

Think of it this way - whats more frightening, the though of non-existance, or the thought that if you made bad choices and were a shitbag in life that you would spend an eternity suffering?
I know personally, I fear the possibility of hell a lot more than I fear the thought of non-existance. Anytime I find myself thinking of the possibility of death, I find I comfort myself with the thought that more than likely Ill just go to sleep and never wake up.

I feel that when atheists point to theists as "being afraid to die so they believe religion", well, I see that as wrong in most cases (im sure its true for some). It's much easier to believe that you just die, and that youre not accountable in any way for your actions, that to think that youll be judged for the things youve done in your life.

The people ive dealt with in my life, the aethists always tend to be the more dickish and close minded, and simply wont even entertain the idea that they may be held accountable for what theyve done - and I usually get the impression that the reason theyre so stubborn is because they dont want to think of the possibility of some being out there judging them for how theyve treated people or what theyve done in their lives.
Most of the REAL spiritual/religious people Ive met (not diehard zealots who believe simply because thats what's written and thats the way it is, or ones who know theyre "going to heaven" because they believe, even if they treat people like shit) have been, in general, nicer, kinder, and more open minded (which seems backwards, I know, but this is my experiences from people Ive interacted with). Only reason I can come up with, is that theyve accepted that theyre being judged by someone for the way they live their lives, and believe that if they live their lives well, treat people decently, and make good moral decisions (I know there is a lot of gray area in "morals") that they will not end up being punished in the worst possible fashion.

Seems like the same argument can be used for the so called "die hard zealots" on both sides -
Many die-hard Atheists fear religion because they dont want to be judged by someone for all the bad things theyve done in their lives
Many die-hard Theists fear the thought of non-existance, or their ego cant handle the idea that someday they wont matter and just wont exist anymore.

Personally I dont get the whole afraid of not existing argument, the thought of non-existance does not trouble me, as long as I feel happy with the way Ive lived my life, the people ive touched, and the things Ive accomplished. Death is an inevitability, to me the thought of being subject to someone elses judgment is far scarier than the thought that I could make whatever choices I want in life and never be held accountable for them.
So I dont think the "fear of death" argument follows for many theists. "fear of going to hell/being judged" is probably more appropriate, as Im sure there are many out there who claim a religion and follow it just on the off chance that if it is real, they wont go to hell, but they really dont "believe". ::) :-\
Im sure that whatever god they believe in wouldnt be fooled by their feigned faith however, IMHO those people are only fooling themselves. Just like the people that treat others like shit but claim to be "true christians", usually the same ones who know beyond a shadow of a doubt theyre going to heaven, and tell others that theyre going to hell. Those are the same people who seem incapable of understanding how their choices affect others, they always think theyre in the right, and that their morally just, even if they make people feel like shit or treat them like shit. :-\
 
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: NarcissisticDeity on January 31, 2012, 02:34:07 PM
So science can never find the answers but you can?? This is in fact what you're saying.

Exactly , science can't figure it out but he has at home I wonder why he hasn't claimed his Nobel Prize yet.  ::) 
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: lovemonkey on January 31, 2012, 02:36:11 PM
If you could only invest your prodigious logic, mental acrobatics and 'arguing' in a scholastic investment...

I doubt any 'schooling' is going to help him considerably. Sure it won't hurt to give it a shot but his issues stem mostly from a very bad attitude.
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: dr.chimps on January 31, 2012, 02:36:53 PM
Exactly , science can't figure it out but he has at home I wonder why he hasn't claimed his Nobel Prize yet.  ::) 
Is bomz gonna sweep, or is he favoured in one of the categories?     ;D
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: Shockwave on January 31, 2012, 02:48:07 PM
Is bomz gonna sweep, or is he favoured in one of the categories?     ;D
pWnd.
Bombz is a good kid IMHO.
Once he gets older and accumulates life experience he'll probably be a pretty cool guy, he's already laid back and lets shit slide, he's driven and he likes to learn, even if he likes to try to debate and teach before he's actually experienced what he's debating.  :-\
He'll learn as he gets older and more experienced how much different things are in reality, compared to how they appear to him now.
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: doriancutlerman on January 31, 2012, 02:51:46 PM
  Inspiring truth!

 


SUCKMYMUSCLE

He's right.

He's also wrong. 

In a word:  Pragmatism.
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: Shockwave on January 31, 2012, 02:54:29 PM
He's right.

He's also wrong. 

In a word:  Pragmatism.
Hawking is just pissed that god was drunk when he was putting him together.
If Hawking had to acknowledge that there was a god, he would be acknowledging that someone INTENTIONALLY made him the way he is. Pretty sure Hawking is pissed at life for his ailment, id bet 1099870987 dollards he'd trade his intelligence for a working body in .000000000000001 milliseconds.
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: dr.chimps on January 31, 2012, 02:57:20 PM
pWnd.
Bombz is a good kid IMHO.
Once he gets older and accumulates life experience he'll probably be a pretty cool guy, he's already laid back and lets shit slide, he's driven and he likes to learn, even if he likes to try to debate and teach before he's actually experienced what he's debating.  :-\
He'll learn as he gets older and more experienced how much different things are in reality, compared to how they appear to him now.
I agree. He's obviously ticking over. Interested in stuff - that's obvious, from his posts. And, interest is so, so important to intellectual pursuits...but he has no discipline. And no intellectual rigor. That's not to say that university is for everybody - it's not! - but I do feel that he would benefit from the structure of getting an under-graduate degree. If, after that, his eclat rings farther than than the local church's purview, it will be manifest.    
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: tbombz on January 31, 2012, 03:02:15 PM
You can't really ask what happened before the big bang because time itself resulted from the big bang. Therefore, any cause would have to exist outside the scope of space-time.
thats just sticking your head in the sand via semantics. who says before the big bang there wasnt a previous big bang? who says outside the boundaries of our universe some odd gazilliuon trillion miles aaway there isnt a whole other universe ? maybe hundreds thousands billions of other universes, big bangs happening all the time , going back eternally?

So science can never find the answers but you can?? This is in fact what you're saying.
no, im saying answers are unreachable. period. and this is fact.

I doubt any 'schooling' is going to help him considerably. Sure it won't hurt to give it a shot but his issues stem mostly from a very bad attitude.
bad attitude  ;D

Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: tbombz on January 31, 2012, 03:04:09 PM
let socrates infiltrate your mind...


And how is not this the most reprehensible ignorance, to think that one knows what one does not know? But I, O Athenians! in this, perhaps, differ from most men; and if I should say that I am in any thing wiser than another, it would be in this, that not having a competent knowledge of the things in Hades, I also think that I have not such knowledge.

When I left him, I reasoned thus with myself: I am wiser than this man, for neither of us appears to know anything great and good; but he fancies he knows something, although he knows nothing; whereas I, as I do not know anything, so I do not fancy I do. In this trifling particular, then, I appear to be wiser than he, because I do not fancy I know what I do not know.

I am called wise, for my hearers always imagine that I myself possess wisdom which I find wanting in others: but the truth is, O men of Athens, that God only is wise; and in this oracle he means to say that the wisdom of men is little or nothing... as if he said, He, O men, is the wisest, who like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing. And so I go on my way, obedient to the god, and make inquisition into anyone, whether citizen or stranger, who appears to be wise; and if he is not wise, then in vindication of the oracle I show him that he is not wise; and this occupation quite absorbs me, and I have no time to give either to any public matter of interest or to any concern of my own, but I am in utter poverty by reason of my devotion to the god.


...if, I say now, when, as I conceive and imagine, God orders me to fulfill the philosopher's mission of searching into myself and other men, I were to desert my post through fear of death, or any other fear; that would indeed be strange, and I might justly be arraigned in court for denying the existence of the gods... then I would be fancying that I was wise when I was not wise. For this fear of death is indeed the pretense of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being the appearance of knowing the unknown; since no one knows whether death, which they in their fear apprehend to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good. ...this is the point in which, as I think, I am superior to men in general, and in which I might perhaps fancy myself wiser than other men — that whereas I know but little of the world below, I do not suppose that I know: but I do know that injustice and disobedience to a better, whether God or man, is evil and dishonorable, and I will never fear or avoid a possible good rather than a certain evil.
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: lovemonkey on January 31, 2012, 03:12:31 PM
no, im saying answers are unreachable. period. and this is fact.

roflmao, as if you know the slightest thing about science and it's boundaries. It's probably true that some things might be forever beyond the scope of science but looking back at the history of science; of what we knew back then and what know now, we are today absolutely not in a position to say "this is where science ends". Many 'educated' people have done so in the past only to look foolish later. You're among the last people on earth to be consulted on matters of science. Don't use words such as "indisputable", "fact" and "logic" when you over and over again display your massive ignorance on all kinds of subjects.
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: Shockwave on January 31, 2012, 03:13:22 PM
I agree. He's obviously ticking over. Interested in stuff - that's obvious, from his posts. And, interest is so, so important to intellectual pursuits...but he has no discipline. And no intellectual rigor. That's not to say that university is for everybody - it's not! - but I do feel that he would benefit from the structure of getting an under-graduate degree. If, after that, his eclat rings farther than than the local church's purview, it will be manifest.    
Agree - and he will probably arrive at the fact that he would benefit from discipline and structure.
I would imagine almost everyone would get tired (i hope) of just floating from subject to subject without ever really accomplishing anything more than a rudimentary understanding of whatever concept it is theyre currently interested in.
And I bet when he has some real solid life experience under his belt, his posts on subjects like these (ones in that he has knowledge, but not enough to seriously debate) will drop quite a bit.
And Ill also bet that when he DOES really dig in and find something that he's ready to devote himself to learning, that he'll make a great teacher as he seems very open with things he's learned and his experiences (although im sure that will change with time too, as it does for everyone), and seems to really have a desire to help people that want to learn.  
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: tbombz on January 31, 2012, 03:15:41 PM
roflmao, as if you know the slightest thing about science and it's boundaries. It's probably true that some things might be forever beyond the scope of science but looking back at the history of science; of what we knew back then and what know now, we are today absolutely not in a position to say "this is where science ends". You're among the last people on earth to be consulted on matters of science. Don't use words such as "indisputable", "fact" and "logic" when you over and over again display your massive ignorance on all kinds of subjects.
science only began to make forward progress after the centuries of metaphysical speculation were finally put to rest when empiricists proved that metaphysics were beyond the bounds of experience and thus one could only guess.

being that science is essentialy founded on the principle that knowledge is limited, your the one showing profound ignorancee on the subject by acting as if its a possibilty that one day science may be able to find some kind of answers as to meta physics (cause and origin of universe and its laws)

Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: dr.chimps on January 31, 2012, 03:16:22 PM
Agree - and he will probably arrive at the fact that he would benefit from discipline and structure.
I would imagine almost everyone would get tired (i hope) of just floating from subject to subject without ever really accomplishing anything more than a rudimentary understanding of whatever concept it is theyre currently interested in.
And I bet when he has some real solid life experience under his belt, his posts on subjects like these (ones in that he has knowledge, but not enough to seriously debate) will drop quite a bit.
And Ill also bet that when he DOES really dig in and find something that he's ready to devote himself to learning, that he'll make a great teacher as he seems very open with things he's learned and his experiences (although im sure that will change with time too, as it does for everyone), and seems to really have a desire to help people that want to learn.  
Agree.
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: tbombz on January 31, 2012, 03:19:06 PM
shockwave and chimps, i beg you, go back and read through my posts in this thread. do so a million times if you have to. keep rereading untill you grasp what i have been saying. do not project the thoughts of theists into my words, take my words as they are written. i am not the one in this thread who claims to know something, i am the one pointing out when others believe they know something that they do not.  you may be older than i, but i assure you you can learn a great deal from me.
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: dr.chimps on January 31, 2012, 03:20:39 PM
shockwave and chimps, i beg you, go back and read through my posts in this thread. do so a million times if you have to. keep rereading untill you grasp what i have been saying. do not project the thoughts of theists into my words, take my words as they are written. i am not the one in this thread who claims to know something, i am the one pointing out when others believe they know something that they do not.  you may be older than i, but i assure you you can learn a great deal from me.
Perhaps. It's certainly not humility, or openness.   
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: tbombz on January 31, 2012, 03:23:19 PM
Perhaps. It's certainly not humility, or openness.  
and what am i not open about? where do i lack humility ? should i let others proclaim to know things they do not to appear humble? should i avoid suggesting logical truths in order to appear that i possess humility ? nay.. i show my humility by being honest, admitting i know not what i know not..
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: lovemonkey on January 31, 2012, 03:25:45 PM
science only began to make forward progress after the centuries of metaphysical speculation were finally put to rest when empiricists proved that metaphysics were beyond the bounds of experience and thus one could only guess.

being that science is essentialy founded on the principle that knowledge is limited, your the one showing profound ignorancee on the subject by acting as if its a possibilty that one day science may be able to find some kind of answers as to meta physics (cause and origin of universe and its laws)



If you went back in time to say the 17th century and told the smartest and most educated man/woman alive in that time period that the universe started with a massive inflation(details of which we know down to the billionth of a second), that there's an upper speed limit in the cosmos, that sickness comes from bacteria/virus and not demons, that we evolved from other animals, that atoms exist and their behavior relies on probabilities etc etc they would either declare you insane(probably possessed by demons) or burn you at the stake.

Are you seriously saying that you, tdongschlong, in the year of 2012 know the boundaries of science?
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: dr.chimps on January 31, 2012, 03:28:03 PM
and what am i not open about? where do i lack humility ? should i let others proclaim to know things they do not to appear humble? should i avoid suggesting logical truths in order to appear that i possess humility ? nay.. i show my humility by being honest, admitting i know not what i know not..
Time to resume your sessions, as well, bro.    ;)
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: tbombz on January 31, 2012, 03:32:06 PM
If you went back in time to say the 17th century and told the smartest and most educated man/woman alive in that time period that the universe started with a massive inflation(details of which we know down to the billionth of a second), that there's an upper speed limit in the cosmos, that sickness comes from bacteria/virus and not demons, that we evolved from other animals, that atoms exist and their behavior relies on probabilities etc etc they would either declare you insane(probably possessed by demons) or burn you at the stake.

Are you seriously saying that you, tdongschlong, in the year 2012 know the boundaries of science?
first lets just make a few corrections:

you dont know that there is a "speed limit". recent observations of neutrinos should have been enough for you to drop that bit on your own.

theory of disease has been around since antiquity and so has the theory of evolution and atomic theory

leibnez predictyed quantum physics almost to the "t" back before there was any evidence of any such thing




secondly, yes, i do know that science is limited. can we explain the cause of quantum fluctuations? sure we migth be able to, in fact we probably will. at again and again and again and again as time moves forward and we increase our knowledge we will continue making discoveries. but at some point we will stop, or we will just keep going.. and neithe rof those scenarios provides an answer of any kind. it just leaves a big fat question mark. there will always be a question mark at the end of science. always. and this is where metaphysical speculation lies. science is incapable of speaking on it

Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: tbombz on January 31, 2012, 03:33:20 PM
Time to resume your sessions, as well, bro.    ;)
;D .. oh my..   chimpps..  i fear you might be beyond repair.. hopefully god does exist and he can eventually guide you..
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: Shockwave on January 31, 2012, 03:38:07 PM
shockwave and chimps, i beg you, go back and read through my posts in this thread. do so a million times if you have to. keep rereading untill you grasp what i have been saying. do not project the thoughts of theists into my words, take my words as they are written. i am not the one in this thread who claims to know something, i am the one pointing out when others believe they know something that they do not.  you may be older than i, but i assure you you can learn a great deal from me.
I wasnt talking about anything you had written in this thread bombz, I wasnt talking about your words, or your argument, lol.
I actually agreed with you in the sense that neither side can currently explain any of it with any certainty.

We were discussing your character, and actually were discussing how you have some very promising attributes, if you actually would re-read OUR words and not just make the same assumption about us that you think were making about you.  ;)

Trust me - I know the whole "when he gets older" thing is tired and many times is just old people patting themselves on the back about their maturity- but in this case its not, it has more to do with the fact that you love to debate with people on subjects even when youre just getting in to them and have very limited information or real world experience on the issue (even though you may believe you have a very solid grasp on the subject, or feel youre well versed enough to debate with people who may have much more time/knowledge/experience in the subject.)

What I have found as I age (im only 26 btw), is that just when I thought I had a solid enough grasp on the subject to debate/argue it, just meant I had enough knowledge to make myself look like an ass to people that had REAL knowledge or experience. Also - that real world experience trumps knowledge more often than not. And that knowledge+experience trumps all. Anytime I tried to debate subjects with people that had more experience, even if they didnt have the same knowledge I had, I found later on when I was developing my own experiences in the subjects - that the person I was arguing with was right all along, even though he may not have had the actual knowledge. (thats when you really feel like an ass)

As I get older, the onlything I realize I know for sure, is that I dont know shit. The more I realize I dont know shit, the less I argue with people.
And the less I argue with people, the more I realize that those who have a need to argue or those that always have an opinion on the subject (as I used to do - hell, I still do lol, just check the poli board) - are usually those with the least experience.
(That wasnt a jab at you, thats just the things I have learned)

Just my .02, youre a good kid, youre certainly not stupid, you just have a lot to learn (as we all do). You have all the tools at your disposal, its only a matter of time until you decide to get down to business.
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: Shockwave on January 31, 2012, 03:42:07 PM
Added to the above - also when you attempt to apply logical conclusions to certain arguments when you do not have practical experience in the subject, it seems like a good idea (I used to do the same thing), the problem is many times when you get serious about a subject, that information you learn from your experiences actually flies in the face of the logical assumptions you make -
Hence why they say assuming things makes an ass out of you and me (ass-u-me)
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: lovemonkey on January 31, 2012, 03:45:33 PM
first lets just make a few corrections:

you dont know that there is a "speed limit". recent observations of neutrinos should have been enough for you to drop that bit on your own.

theory of disease has been around since antiquity and so has the theory of evolution and atomic theory

leibnez predictyed quantum physics almost to the "t" back before there was any evidence of any such thing




secondly, yes, i do know that science is limited. can we explain the cause of quantum fluctuations? sure we migth be able to, in fact we probably will. at again and again and again and again as time moves forward and we increase our knowledge we will continue making discoveries. but at some point we will stop, or we will just keep going.. and neithe rof those scenarios provides an answer of any kind. it just leaves a big fat question mark. there will always be a question mark at the end of science. always. and this is where metaphysical speculation lies. science is incapable of speaking on it



The neutrino experiment has not changed anything yet. It needs to be reproduced and verified before any conclusions can be drawn. Besides it's quite ironic that the results apparently disproves the theory of relativity but yet it uses that exact theory to determine the distance between start and finish of the experiment(via gps satellites).

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theory of disease has been around since antiquity and so has the theory of evolution and atomic theory

You're only slightly correct about the atom part(atom is a greek word blabla) but the other two statements about disease and evolution you better find a damn good source for. How could they possibly have known about bacteria without a microscope?

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leibnez predictyed quantum physics almost to the "t" back before there was any evidence of any such thing

I bet all kinds of stuff have been speculated about at one point in history but there's a dramatic difference between speculation, proof and working theories. Vague speculation just doesn't get the job done.

There might always be a question mark at the 'end'(whatever that might be) of science but you can absolutely not predict where that will be. Personally I'd be shocked if a working theory of the origin of the universe has not been worked out by the end of this century.
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: The Abdominal Snoman on January 31, 2012, 04:53:23 PM
Does anyone know if Hawkins is or isn't using his mind to try to "cure" his disease?
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: Radical Plato on January 31, 2012, 05:00:06 PM
It all makes sense to me now!, I always wondered why such a brilliant mind would be trapped in a retarded useless body such as Stephens.  It is the perfect plan, no-one wants to be seen attacking a cripple, Stephen has the unique ability to tell the truth, that offends so many in denial or without the courage to explore further.  Throughout History those who have spoken universal truth have been assassinated.  Stephen Hawkings is a beautiful man, and his courage to speak openly against such hostile delusional naysayers is nothing short of a miracle - the above is the only miracle I have ever heard of, a man being able to tell the truth without threat of assassination - I love you Stephen - you beautiful magnificent cripple.  ;D
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: Shockwave on January 31, 2012, 05:04:59 PM
Does anyone know if Hawkins is or isn't using his mind to try to "cure" his disease?
I dont believe he does.
Like I said earlier, my opinion of Hawkings is that he's butthurt about his lot in life and about his disability
Id be pissed too if i was uber intelligent but looked like a human prune and sounds like a 1980's Macintosh. Thats not even including the fact that he stuck in a wheelchair and cant move. 
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: Parker on January 31, 2012, 05:13:04 PM
I dont believe he does.
Like I said earlier, my opinion of Hawkings is that he's butthurt about his lot in life and about his disability
Id be pissed too if i was uber intelligent but looked like a human prune and sounds like a 1980's Macintosh. Thats not even including the fact that he stuck in a wheelchair and cant move. 
Yeah, I've said it before...you'd think there was no god if you had his "luck".
I bet you he'd trade all his accomplishments, his intelligence, for one day as a handsome man who got the fuck the woman of his dreams---and could run, jump, walk up the stairs, and use the bathroom without someone wiping his ass or wearing a diaper...oh and have the voice of Barry White...

Each and everyone of us should be lucky that we are not sitting (or shitting) in his wheelchair, people having pity on you, and sounding like a Texas Instruments Speak n Spell.
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: Shockwave on January 31, 2012, 05:17:02 PM
Yeah, I've said it before...you'd think there was no god if you had his "luck".
I bet you he'd trade all his accomplishments, his intelligence, for one day as a handsome man who got the fuck the woman of his dreams---and could run, jump, walk up the stairs, and use the bathroom without someone wiping his ass or wearing a diaper...oh and have the voice of Barry White...

Each and everyone of us should be lucky that we are not sitting (or shitting) in his wheelchair, people having pity on you, and sounding like a Texas Instruments Speak n Spell.
Agreed, I pretty much said the same thing earlier
 ;D
Hawking is just pissed that god was drunk when he was putting him together.
If Hawking had to acknowledge that there was a god, he would be acknowledging that someone INTENTIONALLY made him the way he is. Pretty sure Hawking is pissed at life for his ailment, id bet 1099870987 dollards he'd trade his intelligence for a working body in .000000000000001 milliseconds.
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: Parker on January 31, 2012, 05:24:16 PM
Agreed, I pretty much said the same thing earlier
 ;D
Ever have a Texas Instruments Speak n Spell as a kid? Well he sounds just like it. And when the batteries start to die, the. Damn thing starts to stutter and the words on the screen start to mesh together with numbers...it's like the damn thing has an "ailment"...everytime I hear him talk, I think that one day the computer he's using will start stuttering like the Speak n'Spell (I can't hold back my laughter).
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: Shockwave on January 31, 2012, 05:26:19 PM
Ever have a Texas Instruments Speak n Spell as a kid? Well he sounds just like it. And when the batteries start to die, the. Damn thing starts to stutter and the words on the screen start to mesh together with numbers...it's like the damn thing has an "ailment"...everytime I hear him talk, I think that one day the computer he's using will start stuttering like the Speak n'Spell (I can't hold back my laughter).
BAHAHAHA!!!
I remember those things, dead nuts on Parker.
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: The_Leafy_Bug on January 31, 2012, 05:44:22 PM
let socrates infiltrate your mind...


Socrates fills candidizzles minds as Tyrone fills his ass with 13 inches of ebony dark chocolate goodness.
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: Parker on January 31, 2012, 05:50:02 PM
BAHAHAHA!!!
I remember those things, dead nuts on Parker.
And when this day happens, a tear will come to his eye, and he says "Fuck You God" (in a stuttering voice), and God (whereever, whoever) says, "You've been fucked your whole life."
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: Radical Plato on January 31, 2012, 06:07:01 PM
And when this day happens, a tear will come to his eye, and he says "Fuck You God" (in a stuttering voice), and God (whereever, whoever) says, "You've been fucked your whole life."

Wrong! Stephen is the only man in history to stand up to this so called GOD, the man unable to stand in life has cast his shadow across the multiverse and even outdone GOD himself, that magnificent retarded bastard! To think it took a cripple to expose the myth and lies of thousands of generations of Idiots.  Can you imagine such Power, every intellect in the world has known that the majority of people are idiots and believe anything, and the idiot majority rule by numbers. For thousands of years people have been superstitious because knowledge was yet to be unveiled, and know that the truth is here, the cracking of the denial of thousands of years of lies embedded in the idiot majorities heads is like the sound of the Big Bang Itself, it can be heard in every part of the Universe. A New World is coming where the enlightened rule and the idiots are kept quiet.  JMO  ;D

A New World is coming where the enlightened rule and the idiots are kept quiet
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: Parker on January 31, 2012, 06:25:12 PM
Wrong! Stephen is the only man in history to stand up to this so called GOD, the man unable to stand in life has cast his shadow across the multiverse and even outdone GOD himself, that magnificent retarded bastard! To think it took a cripple to expose the myth and lies of thousands of generations of Idiots.  Can you imagine such Power, every intellect in the world has known that the majority of people are idiots and believe anything, and the idiot majority rule by numbers. For thousands of years people have been superstitious because knowledge was yet to be unveiled, and know that the truth is here, the cracking of the denial of thousands of years of lies embedded in the idiot majorities heads is like the sound of the Big Bang Itself, it can be heard in every part of the Universe. A New World is coming where the enlightened rule and the idiots are kept quiet.  JMO  ;D

A New World is coming where the enlightened rule and the idiots are kept quiet
unfortunately, you're wrong. He can't even walk, let alone stand...
Poor genetics...he won't recover.
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: Radical Plato on January 31, 2012, 06:32:34 PM
Wrong! Stephen is the only man in history to stand up to this so called GOD, the man unable to stand in life has cast his shadow across the multiverse and even outdone GOD himself, that magnificent retarded bastard! To think it took a cripple to expose the myth and lies of thousands of generations of Idiots.  Can you imagine such Power, every intellect in the world has known that the majority of people are idiots and believe anything, and the idiot majority rule by numbers. For thousands of years people have been superstitious because knowledge was yet to be unveiled, and know that the truth is here, the cracking of the denial of thousands of years of lies embedded in the idiot majorities heads is like the sound of the Big Bang Itself, it can be heard in every part of the Universe. A New World is coming where the enlightened rule and the idiots are kept quiet.  JMO  ;D

A New World is coming where the enlightened rule and the idiots are kept quiet

unfortunately, you're wrong. He can't even walk, let alone stand...
Poor genetics...he won't recover.
Unfortunately, Getbig is full of the retarded majority, the retarded majority like to pick a few words out of a 300 word paragraph and make outlandish statements that reveal they didn't even read the post.  I cant wait to the day if you test with a retard IQ you are even banned from posting on even the crudest forums such as GETBIG, it's bad enough the church has produced thousands of years of idiots, now a broken western society just produces these consumerist idiots who can hardly read, let alone retort with an educated reply. Sad, So Sad, because I know every idiot will be unable to completely read this post, but will post off topic and irrelevant responses anyway. God bless the Idiots, for they shall inherit the dirt!
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: Shockwave on January 31, 2012, 06:54:29 PM
Youre acting like the cripple in the wheelchair is the 1st scientist to claim god doesnt exist, he's just another scientist in a long line that have said the same thing.
The only difference is the poor bastard cries everytime he does it because for all his intellect, all his gifts, he cannot for even 1 second enjoy ANYTHING any other moron on the earth good.
So who is pwnd here?
Clearly the poor bastard in the wheelchair who has to spend his whole life in his own head because he cant get out and live life, let alone fuck a woman.
That poor bastard must have really done something fucked up in a past life.
Either that, or god knew what Hawking was going to do and say in life, so he just went ahead and got the 1st and last laugh in.  ;D ;D
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: The Showstoppa on January 31, 2012, 07:00:56 PM
This guy gets so much publicity simply because of how he looks and being in a wheel chair.  There are far brighter scientists in the world.  He best watch it or his babysitter will leave him out in the sun again.....
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: Parker on January 31, 2012, 07:33:47 PM
Unfortunately, Getbig is full of the retarded majority, the retarded majority like to pick a few words out of a 300 word paragraph and make outlandish statements that reveal they didn't even read the post.  I cant wait to the day if you test with a retard IQ you are even banned from posting on even the crudest forums such as GETBIG, it's bad enough the church has produced thousands of years of idiots, now a broken western society just produces these consumerist idiots who can hardly read, let alone retort with an educated reply. Sad, So Sad, because I know every idiot will be unable to completely read this post, but will post off topic and irrelevant responses anyway. God bless the Idiots, for they shall inherit the dirt!
Its called sarcasm and a quick wit...
Furthermore, how can one "stand up to God" if he doesn't exist? You mean to stand up to the concept of God...
Although, his "god" is science, and he is a disciple. I need not elucidate any further. Most of us on here already have the conceptual tools necessary for critiquing one another's posts, thoughts, and or points.
Sarcasm, quick wit. Learn it. Or God will smite you.
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: tbombz on January 31, 2012, 07:36:24 PM
The neutrino experiment has not changed anything yet. It needs to be reproduced and verified before any conclusions can be drawn. Besides it's quite ironic that the results apparently disproves the theory of relativity but yet it uses that exact theory to determine the distance between start and finish of the experiment(via gps satellites).

You're only slightly correct about the atom part(atom is a greek word blabla) but the other two statements about disease and evolution you better find a damn good source for. How could they possibly have known about bacteria without a microscope?

I bet all kinds of stuff have been speculated about at one point in history but there's a dramatic difference between speculation, proof and working theories. Vague speculation just doesn't get the job done.

There might always be a question mark at the 'end'(whatever that might be) of science but you can absolutely not predict where that will be. Personally I'd be shocked if a working theory of the origin of the universe has not been worked out by the end of this century.

not that atom is a greek word, but atomic theory- that everything is made of 'atoms', geometrically but not physically divisible units of stuff.  this goes back to pre-socratic era and was furthered by leibnez to the point of basically predicting quantum physics. start with anaxagoras and go from there.

evolution - anaximander http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/ancient.html

disease - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germ_theory_of_disease


yes there will always be a question mark. no, no one can tell where it will be at. it may keep getting pushed farther and farther down the round, but there it will always be.

you would not be shocked if such a theory came about, you would be misinformed.

you really need to study some basic philosophy
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: johnnynoname on January 31, 2012, 07:40:35 PM
btw, I for one am refreshed that this thread didnt turn into one of those long, dick measuring contests for psuedo intellectuals who never did anything in real life


in closing, I want to say that this thread so didn't end up the way I thought it would
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: tbombz on January 31, 2012, 07:46:46 PM
 "Tdongz", let me summarize the issue for your limited mind to understand. There are two hypothesis here:

  1. There is a first cause.

  2. There was never a first cause.

  Either one of these possibilities do not require a God.

  1. The first cause, by definition, does not require any previous cause. This is conditione sine qua non for it to be the first cause in the first place. The first cause, if there is one, somehow sprang about from itself. It could be a super-magical being called God, but this does not eliminate the fact that the first cause sprang about by itself. In fact, there being a super-magical being posessed of infinite powers and capabilities in the beggining creates more problems than you set yourself to resolve in the first place. The first cause should be a very simple axiom, like the numbers "0" and "1", from which all mathematics and computer science derive. But whatever it was, the first cause creates with itself the very process of causality "Before" first cause = no causality required. Speaking of an "uncaused cause" is non-sequitur. It is a play at semantics, a tautology.

  2. In this case, an infinite loop like infinite sets in mathematics. This makes God impossible because the one requirement for God being God is that He is the first cause. If there is no first cause = no God. You cannot argue either that there was no first cause in time, but de facto God as the first God because God "timelessly" created the Universe, meaning an infinite regressing loops of causes but with God as the "first" cause. The problem here is that we are arguing in absolute, axiomatic terms and not chronological terms. An infinite regressing chain of causes makes it impossible for there to be a God with the most important attribute for God being God of being the creator of the Universe. There could be immensely powerful beings that far surpass the traditional religious ideas of God, but these beings still wouldn't be God if they weren't the first cause.

  Case closed.

SUCKMYMUSCLE

thats a solid post except for a few things.

 first, you can not assert what a first cause should be. it may be simple or it may be complex.

 second, you can not asssert that god is complex. god could be simple or complex. you dont know which. in fact, i think a god would be neither.. something totally incomprehensible,that no words could ever describe gods qualities.

third, having god as the first cause does not create "more problems". an uncaused cause is just as problematic as an uncaused god.

Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: The Ugly on January 31, 2012, 07:48:14 PM
Hawking.

Hawking.
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: tbombz on January 31, 2012, 07:49:24 PM
btw, I for one am refreshed that this thread didnt turn into one of those long, dick measuring contests for psuedo intellectuals who never did anything in real life


in closing, I want to say that this thread so didn't end up the way I thought it would
no ones stopping you from putting your two cents in, and nobodies forcing you to read either. are you feeling envious of people who like to engage in discussions about interesting concepts or are you mad because we arent paying attention to your constant attempts at humor? im here to help anytime you need somebody to listen, not being an asshole, being serious. let me know if you need somebody to talk to. ill listen. but i will warn you, im not going to pretend your attempts at humor are funny if they arent (as is usually the case)
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: johnnynoname on January 31, 2012, 07:51:53 PM
no ones stopping you from putting your two cents in, and nobodies forcing you to read either. are you feeling envious of people who like to engage in discussions about interesting concepts or are you mad because we arent paying attention to your constant attempts at humor? im here to help anytime you need somebody to listen, not being an asshole, being serious. let me know if you need somebody to talk to. ill listen. but i will warn you, im not going to pretend your attempts at humor are funny if they arent (as is usually the case)

shut up faggot
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: tbombz on January 31, 2012, 07:52:26 PM
im here if you need me johnny bo bonny  :)
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: suckmymuscle on January 31, 2012, 08:00:36 PM
thats a solid post except for a few things.

 first, you can not assert what a first cause should be. it may be simple or it may be complex.

 second, you can not asssert that god is complex. god could be simple or complex. you dont know which. in fact, i think a god would be neither.. something totally incomprehensible,that no words could ever describe gods qualities.

third, having god as the first cause does not create "more problems". an uncaused cause is just as problematic as an uncaused god.



  It's like talking to a child..."the uncaused cause"...here we go again...he just repeats the same shit that has been just addressed again and again...

 


SUCKMYMUSCLE
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: tbombz on January 31, 2012, 08:02:53 PM
first cause = uncaused cause.. by definition..
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: haider on January 31, 2012, 08:04:28 PM
Speaking of humility: didnt tbomz pull ouy of his ass that matter is 'infinitely divisible' and that 'there is no such thing as a massless particle'?  :-\

Like others have said u need to gain some life experiences and knowledge before you claim to k.ow everything. I almost puked when i saw you quote socrates. Dont unnecessarily put yourself in a situation where you proclaim what is beyond your knowledge, it only hardens your pre-existing beliefs and blocks you even more from learning new things.

Have a good night.
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: suckmymuscle on January 31, 2012, 08:07:17 PM
first cause = uncaused cause.. by definition..

  It is non-sequitur. A tautology. A redundancy. Because the first cause needs be uncaused for there to be a first cause in the first place, and if you postulate God as the cause of the "first" cause, then you are making God the first cause and you are making the "first" cause the second one. Holy shit, why can't you understand this? :-\

SUCKMYMUSCLE
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: tbombz on January 31, 2012, 08:07:39 PM
Speaking of humility: didnt tbomz pull ouy of his ass that matter is 'infinitely divisible' and that 'there is no such thing as a massless particle'?  :-\

Like others have said u need to gain some life experiences and knowledge before you claim to k.ow everything. I almost puked when i saw you quote socrates. Dont unnecessarily put yourself in a situation where you proclaim what is beyond your knowledge, it only hardens your pre-existing beliefs and blocks you even more from learning new things.

Have a good night.

matter is infinitely divisible and there isnt such a thing as a massless particle.
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: tbombz on January 31, 2012, 08:08:29 PM
 It is non-sequitur. A tautology. A redundancy. Because the first cause needs be uncaused for there to be a first cause in the first place, and if you postulate God as the cause of the "first" cause, then you are making God the first cause and you are making the "first" cause the second one. Holy shit, why can't you understand this? :-\ :-\

SUCKMYMUSCLE
yes, exactly, the first cause is necessarily an uncaused cause. lol   ;D
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: haider on January 31, 2012, 08:09:46 PM

matter is infinitely divisible and there isnt such a thing as a massless particle.
There is such a thing as a brickwall, i hope you believe.
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: tbombz on January 31, 2012, 08:10:32 PM
There is such a thing as a brickwall, i hope you believe.
cut the brick wall in half. cut it in half again. keep going. tell me when you can no longer cut those halfs in half.
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: haider on January 31, 2012, 08:14:07 PM
cut the brick wall in half. cut it in half again. keep going. tell me when you can no longer cut those halfs in half.
Haha. You dont know the very basics of particle physics and u get in this drawn out discussions about quantum mechanics and uncaused causes. Have you no shame?
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: tbombz on January 31, 2012, 08:15:21 PM
Haha. You dont know the very basics of particle physics and u get in this drawn out discussions about quantum mechanics and uncaused causes. Have you no shame?
go try cutting that brick wall in half. come back when your done cutting the halfs in half.
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: haider on January 31, 2012, 08:17:16 PM
go try cutting that brick wall in half. come back when your done cutting the halfs in half.
Shameless
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: tbombz on January 31, 2012, 08:17:41 PM
you dont have the slightest idea about how the retina relates imagery to the visual cortex and yet you have the arrogance to think this was written in the color red. the gumption!
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: haider on January 31, 2012, 08:24:48 PM
The experience of red we're not sure where it comrs from but the color is a wavelength in the snarrow spectrum of  electromagnetic radiation, selected for its usefulness to our survival.

The naming scheme of colors is based on concensus ofcourse, there is no objective reality of ita 'redness'.

Oh and by the way, light is a beam of photons that have a particle nature. And it is massless.
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: tbombz on January 31, 2012, 08:27:29 PM
energy (photon) doesnt have RESTMASS, cuz it doesnt rest. it still has mass. look it up homeboy. (you dont even need to do that though, just use common sense )
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: tbombz on January 31, 2012, 08:29:30 PM
you experience red????? wow, youve actually been red through and through ??  ;D

and what do you mean "the experience of red" and how are you seperating this from the actual "color" red?

the color was selected for its usefulness??? and by whom was it selected ?  ;D 

btw, your post had absolutely nothing to do with the point i was making
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: haider on January 31, 2012, 08:31:06 PM
energy (photon) doesnt have RESTMASS, cuz it doesnt rest. it still has mass. look it up homeboy. (you dont even need to do that though, just use common sense )
What in the blue fuck are you talking about?

It doesnt have mass, ie there is no gravitational field that acts on it. Why did i get pulled into this? :-\
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: tbombz on January 31, 2012, 08:32:53 PM
i suggest you do a quick google search on the topic and educate yourself broseph. or, just use your head. no mass=no particle.
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: haider on January 31, 2012, 08:34:55 PM
you experience red????? wow, youve actually been red through and through ??  ;D

and what do you mean "the experience of red" and how are you seperating this from the actual "color" red?

the color was selected for its usefulness??? and by whom was it selected ?  ;D 

btw, your post had absolutely nothing to do with the point i was making
Cut the semantics bullshit, u know what i meant. As for 'who selected it' i will refer u to the theory of evolution. It favored ua to perceive color whereas other animals dont perceive it, or have no visua sense at all.. cuz it was not advantageous for them in the natural world.

Yawn. I have HW to do.
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: tbombz on January 31, 2012, 08:39:40 PM
evolution favored us ? i didnt know the evolutionary process was capable of forethought and decision making  ;D

stop repeating bullshit you hear and start thinking on your own haider

yes at times i play with semantics, but i do it to make you be deliberate with yoru words and to think analytically about the implications of your verbage


when one says "massless particle" , there could be two meaning. the moder definition that modern scientists use, or the older definition that most people would assume.  a photon doesnt have any mass because "its energy at rest would equal zero", but the thing is, photons dont rest, and any speculation as to what their mass would be at rest is nothing more than speculation. what is their "relativistic mass" , what modern scientists would call it, now that is what most people would consider when they talk abotu mass.

i do not accept the term massless particle on the grounds that it is misleading on based purely on speculation with absolutely no way to test its hypothesis.
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: tbombz on January 31, 2012, 09:00:34 PM
Stevie  8)





I'm so glad that he let me try it again
Cause my last time on earth I lived a whole world of sin
I'm so glad that I know more than I knew then
Gonna keep on tryin'
Till I reach my highest ground
Till I reach my highest ground
No one's gonna bring me down
Oh no
Till I reach my highest ground
Don't you let nobody bring you down (they'll sho 'nuff try)
God is gonna show you higher ground
He's the only friend you have around
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: suckmymuscle on January 31, 2012, 09:04:57 PM
  "Tdongz", let me summarize the issue for your limited mind to understand. There are two hypothesis here:

  1. There is a first cause.

  2. There was never a first cause.

  Either one of these possibilities do not require a God.

  1. The first cause, by definition, does not require any previous cause. This is conditione sine qua non for it to be the first cause in the first place. The first cause, if there is one, somehow sprang about from itself. It could be a super-magical being called God, but this does not eliminate the fact that the first cause sprang about by itself. In fact, there being a super-magical being posessed of infinite powers and capabilities in the beggining creates more problems than you set yourself to resolve in the first place. The first cause should be a very simple axiom, like the numbers "0" and "1", from which all mathematics and computer science derive. But whatever it was, the first cause creates with itself the very process of causality "Before" first cause = no causality required. Speaking of an "uncaused cause" is non-sequitur. It is a play at semantics, a tautology.

  2. In this case, an infinite loop like infinite sets in mathematics. This makes God impossible because the one requirement for God being God is that He is the first cause. If there is no first cause = no God. You cannot argue either that there was no first cause in time, but de facto God as the first God because God "timelessly" created the Universe, meaning an infinite regressing loops of causes but with God as the "first" cause. The problem here is that we are arguing in absolute, axiomatic terms and not chronological terms. An infinite regressing chain of causes makes it impossible for there to be a God with the most important attribute for God being God of being the creator of the Universe. There could be immensely powerful beings that far surpass the traditional religious ideas of God, but these beings still wouldn't be God if they weren't the first cause.

  Case closed.

SUCKMYMUSCLE
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: asbrus on January 31, 2012, 09:36:53 PM
The neutrino experiment has not changed anything yet. It needs to be reproduced and verified before any conclusions can be drawn. Besides it's quite ironic that the results apparently disproves the theory of relativity but yet it uses that exact theory to determine the distance between start and finish of the experiment(via gps satellites).

You're only slightly correct about the atom part(atom is a greek word blabla) but the other two statements about disease and evolution you better find a damn good source for. How could they possibly have known about bacteria without a microscope?

I bet all kinds of stuff have been speculated about at one point in history but there's a dramatic difference between speculation, proof and working theories. Vague speculation just doesn't get the job done.

There might always be a question mark at the 'end'(whatever that might be) of science but you can absolutely not predict where that will be. Personally I'd be shocked if a working theory of the origin of the universe has not been worked out by the end of this century.

ACTUALLY THE NEUTRIN0 EXPIRMENT HAS BEEN VERIFIED MANY TIMES AND S0 FAR N0 0NE CAN DISPR0VE IT.
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: lovemonkey on February 01, 2012, 12:15:25 AM
not that atom is a greek word, but atomic theory- that everything is made of 'atoms', geometrically but not physically divisible units of stuff.  this goes back to pre-socratic era and was furthered by leibnez to the point of basically predicting quantum physics. start with anaxagoras and go from there.

evolution - anaximander http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/ancient.html

disease - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germ_theory_of_disease


yes there will always be a question mark. no, no one can tell where it will be at. it may keep getting pushed farther and farther down the round, but there it will always be.

you would not be shocked if such a theory came about, you would be misinformed.

you really need to study some basic philosophy


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not that atom is a greek word, but atomic theory- that everything is made of 'atoms', geometrically but not physically divisible units of stuff.  this goes back to pre-socratic era and was furthered by leibnez to the point of basically predicting quantum physics. start with anaxagoras and go from there.

Are you slow?  ::)

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evolution - anaximander http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/ancient.html

disease - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germ_theory_of_disease

Again as I said, most things most likely have been speculated about at one point or another but there's a huge difference between speculation and a working theory. It wasn't even knowledge at that point.

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yes there will always be a question mark. no, no one can tell where it will be at. it may keep getting pushed farther and farther down the round, but there it will always be.

you would not be shocked if such a theory came about, you would be misinformed.

you really need to study some basic philosophy

Aha! Here you go again claiming to know the boundaries of science!
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: lovemonkey on February 01, 2012, 12:19:53 AM
energy (photon) doesnt have RESTMASS, cuz it doesnt rest. it still has mass. look it up homeboy. (you dont even need to do that though, just use common sense )

And again you display your massive ignorance. The photon has momentum, but no mass. I've corrected you on this before.

what you copy and pasted didnt address what i copy and pasted.

  in fact it doesnt nothing to refute it at all.

if one were to read both copy and pastes,  they would still understand that a photon is only "massless" because its never at rest and therefore its rest-mass is immeasurable.

but it indeed has "mass-energy", which is the same thing as just plain "mass".



This is where you're wrong and it also seems that whoever typed that quote is also wrong/misguided. It's a common misconception to apply the E=mc^2 formula to photons and therefore think they have mass.

http://www.physicsforums.com/archive/index.php/t-511175.html (http://www.physicsforums.com/archive/index.php/t-511175.html)
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But photons have energy. By E=mc2, doesn't this mean that they have A mass?

The equation above was derived from this expression:

E2=(pc)2+(m0c2)2


A photon can still have zero invariant mass (m0), and can still have energy. There's nothing inconsistent here. All of the photon's energy is in the term pc. Some people would say that this is the photon's "inertial mass", since it is similar to the inertia that one feels when trying to stop a moving mass. This may or may not be useful to consider. However, it certainly should not be confused with the concept of the ordinary mass that most people are familiar with.

Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: lovemonkey on February 01, 2012, 12:30:12 AM
ACTUALLY THE NEUTRIN0 EXPIRMENT HAS BEEN VERIFIED MANY TIMES AND S0 FAR N0 0NE CAN DISPR0VE IT.

What makes many physisicts doubt the results of this experiment is that whenever they're fortunate enough to witness a supernova explosion(that emits tons of light and neutrinos) through their telescopes and detectors they've found that the photons and the neutrinos arrive to the earth at the exact same time. The european experiment had a measly earthly/human distance between start and finish while the supernova observation relied on a distance that's measured in lightyears and yet no neutrinos arrived before the photons. If there was any discrepancy between the two the difference would have been huge.

Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: asbrus on February 01, 2012, 12:42:12 AM
What makes many physisicts doubt the results of this experiment is the whenever they're fortunate enough to witness a supernova explosion(that emits tons of light and neutrinos) through their telescopes and detectors they've found that the photons and the neutrinos arrive to the earth at the exact same time. The european experiment had a measly earthly/human distance between start and finish while the supernova observation relied on a distance that's measured in lightyears and yet no neutrinos arrived before the photons. If there was any discrepancy between the two the difference would have been huge.



AND YET N0 SCIENTIST HAS BEEN ABLE T0 FIND AN ERR0R IN THE EXPERIMENT.
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: da_vinci on February 01, 2012, 02:10:40 AM
you dont have the slightest idea about how the retina relates imagery to the visual cortex and yet you have the arrogance to think this was written in the color red. the gumption!

I'd like to see you say this when trying to cut a wire of the bomb (like in movies, you know :D). Someone would say to you through a walkie "Cut a red one", and you'd go like.. "Ummm.. you say red? I don't think Red is actually Red, because I see it like Blue.." ;)..
 

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not that there is a lack of data, its that data itself is necessarily incapable of providing any information on metaphysics.

why are you ASSuming god is so complex?

In other words - you don't even have an idea of what are you talking about (but you are still convinced it's somehow "true" :D).. That's a sign of lack of a simple common sense.
 And in this case god IS complex, becuase it's way more difficult to explain it's existence than to explain teh evolution of the universe.


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the "evolution of the universe". which universe? what about the possibility of other universes outside of our own? what about universes that existed before ours?   nonetheless, science cant actually "explain" the evolution of our universe, it can only describe the events that happened. no explanation for why or how is reachable. 

String theory allows an existence of other universes, but it's a theory still. We'll see what come out of it (as it's not a "Holly book" with a "finite" explantion of everything).
 Science doesn't try to answer philosophical questions like "Why?", btw, it does explain HOW tho', or at least does it without a rivalry, as in effectiveness (unless you have to suggest something more PROVEN. Can you? ).

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as a child i was about where you and the rest of the athiests in this thread are at intellectually. not once in my youth at any age did i ever \think that god existed and i always rejected it as a fairy tale, stories of magic, and a way for scared people to avoid thinking of death.p

No you WERE NOT. It seems that you can't even grasp what is an ATHEISM. Read carefully, I'll explain why you haven't been as a child where I am, or other atheists are. You may've not believed in god, but NOT because you were EDUCATED on the issue, but because of any other reason (like - parents didn't "make" you believe in one). Just liek if you were kid who didn't believe in Santa (as parents didn't tell you about "him").
 What you try to say is that you were a clueless child, who grew up and falled into the same trap of human nature driven religiousness and belief in god. You haven't had a chance to educate yourself on the issue, as you've accepted "faith" in advance as a "trustworthy" idea.
 To be an atheist is to be someone who does not believe in god, because he knows what religion is all about, understands how human psychology works on this issue, knows the history of religiousness and generally understands that PARENTS PUT THESE GIFTS UNDER AN X-MASS TREE. It's not DISbelief just to disbelieve, it's a state of mind when education takes place of a former UNeducation. When a light hits a dark. It's NOT a doctrine nor an ideology by any means, it's just a thought up "title". We could call kids, who doesn't believe in Santa ANY MORE atheists too. Let's say Santa is touted as "god". Oh my... some kids just've realized that there's no Santa. Umm.. let's call them somehow.. maybe "Asanthists"? The fact of the matter is that once they've found out the TRUTH and REALITY there is NO way they will start believeing in Santa once again. That'd be pure insanity (or dementia, whatever..).

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but my experience of causality , and other logical things, have encouraged me to believe that diety of some sort is probably responsible forcretaing this world.


Your "exprience" is subjective, and mind is prone to delusions, that's it. On the other hand - science is not, love it or hate it, but it is not prone to that.

Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: lovemonkey on February 01, 2012, 02:29:04 AM
AND YET N0 SCIENTIST HAS BEEN ABLE T0 FIND AN ERR0R IN THE EXPERIMENT.

Which means that we need to remain patient and reproduce the experiment several times over before drawing any conclusions. I like how you completely ignored the supernova example  ::)
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: suckmymuscle on February 01, 2012, 09:27:32 AM
  "Tdongz" decimated...as usual.

SUCKMYMUSCLE
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: The Abdominal Snoman on February 01, 2012, 06:20:29 PM
In the dating game, the color red represents desperation.
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: Radical Plato on February 02, 2012, 03:38:32 PM
What about the possibility that there was a cause and no cause simultaneously - leaving humanity with an unsolvable paradox.

 ???   ???   ???   ???   ???   ???   ???   ???    ???   ???   ???   ???   ???   ???   ???   ??? ???   ???   ???   ???   ???   ???   ???   ???
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: Shockwave on February 02, 2012, 03:40:52 PM
What about the possibility that there was a cause and no cause simultaneously - leaving humanity with an unsolvable paradox.

 ???   ???   ???   ???   ???   ???   ???   ???    ???   ???   ???   ???   ???   ???   ???   ??? ???   ???   ???   ???   ???   ???   ???   ???
As I said - simply beyond human comprehension at this time, fun to speculate on, but pointless for us to debate. (Probably for anyone to debate for that matter)
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: dr.chimps on February 02, 2012, 03:42:23 PM
What about the possibility that there was a cause and no cause simultaneously - leaving humanity with an unsolvable paradox.

 ???   ???   ???   ???   ???   ???   ???   ???    ???   ???   ???   ???   ???   ???   ???   ??? ???   ???   ???   ???   ???   ???   ???   ???
This appears, on a first reading, to be in English? Could you rearrange the words to make it so?  Thanks.
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: Parker on February 02, 2012, 03:45:06 PM
And what have great minds of Getbig concluded?


 
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: Raymondo on February 02, 2012, 04:03:27 PM
And what have great minds of Getbig concluded?


 

That there are butthurt snitches amongst us ;)
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: Polish Power on February 02, 2012, 04:16:36 PM
“I am a deeply religious nonbeliever.… This is a somewhat new kind of religion.”

Albert Einstein
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: arce1988 on February 02, 2012, 04:41:57 PM
  So is there a god or not?
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: dr.chimps on February 02, 2012, 04:43:58 PM
  So is there a god or not?
What do you think?    ;D
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: haider on February 02, 2012, 04:45:10 PM
And what have great minds of Getbig concluded?


 
There is no dong but tdongz, and Ron is his messenger
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: tbombz on February 02, 2012, 05:34:04 PM
And again you display your massive ignorance. The photon has momentum, but no mass. I've corrected you on this before.

This is where you're wrong and it also seems that whoever typed that quote is also wrong/misguided. It's a common misconception to apply the E=mc^2 formula to photons and therefore think they have mass.

http://www.physicsforums.com/archive/index.php/t-511175.html (http://www.physicsforums.com/archive/index.php/t-511175.html)

even in your homeboys quote he isnt saying anything with certainty ...  "this may or may not be useful to consider"

you just keep repeating bullshit

all the equations in the world cant disprove existence, all teh equations in the world cant make somehting which exists have zero substance (mass)




I'd like to see you say this when trying to cut a wire of the bomb (like in movies, you know :D). Someone would say to you through a walkie "Cut a red one", and you'd go like.. "Ummm.. you say red? I don't think Red is actually Red, because I see it like Blue.." ;)..

you might be on to something there  ;) 
 

In other words - you don't even have an idea of what are you talking about (but you are still convinced it's somehow "true" :D).. That's a sign of lack of a simple common sense.

what am i convinced is true ?  ;D

 And in this case god IS complex, becuase it's way more difficult to explain it's existence than to explain teh evolution of the universe.

ability to explain= deifnition of complexity ?  where are you getting that idea?  besides, both a self caused universe and a universe caused by an entity are equaly difficult to expplain - unexplainable.


String theory allows an existence of other universes, but it's a theory still. We'll see what come out of it (as it's not a "Holly book" with a "finite" explantion of everything).
 Science doesn't try to answer philosophical questions like "Why?", btw, it does explain HOW tho', or at least does it without a rivalry, as in effectiveness (unless you have to suggest something more PROVEN. Can you? ).



No you WERE NOT. It seems that you can't even grasp what is an ATHEISM. Read carefully, I'll explain why you haven't been as a child where I am, or other atheists are. You may've not believed in god, but NOT because you were EDUCATED on the issue, but because of any other reason (like - parents didn't "make" you believe in one). Just liek if you were kid who didn't believe in Santa (as parents didn't tell you about "him").
 What you try to say is that you were a clueless child, who grew up and falled into the same trap of human nature driven religiousness and belief in god. You haven't had a chance to educate yourself on the issue, as you've accepted "faith" in advance as a "trustworthy" idea.
 To be an atheist is to be someone who does not believe in god, because he knows what religion is all about, understands how human psychology works on this issue, knows the history of religiousness and generally understands that PARENTS PUT THESE GIFTS UNDER AN X-MASS TREE. It's not DISbelief just to disbelieve, it's a state of mind when education takes place of a former UNeducation. When a light hits a dark. It's NOT a doctrine nor an ideology by any means, it's just a thought up "title". We could call kids, who doesn't believe in Santa ANY MORE atheists too. Let's say Santa is touted as "god". Oh my... some kids just've realized that there's no Santa. Umm.. let's call them somehow.. maybe "Asanthists"? The fact of the matter is that once they've found out the TRUTH and REALITY there is NO way they will start believeing in Santa once again. That'd be pure insanity (or dementia, whatever..).
 
um, actually, i was raised in an extremely religious family. ive never met someone so convinced of the truth and infallibilty fo the bible than my father is.  my thoughts on this issue when i was 2,3,6 years old are where yours are now.  your thought process is extremely unsophisticated - you cant see the forest through the trees. 


Your "exprience" is subjective, and mind is prone to delusions, that's it. On the other hand - science is not, love it or hate it, but it is not prone to that.




What about the possibility that there was a cause and no cause simultaneously - leaving humanity with an unsolvable paradox.

 ???   ???   ???   ???   ???   ???   ???   ???    ???   ???   ???   ???   ???   ???   ???   ??? ???   ???   ???   ???   ???   ???   ???   ???
that is absolutely the case regardless of whether it was god or not.
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: The Abdominal Snoman on February 02, 2012, 05:39:31 PM
  So is there a god or not?

Trending tonight on Getbig..."God of hormones"
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: PJim on February 02, 2012, 05:40:21 PM
This is painful to read.
Title: Re: Stephen Hawkins: Theists Are Cowards Who Are Afraid Of The Dark.
Post by: suckmymuscle on February 02, 2012, 06:47:25 PM
  "Tdongz" has ruined yet another one of my threads. There is no point in continuing this anymore, hence the thread gets shit canned...

SUCKMYMUSCLE