(05-30-2026, 08:20 PM)ironyak Wrote: TomK - It's much easier to show that other posters believe in the supernatural.
So go ahead and show that other posters believe in the supernatural. That a belief in the hard problem of consciousness, or in unseen and little understood powers, or Newton's alchemical ideas and practices are outside of the natural world.
Your desperate attempts at earning your junior Horseman of New Atheism badge only demonstrates how little you've actually thought about or studied these issues.
Maybe instead of engaging in freshman reductive materialism, go read anything of substance on these topics and come back with some new ideas instead of repeatedly parroting Dawkins, Hitcheson, et al. and actually engage in the conversation at hand, instead of the one you're imagining in your head as you're the only one going on about fairies, leprechauns, and mermaids.
What a load of codswallup. Not only do you engage in ad hominems you show no evidence to argue about. It's just a bunch of insults. Of course, I mentioned fairies, leprechauns, and mermaids, as there's the same amount of evidence that any of them exists as a god. None of that group is seen as omnipotent; they didn't create the universe, nor did they create a planet where there is so much suffering and armed conflict. They didn't create a world where children die horribly from cancer, yet have people build churches, temples, cathedrals, etc., because they need to be worshipped. What an asshole.