Gone A Bit Quiet In Here

[nailit]

Theland hasn't posted for 10 days. Hope hes OK? I know he's had a few health problems recently.

Come back Theland. R&S is dying without you....
(There's nothing for atheists/non believers/agnostics/questioners to respond to!)

[Theland]

Hi Nailit. Hope your mother is feeling OK. And that you are coping.
A pity atheists can't argue with each other then this section would be very busy.

[Theland]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/13/james-watson-scientist-honors-stripped-reprehensible-race-comments

I think I copied the right link.

Any comments?

[Theland]

http://beyondevolutionistheregodafterdawkins.blogspot.com/

Ah better. Right link.

[nailit]

I gave up looking at links Theland.
I'd prefer real life events to dictate the conversation…
Glad that ur ok tho!

[nailit]

// Hope your mother is feeling OK.//

Thanks.
Her palliative care may take the form of taking her arm off.
I fail to see the love of God in this but hey ho!
I appreciate your sentiments anyway (as I do the prayers of my Christian friends)

[Peter Pedant]

Nobel prize winners can be wrong - such as Jim Watson. Pity really.
They can even be wrong about the thing they got their Nobel Prize about - Jacob and Monod got a nobel for their operon hypothesis that I always struggled with

and after another struggle thirty years later Wiki commented - we dont think it is that important now
so I gave up

Einstein told that Belgian priest he was wrong - 'you av boodifoll ideas but your physics is offool'
so the Belgian priest re wrote it and .... was right first time round. oops!
( georges lemaitre and the Big Bang)

[Mamyalynne]

I'm sorry to read they are still going down that line Nailit, was hoping they wouldn't.

I shall be thinking of you all.x

[Theland]

You fail to see the love of God regarding your mother?
Fair enough. That's understandable.
Disease striking at random is, I believe, a symptom of our fallen world.
Nothing, as yet, has ever had me doubting God.

[nailit]

Thank you mamy,
appreciate that.

[nailit]

//Disease striking at random is, I believe, a symptom of our fallen world.//

So God is not omnipotent then?
You cant have it always.

[Tilly2]

all ways.

[Peter Pedant]

// Disease striking at random is, I believe, a symptom of our fallen world. //
heretic !
so all the ill kids in the world are being punished for someone else's sins ? I wont even say - some loving God - instead I will say - obvious rubbish....

they used to burn people like you 500 y ago

[Tilly2]

Sorry that it has come to this with your mum. I hope that whatever they do brings her some relief from her pain and suffering.

[Deskdiary]

"Disease striking at random is, I believe, a symptom of our fallen world.Nothing, as yet, has ever had me doubting God."

But I thought your god (as there's gazillions of gods I absolutely refuse to use a capital G) was benevolent, omni-present and omni-everything else, so why are babies dying of cancer and babies dying of starvation in Africa? Is it because babies don't believe in your god?

Or is it simply the case when a modicum of common sense is applied that there's no such thing as god?

I genuinely think (and I'm not trying to be provocative here) that people who believe in something where there's not a single shred of proof - literally, there's nothing, nada, nought - have a mental illness.

If I swore blind in the existence of leprachauns, and there's an equal amount of proof in their existence as there is in god, I'd be carted-off to the funny farm.

I don't get it.

[douglas9401]

I think George Michael said it best, Deskdiary.

[Theland]

The clue is in the phrase, "fallen world."
The evil in all its forms that we encounter, from sickness, crime, and war, are all symptoms.

[Tilly2]

Symptoms of what?

[Theland]

Of a fallen world.

[nailit]

//The evil in all its forms that we encounter, from sickness, crime, and war, are all symptoms//
Eh?
Tsunamis, Tidal waves, lightening, volcano eruptions, etc are all symptons then?

[douglas9401]

In all toil there is profit, but mere talk leads only to poverty.

(not George Michael)