Richard Dawkins - Decree by Fiat

"Well isn't that just too easy. You talk your way out of having to provide a rational argument by just decreeing by fiat that God, that God simply declares himself outside matter and therefore doesn't need the same kind of argument as anything else. If you're convinced by that kind of thing, your welcome."

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[potatopeppie]

it was a general 'you', not pointed to you specifically. But I appreciate that your Christian values shine through in how you address me <3

[potatopeppie]

Dude, his argument isn't "that's too easy", his argument is that a "decree by fiat" has no empirical/intellectual value. So God lives outside the natural world? Who says so? Why? WTF? You can't randomly make up attributes of God in order to make her fit to the real world, that's just silly.

[Uxoriouswidow]

Excuse the grammar fuck-up.

[Uxoriouswidow]

You're post is wrong because I declare it to be so.

[ShakaVahn]

"We can't apply natural laws to gawd" = I'm a fucking moron.

[MrDJLaw]

HAHAHA Nostradamus lmfao its easy to predict things by using knowledge wording them differently doesn't make it any more complex its just making something basic sound complex which at the end of the day a 5 year old could achieve, I predict that I will probably be alive when I wake up in the morning. I might not but the likeliness that I will be is higher than me being dead

[pandstar]

"evaluating things from a neutral, well-though-out viewpoint rather than letting an Oxford scholar or an evangelical bastard do it for you"

I can't speak for anyone else, but I was an atheist/agnostic long before I knew there was a word for my lack of beliefs. I was pretty young.

[bleustilton]

Anyway, having been an atheist and a Christian, I can safely say that it's no "decree by fiat." I personally think all you idiots on youtube should just shut the hell up and leave atheism, christianity, and homosexuality alone and start evaluating things from a neutral, well-though-out viewpoint rather than letting an Oxford scholar or an evangelical bastard do it for you.

[bleustilton]

I didn't make that up. And you're a fucking retard.