It's official: atheistic fundamentalism exists.

[Arrian]

I've read some pretty involved medieval Christian theological writing and it's ****ing scary stuff.

-Arrian

[KrazyHorse]

Enlightenment theology's just as good. Most people don't realise that those friendly Calvinists and Presbyterians are ****ing predestinarians who believe that some people are born damned, some are born saved and there's not a thing anybody can do about it...

[Harovan]

I'm pretty sure that I'm born damned.

[Kuciwalker]

All the fun people are in hell.

[Jon Miller]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse


And what if it has 0 cross-section (or close enough to 0 that we have no chance to measure it)?

And my other question about theory? Of course, if you can make some theory that it fits in, then you publish it and are a particle theorist.

JM

[KrazyHorse]

And people who do crap like that are useless.

[KrazyHorse]

"My theory's the same as yours in every way, except it predicts a particle you can't see"

[Jon Miller]

Very few people are predestinationists now days. I actually know some (Presbyterians aren't anymore), Primitive Babtists, and they grated a bit on me.

Of course, even back in the 19th century, some of the predestinationists had interesting beleifs. A number beleived that everyone was predestined to be saved, that if you died without being saved God wouldn't give up (I am wondering if there was some mix with eastern philosophy).

Jon Miller

[Arrian]

Most people don't realise that those friendly Calvinists and Presbyterians are ****ing crazy fundamentalists

Improved. Predestination is indeed an awful concept.

-Arrian

[Harovan]

This thread is a sumptuous collection of personal insults and sig material.

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse
"My theory's the same as yours in every way, except it predicts a particle you can't see"

Isn't that most of high-energy physics today?

[Last Conformist]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse
"My theory's the same as yours in every way, except it predicts a particle you can't see"

Reminds me of creationist who claimed God creates species, let them "microevolve" a bit, then magicked them away, replacing them with similar-looking, which microevlove a bit before being replaced, and so on, creating the appearance of macroevolution without the substance thereof.

[Arrian]

Sounds like a variant of the "God put dinosaur fossils here to test our faith" line.

-Arrian

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker


Isn't that most of high-energy physics today?

No. It's the part of HE theory which those of us who aren't idiots laugh at.

[Jon Miller]

I hope they don't find the Higgs... it would really put some life into things.

JM