How is the balance between boys and girls maintained?

[Provost Harrison]

[kentonio]

What I'm trying to do here is explain to you and so many others how very stupid you all are, but you're all to stupid to get it. Only a mouth breathing idiot would only believe things that he can prove. Such a person would belongs in the mental ward. No all of us believe things that we have no proof of, like whether or not mommy and daddy love us. Only a ****** would not believe his mommy and daddy don't love him because he can't proof it. The poor sucker is going to go through life not knowing if ANYONE WILL love him.

If your parents kept you locked in the cellar and beat you daily, would you still believe they loved you? No, of course you ****ing wouldn't. We believe people love us when they exhibit behaviour that supports that belief.

Do I know that God exists? No not really, not in the sense that I can prve it. But then I never needed to prove it. Just like I never needed to prove that mommy and daddy love me.

But one of you atheists asked me if there is any evidence (not proof you moron) that God exists. As a christian I'm commanded by God to answer that question. So I did in a manner that is very typical for a christian to do. I knew that this is what most of you asshokles would do though. But that's fine.

No you answered in a manner thats very typical for a ****ing ******* to do, not a christian. Most real christians do crazy things like try and live in the way that the bible tells them. I seem to forget reading a parable where jesus called his disciples stupid ****ing idiots.

You still haven't explained what this 'evidence' of yours is, other than you just saying 'I'M RIGHT!!!!!' repeatedly.

[Mojotronica]

To teach a fool requires a thousand blows, but a word to the wise is sufficient.

[Hauldren Collider]

Personally I think Kid is a ****ing genius.

QFT. This thread is brilliant. Funniest thread on poly for months.

[Elok]

Good night you are one stupid ****!

I never said it be true that God exists because people say that he does. I simply am trying to make the point that by simply denying the evidence you show yourself to be a complete moron. Most people accept it as evidence. So if you disagree that God exists you had better challenge the evidence or most people are simply going to regard you as an idiot and not listen to you.

"I'm not saying that it's right because everyone thinks so, I'm saying that everyone thinks so and will call you stupid if you deny it so you better think so!" Congratulations, you have managed to make ad populum even sillier than it already was. By the way, if Loin or PH were to tell you that the universe, to him, looks like it was NOT designed, would that be "evidence" against you? If not, why not? And if so, do you simply vote to decide which evidence carries more weight?

[Elok]

BTW, you never answered me on this:

Kid, suppose we had a poster on here named "Simon Legree," a devout Lutheran, say, who argued for the faith on the grounds that "its encouragement of meekness and charity has prevented the black people from doing bad things to our white women all these years, and is thus a clear social good." Would you:

1. Ignore Simon and let him have his say without contradicting him, because he appears to be a sincere Christian making a sincere effort to fight for the faith, or
2. Fight him tooth and nail, because arguing for Christianity with horrible arguments makes Christianity seem horrible? Note that he has not at any point said anything controversial about Christian doctrine, only used his daffy and offensive other beliefs to try to promote Christianity.

Important disclaimer: This is a deliberately extreme example. I am not alleging that you are a racist, or anything like a racist, nor am I endorsing racist beliefs myself, or anything else stupid like that.

So, would you interfere with Brother Legree's important missionary work, let him keep on doing what he's doing, or (for some reason) help him?

[Elok]

Alas, the world is not full of people like me...it would be great otherwise...especially if you go by Loinburger's recent thread

Geez, if we all looked like you, it really would be hard to believe in God.

[Kidlicious]

You're such an arrogant snob who thinks God has given extra authority to and given supreme knowledge to. I don't think I've ever met a person like you. KH is quite normal in comparison. He doesn't even claim authority by God. I think if I were around you in public you would look down on all the people who didn't think and act like you.

[KrazyHorse]

You tell him, kiddy

[C0ckney]

To teach a fool requires a thousand blows, but a word to the wise is sufficient.

man who stands on toilet gets high on pot.

[Elok]

You're such an arrogant snob who thinks God has given extra authority to and given supreme knowledge to. I don't think I've ever met a person like you. KH is quite normal in comparison. He doesn't even claim authority by God. I think if I were around you in public you would look down on all the people who didn't think and act like you.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_projection

So, is that a "yes, I would contradict the racist proselytiser" or "no, I'd let him be?"

[loinburger]

You're such an arrogant snob who thinks God has given extra authority to and given supreme knowledge to. I don't think I've ever met a person like you. KH is quite normal in comparison. He doesn't even claim authority by God. I think if I were around you in public you would look down on all the people who didn't think and act like you.

This is priceless

[Provost Harrison]

I know...to be called less normal and well balanced than KH is quite something, isn't it?

[loinburger]

Also to have the forum's resident self-appointed Prophet accuse you of being a self-appointed Prophet. It's like having Jeffrey Dahmer insult you by calling you a cannibal.

[Lorizael]

Oh, I've been done with yhat. Thought you were talking about the existence of God

*sigh*

What you're talking about in this thread, Kid, is a problem in science, philosophy, and theology known as fine-tuning. There are peculiar quantities and constants about the universe that seem geared toward life, quantities and constants that do not appear to be dependent on the laws of physics as we know them.

Good examples include the fact that the universe is mostly matter and not half matter, half anti-matter; or the fact that the universe began in a low entropy state; or the shape of the universe (which arises from the initial conditions of the universe); or the mass of the electron; or the coupling constant of the strong nuclear force. These are good examples because, at present, there are no specific reasons why they have to be the way they are.

And yet there are answers to this question nonetheless that don't rely on God. It could be that there are many other universes out there, either outside our universe's light cone or somewhere else entirely, that have different fundamental constants where life could not arise. It could be that our universe is not optimally geared toward life and the life that does exist is, essentially, lucky. It could be that the many-worlds interpretation is correct, and the universe is simultaneously good and bad for life. And it could also be that we have simply yet to discover the laws that govern these seemingly arbitrary quantities and constants.

But your example - the fact that the sex ratio is maintained over long periods of time - is not a good argument for fine-tuning, because natural laws easily explain this phenomenon. Fischer's Principle and the Law of Large Numbers are all that is required. If you want to make the argument that the universe is fine-tuned for life, I suggest you really research this subject and study what others have said about it first. Alternatively, you can ignore the argument entirely and simply rely on your faith that God exists. But either way, arguing from the standpoint that the consistency of the sex ratio defies explanation is not going to get you anywhere.