Thoughts on William Paley's Watchmaker analogy?

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Not The Real JReg wrote: Tue Apr 14, 2020 12:18 pm
Not The Real JReg wrote: Tue Apr 14, 2020 12:17 pm Stalin did nothing wrong.
Uhhh... the holodomor?
Kulaks deserved it
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Oh yes, that reminds me, @Not The Real JReg @Not The Real JReg @Not The Real JReg @Not The Real JReg, do you think that it's correct to say that the Soviet Union lost the space race to the Americans? I actually don't think that it is, as even if the Americans really did land on the moon, the Soviet Union sent the first satellite into space, the first animal into space (R. I. P. Laika), the first man into space and the first woman into space. My guess is that none of this is taught in American textbooks.
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Not The Real JReg wrote: Tue Apr 14, 2020 12:22 pm as even if the Americans really did land on the moon
LOL. Imagine thinking that the moon is real. Sheeple.
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Not The Real JReg wrote: Tue Apr 14, 2020 12:12 pm
Not The Real JReg wrote: Tue Apr 14, 2020 12:11 pm And why would not believing in God mean that you'd go around raping and murdering people?
Hey, just look at Hitler, Stalin, Lenin, Mao, Pol Pot, Kim Jong-il, Mussolini, etc. All atheists.
I think it's pretty hypocritical of you to say that when William Paley was a serial sex offender.
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Not The Real JReg wrote: Tue Apr 14, 2020 9:54 am Assuming that free will exists (which is debatable, to say the least), then I don’t see why a God would allow humans to have free will if it led to evil. I don’t believe that this is the “best of all possible worlds” as I’d much rather live in a world without free will and without evil. Besides which, I’m not convinced that an omnipotent being wouldn’t be able to allow for a world without evil but with free will.
Yeah, you're absolutely right. I don't see why a loving God would allow humans to have free will when the Blairite scum in the Labour Party have used their free will to sabotage Jeremy Corbyn and condemn Britain to a hard-right Tory government that will wreck the lives of the poor and disabled.
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Not The Real JReg wrote: Tue Apr 14, 2020 12:31 pm Yeah, you're absolutely right. I don't see why a loving God would allow humans to have free will when the Blairite scum in the Labour Party have used their free will to sabotage Jeremy Corbyn and condemn Britain to a hard-right Tory government that will wreck the lives of the poor and disabled.
Don't try to get off topic. I said that if you wanted to discuss politics you could start another thread.
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Not The Real JReg wrote: Tue Apr 14, 2020 12:33 pm Don't try to get off topic. I said that if you wanted to discuss politics you could start another thread.
How about you take a look at the report that proves that Blairites deliberately worked to sabotage Jeremy Corbyn then, and that this harmed the efforts to fight antisemitism? Or would you prefer to believe the anti-Corbyn smears?
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Not The Real JReg wrote: Tue Apr 14, 2020 12:37 pm How about you take a look at the report that proves that Blairites deliberately worked to sabotage Jeremy Corbyn then, and that this harmed the efforts to fight antisemitism? Or would you prefer to believe the anti-Corbyn smears?
Absolutely right. I hope Iain McNicol and Emily Oldknow get kicked out. Their behaviour has been appalling.
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Not The Real JReg wrote: Tue Apr 14, 2020 10:12 am More like William GAYley, am I right?
Why are you implying that if somebody commits sexual assault, it's because they're gay? That sort of homophobia has no place here.
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Looks like Not The Real JReg checked out. Too bad as this was one of the most interesting/entertaining threads I've followed in a long time. Intellectual humiliation at its very best.
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