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Speculation has to be backed up with evidence. Invoking God is not a rigorous scientific argument.

No, that’s ludicrous. Don’t anthropomorphize nature. She hates that. Besides, you get the same result regardless of the reference frame. Whether or not something happens doesn’t depend on your frame of reference. What is your evidence that there is a computer that runs the universe? Where is it located?

It is not a rules violation to have someone disagree with you. The staff does not consider it to be “harassment”

So? What’s “magical” about that?

There’s no fusion described here.

! Moderator Note You’ve neglected to include any rigorous discussion of how fusion is achieved.

What does one have to do with the other? Fields aren't objects.

Or it could just be referring to the other people participating in the discussion. Whatever. Since you're hung up on the phrasing, all it means is that people don't believe in most deities, and if you don't believe in them, i.e. you don't think they really exist, your position must be that they are made up. Better? I don't know what "common meme" you're referring to; I was just explaining the rationale behind a comment. What apologetic? You seem hell-bent on making this about something that not evident in the original statement, or subsequent commentary.

This is a straw man. You’re the only one in this conversation that has brought up atheism. The rest of us have mentioned “atheist”

None of this happened, though. Nobody redefined atheism. Nobody called you (or anyone) “an atheist” The phrase was “atheist about over 99% of the gods humans have invented” You’re focusing on one word and ignoring the rest of the statement.

Unfortunately that analysis doesn’t appear to account for thawing the chicken, or any thermal losses while you are slapping it. Also “For chickens this so called specific heat is 3.35 kJ per kg of chicken per degree Celsius.” according to https://www.poultryworld.net/poultry/overheated-chick-calculations/

Do you believe in these other gods? If not, how is the expression inaccurate?

Seriously? Which has nothing to do with iNow’s claim. This thread is about being atheist. Not whether God exists.

If everyone on earth disbelieved in God, then they would all be atheistic. It would be their collective belief that God was invented. The existence is beside the point. It’s irrelevant.

I’m not interested in the evidence you didn’t provide to things you didn’t claim. I’m interested in you providing evidence of things you did claim: namely that my reasoning is flawed, or that my claim that thousands of deities exist is incorrect.

It’s about belief. If you don’t believe in a god, can that god be real, as far as you’re concerned?

No, that’s not a fair summary of my posts, and there’s no faith involved here. I provided evidence of thousands of deities. I provided reasoning that supports iNow’s claim. I notice that you are not providing any evidence to counter what I have provided, or showing any flaw in the reasoning. You’re moving the goalposts. This is about whether people believe these gods exist. We’re not discussing evidence for the existence of any god, we’re discussing evidence of belief. How is this relevant?

Fine. It’s not based on direct evidence. It’s an extrapolation. But that doesn’t mean it’s not true. I’ve supplied the reasoning, and the minimum number of deities is easily confirmed (the Egyptian, Norse, Aztec, Hindu, etc.) We also know that Christianity, and probably other popular monotheistic religions, deny that any other gods exist. No, it’s really nothing like that.

That wasn’t the claim. It was that they were atheistic regarding 99% of the gods. The general claim can be deduced (like a Fermi problem) Do you (and people in general) believe in deities outside of your own religion? If no, then you are atheistic regarding these deities. How many deities are there? How many thousands? (Egypt alone had >1400). Even if your religion has multiple deities, the percentage is likely close to or exceeds 99%. Now, if you are convinced that a deity isn’t real, because of your belief, then said deity must have been invented.

And they get to hide behind the “rhetoric” excuse…except that there is no denouncement of the violence. You get the opposite, like Kari Lake making a joke, and people laughing about the attack. You get conspiracy nonsense offered up.

What derivation? A bald assertion is not a derivation, and your assertion was rebutted. Pick a point. I can e.g. assign a value for the electric field, the magnetic field and gravitational field to that point. That's three. Three is not one.

Stochastic terrorism. You send the message that violence is acceptable, and then wait for one of the millions of followers to decide they are going to follow through on it. Then the GOP applauds it or is silent on the matter.

Repeating this doesn’t make it true.

OK, that makes no sense. For entangled spins, it’s because angular momentum is conserved. Energy is going to be conserved, too. But nothing has be “constantly maintained” in order for that to happen.

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