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The search for truth.

The existence of one or more deities does not necessitate life after death.

Thanks! I'll just quote my post from the first page of this thread: Ignostic is the key part here, as the rest, for me, fall from it. Ignosticism is the belief that the question of whether or not a deity exists is meaningless until an agreed upon coherant definition of 'deity' is made. After all, you can't have a fruitful discussion of the merits of the 'floofloogan hypothesis' unless both parties agree upon what 'floofloogan' is taken to mean. Then they're not a theist, are they?

More energy reaches the Earth from the Sun in one hour than the entire Earth uses in one year. A properly managed solar infrastructure is the way to go.

Congratulations, you're an atheist! If you are not a theist, then you are an atheist; that's what the words mean.

Gone one where the track is likely to be level?

Where is it, cypress?

You're overstating things a bit here. Our universe is neither deterministic nor indeterministic; we have a fuzzy determinism. 'Zoom out' pretty much any at all, and the fuzzyness goes away.

"If you decide to hypothetically violate a physical law, then you can do pretty much whatever you damn well please."

cypress, it's generally not a good idea to troll the staff.

Let's see these mythical arguments of which you speak. Be forewarned, I've been here for ages and seen attacks from all sides of crackpottery; thus far, none have been with any merit.

No, it wouldn't.

As I said before, it's a true dichotomy. You're either a theist; or you're not. Agnosticism is a modifier of both theism and atheism.

Maybe you should start with wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_cycle

What you quoted in the OP does not support your assertion.

Not possible.

Except that NO ONE AT ALL was claiming life from chance alone. You're arguing a strawman.

If you think higher temp has lower entropy than lower temp, then you don't know jack about thermodynamics. You can't have even seen a heat cycle diagram to make such a basic error. And don't say it was a typo, as you were 'correcting' MrSkeptic on the point. Lrn2Thermodynamics

This neglects the fact that the detractors have no solid arguments.

As a nuclear technician who works with heat engines daily, I can tell you that you don't have the slightest clue what you're talking about.

I don't think this is true. There are several religious members. We just keep religion where it belongs. I have over a dozen billion years of experience not existing, and I have no reason to think my next go at it will be any different than the last.

That's an awesome experiment. Let's do it!