Do you believe in ghosts too?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:not equivalent:
"gods" have woo woo supernatural powers

extraterrestrial life could exist in nature

It all depends how you define god. You are only using your sophomoric understanding of "a god".

Ok. How do you define “god”?

A being that created humans and the world and has control over human behavior and life.

My definition is "A power that created the universe including but not limited to Earth or humans."

Personally, I will withhold belief or even a position on life in space until there is evidence.

However, there is a TON of evidence that the building blocks of life exist all throughout our vast universe

https://phys.org/news/2026-01-complex-blocks-life-spontaneously-space.html

https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasas-asteroid-bennu-sample-reveals-mix-of-lifes-ingredients/

https://theconversation.com/crucial-building-blocks-of-life-on-earth-can-more-easily-form-in-outer-space-new-research-228044

There are many more but I won't grey wall here. Check out videos by Forrest Valkai if you want things like this explained.

Given the difficult-to-grasp size of our universe, plus the variable of time, I can understand how some educated people feel that there is a good chance that it could exist elsewhere.

But I don't know of educated scientist who says it absolutely does.

And certainly none that run their lives around what those other life forms think, legislate based on those ideas, or go to worship those extraterrestrials on Sundays.

It's a stupid, apples to oranges comparison, clearly.

Please stop.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:not equivalent:
"gods" have woo woo supernatural powers

extraterrestrial life could exist in nature

It all depends how you define god. You are only using your sophomoric understanding of "a god".

My favorite part about religion is how everyone just moves the goalposts however they want to justify their beliefs.

Your use of the idiom “move the goal posts doesn’t fit here” .

Everybody defines God differently.

In your post you find God is a woo supernatural, that’s not everybody’s definition.

You are confusing posters.

Gods don’t exist. Only in people’s minds as some magic sky fairy with special powers.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:not equivalent:
"gods" have woo woo supernatural powers

extraterrestrial life could exist in nature

It all depends how you define god. You are only using your sophomoric understanding of "a god".

Ok. How do you define “god”?

I don’t.

Of course you don’t, troll.

Gods = supernatural woo woo

Aliens = feasible in the natural world

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:not equivalent:
"gods" have woo woo supernatural powers

extraterrestrial life could exist in nature

It all depends how you define god. You are only using your sophomoric understanding of "a god".

Ok. How do you define “god”?

A being that created humans and the world and has control over human behavior and life.

So you’re using the definition of Islam and/or Calvinist?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:not equivalent:
"gods" have woo woo supernatural powers

extraterrestrial life could exist in nature

It all depends how you define god. You are only using your sophomoric understanding of "a god".

My favorite part about religion is how everyone just moves the goalposts however they want to justify their beliefs.

Your use of the idiom “move the goal posts doesn’t fit here” .

Everybody defines God differently.

In your post you find God is a woo supernatural, that’s not everybody’s definition.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:not equivalent:
"gods" have woo woo supernatural powers

extraterrestrial life could exist in nature

It all depends how you define god. You are only using your sophomoric understanding of "a god".

Ok. How do you define “god”?

A being that created humans and the world and has control over human behavior and life.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:not equivalent:
"gods" have woo woo supernatural powers

extraterrestrial life could exist in nature

It all depends how you define god. You are only using your sophomoric understanding of "a god".

Ok. How do you define “god”?

I don’t.

Anonymous wrote:Dickless b#tch again.
I looked up syllogisms. That's the all A is B, some B are C, therefore all A is C FALLACY stuff since it's really only some A might be B. Or whatever.

I think interpreting my question as a syllogism is questionable since I just asked if A and B were equivalent.

But if you just want to shut me down kewl Job Done as George said

It's just a way of structuring your argument. But it need not be in that form.

It seemed to me that your question "Explain relationship to extraterrestrial intelligence given current evidence?" , which was preceded by a statement "Atheists on here often say they sre rational and believe in science".

So yes, it appears that your question was related to the assertion about atheists, which is rejected. No one is trying to "shut you down" lol, just responding by saying the premise is flawed.

Do you understand that?

And I did not intend to be sexist, I meant "dick" as a synonym for "jerk", which would have been a slightly better choice and I mea culpa on that one. Apologies there.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:not equivalent:
"gods" have woo woo supernatural powers

extraterrestrial life could exist in nature

It all depends how you define god. You are only using your sophomoric understanding of "a god".

Ok. How do you define “god”?

Anonymous wrote:Biological evolution is survival of the fittest. How lovely that fittest is "being good."

This competition-based survival of the fittest is a myth. Nature demands both competition AND cooperation. But it sure fits the patriarchal narrative so bros can feel good about themselves.

Biological evolution is survival of the fittest. How lovely that fittest is "being good."

My favorite part about some posters on here is they decide some other posters they perceive as being "other" are playing a game that has "goalpsts" and then dismiss "them" for moving the goalposts. So they don't have to engage
My second favorite part is how some posters refuse to engage unless posts are couched"correctly." Thus never needing to engage.
It is all like filling out a form online that keeps booting you out for not formatting correctly.

Anonymous wrote:Atheist have a biological evolution that makes them good just because being good is good. They have more intrinsic value. They are too evolved to need parables and myths to encourage them to act morally, it's part of evolution.

lol