@smidlee
Well I think it is safe to say my blistering logic burned you, and you have skulked off to lick your wounds. So I will take my I owned you trophy, and add it to the rest of my collection. I am not saying I would have respected you more if you decided to keep fighting a battle where you were hopelessly outmatched, but I would have respected you more had you just said you conceded the match. Admitting your own defeat isn't the same as conceding that you are wrong. Just that you can't make a good argument that proves that you are right.
@highwaystar
Bluxx was a ringer brought in to raid these forums. He will probably never return, and thus will probably never read your well thought out response. He really didn't want to debate the topic. He just wanted to spread some propaganda.
@STEKSTAV
You make a very valid point. Science is allowed to be falsifiable, or subject to refinements over time. Religion on the other hand if you take it literally cannot in any part be falsifiable. Once that happens the entirety of the texts are by default false. The fact that many religious believers don't grasp this is shocking. Even more shocking is the intentional blind spots, and even the notion that they can salvage the texts. When I say salvage I mean take bits and pieces they find useful while leaving the things they don't like, or don't agree with.
@Topic
What always bewilders me about these debates is that the victor is a foregone conclusion, but the losing side continues to carry on with the fight. Religion has inevitably lost every point it has tried to defend historically. Examples such as Astronomy, Gravity, Anatomy, Anesthetics, Geology, Sexual Equality, and Freedom of disent. They have lost this war time and again, and they have even been fighting dirty. You know burning, torturing, and terrorizing people. Even with all that horrible stuff they did they still couldn't defeat Science. This is a hopeless battle, and I think most of them down where they don't want to admit it know it is hopeless. That is why so many zealots get so upset they see themselves losing ground every single day. Anyone would get frustrated facing an unstoppable force.
