Jan attacks the person, not the arguer. Jan's primary response is invariably an ad hom. Because Jan has no defense to the argument, he tries to divert it to the arguer.
Us trying to comprehend the capacity of a civilization or entities billions of years into the future is like the earliest bacteria on Earth trying to comprehend our future existence.
These predictions are based on extrapolations of current understandings of physics and technology. What’s more likely is that the intelligence and resulting technology of the future will be far beyond our current capacity to comprehend.
How do you flesh out the particulars of science and technology that don’t yet exist?
And yet here you are doing it
And yet here you are doing it
And yet here you are doing it
Because that's what humans and bacteria do, they eat, shit, multiply and speculate about the future. It's in our DNA.
I'm an atheist because you convinced yourself that you're a believer? Err... okay. Whatever.
I love talking about God, leprechauns, Long John Silver, Holden Caulfield, etc.
It's not a temptation. It's a conclusion based on reality. Your inane comments contribute to that conclusion.
Begging the question.
He hasn't invalidated a person; he's dismantled the assertions they've made - voluntarily and with foresight - in a public discussion - that make a claim to privileged information - that can't be defended. Nowhere has Goldtop presumed to know or judge anything about Jan that isn't part of Jan's own arguments.
Jan is the king of ad hominems. Taissa's defense or not, he has forefeited any protection from them.
Of course. Only you are a true theist. Christians who believe in the Bible don't measure up to your very high standards of being a theist.
Well, then I am a theist, since I post a lot (well over 100 posts) on the topic.
I could certainly talk about my "relationship" with God when I was a Christian. The problem is, I now recognise that the "relationship" I believed I had was not a relationship between me and a separate being, but rather something entirely internal to me.
If you believe in a god or gods, then it kinda does. That's what theism is, no matter how much you try to dress it up and exclude people who don't share your exact idiosyncratic set of religious beliefs. Theism is a low bar. It's not as hard to hop over it as you make out. It doesn't make you special. It literally makes you one more believer among billions.
All religions teach that their gods are more important that the prophets. Special prophets, however, can be granted god-like status or even equivalency. Behold the Christian Trinity!