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There are many Atheists that I know personally that are quite the opposite of you Strider. This is good to know.Strider24 wrote:Oh also my RE teacher was the est. and only a couple of weeks ago did i find out he is an Atheist. And because i don't "have" a religion i really it makes learning about other religions evern better as i am more open. I owe alot to my teacher.
Strider24 wrote:Oh also my RE teacher was the est. and only a couple of weeks ago did i find out he is an Atheist. And because i don't "have" a religion i really it makes learning about other religions evern better as i am more open. I owe alot to my teacher.
AlgyTaylor wrote:CrazyAnglican wrote:Any theory is, by its nature, unproven, and which is more likely to be truthful is often the subject of lively debate.
Care to debate the Theory of Gravity with me? Or Pythagoras' Theorum?
The word "theory" does not imply that it only exists in theory
CrazyAnglican wrote:A Theorem, however, is different:
Theorem, an idea, belief, method, or statement generally accepted as true or worthwhile without proof. Dicitionary.com
btownmeggy wrote:CrazyAnglican wrote:A Theorem, however, is different:
Theorem, an idea, belief, method, or statement generally accepted as true or worthwhile without proof. Dictionary.com
That's the FOURTH definition, and is rather deceptive.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/theorem
MeDeFe wrote:Yep, and give a person a match and he's warm for a day, set him on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life.
CrazyAnglican wrote:Mathematics. a theoretical proposition, statement, or formula embodying something to be proved from other propositions or formulas.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/theorem
XenHu wrote:I will try and teach them basic right from wrong, and in the course doing so, be un-biased as possible.
luns101 wrote:I'm not necessarily disagreeing with your post, but rather pointing out that people do believe that there's a basic standard of ethics.
The1exile wrote:luns101 wrote:I'm not necessarily disagreeing with your post, but rather pointing out that people do believe that there's a basic standard of ethics.
IMO it's based on how good a reason you have for justifying your actions.
luns101 wrote:XenHu wrote:I will try and teach them basic right from wrong, and in the course doing so, be un-biased as possible.
I hear this phrase used a lot, but when I press a little further people here usually tell me that there is no universal good or bad. Instead they say it's a "consensus" of morality that has developed over the years.
I'm not necessarily disagreeing with your post, but rather pointing out that people do believe that there's a basic standard of ethics.
btownmeggy wrote:CrazyAnglican wrote:Mathematics. a theoretical proposition, statement, or formula embodying something to be proved from other propositions or formulas.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/theorem
Yeah, I just meant that "without proof" means something very different in mathematics and science than in everyday talk. I didn't necessarily mean that you were being purposely deceptive, just that that definition is perhaps not very representative of what a theorem actually is.
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