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Re: The End Of Reason:A Response To The New Atheists by vooks: 10:05pm On Mar 11, 2016 |
jayriginal: For someone who is super time-sensitive, you have spent far too much time here |
Re: The End Of Reason:A Response To The New Atheists by jayriginal: 10:07pm On Mar 11, 2016 |
vooks: MY TIME. |
Re: The End Of Reason:A Response To The New Atheists by vooks: 10:09pm On Mar 11, 2016 |
jayriginal:I was hoping for more intelligent excuses for skipping Ravi |
Re: The End Of Reason:A Response To The New Atheists by Oluwaseytiano(m): 10:10pm On Mar 11, 2016 |
vooks:i have enough bundle to watch Better Call Saul in high def with my phone. I may not be rich as you mr luthor BT am not a beggar |
Re: The End Of Reason:A Response To The New Atheists by vooks: 10:12pm On Mar 11, 2016 |
Oluwaseytiano: You are lightyears behind Walter White antics but then again... |
Re: The End Of Reason:A Response To The New Atheists by jayriginal: 10:14pm On Mar 11, 2016 |
vooks: When you quit trolling. 1 Like |
Re: The End Of Reason:A Response To The New Atheists by Oluwaseytiano(m): 10:14pm On Mar 11, 2016 |
vooks:Whatever man. Did you expect me to go gaagaa over such poor write up? Av read better books |
Re: The End Of Reason:A Response To The New Atheists by vooks: 10:17pm On Mar 11, 2016 |
Oluwaseytiano: 'Poor write up' yet you've never read past the excerpts I'm graciously feeding you Negroes are the funniest of all primates Here is the book that scares them http://www.fairladyz32.com/downloads/christian/books/Ravi%20Zacharias/Ravi%20Zacharias%20-The%20End%20of%20Reason.pdf 2 Likes 1 Share
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Re: The End Of Reason:A Response To The New Atheists by Oluwaseytiano(m): 10:19pm On Mar 11, 2016 |
vooks:You really are a troll. 1 Like |
Re: The End Of Reason:A Response To The New Atheists by vooks: 10:20pm On Mar 11, 2016 |
jayriginal:That's a better excuse. Keep them coming. In the meantime, After three decades of covering every conti- nent and delivering scores of university lectures, I have seen that this sense of alienation and mean- inglessness is the principal malady of young minds. Academic degree after degree has not removed the haunting specter of the pointlessness of existence in a random universe. This deep malady of the soul will not be cured by writings such as Harris’s. The momentary euphoria that may initially accompany a proclamation of liberation soon fades, and one finds oneself in the vise-like grip of despair in a life without ultimate purpose. A naturalistic frame- work offers no remedy for the sense of suffocation that ensues. I am writing The End of Reason to tell young men and women—all who ask the hard questions about the meaning of life—that atheism is bank- rupt for answers. The emperor has no clothes, and through his verbal magic Harris is trying hard to cover him up |
Re: The End Of Reason:A Response To The New Atheists by vooks: 10:22pm On Mar 11, 2016 |
Oluwaseytiano:Young man, you just learnt a new vocabulary 'troll'? I'm also learning, I just learnt that Negro 'free thinkers' are cowards |
Re: The End Of Reason:A Response To The New Atheists by Oluwaseytiano(m): 10:28pm On Mar 11, 2016 |
vooks:I know what you are doing? People keep commenting, the thread stays on first page and more awareness for your book. But smart people will see the book for what it really is- a waste of time. See you Negro on another thread. 1 Like |
Re: The End Of Reason:A Response To The New Atheists by vooks: 10:30pm On Mar 11, 2016 |
Oluwaseytiano: Genius, you discovered this al by yourself? Smart people read and then critique. Lower primates follow their primal fears into deeper ignorance 2 Likes 1 Share |
Re: The End Of Reason:A Response To The New Atheists by analice107: 1:01am On Mar 12, 2016 |
Oluwaseytiano:And yet you won't read it. People will have to first read it before they can see it for what it is. Am almost done reading it. Most of what he wrote there I have seen and listened on audio-visual. 1 Like |
Re: The End Of Reason:A Response To The New Atheists by McSterling(m): 5:38am On Mar 12, 2016 |
vooks:Harris isn't omniscient and omnipotent now, is he? If he had those qualities, he sure would obviate the need for such "devastation" and wouldn't need to justify anything. But your god, he has these qualities but still needs people like Ravi to compare him with another human like Harris, in order to justify his misdeeds. Like l hinted before, this fictional story betrays Ravi's true feelings, what he'd love to see everywhere where someone became an atheist. I actually thought this book would contain some new argument I had never seen before in defense of god. That's why I left the serious books I was reading to look at it. But disappointedly, it contains the same trite and flawed arguments that have been refuted time and time again by atheists. The unique thing with this author however, is how he often appeals to emotions in order to blackmail his readers. And this guy seems to have personal issues with Harris. He seems intimidated by the man and his influence. I'd like to see the two have a one on one debate. For the nonbelievers here who haven't read the book, you might just want to take a peek. It's an easy read actually, I'll give it that, but it lacks substance and is rife with trite assumptions and will leave you shaking your head several times. I don't regret reading it though. Coincidentally, a friend tried introducing me to Ravi yesterday, but thanks to vooks, I'd already met him. 1 Like |
Re: The End Of Reason:A Response To The New Atheists by McSterling(m): 5:42am On Mar 12, 2016 |
jayriginal:Bros, I tire o. 1 Like |
Re: The End Of Reason:A Response To The New Atheists by naijapips02: 5:49am On Mar 12, 2016 |
KingEbukasBlog: stop being slow. can you prove that this realm exists? why would you expect me to believe in a story with no proof? That is the question my friend. stop beating around sambisa forest. 1 Like |
Re: The End Of Reason:A Response To The New Atheists by naijapips02: 5:51am On Mar 12, 2016 |
asalimpo: what makes the Bible authoritative? Has any statement there be conventionally proven to be an exact scientific truth? 1 Like |
Re: The End Of Reason:A Response To The New Atheists by naijapips02: 5:53am On Mar 12, 2016 |
vooks: You must be a BLW member. That's How empty y'all sound. |
Re: The End Of Reason:A Response To The New Atheists by Oluwaseytiano(m): 6:19am On Mar 12, 2016 |
analice107:and what makes you think I haven't read it? |
Re: The End Of Reason:A Response To The New Atheists by KingEbukasBlog(m): 7:32am On Mar 12, 2016 |
naijapips02: Look carefully , I have always presented my evidence for the supernatural in the past and I did so on this very thread's first page(https://www.nairaland.com/2980239/atheists-test) - this they have blatantly denied . So I now changed the argument which is very logical . If you naijapips02 , can give me a straight answer with irrefutable proof then , I'm the deluded one . Can you prove the universe needs no creator . If you are going to tell me stories or respond in a circumlocutory manner like they have done unashamedly , dont bother to reply |
Re: The End Of Reason:A Response To The New Atheists by naijapips02: 8:02am On Mar 12, 2016 |
KingEbukasBlog: you sir, are the one alluding that the universe was created. Can you provide proof to back this claim? so because the banana is shaped so, then it was designed? what happens to pickle pear, soursop, lime, coconut? were those designed too? what item in nature is my Casio watch modelled after? |
Re: The End Of Reason:A Response To The New Atheists by asalimpo(m): 8:28am On Mar 12, 2016 |
naijapips02:do your research then come back and report to us your findings. |
Re: The End Of Reason:A Response To The New Atheists by vooks: 8:45am On Mar 12, 2016 |
naijapips02:Net you are funny, Me, an Oyaks sycophant? Over my cremated remains. This Neanderthal need to apply what he learnt in school ( if at all he went to any). Punctuation is basic |
Re: The End Of Reason:A Response To The New Atheists by vooks: 8:47am On Mar 12, 2016 |
McSterling:We can all share books we wish others read. It is patently cowardly to invent all asinine excuses for avoiding Ravi |
Re: The End Of Reason:A Response To The New Atheists by Oluwaseytiano(m): 9:29am On Mar 12, 2016 |
vooks:Culo de rata |
Re: The End Of Reason:A Response To The New Atheists by vooks: 11:07am On Mar 12, 2016 |
Oluwaseytiano:Negro, stop stalking me |
Re: The End Of Reason:A Response To The New Atheists by vooks: 5:30pm On Mar 12, 2016 |
More excerpts Let me take this a little further. Donald Page of Princeton’s Institute for Advanced Science has calculated the odds against our universe ran- domly taking a form suitable for life as one out of 10,000,000,000^124— a number that exceeds all imagination.12 Astronomers Fred Hoyle and N. C. Wickramasinghe found that the odds of the random formation of a single enzyme from amino acids any- where on our planet’s surface are one in 1020. Fur- thermore, they observe, “The trouble is that there are about two thousand enzymes and the chance of obtaining them all in a random trial is only one part in (10^20)^20,000 = 10^40,,000, an outrageously small prob- ability that could not be faced even if the whole universeconsistedoforganicsoup.”13 And this is just one step in the formation of life. Nothing has yet been said about DNA and where it came from, or of the transcription of DNA to RNA, which scien- tists admit cannot even be numerically computed. Nor has anything been said of mitosis or meiosis. One would have to conclude that the chance of the random ordering of organic molecules is not essen- tially different from a big fat zero. Perhaps that’s why they call it a singularity, because it is without definition or empirical explanation. |
Re: The End Of Reason:A Response To The New Atheists by analice107: 8:23pm On Mar 12, 2016 |
naijapips02:He is not. |
Re: The End Of Reason:A Response To The New Atheists by analice107: 8:23pm On Mar 12, 2016 |
Oluwaseytiano:Your responds |
Re: The End Of Reason:A Response To The New Atheists by vooks: 10:19am On Mar 13, 2016 |
analice107:True. Oluwaseytiano never went beyond the cover. He is scared |
Re: The End Of Reason:A Response To The New Atheists by Oluwaseytiano(m): 11:40am On Mar 13, 2016 |
vooks:HaHaHa |
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