03-26-2002, 01:35 AM | #201 |
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The burden of proof still rests witht he claimant. Show me. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BeardofPants Furthermore, you are in the anti-theistic thread, YOU are supposed to be convincing US. I am still waiting Wayfarer. Convince me.
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That's why the fundementalists invented creationism; it's you put you on the defensive. It takes advantage of your scientific thought which allows possibilities. Something not allowed in their religious thought which came up with the idea. It's a gimmick even they don't believe. If they have to convince you with evidence alone, as opposed to traditional scientific thought which requires reproducability, they fall on their face.
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Well now they're trying to pass off a new term and call it a new theory. There is nothing scientificallly that backs up creationism and absolutely nothing that says the earth is 6,000 years old or whatever.
When I lived in the midwest - most people believed in creationism and would not listen to any other possiblities. I generally stay out of religious conversations with my freinds in Indiana.
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And it would be nice to stop the psuedo fact flinging please.
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I've avoided this subject for a while (for obvious reasons) so it was nice to get updated. I'm confortable with not believing but I can't abide relentless proselytizing. I really don't like satanists; beleiving the part of the religion the religion uses as a scapegoat is masochism.
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Well I never believed in hell. And Pergatory and Limbo were completely out of the question.
The devil is an excuse for people to blame something they do "bad" on external forces. People need to take responsibilty for their own actions
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Hmm, I'd just like to point out a few things.
1) Order can not be 'invalid' anymore than a rock can be invalid. Order is something that either exists or does not exist, not something that is valid or invalid. What the heck is an 'invalid' order, Wayfarer? Give me an example, please. 2) 'Atheistic religion' is an oxymoron. There is no such thing. 3) "The burden of proof still rests with the claimant. Show me" - Why don't you show me? Give us some concrete proof here. And your order/chaos ideas are not proof. 4) Is anyone willing to explain where God came from? This was RE's question, and no one has yet answered it. 5) No one has answered Anduril's posts from the "Theism" thread either. Too difficult to answer, I suppose. I'll summarize one of them again: - The Christian God cannot possibly exist, because it is impossible to be both omniscient and omnipotent (both characteristics of the christian god). Anduril proved this very well, and I'd like to see someone disprove it. Basically, if God is omniscient, he knows what he himself will do in the future. Since he knows, he has to do it - making him not omnipotent. Or, if he does something else, he's not omniscient, because he didn't know what he was going to do beforehand. - In the words of the Simpsons: "Could God create a hotdog so big even God couldn't eat it all?" Whether you answer yes or no, God ends up conspicuously not omnipotent. - God sacrificing Jesus. If he's omniscient, he knew Jesus be resurrected. Some sacrifice. - So if there is a God, he cannot have the typical characteristics of the Christian one. 6) My question which no one has yet answered: If God knew from the beginning how everything would work out, why bother? Why bother to set Adam and Eve up if you're know they're going to fall? Why not just make them sinless? An omnipotent being could do that, right? Why go through the whole spiel of sinning and redemption and revelation if you already know how it's going to turn out and you're controlling it all? I guess it must be really boring up there in heaven . . .
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For the second question. Yeah. that bothered me too. I've decided that the whole point of that story is that people hate themselves. They don't think they can't be good on their own so they come up with this original sin deal. It also conveniently brings in the need for a saviour. Religions like saviours. Prophets in particular just can't get enough of them. Prophets also like to write things down (the literate ones, anyways). These writings can later be put together into something called a "bible". |
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that’s just plain wrong a handful of greeks postulated a helio-centric view however European learning was based on the Greek sources that had been passed down, and cosmological and astronomical thought were based on Aristotle and Ptolemy. Aristotle's cosmology of a central Earth surrounded by concentric spherical shells carrying the planets and fixed stars was the basis of European thought from the 12th century CE onward. Technical astronomy, also geocentric, was based on the constructions of excentric circles and epicycles codified in Ptolemy's Almagest (2d. century CE). The Catholic Church supported a largely Aristotelian physical world view, skilfully woven into Christian theology by St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274). well the bible DOES support a GEO-cenetric view The mobility of the sun The most important biblical quote supporting a geocentric universe can be found in the Book of Joshua. This will be used as the starting point for our scriptural cosmology. Joshua 10:12-13 Then spoke Joshua to the Lord in the day when the Lord gave the Amorites over to the men of Israel; and he said in the sight of Israel, "Sun, stand thou still at Gibeon, and thou Moon in the valley of Aijalon." And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the nation took vengeance on their enemies. Is this not written in the Book of Jashar? The sun stayed in the midst of heaven, and did not hasten to go down for about a whole day. The miracle of Joshua appears again as a reference in The Book of Habakkuk. Habakkuk 3:11 The sun and moon stood still in their habitation at the light of thine arrows as they sped, at the flash of thy glittering spear. The evidence in support of a geocentric model is overwhelming here. Joshua commanded the sun to stand still. He did not order the earth to cease rotating nor did he qualify his statement with the divine knowledge that the sun was merely made to appear stationary. The sun was commanded to stand still because it is the sun that moves. Descriptions of its motion can be rather poetic. Psalms 19:4-6 yet their voice goes out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them he has set a tent for the sun, which comes forth like a bridegroom leaving his chamber, and like a strong man runs his course with joy. Its rising is from the end of the heavens, and its circuit to the end of them; and there is nothing hid from its heat. Ecclesiastes 1:5 The sun rises and the sun goes down, and hastens to the place where it rises. The stability of the earth On the other side of the geocentric coin, if the sun moves then the earth must not move. There are a few passages which more-or-less forbid the motion of the earth. 1 Chronicles 16:30 tremble before him, all earth; yea, the world stands firm, never to be moved. Psalms 93:1 The Lord reigns; he is robbed in majesty; the lord is robbed, he is girded with strength. Yea, the world is established; it shall never be moved. Psalms 96:10 Say among the nations, "The Lord reigns! Yea, the world is established, it shall never be moved; he will judge the peoples with equity." In addition, the notion of an earth with a "foundation" is quite common. This leads one to conclude that the earth is quite stable. 2 Samuel 22:16 Then the channels of the sea were seen, the foundations of the world were laid bare, at the rebuke of the Lord at the blast of the breath of his nostrils. Psalms 18:15 Then the channels of the sea were seen, and the foundations of the world were laid bare, at thy rebuke, O Lord, at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils. Psalms 102:25 Of old thou didst lay the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the work of thy hands. Proverbs 8:27-29 When he established the heavens, I was there, when he drew a circle on the face of the deep, when he made firm the skies above, when he established the fountains of the deep, when he assigned to the sea its limit, so that the waters might not transgress his command, when he marked out the foundations of the earth, Isaiah 48:13 My hand laid out the foundation of the earth, and my right hand spread out the heavens; when I call to them, they stand forth together. John 17:24 Father, I desire that they also, whom thou hast given me, may be with me where I am, to behold my glory which thou hast given me in thy love for me before the foundation of the world. The firmness of the earth's foundation is open to some discussion, however. Earthquakes may or may not be allowed. Psalms 104:5 Thou didst set the earth on its foundations, so that it should never be shaken. Job 9:6 who shakes the earth from its place, and its pillars tremble. Isaiah 24:18 He who flees at the sound of the terror shall fall into the pit; and he who climbs out of the pit shall be caught in the snare. For the windows of heaven are opened, and the foundations of the earth tremble.
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2)This is still unproved. You expect me to accept your word for it despite the lack of evidence simply humans or their ancestors where not there "IN THE BEGINNING" they appeared millions of years later. would you expect their fossils to contemepory with all the other homind fossils 3)Flat earth and heliocentricism are not christian ideas. wrong see my prior post part I 4)Please answer me this: If there is a god powerful enought to create all the matter and energy in the universe, from nothing, why could he not do it in six days? Furthermore, the christian God exists outside of linear time, and thus could take as long or as short as he wants to here you are begging the question also WHERE in the bible does it say that god is outside of linear time 5)The belief in an old earth is the result of gradualism. It cannot account for what might happen if things have not always been exactly the way they are. Tell me, do you think thignsa have always been exactly the way they are? so are you saving god changed his mind makes things different but if he is all knowing why would he change things there have been meteor strikes, climate changes things do change but it doesn't mean that things have to all be radically altered as if by magic
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as far as artistotle Although in many areas Aristotle advocated a modern scientific approach and he collected data in a scientific way, this was unfortunately not the case in astronomy. As Berry writes [2]:- There are also in Aristotle's writings a number of astronomical speculations, founded on no solid evidence and of little value ... his original contributions are not comparable with his contributions to the mental and moral sciences, but are inferior in value to his work in other natural sciences ... As Berry goes on to say, this was very unfortunate for astronomy since the influence of the writings of Aristotle had an authority for many centuries which meant that astronomers had a harder battle than they might otherwise have had in getting the truth accepted. as far as infinite regression ok where did god come from/ or any supernatural force you say it always was why can't nature have always existed
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HUMMM as if others religionist don't same the same about their religion so what's the diference?
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hemogoblin thing still does prove a CHRISTIAN god
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