March 29, 20241 yr "This is rather as if you imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, 'This is an interesting world I find myself in — an interesting hole I find myself in — fits me rather neatly, doesn't it? In fact it fits me staggeringly well, must have been made to have me in it!' This is such a powerful idea that as the sun rises in the sky and the air heats up and as, gradually, the puddle gets smaller and smaller, frantically hanging on to the notion that everything's going to be alright, because this world was meant to have him in it, was built to have him in it; so the moment he disappears catches him rather by surprise. I think this may be something we need to be on the watch out for.” Douglas Adams
March 29, 20241 yr lol, Ray conveniently leaves out the fact that humans engineered the modern banana.
March 30, 20241 yr 7 hours ago, Toastrel said: Not at all. I do not discount those Christians who do good works. A family member is a Lutheran Minister, and he is a holy man. Walks the walk. Both of my kids are baptized, although I am not. They seem to be a quiet minority. The vocal majority of those pretending to be Christian in the USA, are like Lauren Boebert. No turn the other cheek, no love for their fellow humans, and certainly no love for anyone DIFFERENT from them, and certainly not strangers, REGARDLESS of where those people are Christian or not. Bitter people like you condemning gays, despite what Jesus told you to do about ANYONE. I never condemned gays, just said it's a sin which it is by Christian doctrine and that is a fact. Ask your Minister family member. Your problem is that you only want to accept a sliver of Christian teachings, and have your own idea of what Christianity should be based on that. Unfortunately for you it's not like that and it has nothing to do with being "different". It's the fact that we won't accept your modified version of Christianity based on liberal nonsense
March 30, 20241 yr 5 hours ago, Toastrel said: A defined moral code. The love your neighbor, wash hookers' feet, turn the other cheek code of the New Testament? The send a wrath of bears to kill children for making fun of a bald prophet, sell your disobedient daughter into slavery, stone your mother for planting two crops side by side in her garden, with extra stones because she has clothing made of two types of cloth, code of the Old Testament? From what I see a majority of US Christians want Leviticus, not Jesus. Then they make themselves into immense hypocrites, by proudly proclaiming support for a guy who paid off a porn star. A guy selling bibles and gold sneakers, with culty followers that put up gold statues of him. Yeah you only choose to see what you want because it fits your juvenile warped view of the world Again, largest religion on the planet. If "most" Christians wanted to live by the old testament teachings--which is completely stupid because the entire point of Christianity is to establish a new covenant with God in place of the Old Testament--you would know it
March 30, 20241 yr 2 hours ago, DaEagles4Life said: Fry said it best He lacks a fundamental understanding of God. Why would God create a perfect world? For as intelligent as he thinks he is, he is very ignorant. He is lashing out at God, angry that he isn't one himself and actually puts himself above his creator.
March 30, 20241 yr 2 hours ago, Tnt4philly said: "This is rather as if you imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, 'This is an interesting world I find myself in — an interesting hole I find myself in — fits me rather neatly, doesn't it? In fact it fits me staggeringly well, must have been made to have me in it!' This is such a powerful idea that as the sun rises in the sky and the air heats up and as, gradually, the puddle gets smaller and smaller, frantically hanging on to the notion that everything's going to be alright, because this world was meant to have him in it, was built to have him in it; so the moment he disappears catches him rather by surprise. I think this may be something we need to be on the watch out for.” Douglas Adams Name a single instance ever in any part of history, where matter was created from nothing, or where life was created from non-life. Has this ever, in the history of human knowledge, been observed a single time?
March 30, 20241 yr 9 minutes ago, Mike31mt said: He lacks a fundamental understanding of God. Why would God create a perfect world? For as intelligent as he thinks he is, he is very ignorant. He is lashing out at God, angry that he isn't one himself and actually puts himself above his creator. Yeah, I'm glad I don't follow that God that allows something as tragic as bond cancer in kids. And which God? Are around 2000 of them? And why is yours the best?
March 30, 20241 yr 5 minutes ago, DaEagles4Life said: What God? Are around 1700 of them? The one true God who created his son in his image to suffer mercilessly and die at the hands of men. The notion that "bad things exist therefore there is no God" is foolish. Everything Jesus said was for the afterlife, not our life on earth which clearly includes horrible suffering which he himself demonstrated. Jesus said over and over again, those who are last on earth will be first, who lose their life will gain it, repeating these themes. There is no promise of total piety leading to a total avoidance of suffering on earth. In fact it's quite the opposite. Jesus himself said this many many times.
March 30, 20241 yr 13 hours ago, Mike31mt said: ...Even in here you have atheists talking about their own personal moral code... He's talking about ME!
March 30, 20241 yr 1 hour ago, Mike31mt said: Yeah you only choose to see what you want because it fits your juvenile warped view of the world Says the guy who spends every minute in here defending Donald J Trump
March 30, 20241 yr 2 hours ago, Mike31mt said: Name a single instance ever in any part of history, where matter was created from nothing, or where life was created from non-life. Has this ever, in the history of human knowledge, been observed a single time? We have enough evidence supporting abiogenesis to form a plausible theory for the origin of life on Earth. https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/10/scientists-recreated-classic-origin-of-life-experiment-and-made-a-new-discovery/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9796705/ https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-37107-6 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-29113-x Are you seriously gonna argue against evolution by invoking creationism as a counter point? How old do you think the Earth is?
March 30, 20241 yr 8 hours ago, Mike31mt said: Yeah you only choose to see what you want because it fits your juvenile warped view of the world Again, largest religion on the planet. If "most" Christians wanted to live by the old testament teachings--which is completely stupid because the entire point of Christianity is to establish a new covenant with God in place of the Old Testament--you would know it Yes, those Christians wanking about old testament values are idiots.
March 30, 20241 yr 9 hours ago, Mike31mt said: Again, largest religion on the planet. If "most" Christians wanted to live by the old testament teachings--which is completely stupid because the entire point of Christianity is to establish a new covenant with God in place of the Old Testament--you would know it Have you ever observed or read about anything other than your own warped world. Your largest religion in the world is divided by tens of thousands of different sects, denominations, and cults who argue with each other about what a "true” Christian is. Maybe stop trying to fix others, and try working on yourself first?
March 30, 20241 yr 7 hours ago, we_gotta_believe said: We have enough evidence supporting abiogenesis to form a plausible theory for the origin of life on Earth. https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/10/scientists-recreated-classic-origin-of-life-experiment-and-made-a-new-discovery/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9796705/ https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-37107-6 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-29113-x Are you seriously gonna argue against evolution by invoking creationism as a counter point? How old do you think the Earth is? He refused to answer that the last time I asked him that, which was the exact answer I thought he would give.
March 30, 20241 yr 6 hours ago, Boogyman said: He refused to answer that the last time I asked him that, which was the exact answer I thought he would give. I think the current official Y.E.C. position is 7-10 business days
March 30, 20241 yr 44 minutes ago, Arthur Jackson said: I think the current official Y.E.C. position is 7-10 business days I even gave him multiple choices and asked if he thought the Earth's age should be measured in thousands, millions, or billions of years and he refused to commit to an answer lmao
March 30, 20241 yr 23 minutes ago, Boogyman said: I even gave him multiple choices and asked if he thought the Earth's age should be measured in thousands, millions, or billions of years and he refused to commit to an answer lmao That's the same thing as saying 13.5 Billion +/- 13.5 Billion Give him a break, he's just using broader error bars
March 30, 20241 yr 5 hours ago, Arthur Jackson said: I think the current official Y.E.C. position is 7-10 business days According to the atheist, TEW, Christianity is, in part, based on creationism, and all Christians are YEC.
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