But let's see if I can help shed some light on your questions from a parrot's point of view
To the Creationists I say: Can you justify to me why your God’s intentions areHere is some food for thought for you bible quoting parrots: Why is it when someone presents you with facts that run contrary to your current belief systems do you automatically allow your fears and hates and prejudices overwhelm y to never be surprised, and always knowing everything? Why do you want your God to be so bored? Further more how could there be “Free Will” in a predetermined existence?
Who says everything is predetermined? Where did you get that? It is not written in the Bible. Can somone be "All-Knowing" and yet allow things to proceede / develop at it's own pace, one word answer---Yes. You state that being all-knowing would be boring, let me give you an allegory, I love to work with wood. It is a calming , relaxing activity where the process to making the end product is much more rewarding than just having the end result quickly.
Here is some food for thought for you bible quoting parrots: Why is it when someone presents you with facts that run contrary to your current belief systems do you automatically allow your fears and hates and prejudices overwhelm you and take over the driver’s seat in your heads? If your faith was just a fraction of what was required to utilize love and truth you would be able to step up with your bible and use some deductive reasoning to bring logic to the table.
Nice paintbrush there, painting everyone as one. Faith is something that is in constant need of coddling as it goes against Man's baser instincts.
These facts that you present, what are they? why cannot they be discussed, analysised and debated? Many a "fact" has been disproven later on. Let us not forget our Piltdown Man he was considered to be the missing link for nearly half a century before it was proven to be a fake. So questioning of "facts" should always be allowed and encouraged.
Also this question that you present can be turned around. Why is it that someone who has these "facts" are so desperate to discredit others who question their "facts"
Imagine humanity being so vain, arrogant and presumptuous to assume that communications emitted from this planet could not encounter some time warp phenomenon in space (worm hole/black hole) that through the encoded light (radio waves) into the path of a civilization that actually existed millions of years ago, or for that matter encounter a civilization in the future that can traverse time.
Humans are vain, that is a given fact. The ideal of communications if ever accomplished has already been theorized as taking centuries or more to travel between star systems, so you point here is?
Imagine if ants were to evolve. They are Unitarians, that is pretty self evident through observing their actions and behaviors. They are organized from the bottom up and everyone serves each other’s collective will. So, if they could communicate and were to speak to one individual in a species, they would probably presume that the individual of the species spoke for the entire species, because they know no different.
And the point here is? There are many forms of communications, who's to say that we (or they) would even be able to recognize the other's communications method?
Bible quoting parrots: Can’t you use your book to prove the Earth is far older than a few thousand years?
I have answered this a few times and you kindof sortof answer it yourself.
The word in Genesis that has been interpeted / translated to mean "days" actually has multiple meanings, one of which means ERA which has not limited definition so the "One Day" could actually be 1 day or 1 million years.
But this is only from a parrot so take it with a grain of salt I guess.
Here is a cracker, my dear Polly,
Moses asked a question to an entity that probably had been around for awhile. He asked this bush “Who shall I say sent me when pharaoh asks?” He asked the name of God. He asked infinity’s consciousness to define itself. Communication is many forms. What if what we are enduring is time phi’d, what if what we are enduring is the answer to the question?
Again, what is the problem with asking.... is that not what you are doing? The last part of this statement is a bit circular so I am not sure what you are looking for here.
40 years is the time the word of the bible says (And the word is God) is how long Moses led the Israelites through the wilderness.
Actually the word used in this section of the Bible only had one meaning so 40 years was most likely 40 years.
Now Can this Polly have a Cracker?
