Originally posted by lilblam
Don't be so certain. I've read the entire john titor's thing and the whole alexander's thing. If you want to, go ahead and defend him. The
Christian argument holds water... the other arguments can fall through.
The alien argument is by no means certain, at least to you. Given what I know, it is (to me). Also, I know what the government does and is capable of
doing, so once again the argument where he is apprehended by the government works... if you knew what I know. But to you it's also uncertain, and I
understand that.
So this leaves the argument about Christianity. How could Christianity co-exist with scientific fact (according to him) of infinite worldlines? They
absolutely contradict each other... he'd have to be the most ignorant person on the planet to pull that off..
[Edited on 5-2-2004 by lilblam]
LOL! No, I don't believe the fable as anything more than a story. That said however, I can appreciate the genius it took to put the whole thing
together (story, photos, etc...) and hold to that for months never wavering in the story or exposing yourself. Then to disappear and have people still
debating years later? Having a legion of followers? Have certain parts of the story for the most part intact (meaning the story have not been 100%
debunked by hundreds or thousands of people).
Anyone would have to admit. It took some smarts to do that.
As for your issue that Christianity wouldn't survive the scientific proof of multiple worldlines. How did it manage to survive the science of
evolution? Hmmmm?
"It is contradicting the simple idea of the Bible etc... and that means God could never give commandments to anyone since every possible action HAS
been done by YOU on another worldline. God can't judge you anymore, since you DID EVERYTHING in every possible situation."
You cannot believe in the possibility of multiple worldlines or "string" theory, but you will fully believe a book written by who-knows based fully
on faith? Well, Christianity seems to survive despite that pesky science stuff. All it takes is faith.
For millennia, people have debated what is the ratio of the perimeter to the diameter of a circle. On the one hand, the Bible clearly states that the
first temple contained a circular structure with a perimeter of 30 cubits and a diameter of 10 cubits, giving an exact ratio of 3. On the other hand
mathematicians blindly ignore this truth and claim that the result is closer to 3.14.
So God and science seem at odds on this...but both survive.
How about the fact that Greek fatalism, embodied in Aristotle's argument of De interpretatione 9, posed a special threat to Christian theology.
Committed to the biblical doctrine of divine foreknowledge as well as to human freedom, Christian thinkers had to explain how it is either that God
knows future contingents without future contingent propositions' being antecedently true or false or that God's knowing the truth value of such
propositions does not after all entail fatalism. The problem of theological fatalism seemed especially acute since God's foreknowledge of some future
event is itself a fact of past history and therefore temporally necessary; that is to say, it no longer has any potential to be otherwise. Therefore,
what God foreknew must necessarily come to pass, since it is impossible that God's knowledge be mistaken.
More science versus the bible.