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originally posted by: whereislogic
None of this is to be taken as saying that Hoyle is thinking of the God of the Bible, ...
Evolutionists are the White Queens of today. They have had infinite practice in believing impossible things.
We listened, and I privately felt a sense of alarm mounting within me. The concept was very, very alien. Humans, it seemed, had for most of their sentient era preferred to invent explanations for the world around them rather than admit a lack of knowledge. They had invented a sentience that was capable of doing any logically consistent thing, capable of knowing anything. Rather than answer the mystery of where they had come from, they had historically preferred to tell stories and then convince themselves that the stories were true. If Jenkins was to be believed, then the line between fantasy and reality was, for many humans, invisible.
He told us of the myth he had grown up being told was real. How this great power—“God”—had made the universe in a handful of diurnals, and crafted the first humans from the dirt of their homeworld. They had disobeyed him, and been punished. As had their descendants, and their descendants, until apparently one tribe had tortured this being’s physical avatar to death—he gestured to the tattoo at this point, explaining that it depicted a crucifix, the very instrument of torture in question. This act somehow convinced this “God” thing to forgive them and be nice to humanity so long as they devoted considerable time and effort to telling it how great it was.
Vedreg had turned a grim shade of worried dark green by the time Jenkins finished telling the story. “So…this ‘God’ created humans, got angry at them, condemned them to be tortured forever and ever after death, and then had itself sacrificed to itself to save mankind from the very torture it was inflicting upon them?” he asked.
“Yes.”
My social implant tentatively suggested that Jenkins’ body language communicated tired endurance.
“And humans believe that this is the real way in which the history of your species unfolded?”
“About a third of us still do, yes.”
We were silent for some time. Vedreg slowly went bluer and bluer until suddenly he erupted. “Why!?” he demanded.
“I don’t know.” Jenkins responded, calmly.
“You don’t know? You’re wearing the symbol of this…this masochism on your arm and you don’t know why your people believe it?”
“I know why I believed it,” Jenkins said. “I didn’t know any better.”
originally posted by: cooperton
Nope. Old Testament God attributed to about 2,000,000 deaths. Mao, an atheist, killed about 78,000,000. Stalin, an atheist, killed about 23,000,000.
Atheism wins the kill count. OT God doesn't even get a bronze medal.
"The angel swung his sickle on the earth, gathered its grapes and threw them into the great winepress of God's wrath. They were trampled in the winepress outside the city, and blood flowed out of the press, rising as high as the horses' bridles for a distance of 1,600 stadia."
—Revelation 14:18-20
Let's assume that 1600 stadia (320 kilometres/320,000metres) is the diameter of the lake of blood. Therefore the radius is 800 stadia or 160km. Let's also assume assume that a horse's bridle is approximately 1.5 metres from the ground, giving us its depth.
We can then calculate the volume of blood using the formula: V = ∏r2.. Using biblical value of ∏ = 3 we get the formula:
3 × 160,000 × 160,000 × 1.5 = 115200000000 cubic metres of blood.
1 cubic metre = 1000 litres
25600000000 × 1000 = 115200000000000
If we divide this number by the average amount of blood in a human body, 5.5 litres:
115,200,000,000,000 ∕ 5.5 = 20,945,454,545,500
So we find that according to scripture, at a bare minimum according to one interpretation, God will kill approximately 20,945,454,545,500 people. That's in the trillions.
However, since it says flows and not pools, it wouldn't be unreasonable to think that a river was formed. Assuming they measured the the blood-flow using actual horses, and a horse is 1 metre across.
320,000 x 1 x 1.5 = 480,000 cubic metres of blood.
480,000 x 1000 = 480,000,000
480,000,000 / 5.5 = 87,272,727
So, in another interpretation, God will kill a minimum of 87,272,727 to produce a horse bridle high blood-flow.
originally posted by: cooperton
My God is altruism, love, peace, and so on. Justice is required of people's free will.
originally posted by: cooperton
Jesus is my God. He didn't kill anyone
It was unanimous among cultures describing the global flood that it occurred due to the immense depravity of the humans on earth.
It was apparently a necessary purge that saved the planet.
Way different than killing humans for simply believing in God.
originally posted by: Barcs
You are incapable of leaving people with different beliefs alone
And you go spewing more lies. Evolutionary knowledge is absolutely relevant in vaccines and flu shots.
I get that you are probably an ignorant anti vaxxer as well, but pretending like bacteria and viruses can't evolve is laughable.
The flu shot is different every single year because of that.
originally posted by: cooperton
People can believe what they want. But when you say evolution is fact is when I feel obliged to intervene.
No it's not. Vaccine science relies on the empirical observations in immunology. The vaccine triggers the immune system to make a pre-emptive antibody that will destroy the real virus if it ever comes in contact with the person.
I say this matter-of-factly that you don't have much or any training in scientific fields so I hope you can understand what I am about to say and respond with relevant empirical data. Seriously, if you are just going to baselessly call me a liar or insult me in some way, just save your time and don't respond. But if you want to actually discuss science I am all ears.
Bacteria and viruses are not evolving. They are adapting with a relatively new mechanism known as epigenetics.
Random mutations creating that^ would be similar to a hydraulic self-regenerative computerized pump being formed by random chance. Absolutely impossible.
originally posted by: Barcs
Epigentics is not an alternative to evolution, it's part of it, you dishonest idiot.
poopoo it away with no substance, no evidence, and not a single response to any point I made
originally posted by: cooperton
Antibiotic resistance is explained by Mendelian genetic drift and epigenetic inheritance. No evolution is required for its explanation. Evolutionary theory has no relevance in medical science. It is an out-dated theory that will die out once the bias dissipates.
originally posted by: sapien82
a reply to: WakeUpBeer
Jesus committed suicide because he already knew gods plan as it was his plan anyway as god and jesus are the same right
so he committed a sin to absolve us of our sins , #in hypocrite
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WTF is going there ?
hasnt anyone actually pointed out all the plot holes in the bible