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Originally Posted by teagal
If you truly didn't believe in God you wouldn't be here taping at a keyboard to argue the point.
You'd be off picking daisies or something elsewhere laughing at all of the believers!
Pssst, there is evidence! You just refuse it as so
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Psssst.... yes, but evidence of
what, exactly?
You choose to happily assign the evidence where it may not belong, especially given that much which the bible claims
to be has been
completely discredited on technical grounds.
Now, given the near-infinite number of possibilities for pre-universe "time and space", or parallel universes, or time warps, or simply things well beyond our limited intellect, why
settle for a silly, illogical and implausible version that came from a kindergarten-level understanding 2000 years ago? Because you need it? Can't possibly live without a complete explanation, even if it's totally wrong? Hmmmm.... That would be your problem then, not ours.
Given that you choose a version of reality for which not a single one of us has
any first-hand knowledge, it's always interesting that the Christian perspective is that their's is the
one and
only option. Then you inevitably toss in that ringer:
"Why can't you atheists see the evidence that's right there in front of you? We're here, therefore we were created by God."
Huh? "
therefore?" A big huge jump in logic there, I'd say.
Remember now, the only "evidence" you have is some badly translated and very ambiguous biblical
mumbo-
jumbo in Genesis, hardly well described, where, in a few lines it states that God created a dome for the skies and then pasted some tiny little lights (Holes? LEDs? Candles? Fireflies?) up there.
This interpretation was, of course, the product of totally and completely "scientifically illiterate" minds of the time, innocently gazing up in constant awe, and when a meteorite streaked across that scary sky, they all wanted to run and hide, or attribute it to being another message from God.
"Better go kill a lamb, Martha! God hath spoken!"
So much for rationality and keen observation. But to add insult, they wrote it down as they
thought they understood it, as "The Truth".
So sadly though, you folks, right here in the 21st Century, where we can go see Hubble telescope photos
continue to buy into it, hook, line and bait.
Well, thanks, but I'm a bit more circumspect and skeptical, especially when I can look at those Hubble photos
(as just one of hundreds of examples and info sites) and see well over and past God's shoulder.
HubbleSite - Picture Album