I haven’t checked the rules. My phone, too, is deafening in its unringi-ness.
I’m definitely going to keep trying, but I hold out little hope of actually being asked on. I’m cursed with some pretty agressive anti-photogenical genes…
Who created the creator?
The obergruppenKreator.
This is the perfect response to my post. Hats off to you, sir.
Some old lady responding to (maybe Richard Feynmann, I forget):
‘You’re very clever young man, but you can’t fool me. Its turtles all the way down’!
@jasourdough - Assuming you are sincere in your beliefs, the geological and fossil record is completely incompatible with a global flood. This was debated and resolved early in the 19th century.
To take an easy to understand example, fossils are not hydrologically sorted. If the majority of animals on earth were killed in a flood, the largest animals would sink to the bottom first. Smaller objects have a larger surface to volume ratio than large ones, so are more subject to drag (sand dropped in water takes a while to settle out, while pebbles sink straight away).
That’s not what we see in the real fossil record. Organisms are arranged by species, not by size. It was a very tidy flood, to somehow place all the dinosaurs above the all cambrian organisms.
Are you kidding? Some of the refugees from Darwin’s waiting room they’ve had on recently make you look like Francis X. Bushman.*
*Speaking of “cross-genre/cross-era entertainment geek.”
It is pretty much the definition of numerology.
If you resort to numerological methods, the Bible can be used to prove pretty much anything. Of course, so can The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. And the results are equally meaningful.
There’s another word you really need to look up in a dictionary. “Facts,” that is. Although looking up “confuse” might help you, too.
Credible? That link says, “Major public aquariums use the ability of fish to adapt to water of different salinity from their normal habitat to exhibit freshwater and saltwater species together. The fish can adapt if the salinity is changed slowly enough.” That’s blatantly wrong.
Why is it that you’re willing to accept any old babble as being “credible” when it comes from a site with “christiananswers” in the URL, but you dismiss out-of-hand what you’re told by people here who might actually know something about biology?
Once again, this is a gross misuse of the word “fact.” By your logic, any claim of a particular date in 1958 would also be unfalsifiable. After all, 1958 wasn’t mentioned in the Bible…
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I think this thread has spent long enough in General Questions. There’s no question that it’s a Great Debate at this point, so I’ve moved the thread.
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I think he should have used cubed and not squared, in honor of the Trinity. In that case, we have a long time to wait.
In any event, I’m definitely having pizza for lunch that day. Damned if I’m going to go to my reward after eating peanut butter and jelly.
I would think the day before Judgment Day would pretty much be my “Fuck my health” day (well, more than any other day is, anyway)…not just a pizza. A double-stuffed crust meatlover’s pizza with extra pepperoni, cheese and bacon.
I’ll be eating shrimp - food allergies be damned!!!
Back on the original topic: in addition to not factoring in the Julian/Gregorian switch, he also seems to have missed out the initial calculation error that puts Jesus’ birthdate at 4 BC, which presumably would also put his crucifixion at 29 AD.
In short, the world ended three years ago. I blame Bush.
Um…just a quick question:
If the world ends at, say, 8:00, will that still be 8:30 in Newfoundland?
Oh, I think we can be quite confident that the world will end at the same time everyplace on the planet - it says so in Galatians 45:22-25. So, if it happens at 8:00, it happens at 8:00 everywhere. If you stand on the border of a time zone, or like of india, you can watch the world end on the other side, and then wait a while and watch it end for you an hour (or half an hour) later. Or you could stand at the international date line and get your preview a day in advance. (In either case you need to take care to be standing on the correct side of the line, of course.)
What?
Actually, that seems to make perfectly logical sense.
And that’s why simple common sense is to be viewed skeptically.
Good Lord, if I have to eat at Hardee’s, I* want* the world to end.
Meh, you enjoy science but don’t respect it, like that slutty girl that everybody’s dated at least once.
Since I didn’t spend much time looking over this page and formed my statement as a question ending with 3 questions marks, I’ll concede your point here
A hypothetical example:
For whatever reason, a person would like to determine whether or not it has rained in Las Vegas on August 15th in the year 1840. All observable data over the past 120 years show measurable precipitation has never occurred in the city of Las Vegas on August 15th. One could logically conclude August 15th, 1840 was a dry day. Now, someone else comes along with written records from a Spanish ancestor which indicate it did rain. Neither one can be proved or disproved.
Even though radiometric dating techniques are reliable over the observable past and it is logical to assume they would be reliable over a much longer period, it absolutely cannot be proved or disproved based on science. It is simply a consensus. Sometimes, things are not what they appear to be. Is the sky really blue?
The holy bible is more difficult to understand then quantum physics, thermodynamics, and an arrogant scientist all rolled into one. It is a reflection of the infinite mind of God. The creator of the laws which govern the universe which science has just recently begun to understand.
“Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment: the waters stood above the mountains. At thy rebuke they fled; at the voice of thy thunder they hasted away. They go up by the mountains; they go down by the valleys unto the place which thou hast founded for them. Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over; that they turn not again to cover the earth.” Psalms 104:6-9
God doesn’t spend to much time in the bible discussing earth science. However, when he does, it is the absolute true word of God.
The words of Jesus Christ concerning our study of the laws of the universe:
“And further, by these, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh. Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter:” Ecc 12:12
His command to us:
“Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man. For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.” Ecc 12:13-14
His warning to every religion whether they call themselves Christians or scientists:
“And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you. And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the savour of your sweet odours. And I will bring the land into desolation: and your enemies which dwell therein shall be astonished at it. And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste.” Lev 26:30-33