Why I Don't Believe In God

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Originally Posted by KCurtis

Oh, was there someone on here who thought the earth is flat?:banghead:

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I think the universe is flat.

http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/universe/uni_shape.html

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Originally Posted by Darcy88

Apparently biblical literalists are also forced to believe that Noah brought dinosaurs onto his ark.

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Please tell me why that would be far fetched? Do you think that the dinosaurs were hatched out in a colossal size?

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Originally Posted by BienvenuJDC

Please tell me why that would be far fetched? Do you think that the dinosaurs were hatched out in a colossal size?

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Try nabbing a bear cub from every bear species, polar, black, grizzley, ect, and if you have any limbs left then go get a young lion, tiger, cheetah, panther, ect. Good luck. I think getting two baby dinosaurs of every dinosaur species would be a task immeasurably more daunting than even that. Actually it would be impossible, since we know that dinosaurs went extinct long before man first drew breath.

And I don't see how he would even know whether he'd gotten every species. The science of taxonomy was crude if not non-existent back then.

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Originally Posted by KCurtis

Oh, was there someone on here who thought the earth is flat?:banghead:

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Yeah dude, I'm pretty sure he thought Mozart didn't exist too. Also, those vapor lines left after a plane flies overhead? Deliberately excreted poisonous chemicals orchistrated by the British government.

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Originally Posted by Darcy88

Try nabbing a bear cub from every bear species, polar, black, grizzley, ect, and if you have any limbs left then go get a young lion, tiger, cheetah, panther, ect. Good luck. I think getting two baby dinosaurs of every dinosaur species would be a task immeasurably more daunting than even that. Actually it would be impossible, since we know that dinosaurs went extinct long before man first drew breath.

And I don't see how he would even know whether he'd gotten every species. The science of taxonomy was crude if not non-existent back then.

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We KNOW? I'm sorry, but that goes against the evidence. Oh...but it's easier to just throw out the evidence instead of changing our beliefs.

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Originally Posted by KCurtis

Oh, was there someone on here who thought the earth is flat?:banghead:

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He thought many things.


And I can't help but notice Bien has decided to just ignore how everyone pointed out that his wonderful piece of "evidence" was a fake. I think this would apply nicely to Bien himself:

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Originally Posted by BienvenuJDC

You cannot offer any evidence that can disprove something that is obviously been proven. But be my guest....show us what you've got...

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Originally Posted by BienvenuJDC

We KNOW? I'm sorry, but that goes against the evidence. Oh...but it's easier to just throw out the evidence instead of changing our beliefs.

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That was added while I was writing. It's just hilarious. Speak for yourself, Bien.

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Originally Posted by BienvenuJDC

We KNOW? I'm sorry, but that goes against the evidence. Oh...but it's easier to just throw out the evidence instead of changing our beliefs.

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What evidence? Those fabricated stones?

Noah would have had to have ventured to the North and South poles, deep into the Amazonian rainforest, down to Patagonia, way over to the Galapagos Islands. And, assuming he somehow knew he'd gotten them all, he'd have had to have gone back and released them back into their native habitats. You'd think there might be some mention of these vast distant lands somewhere in the bible.

Edit: It appears that the bible says the animals "came unto Noah." Which means, I suppose, that God somehow commanded them to converge upon ancient Israel. Polar bears, mountain gorillas, kangaroos.... all migrated across continents, compelled by God, and embarked upon Noah's boat upon which they rode out the storm. In a world-view wherein nothing is impossible, I guess not even that is impossible. And since all things are possible with God, it would seem that once you're made the choice to believe in Him you can believe just about anything. Fair enough.

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Originally Posted by Darcy88

What evidence? Those fabricated stones?

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Why, man was also created from clay??:drool5:

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Originally Posted by Darcy88

What evidence? Those fabricated stones?

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Yes, that is exactly how evidence is rejected. Have you investigated the evidence? What makes you think that they are fabricated? OH...because it is in contradiction to what you believe? That is AMAZING!!

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Originally Posted by BienvenuJDC

Yes, that is exactly how evidence is rejected. Have you investigated the evidence? What makes you think that they are fabricated? OH...because it is in contradiction to what you believe? That is AMAZING!!

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I think they are fabricated because the guy who supposedly "found" them has since confessed to having fabricated them. They also show pictures of ancient astronauts. Do you believe in them now too?

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Originally Posted by Darcy88

I think they are fabricated because the guy who supposedly "found" them has since confessed to having fabricated them. They also show pictures of ancient astronauts. Do you believe in them now too?

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I do. The secret of Himmler in Atlantis and Nepal. What's not to know is to believe or disbelieve and let it be. If it is to know, there will be an answer. If it is not to know, yet posed as knowledge, an arsenic pill.

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Originally Posted by deryk

If there isn't an influx of sodium or potassium or a chain of electrons to complete a synapse, then that thought you were about to have does not occur. Did you think perception was magic? This is decades old information. Neurologists have more recently observed things like love and have been able to replicate the conditions. There is no magical land of abstractions, only the tiny hard copies of reality inside our brains and our ability to manipulate those copies. EVERYTHING is material. That doesn't mean those things aren't special. It just means we don't live in a world of make-believe.

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Bah - and I believed in fairies.

Yet I don't think that accounts for thoughts or the mind. The potassium and sodium etc etc - are the vehicles for thoughts to arise not the thoughts themseves. You said it yourself - if those conditions aren't there, then there is no thought manifesting.

There may be no magical abstractions - though I never mentioned magic - but you have this magical analogy of hard drives. I don't think science can account for the mind or thoughts, though they can see the process of the meat machine better these days. Or am I wrong?

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Originally Posted by BienvenuJDC

Yes, that is exactly how evidence is rejected. Have you investigated the evidence? What makes you think that they are fabricated? OH...because it is in contradiction to what you believe? That is AMAZING!!

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Have YOU investigated the evidence? The guy who found those stones ADMITTED that they were FABRICATED! Seriously, are you being intentionally obtuse now just to rile people up, or what?