So dinosaurs survived on Noah's Ark. One of each species? Including the sauropods? These dinosaurs averaged seventy (70) feet long and could be over 12 feet high. Ok, we'll pretend that's true. If the earth if only 6000 years old, how do you explain the fossil records show that the dinosaurs lived, evolved, and died in a span of time much more than 6000 years in and of itself? Sure, you might claim that C14 dating is inaccurate, but, of course, the bible is completely accurate and up to date. Of course it is.
Why should the climate be dramatcially different? If "God" caused the flood (which there is no record of anywhere except the bible[Hmmm. Coincidence?]) in 2000 B.C. just to get rid of all the bad people, why wouldn't be put the Earth back the way it was, so that all the animals and good people could go back to living the way they had been? Sure, it defies common sense and logic, but what does that matter in issues of religion?
Then you have Darwin's Finches. Did Noah have two of each type of Finch? And not only did he have two, but did he specifically find the Galapagos and put just those kind of Finches there? All of the pro arguments I have seen thus far are people stretching to make things fit what they've always been taught to believe. It seems a lot of people just don't have the capacity to question a popular dogma. Valdara -------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------
Anything can be interpreted. The bible is a written text translated by people (who all make mistakes) from a foreign language (that has many different possible interpretations) that was a written text written down by people (who all make mistakes) writing what they remember from oral stories passed down for years. How exactly accurate can that be? I honestly don't understand how someone can base their religion on something like that ("But that's what I was taught!" Don't get me started).
Religious people and anti-religious people are all too dead-set on the fact that they are right. No one likes to admit that they are wrong, but no one has to in the religion debate, because everyone just thinks the other is wrong, as they're so obviously right. Look at all the people that believe just the way they do! How could they be wrong?
The existance/nonexistance of God all depends on belief. A friend of mine one time read a statistic saying "85% of people are right handed, and the other 15% are left handed." He's ambidextrous. Where does he fit? "Well, he goes with the left-handed people." No, because he's also right-handed. So, we decided that he doesn't exist. Everything is relative and depends on perspective.
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Why should the climate be dramatcially different? If "God" caused the flood (which there is no record of anywhere except the bible[Hmmm. Coincidence?]) in 2000 B.C. just to get rid of all the bad people, why wouldn't be put the Earth back the way it was, so that all the animals and good people could go back to living the way they had been? Sure, it defies common sense and logic, but what does that matter in issues of religion?
Then you have Darwin's Finches. Did Noah have two of each type of Finch? And not only did he have two, but did he specifically find the Galapagos and put just those kind of Finches there? All of the pro arguments I have seen thus far are people stretching to make things fit what they've always been taught to believe. It seems a lot of people just don't have the capacity to question a popular dogma.- ----------------------------------------
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Religious people and anti-religious people are all too dead-set on the fact that they are right. No one likes to admit that they are wrong, but no one has to in the religion debate, because everyone just thinks the other is wrong, as they're so obviously right. Look at all the people that believe just the way they do! How could they be wrong?
The existance/nonexistance of God all depends on belief. A friend of mine one time read a statistic saying "85% of people are right handed, and the other 15% are left handed." He's ambidextrous. Where does he fit? "Well, he goes with the left-handed people." No, because he's also right-handed. So, we decided that he doesn't exist. Everything is relative and depends on perspective.
To the bad guys, the good guys are the bad guys.
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