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What would you do?
December 21, 2013 at 8:18 am
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If aliens predicted many events in human history and wrote em in the bible and put it on planet earth? Also they put bunch of medical and scientific knowledge in the bible which would be ahead of it's time and then they put bible in many places simultaniously so it spreads everywhere in same time.
How would you argue against christians? I mean it would be aliens fucking with us but christians would have an upper hand in debates.
It would not be god but what would you do?
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RE: What would you do?
December 21, 2013 at 8:25 am
Well, clearly that didn't happen in the Bible.
But I take your point. If I were presented with an ancient text which offered clear, unambiguous predictions ('In a city called "Christchuch" in a place called "New Zealand" an earthquake will cause the death of 185 people on 22 February 2011' not 'A city will suffer the wrath of God') I would be inclined to take it seriously.
I doubt, though, that I would jump to the 'goddidit' conclusion.
Well, not at first.
Boru
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RE: What would you do?
December 21, 2013 at 12:57 pm
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I'm just throwing this out here, but if the Bible had detailed accounts of futuristic medical technology, wouldn't we have developed that medical technology once we came in contact with the bible?
As such, by the time it reached us now we'd have far superior medical technology, and we'd find the bible just as outdated as we do now. :p
Well maybe the hole event predictions would be a challenge to overcome, but I'd hope the aliens wouldn't make it too much of a running joke.
There is no God, so can we please get back to science?
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RE: What would you do?
December 25, 2013 at 8:26 pm
Quote:However - just because London Exists - does not remotely imply that Harry Potter - Sherlock Holmes - or Peter Pan are real. Or James Bond for that matter as well.
As a member in good standing of the Baker Street Irregulars (Whangarei chapter) I must take exception to your including Sherlock Holmes among the obviously fictional characters mentioned above.
Don't let it happen again.
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson