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Christian in need of help (feeling uneasy about God quote)!!
#61
RE: Christian in need of help (feeling uneasy about God quote)!!
(May 22, 2017 at 9:09 am)Drich Wrote: Or a 14.2 billion old universe.. or a 20.1 or a 5.5 or a 3.8 or a 10.45 One of these days your all might 'science" will give you a absolute true number, (Or have you forgotten how many times your number has changed in the last 20 years???) but I doubt it will be before God tells it to a scientist bold enough to ask.

It's 13.8. The value has changed bc. the error bars have shrunk. You know, that thing completely unknown to religious thinking with which scientists tell you their own level of certainty?
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition

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#62
RE: Christian in need of help (feeling uneasy about God quote)!!
lol, the self-correcting process of science is exactly why it is not only more trustworthy, but crowding religious creation stories right off the table.

Takes an idiot like Drich to double down on fantasy and take a swipe at science ... typing on a computer ... online ...

The only useful purpose I've found for Drich is practicing insults, but it's not fun with him. He's so dense they go right over his head.

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#63
RE: Christian in need of help (feeling uneasy about God quote)!!
(May 22, 2017 at 9:17 am)Alex K Wrote:
(May 22, 2017 at 9:09 am)Drich Wrote: Or a 14.2 billion old universe.. or a 20.1 or a 5.5 or a 3.8 or a 10.45 One of these days your all might 'science" will give you a absolute true number, (Or have you forgotten how many times your number has changed in the last 20 years???) but I doubt it will be before God tells it to a scientist bold enough to ask.

It's 13.8. The value has changed bc. the error bars have shrunk. You know, that thing completely unknown to religious thinking with which scientists tell you their own level of certainty?

Drich is an idiot. He doesn't understand that with more time and more data we get more accurate knowledge. 

If he stupidly thinks science claims it can give us an exact day or exact second he is totally clueless as to what scientific method sets out to do.

This is the same mistake some make when watching the local weather in huge county and the weather person says "Scattered thunderstorms" and the viewer doesn't see any rain and thinks the weather person is wrong, missing the point of the use of "SCATTERED"

In scientific terms 13.8 billion is quite accurate. It is our best estimation to date.  If he is still buying the 6 day crap, he is living in a delusional past.
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#64
RE: Christian in need of help (feeling uneasy about God quote)!!
Maybe, they accidentally omitted the error bars, and they meant to say that the world was created in 6 +/- 3000000000000 days.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition

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#65
RE: Christian in need of help (feeling uneasy about God quote)!!
(May 22, 2017 at 8:31 am)Drich Wrote:
(May 21, 2017 at 4:59 am)Alex K Wrote: If God is outside time so as to not require being created, how can it *do* anything or have thoughts or desires?

what does being outside of time mean to you? being retarded?

Imagine a dvd representing the whole of time. now imagine on that dvd you know it's contents like any favorite movie. now take the dvd outside the player and place it on the table. You are now outside the "time line" of the dvd. did you suddenly become retarded (anymore than normal I mean?) What I am asking now just because you do not live at any central point on that dvd does it mean you know any less or more of the history on that dvd?

Now to answer a couple others with the same analogy imagine on the same dvd everything had a creation or birthing point of some kind. Now if you created the DVD would your creation then also be required to be on that DVD? No As you and your origins are pre time. As I said the DVD contains all of time and if you have it then you are outside of that time line, that dimension.

It's so funny when I see Christians explaining God as living "outside time and space".

When you think that by the time the book of Genesis was written people used to believe that the earth was flat, that the sun circled around the earth, and that the blood of goats appeased angry gods. Yeah, surely back then people revelled in the theory of relativity and were meditating upon the space-time continuum.
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RE: Christian in need of help (feeling uneasy about God quote)!!
(May 22, 2017 at 9:26 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: The only useful purpose I've found for Drich is practicing insults, but it's not fun with him. He's so dense they go right over his head.

Actually, he's so dense that he's collapsed into his own gravity footprint; what we see is merely the light echo from the event horizon. He is a black hole of witlessness. Insults fall into the Drich singularity and their information is lost to the Universe.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist.  This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair.  Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second.  That means there's a situation vacant.'
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#67
RE: Christian in need of help (feeling uneasy about God quote)!!
(May 22, 2017 at 8:31 am)Drich Wrote: Imagine a dvd representing the whole of time. now imagine on that dvd you know it's contents like any favorite movie. now take the dvd outside the player and place it on the table. You are now outside the "time line" of the dvd.

No.

No.

No.

The individual and the dvd on the table are still occupying the same time, and the same space only in reference to being in the same room at the same time.

Furthermore, the content ON the dvd is mere simulation. There are no real people in real time living in a real space on that dvd.
"Never trust a fox. Looks like a dog, behaves like a cat."
~ Erin Hunter
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#68
RE: Christian in need of help (feeling uneasy about God quote)!!
These explanations are no less made-up than anything else about God is. Putting him in time yielded paradoxes, so they made up the answer that he was outside time. It's just more fantasy. There isn't a single person, including Drich, who has any knowledge of God. Every single fact of God was at one time or another pulled straight from someone's ass. None of it counts as fact.
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#69
RE: Christian in need of help (feeling uneasy about God quote)!!
Drich Wrote:what does being outside of time mean to you? being retarded?

Imagine a dvd representing the whole of time. now imagine on that dvd you know it's contents like any favorite movie. now take the dvd outside the player and place it on the table. You are now outside the "time line" of the dvd. did you suddenly become retarded (anymore than normal I mean?) What I am asking now just because you do not live at any central point on that dvd does it mean you know any less or more of the history on that dvd?

Now to answer a couple others with the same analogy imagine on the same dvd everything had a creation or birthing point of some kind. Now if you created the DVD would your creation then also be required to be on that DVD? No As you and your origins are pre time. As I said the DVD contains all of time and if you have it then you are outside of that time line, that dimension.

You're not describing a 'timeless' being but one that has it's own time/space in which to act. If our time/space require a creator, so does the time/space of the creator you're envisioning.

Since for our cosmos, time began at the point when inflation began, a creator is counter-indicated, since as you've pointed out, time is a prerequisite for creation.

Catholic_Lady Wrote:Melissa, as we said last time, this isn't the place for you. You need to go to a Christian forum or better yet, go to your pastor. This is an atheist forum. You won't find what you're looking for here.

She's in the right place if she wants to see if her beliefs stand up to scrutiny.
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.
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#70
RE: Christian in need of help (feeling uneasy about God quote)!!
See what happens when you ask for a theist around here, Melissa?  You get Dripshit babbling on about his fairy tales.
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