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RE: Disproving The Resurrection By The Maximal Facts Approach
June 29, 2015 at 2:03 pm
So, kill them all and let Jesus sort 'em out?
Sounds like a Hollywood blockbuster in the making. With the success of Jurassic World, I'd embellish the story just a bit, so that Raptor Jesus is the one that returns. You could make it almost as violent, bloody, and disturbing as The Passion of the Christ.
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RE: Disproving The Resurrection By The Maximal Facts Approach
June 29, 2015 at 4:45 pm
Well yeah....usually a dead giveaway.
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RE: Disproving The Resurrection By The Maximal Facts Approach
June 29, 2015 at 5:26 pm
(June 29, 2015 at 10:48 am)popsthebuilder Wrote: Don't know. Maybe a meteor will hit the earth and literally set it a blaze. Or maybe we could be struck hard enough to be forced from our orbit.
Which in turn will also set the world ablaze
Since meteors are the glowing trails of excited particles left behind from (usually cometary) dust burning up in the atmosphere, they never hit the Earth, by definition. Meteor
ites hit the Earth all the time, mostly into the sea, but these rarely exceed a few feet in size and the overwhelming majority are on the order of millimetres. I think what you have in 'mind' are asteroids or comets.
And planetary orbits don't work the way you describe. An object of sufficient mass and/or energy to knock a planet from its orbit would also vaporise it. Setting the world ablaze if you like, but it would leave very little for Jesus to rule over, nest-ce pas? Put very, very, See-Spot-Run simply, you would need an object of planetary gravitational mass to settle nearby and disrupt Earth's orbit. Even then, we're more likely to be thrown out of the Solar System than inwards towards the Sun, simply because the range of possible escape vectors is so large. In other words, we're far more likely to freeze than fry.
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RE: Disproving The Resurrection By The Maximal Facts Approach
June 29, 2015 at 5:33 pm
You misunderstand but thank you for the correction with meteor vs meteorite. No doubt the Earth would be screwed in way of life as we know it. The mass of energy from everything dying pretty much instantly would simply be directed to its respective pools.positive negative
Good bad
There would be no human life on Earth as you mentioned. Sorry for the confusion.
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RE: Disproving The Resurrection By The Maximal Facts Approach
June 29, 2015 at 5:35 pm
All of which has fuckall to do with the bullshit resurrection story.
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RE: Disproving The Resurrection By The Maximal Facts Approach
June 29, 2015 at 5:41 pm
So in summary: you think that some impactor might force the Earth from its orbit and set the world ablaze, and I'm the misunderstanding one?
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