(October 25, 2015 at 2:05 pm)Huggy74 Wrote:(October 24, 2015 at 11:40 pm)Starvald Demelain Wrote: Sure, we take everything that we currently know about reality and compare it to the claims of the Christian creation story and it's hilariously void bank of evidence.*emphasis mine*
Honestly, Hugster, it doesn't take an immense amount of common sense to call bullshit on ethereal wizards, talking animals and pure magic. None of those things exist now, nor have they ever been known to exist outside of tales of fiction.
So it's your position that talking animals don't exist?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talking_animal
Quote:Research done by Dr. Irene Pepperberg indicates that parrots are capable of speaking in context and with intentional meaning. One of Pepperberg's parrots, Alex, an African grey parrot, demonstrated the ability to assemble words out of letters
Quote:Batyr (1969–1993), an elephant from Kazakhstan, was reported to have a vocabulary of more than 20 phrases. Recordings of Batyr saying "Batyr is good", "Batyr is hungry", and words such as "drink" and "give" were played on Kazakh state radio in 1980
Didn't actually watch that video you posted, did you?
Here's (starting at 0:55) the quote:
Quote:The researchers believe the lonesome elephant learned to speak out of a form of social bonding after being separated from two other elephants, rather than understanding the words' actual meaning. [...]In 1983, zoo officials in Kazakhstan claimed their elephant could reproduce Russian, but there was no scientific study.
A Christian told me: if you were saved you cant lose your salvation. you're sealed with the Holy Ghost
I replied: Can I refuse? Because I find the entire concept of vicarious blood sacrifice atonement to be morally abhorrent, the concept of holding flawed creatures permanently accountable for social misbehaviors and thought crimes to be morally abhorrent, and the concept of calling something "free" when it comes with the strings of subjugation and obedience perhaps the most morally abhorrent of all... and that's without even going into the history of justifying genocide, slavery, rape, misogyny, religious intolerance, and suppression of free speech which has been attributed by your own scriptures to your deity. I want a refund. I would burn happily rather than serve the monster you profess to love.
I replied: Can I refuse? Because I find the entire concept of vicarious blood sacrifice atonement to be morally abhorrent, the concept of holding flawed creatures permanently accountable for social misbehaviors and thought crimes to be morally abhorrent, and the concept of calling something "free" when it comes with the strings of subjugation and obedience perhaps the most morally abhorrent of all... and that's without even going into the history of justifying genocide, slavery, rape, misogyny, religious intolerance, and suppression of free speech which has been attributed by your own scriptures to your deity. I want a refund. I would burn happily rather than serve the monster you profess to love.