So your an Athiest

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Hah, the flood thing was mostly a joke. I probably shouldn't have said it cause now you won't take me seriously.

I'm willing to suspend judgement if you're telling me that was sarcasm. It's hard to tell on the internet, considering the number of people on the internet who still believe in Biblical literalism.


Speaking of which, why do you suppose the Earth seems so much older than the Bible would seem to indicate?


Also, just because I'm curious, what parts of the Bible do you think are metaphors (if any), and how does one tell which parts are metaphorical and which parts are literal?

I don't know I'm not a biblical scholar. I feel more comfortable discussing my scientific reasons for believing in God than my biblical reasons. I don't know which parts were true, but I think one compelling feature of the bible is that there were prophets that made specific predictions thousands of years before they came true. Many of them concerned Jesus. It also makes predictions about the end times which seem to be coming true. These include the intense ridicule of Christians and the scoffing at the bible. Unfortunately these are the same things that would happen if the Bible wasn't true, so it is hard to decide what to believe.

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And Isaac Newton (probably the smartest man who ever lived) was actually not even remotely atheistic. He wrote more on Christian theology than he did science. He wrote on the prophecies of Daniel, and he actually calculated the battle of Armageddon to occur somewhere around 2060. You can't say the scientists were secretly atheists when they identified as Christians. Maybe you wish they were atheists, but that doesn't make it so.

We know about Isaac Newton. There are many quite-brilliant scientists today who are Christians, as well. All he was saying is that your quip about all scientists before __(year)__ were Believers is not necessarily true, as it was death to question the church. See for instance the story of Giordano Bruno (who was also a Christian).

Saying there were no atheists then is a bit like Mahmoud Amadinejad (sp?), the President of Iran, confidently declaring before the United Nations that they have no homosexuals in Iran.

When they're too afraid to show their faces on pain of death, it doesn't mean they aren't there!

Yeah, you're right. I shouldn't have said ALL scientists, but my point was Christians can still contribute to the increase in knowledge.