RE: DNA Proves Existence of a Designer
May 2, 2019 at 10:00 am
(This post was last modified: May 2, 2019 at 10:04 am by Mister Agenda.)
By the end of this post I will have made a prophecy that came true. My prophecy is that I'm going to announce that my prophecy came true, and then I'm gonna to point out how accurate my prophecy was.
You see, a prophecy in the sense of predicting that something will happen, which then happens, doesn't require supernatural knowledge. You could make a lot of guesses, and count on people's tendency to remember the hits and forget the misses. Dion Fortune built her career on that. You could pass on an oral tradition and incorporate new events in a way that seems to the casual observer that they were successfully predicted when they had already happened at the time of the story's revision. You could have a canny enough grasp of current events to be able to discern the long-term results, or understand how history repeats itself (there will be wars and rumors of wars, famines and plagues, Kingdoms coming to ruin, summers and winters, etc.). You could take it on yourself to make sure the events you've predicted actually happen (as I'm about to do). I've not exhausted the non-supernatural possibilities at all.
You could even understand that prophecies aren't necessarily predictions at all, they can be inspirational, or admonitions, a prophecy is supposed to be a message from a deity. Maybe you should start a thread about prophecy if that's what you want to hang your hat on. Anyway, my prophecy came true. 100% accuracy, and it wasn't even in the Bible.
You see, a prophecy in the sense of predicting that something will happen, which then happens, doesn't require supernatural knowledge. You could make a lot of guesses, and count on people's tendency to remember the hits and forget the misses. Dion Fortune built her career on that. You could pass on an oral tradition and incorporate new events in a way that seems to the casual observer that they were successfully predicted when they had already happened at the time of the story's revision. You could have a canny enough grasp of current events to be able to discern the long-term results, or understand how history repeats itself (there will be wars and rumors of wars, famines and plagues, Kingdoms coming to ruin, summers and winters, etc.). You could take it on yourself to make sure the events you've predicted actually happen (as I'm about to do). I've not exhausted the non-supernatural possibilities at all.
You could even understand that prophecies aren't necessarily predictions at all, they can be inspirational, or admonitions, a prophecy is supposed to be a message from a deity. Maybe you should start a thread about prophecy if that's what you want to hang your hat on. Anyway, my prophecy came true. 100% accuracy, and it wasn't even in the Bible.
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.