RE: Languages
January 13, 2023 at 9:00 am
(This post was last modified: January 13, 2023 at 9:01 am by Fake Messiah.)
(January 13, 2023 at 8:29 am)tjdisc Wrote: The atheist has to explain how thousands of (DISTINCT) languages could have "evolved" or come about naturally in such a short period of time without a god intervening
There are many languages but what YOU mean by DISTINCT remains a mystery. All languages that we have today came from other languages, there is no mystery about it. Like, Spanish came from Latin in a documented fashion because there are books that are something between those languages. Similar is with German and English which are both Germanic languages that are also distinct but somewhat similar because they have the same origins. And inside both German and English languages are other German and English languages because languages constantly evolve. This is why it is hard today for the English person to read Shakespeare because the English language of 400 years ago was different and that is why thousand years in the future people will not understand what we are writing now, and yet there was no god to interfere.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
