RE: Noah
August 16, 2013 at 12:03 pm
(This post was last modified: August 16, 2013 at 12:04 pm by Simon Moon.)
(August 16, 2013 at 2:23 am)AnaMejiaP Wrote: Your honesty is greatly appreciated. But in my disclaimer "Before I begin" I did state that my views will indeed contradict your world-view. It may seem stupid for you, but it's indeed true to me.
It's not that your views contradict our worldview, they contradict reality.
You are entitled to your own beliefs, but you are not entitled to your own reality, or your own truth.
There is nothing in observable reality that provides any evidence for a global flood. ZERO.
Geology - nothing
Biology - nothing
Hydrology - nothing
Not to mention the death of fresh water fish in salt water, death of corals for the same reason, death of every land plant on the planet, etc, etc.
The list goes on and on...
So, either you are forced to ignore reality in order to retain your literal global flood belief, or you are forced to believe in a god that after causing a global flood (to fix his own mistake), has purposely hid ALL the evidence for said flood.
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
