RE: One question for Christians
August 24, 2013 at 9:06 am
(This post was last modified: August 24, 2013 at 9:07 am by Cyberman.)
(August 23, 2013 at 6:44 pm)Statler Waldorf Wrote:(August 20, 2013 at 7:04 pm)Stimbo Wrote: That's what I love about those who try to shoehorn mythology into a scientific context in order to find a justification for convincing themselves and others it's a true representation of history. With one hand they point to a patchwork quilt of garbled scientific facts knitted together haphazardly, trying to rationalise things like the interior capacity of the ark, the number of animals aboard, the source of the floodwater etc; which is all well and good except their other hand clutches an escape rope labelled "God". Try it out - see how far into the rationalisation you can get before they pull that magic rope. We could make it a competition.
This only proves that you’re beat either way.
Really? Well, let's see how you do:
(August 23, 2013 at 6:44 pm)Statler Waldorf Wrote:(August 20, 2013 at 7:49 pm)Stimbo Wrote: Let's just visualise that for a moment. Thousands of wild carnivorous animals ranging from snakes to lions and tigers, all cooped up in an extremely confined space and forced to eat a vegetarian diet - and then in comes Noah and his tasty family. Yep, this was a good plan.
Have you ever even read the Biblical account of the flood? If so, then why are you assuming typical animal behavior tendencies when the account makes it clear the animals’ natural behaviors were altered?
Two sentences; and the first is a preamble leading into the second.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'