(November 8, 2014 at 1:47 pm)His_Majesty Wrote: That is Crusade stuff...that has nothing to do with current 11-8-2014 stuff. No one today is getting tortured, beaten, killed, persecuted, etc..for believing in Christianity today. So why the hell is it still the #1 religion by number of followers?
Because it enjoys the luxury of social acceptability and indoctrination, having become so widespread and insistently taught to children because in the beginning it had so much (violent, coercive) help in spreading and staying rooted. In short, the reason so many people believe today is because of an unbroken line of missionaries and crusades and demagogues enshrining the religion into the culture by any means necessary. The one thing you cannot say, with a view to history, is that the reason christianity is so widespread is because of Jesus. He had a lot of extremely underhanded help.
Quote:It was all based on the legacy of just one man..and in that "legacy" includes this man's works.
But that's a very different claim you made originally, that it's all because of Jesus. It's not; if it had just been Jesus I am sure your religion would have been snuffed out quite quickly. Not as if there weren't many more that suffered that fate, and they had no worse information than your god.
Quote:Ok, then I'd like you to make a video refutation of the video of Vilenkin presenting the theorem to an attentive audience at which he repeated demonstrated why the theorem proves that inflationary universes had a beginning.
Until you can do that, please...stop.
No, Vilenkin's theorem, as the theorem literally states as its chief conclusion, only demonstrates that universal inflation has a beginning. Because the theorem only discusses universal inflation, and not the beginnings of the universe.
So, are you lying, or not reading the things posted to you? Because, you know, I quoted the theorem paper verbatim, plus two of the authors saying the opposite of what you said, including in the resource you provided.
Quote: Because dogs produce dogs, cats produce cats, fish produce fish. Have you ever observed any exceptions to this? I will answer for you: No. So why do you believe that the animals of yesterday was able to do something that the animals of today have never been observed to do?
Oh good. Please do make your thread, because you have no clue what evolution is, and smacking you down again will be a pleasure.
Here's a list of transitional fossils for you. Educate yourself: these show the gradual progress of evolution from one species to another, as evolution actually describes. Please learn what you're talking about before speaking on this subject again, and leave your ludicrous creationist fantasies about what evolution is out of the conversation.
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