NASA and the missing day
January 20, 2015 at 9:08 am
(This post was last modified: January 20, 2015 at 9:11 am by Mudhammam.)
So yesterday my shaman-friend a.k.a. "weed guy" stopped by to show me his "rig" for smoking oil, or "dabs." After we got sufficiently high, we somehow got on the topic of Neil deGrasse Tyson, since my friend really enjoys "Cosmos," and from there, discussed the scientific method, which naturally, of course, digressed to the topic of religion. My friend was telling me that he's a Christian, and when I appeared skeptical, he offered the "story" of "critic" Josh McDowell who set out to disprove the faith and couldn't do so, becoming a popular name in evangelical households for his defense of Christian theology! Of course, I'm semi-familiar with McDowell's shtick (I once personally spoke with him in fact --- not bragging), and raised some of my general concerns with treating the Bible as history. My friend replied with this argument I had never heard before, about scientists discovering a "missing day" using information derived from star light that coincided with the tale of God causing the sun to stand still in Joshua. Obviously, I knew this was bullshit but decided to investigate the matter. Incredibly, a quick Google search revealed that even creationist websites seem to acknowledge this "urban legend." Here's a quick summary of it: http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl...ng_day.htm
Why do so many believers need to lie to the less informed to try to make their faith sound reasonable? At least a more honest approach, though no less flawed, would be something like Kierkegaard suggested, that the faith is so ridiculous no human being would have ever conjured it up.
Why do so many believers need to lie to the less informed to try to make their faith sound reasonable? At least a more honest approach, though no less flawed, would be something like Kierkegaard suggested, that the faith is so ridiculous no human being would have ever conjured it up.
He who loves God cannot endeavour that God should love him in return - Baruch Spinoza
