RE: How to convert Christians to atheists in 30 seconds (ironically, using bible)
December 6, 2016 at 11:05 am
(December 6, 2016 at 10:29 am)Mathilda Wrote: How does this work then?
Magic! The convenient thing about defending a being who is all-powerful and all-knowing is that he can do anything, and admitting that "we don't know" does not qualify as a gap that we can fit science into.
Quote:And more importantly, are all your answers to the questions I have asked in the Bible or did you just make them up because you want to believe in the fantasy?
Until one of these recent threads, I didn't know that the catechism is a way of updating/clarifying the Bible. But it's not an uncommon way to deal with the problems in the Bible. The JWs have a 'governing body' that they claim is endowed with holy spirit so that their interpretations of the Bible can change as a result of god shining "new light" on his ancient holy texts. And it's not unusual for some of those "interpretations" to go into detail that really isn't there. If you thought that an omni-everything god was convenient, imagine an infallible work from that god that can be "reinterpreted" as often and as thoroughly as needed!
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
