RE: Jesus’ Failed Prophecy About His Return
January 15, 2019 at 4:29 am
(This post was last modified: January 15, 2019 at 5:18 am by Fake Messiah.)
(January 15, 2019 at 2:16 am)Godscreated Wrote: There are no facts for the big bang nor evolution, just a bunch of rumors, live with it it's the truth.
GC
Big bang is a model people use to explain facts like why galaxies we can see are moving away from us (the universe is expanding) and photons from this cosmic microwave background among other.
Similar with evolution: it is a model which is used to explain facts like why some organisms are similar to others, yet different enough that they have alternative lifestyles and do not interbreed (zebras are similar to horses, for example). The second fact is that humans have modified many organisms -- flowering plants, dogs and so on -- by selecting individuals to breed with one another in order to emphasize specific features. If humans can cause such changes to occur over the generations, natural processes can too.
The third fact is why fossil record is layered as it is (like you will never find a human and a dinosaur together) and why it shows how living things changed over time leading into beings that live today. The fourth fact is that change over the generations has been observed in laboratory and natural settings. Scientists have observed generational changes in microscopic organisms and also in insects, fish, mice, lizards and birds. In some cases, the changes have been significant enough that we can probably talk about witnessing the origin of a new species. Fifth fact is the genetic similarity.
On the other hand stories in the Bible or any other creation myth have nothing to say about these facts. So try to understand that evolution and big bang are results that came from observing the facts, while stories like creation in the Bible are made up without looking into any facts.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
