RE: Atheism and the existence of peanut butter
September 18, 2021 at 2:07 pm
(This post was last modified: September 18, 2021 at 2:08 pm by Fake Messiah.)
(September 18, 2021 at 1:47 pm)Klorophyll Wrote: A black hole is a region of spacetime AFAIK. A region in a finite realm (the spacetime/universe) can't be eternal. Simply put, black holes can't have formed more than 14 billions years ago, which is roughly the age of the universe.
And how do you know that "nothingness" out of which the universe came out also wasn't part of something else, where some were processes happening - just like with the black hole - that triggered its end so that it transforms into something else?
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"