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Why can't science detect angels and demons?

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Why can't science detect angels and demons?
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Why can't science detect angels and demons?
February 19, 2013 at 11:27 pm
Christians of today are veering away from the angels and demons found in their storybook, not to mention even cockatrices. Why can't science detect these? Why haven't we found Cockatrice skeletons? Why can't science detect the demons inside people today that the church still yet exorcises?
If angels walk among us, at so many pastors claim, why can't atheists detect them? What "magic" do they use to hide themselves and why?

Why won't demons and devils show their face and prove to us their supernatural power? What do they have to lose in doing so? Why would they delight in torturing us when we don't tow god's lines? Aren't they fighting against god?
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RE: Why can't science detect angels and demons?
February 20, 2013 at 12:14 am
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RE: Why can't science detect angels and demons?
February 20, 2013 at 12:23 am (This post was last modified: February 20, 2013 at 12:27 am by Darth.)
Quote: How would an physical angel or demon differ from anyone else? What would "science" look for?

Don't seraphim have 6 wings? (isaiah 6)
Don't the cherubim have 4 faces? A cherub, a man, lion and eagle. (eziekiel 10)
Daniel 10 has a rather weird angel.
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RE: Why can't science detect angels and demons?
February 20, 2013 at 12:36 am
If they showed themselves, then the snakeoil salesman would be out of business.
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RE: Why can't science detect angels and demons?
February 20, 2013 at 12:42 am
Quote:Why won't demons and devils show their face and prove to us their supernatural power?

Well, they are shy.
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RE: Why can't science detect angels and demons?
February 20, 2013 at 12:51 am
Brakeman did you really expect a good answere here by a theist or are you simply [Image: t15133.gif]
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RE: Why can't science detect angels and demons?
February 20, 2013 at 12:55 am (This post was last modified: February 20, 2013 at 1:02 am by Drich.)
(February 20, 2013 at 12:23 am)Stue Denim Wrote:
Quote: How would an physical angel or demon differ from anyone else? What would "science" look for?

Don't seraphim have 6 wings? (isaiah 6)
Don't the cherubim have 4 faces? A cherub, a man, lion and eagle. (eziekiel 10)
Daniel 10 has a rather weird angel.
Are all angels cherubim or seraphim?
In Hebrews 13 we are told some angels (the ones sent to interact with us day to day) look like everyone else. This would be consistant with the angels that even visited Lot in sodom.
(February 20, 2013 at 12:51 am)The Germans are coming Wrote: Brakeman did you really expect a good answere here by a theist or are you simply [Image: t15133.gif]

How is my answer not an awesome answer? It take what is recorded in the bible and what 'science' claims and seamlessly puts them together. The only thing that has to be sacrificed or left behind is a juvenile/Hollywood understanding of how science and the bible must remain separate.
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RE: Why can't science detect angels and demons?
February 20, 2013 at 1:09 am
You lost me the moment you bastardised Shakespeare.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist.  This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair.  Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second.  That means there's a situation vacant.'
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RE: Why can't science detect angels and demons?
February 20, 2013 at 1:28 am
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RE: Why can't science detect angels and demons?
February 20, 2013 at 1:44 am (This post was last modified: February 20, 2013 at 1:50 am by Cyberman.)
I'm not even going to get into a pointless argument over what "Billy" (Mr Shakespeare to you) may or may not have written. Any red herring you choose to follow on that point is of your own throwing.

Oh, and as for my being a "man of faith" - you can go off people, you know.
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At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist.  This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair.  Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second.  That means there's a situation vacant.'
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