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RE: Why is there no mention of dinosaurs in the great book?
December 6, 2013 at 10:25 am
Is there a god out there who ever thought to write a book that was clear and easy to understand?
"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."
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RE: Why is there no mention of dinosaurs in the great book?
December 6, 2013 at 10:29 am
Is there a god out there?
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RE: Why is there no mention of dinosaurs in the great book?
December 6, 2013 at 2:24 pm
That's what she said.
"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."
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RE: Why is there no mention of dinosaurs in the great book?
December 6, 2013 at 4:11 pm
Asses are mentioned 120 time, dogs 41 times.
There are 33 different kinds of birds mentioned.
Ox, sheep, goats mentioned numerous times.
Yet, the many species of dino not mentioned even once. No raptor attacks, no reports of Argentinosaurus trampling houses, no mentions of pterosaurs swooping down to steel children...
Bill Hicks has some pretty funny things to say about this -
"And O, Jesus and the disciples walked to Nazareth. But the trail was blocked by a giant brontosaurus... with a splinter in its paw. And the disciples did run a-screamin'. "What a big fucking lizard, Lord!"
"I'm sure gonna mention this in my book," Luke said.
"Well, I'm sure gonna mention it in my book," Matthew said.
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
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RE: Why is there no mention of dinosaurs in the great book?
December 6, 2013 at 6:08 pm
Seems Simon Moon has the answer, but unfortunately didn't realize it. There are many animals that are not mentioned in scriptures, why, they were not relevant to the people of the Bible. Mystery solved.
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RE: Why is there no mention of dinosaurs in the great book?
December 6, 2013 at 6:45 pm
Ryantology beat me to it. We had 30-40 ft. tall Tyrannosaurs walking around eating everything in sight, and they weren't relevant enough to be mentioned? Not to mention huge-ass seismosaurs walking around literally shaking the earth with every step, and they weren't notable enough to be mentioned in the bible just once?
If Jesus had just killed one of those, he wouldn't have needed to miracle a bunch of loaves and fishes to feed the masses.
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