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RE: A few questions to atheists
February 28, 2014 at 10:36 am
I had the circle conversation with some JWs. They would say it's round. I would say 'yeah, but it's flat'. They would say 'but it's round!'
If someone goes up to a mountaintop and looks around, the world looks like a disk. They were just reporting what they could see.
And if getting some things right counts for the Bible, getting things wrong must count against it. You can't have it just one way. The sky is not a firmament and the stars aren't lights set into it, and the stars can never 'fall out' of the sky. For starters.
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RE: A few questions to atheists
February 28, 2014 at 10:43 am
(February 28, 2014 at 7:38 am)JesusLover1 Wrote: http://www.reasons.org/articles/articles...-the-bible
http://www.bible.ca/b-prophecy-60.htm
I admit these made me chuckle. The Bible made predictions that the Bible confirms happened, therefore the Bible is true!
"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: A few questions to atheists
February 28, 2014 at 1:11 pm
(February 28, 2014 at 12:57 pm)LostLocke Wrote: The part I always find funny...
Hebrews call the earth a circle. Sure, you could stretch circle to mean 'circular' which would include spheres.
But... the Greeks actually called the earth a sphere and gave us its circumference to boot, fairly accurate too with the limited technology they had.
Using that alone would put the Greek gods above the Hebrew gods. 
But you shouldn't - use that alone that is:
The ancient Greeks gave us democracy, theatre, sports, mathematics, literature, architecture, art, sculpture, philosophy, geometry and that's just off the top of my head.
Meanwhile with the benefit of an almighty God the Jews from that period gave us......a book and er......unleavened bread.
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RE: A few questions to atheists
February 28, 2014 at 9:12 pm
(February 28, 2014 at 1:11 pm)max-greece Wrote: Meanwhile with the benefit of an almighty God the Jews from that period gave us......a book and er......unleavened bread.
Ahh but don't forget! The bible gave us magical cannibalism rituals and blood drinking, as well as talking snakes, asses, and fire bushes. The bible also tells us of cockatrices(a cross between a chicken and a hypnotic rattlesnake), Satyrs ( horned and horney 1/2 man 1/2 goat), and Dragons. The Greeks can't even hope to match the pure stupidity of the christians.
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