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Totally NOT a debate about the veracity of the gospels
RE: Totally NOT a debate about the veracity of the gospels
(March 22, 2014 at 2:53 pm)Deidre32 Wrote:
(March 22, 2014 at 2:38 pm)Pickup_shonuff Wrote: God wasn't invented.

He just co-evolved with human intelligence.

not sure if serious

?? Big Grin

I was being sarcastic. Smile Of course all gods were invented... which is why they get labeled more mysterious as each puzzle of our Universe gets solved.
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Totally NOT a debate about the veracity of the gospels
(March 22, 2014 at 5:10 am)fr0d0 Wrote:
(March 22, 2014 at 4:16 am)Esquilax Wrote: The problem you'll face there is that christian apologetics is the enemy of language, and as deeply wrong as "red and purple are the same color," sounds to you, it'll sound perfectly fine to an apologist or those willing to accept the word of one, simply because to them, words mean whatever they need to in order to preserve the bible.

This is just another one of those things that's only convincing if you let your views be shaped by the evidence, rather than shaping the evidence to fit your views.

And that works both ways of course.

No one has the upper hand on these questions, and nothing annoys me more that people on either side making unfounded claims of superiority.

Right, because you view the fortune cookie, highly interpretable writing of the bible, and the entirety of modern scientific knowledge as holding equivalent weight and truth value.

You take the empirical evidence gathered by science and use it to support your views, and discard it when it doesn't.

There is no debate, there is no contest, save for in the minds of True Believers. A scientific worldview has libraries worldwide, filled with evidence behind it. A biblical worldview has one book, full of errors, poorly translated, and filled with outdated assumptions about the world that have been shown to be wrong repeatedly, demonstratively, and yet you still claim it as immutable truth.
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RE: Totally NOT a debate about the veracity of the gospels
(March 22, 2014 at 3:01 pm)Pickup_shonuff Wrote:
(March 22, 2014 at 2:53 pm)Deidre32 Wrote: not sure if serious

?? Big Grin

I was being sarcastic. Smile Of course all gods were invented... which is why they get labeled more mysterious as each puzzle of our Universe gets solved.


whew ...and yup!
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