FelixHft
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11 years ago @ http://onthebox.us/ - Words of Comfort: Copy... · 0 replies · +15 points
Let me fix that for you.
"Have you ever noticed how billions of people have different faces, and yet it's all caused by genetic variation of inherited traits. And some people are just too insecure, deluded, ignorant or dull to accept the correct answer and instead pick simple, ancient myths."
Ray, what do you tell someone who was born with a deformed face, someone who never leaves his home because people stare and mock him? Do you tell him that God did an amazing job? What about the woman whose face gets eaten away by flesh-eating bacteria, fine-tuned by a loving creator?
Oh, I know that the pat apologist answer is "it's sin's fault" or "Satan did that". If that's your answer, please explain how exactly this sin mechanism works, how it switches around genes or combines molecules into new information.
Don't you sometimes think how strange it is that human scientists using completely non-magical and precisely defined methods are making such progress dealing with more and more of these problems, more and more effectively each year? While all the old incantations, blood sacrifices and substance blessings are still doing absolutely nothing beyond being placebos?
A reasonable person would understand that "worship God" is beyond doubt one of the types of behavior least corresponding to reality.
11 years ago @ http://onthebox.us/ - Today’s Show Not... · 0 replies · +9 points
11 years ago @ http://onthebox.us/ - Today’s Show Not... · 0 replies · +7 points
Is it "Hebrew"?
11 years ago @ http://onthebox.us/ - Words of Comfort: What... · 0 replies · +4 points
Second, they would excavate your surroundings, and through the differences in the sediments, they would know if there was a burial within older substances that were shoveled over your corpse, or slid there in an earthquake or similar. There are books on how to date sediments, and how to examine paleontological findings. It's not like millions of scientists working all across the globe for centuries have just missed these "gotcha" questions that creationists think are so brilliant.
11 years ago @ http://onthebox.us/ - Words of Comfort: What... · 0 replies · +5 points
11 years ago @ http://onthebox.us/ - Words of Comfort: Why ... · 0 replies · +10 points
On the last page of the book, they read the last message of an extinct race:
He will never leave us, He promised, He gave us warmth and light, and instructed us to pray thousands of years ago. All his prophets confirmed this, century after century. They did not lie, for they wrote scripture for all aeons, confirming that no lie is in their heart, and in the light of His wisdom they bathed, and so they wrote, and so we knew the Word and the Law to trust.
We have faith.
We'll be warm forever.
The faithless, the scoffers, the sinners have given in to their spiritual denial and blindness. They've left to settle other worlds. This one is doomed, they said. But we know better. We'll stay warm, for we trust His word.
We'll be warm.
12 years ago @ Jewish Daily Forward - Germany Debates Propos... · 0 replies · +12 points
12 years ago @ Jewish Daily Forward - Germany Debates Propos... · 0 replies · +9 points
12 years ago @ http://onthebox.us/ - Today’s Show Not... · 0 replies · +1 points
12 years ago @ http://onthebox.us/ - Today’s Show Not... · 0 replies · +1 points