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Dinosaurs and the Bible
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which uni?
wow and double wow - although they are both women - maybe that says something
wow and double wow - although they are both women - maybe that says something
That men have a bigger tolerance for stupidness in friends when there's shaggability thrown into the mix? Yup
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A good example of just how old the earth is can be compared to where our oil & coal comes from i.e hundreds of feet below ground & yet coal is made from plant material, how did it get buried so deep in such a short period of time according to the bible ?
Oil is made from microscopic sea creatures even tho it can be found deep beneath the desert or hundreds of miles inland. How does the bible explain this ?
The answer is that the bible was written by scribes who simply had no knowledge of the world around them, they thought that a place called heaven was just above the clouds, the known world was very limited & many continents were totally unknown for centuries after.
How could such people have written anything that can be considered an actual true account of events? Did no greater being not tell them of their mistakes?
How can anyone seriously believe the Earth to be just a few thousand years old when all the evidence is there to be seen in fossils buried for millions of years beneath land which since their demise has been shifted & upheaved thru countless ice ages followed by warm tropical periods just beggars belief
Oil is made from microscopic sea creatures even tho it can be found deep beneath the desert or hundreds of miles inland. How does the bible explain this ?
The answer is that the bible was written by scribes who simply had no knowledge of the world around them, they thought that a place called heaven was just above the clouds, the known world was very limited & many continents were totally unknown for centuries after.
How could such people have written anything that can be considered an actual true account of events? Did no greater being not tell them of their mistakes?
How can anyone seriously believe the Earth to be just a few thousand years old when all the evidence is there to be seen in fossils buried for millions of years beneath land which since their demise has been shifted & upheaved thru countless ice ages followed by warm tropical periods just beggars belief
Oh, that must be how NuLabour came about then......he must like his tests eh
Actually, that is not quite correct, however, what you could say is that, "according to one "interpretation" of the bible all animals and mankind were created on the sixth day."
There is another interpretation that states that man did exist before Adam (it is called the Gap Theory), ie pre Adamic man....this basically comes about by taking into account what other OT books have to say, as Genesis is not the oldest book in the NT, Genesis was written in the 15th Century BC, but the book of Job is quite a bit older, it was written around the 19th Century BC.
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Have you ever noticed Adam is touching up Eve? Awesome, Bible Softcore!
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The Bible is a history book of the Jewish people and is full of fact.
Probably about 0.00001% of it is BS.
I'm also OCUK's biggest atheist.
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How come Adam & Eve have belly buttons in the above painting - were they born as babies? They are depicted as white people, where did black people & Mongol races come from?
Sadly the truth once again is that the artist who painted that picture didn't know any different any more than the authors of the bible did.
Sadly the truth once again is that the artist who painted that picture didn't know any different any more than the authors of the bible did.
Adam and eve could speak to each other.
An elderly man built an ark and rounded up two of each animal.
Jesus was a carpenter who was also a miracle worker.
The bible is a load of ****, i'm not saying there is or isn't a god but the only reason the bible exists is that in the olden days people wanted to worship gods, it was new for the time, creating a following rather than sacrificing people.
It was an oppurtunist in the church making a few bob and creating that following I reckon, the bible isn't particularly well written. The plot doesn't hold together.
But the mass amount of devoted christians aren't the brightest people in the world.
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An elderly man built an ark and rounded up two of each animal.
Jesus was a carpenter who was also a miracle worker.
The bible is a load of ****, i'm not saying there is or isn't a god but the only reason the bible exists is that in the olden days people wanted to worship gods, it was new for the time, creating a following rather than sacrificing people.
It was an oppurtunist in the church making a few bob and creating that following I reckon, the bible isn't particularly well written. The plot doesn't hold together.
But the mass amount of devoted christians aren't the brightest people in the world.
No swearing
Gilly
Have you ever noticed Adam is touching up Eve? Awesome, Bible Softcore!
why is there a baby in the tree?
I find it amusing that people put so much faith in science, and keep using the word "fact" rather than the phrase "latest theory".
Sorry to burst any bubbles out there, but science is NOT about "fact", it's simply about "models of reality".
These models are defined, and then refined, and this is an iterative non-conclusive process as we move closer and closer to understanding how this universe works - and we never will understand it fully, never. The best scientists realise this, the armchair ones do not.
For the record, the official JW stance on dinosaurs the stuff about God creating fossils as a test is GARBAGE. They were created as were other animals. Don't forget that the 6 days to create the earth may not have been *actual* days, but many millions of years, the bible doesn't use a specific time frame (it also has people living to 900+ years old too, putting a doubt on the actual length of a year)
I do find it so frustrating that myths such as these are spread about so many religions (Islam and JWs featuring high on the "load-of-twaddle"-o-meter).
Sorry to burst any bubbles out there, but science is NOT about "fact", it's simply about "models of reality".
These models are defined, and then refined, and this is an iterative non-conclusive process as we move closer and closer to understanding how this universe works - and we never will understand it fully, never. The best scientists realise this, the armchair ones do not.
For the record, the official JW stance on dinosaurs the stuff about God creating fossils as a test is GARBAGE. They were created as were other animals. Don't forget that the 6 days to create the earth may not have been *actual* days, but many millions of years, the bible doesn't use a specific time frame (it also has people living to 900+ years old too, putting a doubt on the actual length of a year)
I do find it so frustrating that myths such as these are spread about so many religions (Islam and JWs featuring high on the "load-of-twaddle"-o-meter).
It's the serpent.
You didn't expect the master of evil and deception to actually appears as a SNAKE did you???
I notice Bill Hicks is playing a large part in Christian peoples answers to the evidence of dinosaurs. I'd post a link to the youtube video but it contains swearing, if you are interested search for "it all seemed so plausible, bill hicks".
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I've read it a couple of times and people are missing the point of it.
It is only modern day interpretation that confuses people.
As for the plot not holding together - well it was a collection of scrolls and writings from the time, collated. I view it more historically than trying to make sense of it in modern reality, only religiots and churches do so.
It is only modern day interpretation that confuses people.
As for the plot not holding together - well it was a collection of scrolls and writings from the time, collated. I view it more historically than trying to make sense of it in modern reality, only religiots and churches do so.
Sorry if my comments about JW has frustrated you, but, i can honestly say its what my workmate told me, he is an very active JW but maybe its just his personal opinion or understanding of it...