Posted on 06/05/2008 8:01:34 PM PDT by blam
“This is an archaeology/antropology thread. Please take your religious comments to a religious thread.”
Thank you blam. Well said.
LOL.. I was going to leave it alone.. but I just gotta ask ya.... if 99.9% of folks believe a LIE does that somehow turn the LIE into TRUTH ??? seriously.... even your so-called science would NEVER say that something is true because x numbers of folks believe it to be so..... having said all that... I will leave it alone... at least on this thread.. anyone care to take this discussion offline I will be more than happy to engage..
FReegards,
David
YEC INTREP
Imelda Stonecracker
Hear hear!
Because God who has created this billions-of-years-old universe is more powerful than he can conceive of. That scares him, so he has to try to chop God down to a size he can imagine.
That's really all creationism is. Fear that God is more powerful and his universe grander than the creationists can imagine.
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Thanks Blam. I didn't check the topic for "soul/sole" jokes, so I'll refrain. For now. |
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“Usually, even a non-Christian knows something about the earth, the heavens, and the other elements of this world, about the motion and orbit of the stars and even their size and relative positions, about the predictable eclipses of the sun and moon, the cycles of the years and seasons, about the kinds of animals, shrubs, stones, and so forth, and this knowledge he holds to as being certain from reason and experience. Now, it is a disgraceful and dangerous thing for an infidel to hear a Christian, presumably giving the meaning of Holy Scripture, talking nonsense on these topics; and we should take all means to prevent such an embarrassing situation, in which people show up vast ignorance in a Christian and laugh it to scorn. The shame is not so much that an ignorant individual is derided, but that people outside the household of the faith think our sacred writers held such opinions, and, to the great loss of those for whose salvation we toil, the writers of our Scripture are criticized and rejected as unlearned men.... Reckless and incompetent expounders of Holy Scripture bring untold trouble and sorrow on their wiser brethren when they are caught in one of their mischievous false opinions and are taken to task by these who are not bound by the authority of our sacred books. For then, to defend their utterly foolish and obviously untrue statements, they will try to call upon Holy Scripture for proof and even recite from memory many passages which they think support their position, although they understand neither what they say nor the things about which they make assertion.”
-Augustine, On the Literal Interpretation of Genesis
FROM AN EMAIL:
Some tourists in the Chicago Museum of Natural History are marveling at the dinosaur bones. One of them asks the guard, “Can you tell me how old the dinosaur bones are?”
The guard replies, “They are 3 million, four years, and six months old.”
“That’s an awfully exact number,” says the tourist. “How do you know their age so precisely?”
The guard answers, “Well, the dinosaur bones were three million years old when I started working here, and that was four and a half years ago.”
[however, stating “40,000” as fact is offensive to ME.]
Hate to break this to you, but almost every astronomical object is a heck of a lot more than 40,000 light years away. That means almost everything you see looking up comes from thousands of times older events than a paltry 6000 years. This is science that no longer even gets debated.
Yeah. But were they gellin?
To God, a minute of his time could be 20 or even 60 million years of our time.
Just have to wait and ask him when we see him.
lighten up. People like you pop in and ruin a perfectly enjoyable thread with that crap.
Dustbunny,
Thanks for your comment and I would agree with you ONLY if you are referring to PRE-CREATION time... IN THE BEGINNING — GOD CREATED THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH -— from the momment God spoke the sun into existence and the made the earth start spinning that began the 24hr DAY as we know it today.. so POST-CREATION a DAY is 24hours PERIOD....
But thanks for sharing
FReegards,
David
aahhhhh the who speed of light thing.... I am no scientist.. but correct me if I am wrong the speed of light depends on atmospheric conditions correct? -— I believe that the speed of light was MUCH FASTER when God spoke the light into exisitence and was SLOWED DOWN to roughly its current rate when the 6 DAY project was complete..
Blam posts interesting anthropolgy articles here so people can learn a thing or two. Do you have to pollute his threads with your garbage? You jsut make FR look like it’s run by a bunch of ignorant goons.
Ignorance is bliss.
doc30,
I don’t have a problem when folks post their opinions — whether I agree with them or not.. — what I take issue with is posting an OPINION as if it were FACT ...
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