1. No evidence of god.Or Buddha. Or anything else like that. God should be capitalized.
That is possibly the stupidest, worst, and weakest reply I have ever seen to such a simple, strong, and powerufl argument.
that's going into my sig
I have no respect for devout religious folk. I consider them to be fools and have no qualms about saying that. We as people don't need to waste our lives in fruitless worship of possibly existing gods that we get no direct evidence of apart from our own misguided illusions.
The only thing I appreciate of religion is that it has inspired the best architecture mankind has ever produced. That's it.
Your grandma lived because of people who don't waste their lives in nonsensical worship, she lived because people who don't waste time going to church every sunday and instead study for endless years and go on to work in medicine. People who invent the drugs and equipment used in hospitals world over.
But that doesn't explain how god shits on a lot of his own believers (if he even existed).
I know few people who've been very religious. A lot of them tend to pray for their family members when they get ill, and they refuse to go to the doctor because they believe god will heal them.
Even if their like dying.
Now if your god almighty were so omni-potent and always right, then why would he shit on those believers then?
I'll tell you why. Because you believe in a fairytale. God isn't real, because if he were then he wouldn't let those people die.
And this is exactly why I refuse to believe in your god, or any god for that matter.
I'll worship this guy instead, he's bloody right!
Our loving god seems to like beating the shit out of us with natural disasters doesn't he?
First: The book of Job makes mention of a dinasour: The Behemoth. And a dragon: The Leviathon.
Second: You want evidence of God?
How about this:
The sun operates off of atomic fission. It decreases in diameter 2-4 feet-per-hour.
At that rate, about fifty-thousand years ago the earth would have been encased in flame.
We had to have been created less than fifty-thousand years ago.
Hows that?
oh my sweet god, you bloody idiot!
The sun has never encased the world in flames, and will not do so for many billions of years. The sun operates by Hydrogen fusion where Hydrogen nuclei fuse into Helium. This reaction generates immense amounts of energy, this is balanced by the immense pressure created by the stars' immense mass. This is called a state of equillibrium, granted, the sun may oscillate in diameter occasionally, but it has NOT engulfed the earth.
For it to do that it would have to exhaust its supply of hydrogen in the core. This destroys the equillibrium and the helium in the core is compressed. This massive increase in gravity adjacent to the core causes the rate of fusion to drastically increase in the star, which in turn causes the star to expand in diameter to a red giant. at this point it will engulf the earth, and that is several billion years from now.
Another thing, people always piss on Carbon dating as innacurate when they've run out of logical arguments. Carbon dating is very accurate, people much more intelligent and skilled than you or me worked all this out. Carbon 14 atoms are present in all living things courtesy of the process wherby carbon dioxide finds its way into the food chain... It is a radioactive element and has a half life of 5730±40 years. It decays about 14 times per minute. This information has been checked and re-checked by teams of scientists, the guy who came up with the technique won a nobel prize. It's not innacurate nonsense, you don't win nobel prizes for bullshit.
Edited by Calamity_Jones, 30 June 2006 - 03:26 AM.
