Zombie Assassins .::. Halo Gaming Community - Discussion Forum: Debate 10: God

Many orthodox people speak as though it were the business of sceptics to disprove received dogmas rather than of dogmatists to prove them. This is, of course, a mistake. If I were to suggest that between the Earth and Mars there is a china teapot revolving about the sun in an elliptical orbit, nobody would be able to disprove my assertion provided I were careful to add that the teapot is too small to be revealed even by our most powerful telescopes. But if I were to go on to say that, since my assertion cannot be disproved, it is intolerable presumption on the part of human reason to doubt it, I should rightly be thought to be talking nonsense. If, however, the existence of such a teapot were affirmed in ancient books, taught as the sacred truth every Sunday, and instilled into the minds of children at school, hesitation to believe in its existence would become a mark of eccentricity and entitle the doubter to the attentions of the psychiatrist in an enlightened age or of the Inquisitor in an earlier time.

Joshkl2013 wrote:
Also, you can believe in the bible, and evolution too. God said put all the animals on the Arc, but, if you take every specie alive today, the mass wouldn't fit if you put ONE in the Arc, much less TWO.
Animals evolve, plain and simple. For example, if you take a goldfish and breed it in the dark for several generations, It will turn pale and will lose its eyes. There are many proofs of evolution. The human mind evolves also. Every subsequent generation of any animal in a non-constant enviornment will change! And this is one major flaw with the church: they are unwilling to accept evolution, even though the Bible never says it isn't true!
The only difference in 'Christian' evolution is the lack of a belief in the big bang (which I can prove wrong). When compared to that, creationism is much more likely. God created species. These species split into more species. We have evidence of animals going extinct through history. If God created them all, Noah would have needed hundreds of Arcs.

Joshkl2013 wrote:
The Big Bang is incorrect:
Everything "started at a single point of matter." This is false. Matter can neither be created nor destroyed. Some scientists say: "it was created from energy, as energy could turn into matter!" True, but energy cannot be created not destroyed, also. The matter for the big bang HAD to have been created. We know God didn't create this, for Genesis 1:1 says, "God created the Heavens and the Earth."
So, say we have this mass of super dense matter. No bloody clue how it got there, but it's there. It would NOT explode. According to physics, a body at rest stats at rest unless acted on by an outside force. You MUST have an outside force, for it would be constant, for an object that dense could not explode, implode, or create its own energy due to its own enormous gravity. Another "magical matter dot" would have to crash into it.
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