Stupid Wonders of the World

lost in transition

Oddly enough, some say they can not have faith to believe in Christ and what the Bible says about him, but they can have faith in carbon 14 dating. With carbon 14 dating if all holds true*, it has a half-life of 5730 years. So its accuracy is limited and can only be used on materials less than 70,000 years old. *This is the part that has to be taken on faith. Assumes that the rate of carbon 14 production has been constant through the past 70,000 years.

God Bless, Jason

Lost User

Which Creation "Science" website did you get that from?

The divinity of Jesus is made a convenient cover for absurdity. - John Adams

lost in transition

Now Red's comment was funny but how would you feel if code-frog's story is true. Do you have kids?

God Bless, Jason

Lost User

No, I don't have kids, I am 17. I was posting that just to see how fast it would disappear.

The divinity of Jesus is made a convenient cover for absurdity. - John Adams

lost in transition

Why?

God Bless, Jason

Lost User

Because I have seen several of them, and they all have scientific "theories" on there that have been completely proven wrong. For instance the one about the magnetic field, or about the sun's size. I think that any supposively scientific information that came from religious websites would be highly suspect at best.

The divinity of Jesus is made a convenient cover for absurdity. - John Adams

lost in transition

How does Carbon-14 dating work?[^] Found by this: Google[^] It sometimes seem that it takes more faith to not have faith in the Bible.

God Bless, Jason

Lost User

Quote: It sometimes seem that it takes more faith to not have faith in the Bible. That might work if there was just one bible, but there are so many religious books with their creation stories that your statement is just ridiculous.

The divinity of Jesus is made a convenient cover for absurdity. - John Adams

lost in transition

give some examples of different books.

God Bless, Jason

Lost User

Uh, the Quran perhaps?

The divinity of Jesus is made a convenient cover for absurdity. - John Adams

lost in transition

How does the story of creation go in the koran?

God Bless, Jason

Lost User

I think it is the same as Genesis. But there is also the QU'RET AL-YEZID that says Satan is the creator of humanity. I think the bottom line is that simple minds look for simple explanations. Believing in God makes eveything easy to understand, and provides a way of coping with death.

The divinity of Jesus is made a convenient cover for absurdity. - John Adams

Red Stateler

I always thought materialism was much easier to understand since it removes metaphysical consideration altogether. Maybe that's what's wrong with atheists. They're just not smart enough.

Lost User

You obviously have a very poor understanding of atheism.

The divinity of Jesus is made a convenient cover for absurdity. - John Adams

Red Stateler

You wish... Atheism is a self-defining word: Without God. Materialism is the extent of the modern atheist's metaphysical beliefs. That is to say...They believe in a lack of metaphysics. So theists deal both in the physical world (i.e. its material attributes) and the metaphysical world (i.e. its unseen spiritual attributes), whereas atheists deal only in the former. The fact that you believe theism creates a more simplified worldview (when it actually adds a very significant layer of complexity) tells me you have a poor understanding of both atheism and theism.

peterchen

envy?

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peterchen

I'm just imagening you bickering if some french tower would have made it :rolleyes:

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Al Beback

Yep, must have been something: Jesus turning into a zombie and nobody freaking out. ;P

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Rama Krishna Vavilala

You got that part right: But Athiesm and Materialism are independent. An athiest may or may not subscribe to the materialistic world view.

Andy Brummer

With the title of the post I thought it was going to be about you. :-D

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