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  1. opaltiger

    Religion and Lack of Religion

    Phantom's post clearly shows the contradiction, so I'll drop this. You're using parts of the Bible to "independently" verify the Bible. Forgive me if I am not convinced. Maybe you could actually name some of these. It did in the next century, though. The Bible's had two thousand years and...
  2. opaltiger

    Religion and Lack of Religion

    Genesis 2:5-7 imply that there is no life on Earth before Adam, though I grant you it doesn't specify about animals. It definitely confirms that plants came after Adam, though, which contradicts Genesis 1. You can't just say things like "independently observed and verified many times over". I...
  3. opaltiger

    Religion and Lack of Religion

    Genesis 1 says God created other animals before Adam. Genesis 2 says God created Adam before other animals. I'm not sure how you can possibly explain that, and surely the Creation is one of the things you'd really hope the Bible would get right. You seem to be implying the Bible has the same...
  4. opaltiger

    Religion and Lack of Religion

    It's interesting that you see this as a point against science. Of course science is always changing - it's always changing because we are always learning new things. Do you think the Bible is so universal that, in the last 2000 years of human history, it hasn't needed to be changed in any way...
  5. opaltiger

    Religion and Lack of Religion

    I see your point, but Intelligent Design isn't old enough for people to have grown up with it. Creationism in general, yes, but not Intelligent Design.
  6. opaltiger

    Religion and Lack of Religion

    I'm not sure 'merely' is a word that should be used here. It is an internet trend in the sense that the internet facilitates the kind of research that might lead one to question the faith they were brought up with, and it's a meme in the sense that any semi-cohesive group of people with...
  7. opaltiger

    Religion and Lack of Religion

    Except it's the Pope who's saying that condoms cause AIDS. So you can argue that that's him using religion as an excuse to do evil, but where exactly is the line between the head of an organisation doing evil things and the organisation itself doing evil things? I see your point in general, but...
  8. opaltiger

    Religion and Lack of Religion

    All your previous knowledge is based on observations made about the universe. Those observations are utterly meaningless in a pre-Big Bang reality. Thus, there is absolutely no reason why "the universe has always existed" or "the universe spontaneously came into being" should, as you put it...
  9. opaltiger

    Religion and Lack of Religion

    Deism doesn't really avoid any of the rational arguments that can be brought against theism, though. I mean, sure, you don't have to answer questions like "why is there evil?" but you've still got to account for the existence of your Architect in the first place.
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