XPost: alt.atheism, alt.agnosticism, sci.skeptic   
   XPost: alt.christnet   
   From: sylvia@not.at.this.address   
      
   On 18/07/2014 8:15 AM, mur@.not. wrote:   
   > On Wed, 09 Jul 2014 11:10:02 +1000, Sylvia Else    
   > wrote:   
   > .   
   >> On 9/07/2014 2:03 AM, mur@.not. wrote:   
   >>> On Thu, 03 Jul 2014 10:49:04 +1000, Sylvia Else    
   >>> wrote:   
   >>> .   
   >>>> On 3/07/2014 1:26 AM, mur@.not. wrote:   
   >>>>> On Sat, 28 Jun 2014 11:27:51 -0400, James <1rilu2@windstream.net> wrote:   
   >>>>> .   
   >>>>>> Bob Casanova    
   >>>>>>> On Thu, 26 Jun 2014 13:38:54 -0400, the following appeared   
   >>>>>>> in sci.skeptic, posted by James <1rilu2@windstream.net>:   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>> Bob Casanova    
   >>>>>>>>> On Wed, 25 Jun 2014 10:05:32 -0400, the following appeared   
   >>>>>>>>> in sci.skeptic, posted by James <1rilu2@windstream.net>:   
   >>>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>>> mur@.not.   
   >>>>>>>>>>>       For how long have atheists been begging for and demanding   
   "evidence" of   
   >>>>>>>>>>> God's existence? For quite a while, we know that. Yet when   
   challenged to try to   
   >>>>>>>>>>> explain WHAT sort of evidence they think "should be" where, they   
   can't even   
   >>>>>>>>>>> address the challenge. When challenged to explain WHERE the   
   supposed evidence   
   >>>>>>>>>>> "should be" they again are helpless. When challenged to explain   
   WHY it "should   
   >>>>>>>>>>> be" to God's benefit to provide us with it AGAIN they have no clue   
   at all what   
   >>>>>>>>>>> they think they think, or even what they want other people to   
   think they think   
   >>>>>>>>>>> they think. It is certainly a sad sad thing that within this   
   entire group of   
   >>>>>>>>>>> atheists none of their small minds can answer these questions, nor   
   can they as a   
   >>>>>>>>>>> group figure out what they think they're trying to talk about. Why   
   is it sad?   
   >>>>>>>>>>> Because it would be interesting to learn what they thought they   
   were trying to   
   >>>>>>>>>>> talk about IF they had any idea themselves. We've seen that they   
   don't.   
   >>>>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>>> They are stubborn rascals. When a true scientist looks at evidence,   
   he   
   >>>>>>>>>> will accept any logical evidence seen, whether or not it agrees with   
   >>>>>>>>>> his personal beliefs.   
   >>>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>> Wrong. A scientist will evaluate any objective evidence,   
   >>>>>>>>> *especially* evidence which will help to refute current   
   >>>>>>>>> theory; that's how scientists become famous. Note the word   
   >>>>>>>>> "objective", which eliminates personal testimony and   
   >>>>>>>>> untestable claims in religious texts.   
   >>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>> Yes, some scientists think more of their reputation than being   
   >>>>>>>> truthful about their evidence. That is unfortunate.   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> Missed the part about "objective evidence", huh? No problem;   
   >>>>>>> most believers do.   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> They don't go that way when they have a reputation to maintain.   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>> Not all claims of religious text are untestable. For instance,   
   >>>>>>>> archeology has many times supported the Bible's 'claims'.   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> Even a stopped clock is right twice a day. That aside, any   
   >>>>>>> book of myths contains some truths. Several of the stories   
   >>>>>>> about actual places have been confirmed (or were already   
   >>>>>>> known); it's the claims which involve actions by deities   
   >>>>>>> which haven't been.   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> Most of what you say are the miracles. I can't prove them, and you   
   >>>>>> can't disprove them. They are sitting in the history books.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>        One of the very basic starting lines that atheists can't get as   
   "far" as is   
   >>>>> the fact that if God does exist and did the things that are recorded in   
   the   
   >>>>> Bible, then ALL of those things are evidence of what he did. Even if God   
   doesn't   
   >>>>> exist and did none of those things the written accounts are still   
   evidence, but   
   >>>>> in that case they're false evidence. I have known some of these stupid   
   clowns to   
   >>>>> hilariously try to deny that false evidence exists at all, in their   
   maniacal   
   >>>>> desperation to deny all evidence.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>>> But atheists are apparently a different breed.   
   >>>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>> Nope, they have the exact same requirements - objective   
   >>>>>>>>> evidence.   
   >>>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>>> They will only accept evidence that doesn't interfere with their   
   >>>>>>>>>> personal beliefs.   
   >>>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>> My IronyMeter has started to smoke...   
   >>>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>> Tell the group again why the overwhelming scientific   
   >>>>>>>>> evidence regarding such issues as evolution is rejected by   
   >>>>>>>>> many believers?   
   >>>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>> Because the fossil record is more in line with the Bible, than that   
   >>>>>>>> pathetic theory of macroevolution.   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> That's ridiculous. The fossil record, among other things,   
   >>>>>>> shows that the Earth is over 4 billion years old, and that   
   >>>>>>> plant and animal populations have only existed for   
   >>>>>>> approximately half a billion years, *and* that they have   
   >>>>>>> changed multiple times over that period, with no species   
   >>>>>>> lasting more than a few million years. And in contradiction   
   >>>>>>> to the Bible, the existence of the sun preceded that of the   
   >>>>>>> Earth by many millions of years, as did the stars ("And He   
   >>>>>>> made the stars also").   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> Nonsense. Genesis 1 :1 shows when the sun was made. Ge 1:1,   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." (NIV)   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> Thus in verse 1 the sun is shining brightly in the heavens. Since the   
   >>>>>> order here is "heavens" and then the earth, the earth was created   
   >>>>>> after the heavens. If you have any more questions about the early   
   >>>>>> chapters of Genesis, just ask.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>        Some of the seqeunces don't go along with reality though. For   
   example if I'm   
   >>>>> not mistaken it was written that plants were created before the stars,   
   when in   
   >>>>> fact the stars existed long before plants on this planet or even the   
   planet   
   >>>>> itself. That doesn't mean there still couldn't be truth to it, but it   
   does mean   
   >>>>> that how it could be true is not clear to us.   
   >>>>> . . .   
   >>>>>> Since God created each life form full and complete on the spot,   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>        Not necessarily. To me it seems obvious that if God did control   
   the   
   >>>>> development of life on Earth he made great use of the evolutionary   
   method. But   
   >>>>> he did it deliberately and not randomly which is the way things appear   
   to have   
   >>>>> gone, unlike just entirely by random chance as atheists would like us to   
   >>>>> believe. I've noticed that as they try to argue in favor of that   
   situation they   
   >>>>> also try to deny it at the same time, acting like it was random, but   
   somehow at   
   >>>>> the same time not random.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>> there   
   >>>>>> would not be the millions of transitional life forms needed to satisfy   
   >>>>>> that theory, there would be none.   
   >>>>>   
      
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