: Nice job Gideon, but you are wasting your time. Facts, math, and logic are respected by people like this only when these tools can be twisted beyond recognition and selectively ignored to support their absurd biblical beliefs. Right, did you forget the Communist Christ bit, the part where he says "whatever you did for the least of my brothers you did for me" (Matthew 26:40)? Was that also, as you put it, 'absurd'?
May I remind the gentleman that Isaac Newton, Michael Faraday, Robert Hooke, Blaise Pascal, Theodosious Dobzhasnky, Leonhard Euler, Gregor Mendel, and many other fathers of science, logic and mathematics wereall committed practicing Christians? Michael Faraday was a member of an obscure, secretive Christian cult, the Sandemanians. Theodousius D. was a committed Orthodox Christian practivcioner. Gregor Mendel was a monk, for crying out loud.
: I'll wager my life savings that, if this thread were to continue back and forth between the two of you, at about the fifth or sixth exchange this turkey will be backpeddling like crazy with biblical reminders of how our mortal human intellects are worthless (if not dangerous) deterrents to understanding "God" and the Holy Bible. They ALL do this eventually, regardless of what the debate is about.
"They"? "They'? Who is "THEY"? We're using a pretty broad brush here, aren't we?
: They MUST; Thinking is simply incompatible with the Holy Bible (as a map of reality or a book of instruction). Every debate I've ever had with Christians bares this out. Its pathetic.
if you're arguing that everything in the Bible is not literally true, then that's obviously true. But as a book of instruction, I cannot disagree more. You must know about 'liberation theology'?
: It is pretty amusing though to watch them thrash in the water as they are dragged inevitably downstream to the falls and the jagged rocks below. Maybe I'm a little sick, but somehow I never seem to tire of watching this take place.
: Someone should write a book about it. Maybe it would simply be a collection of scientific debates with Christians on a wide variety topics, each final Christian reply being on the order of "Because God said so" or "Science is evil". That'd be a real hoot.
Yeah, right. Do you know where we would be today without the intellect fo farady, that fundamentalist Christian? In the dark, without electric power or generators. that's where.
