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Does Science Agree With the Bible?

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As soon as you own up to your error. I made your error more than clear.
God loves children, Satan wants to kill them. You seem confused, and no verse to back up your latest diobolical slur against God either. Ha
 
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God loves children,satan wants to kill them. You seem confused, and no verse to back up your latest diobolical slur against God either. Ha
I made no slur against God. I merely stated what can be found in the Old Testament. I showed you your error. You are not acting properly. You have lost the right to demand a verse, I suggest that you try reading the Bible or act appropriately.
 
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I made no slur against God. I merely stated what can be found in the Old Testament. I showed you your error. You are not acting properly. You have lost the right to demand a verse, I suggest that you try reading the Bible or act appropriately.
You showed no verse actually. You pass wind.
 
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You showed no verse actually. You pass wind.

Nope, I offered to post it if you could debate honestly. So far you have failed. Using loaded terminology is not an honest debating technique. It tells us that you cannot debate honestly without lying. Your inability to be honest in even this small simple matter makes you the loser once again.
 
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Nope, I offered to post it if you could debate honestly. So far you have failed. Using loaded terminology is not an honest debating technique. It tells us that you cannot debate honestly without lying. Your inability to be honest in even this small simple matter makes you the loser once again.
Much ado about nothing. Whatever it is you have it wrong.
 
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Don't hold up your environmental god to me.
It's not an environment God. It's the reality around you. You know the water that pipes into your house? When its contaminated it's man doing it, not a magic environment fairy. You know the people in Flint, Michigan? Prayer isn't helping them right now.

There's no God involved, just like there isn't a science God. There's no religion involved. Perhaps is religion cared more for it, then we wouldn't be poisoning ourselves.
 
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Please don't tell me you are serious.
Okay I won't.
I thought it was quite obvious to anyone that I was talking about reality that can be experienced. A blind person can still hear, smell, touch, taste...
A blind man cannot see, hear, smell, touch or taste the stars.

Does this mean the stars are not real?
And these experiences can be experienced by others. If a blind person tells me that the liquid he drank is cold, I can also sip it and feel the coldness for myself.
This simply demonstrates that there is more than one way to experience reality.

The blind man only has four working senses and you only have five.

Perhaps five is not enough to experience God, just as four is not enough for the blind man to experience the stars.
It is this testable and verifiable experience that is the hallmark of reality. And it is something that no religion has ever had.
Christianity exists because of testable and verifiable experiences. We Christians preformed the tests and we all experience the same results. This is why we are Christians and not atheists.

You are unable to verify those experiences either because you do not know how to perform the tests or because you do not understand the results.

This would explain why atheism is a minority position, it's because you have a myopic view of reality.
 
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Dad, the fact o f the matter is that Christianity may have been partially responsible for our environmental problems. Historically Christianity took a very dim view of teh material order. It was as something to be put underfoot, something less than holy, a disgraced realm. This was due to the early influx of certain schools of Hellenic metaphysics which viewed the material world of time and change as something inherently evil. At the same time, you had the doctrine of election. True, major fathers such as Calvin argued you really could not tell who were the elect and the reprobate. However, they did believe in signs of election. This came to mean that wealth was a sign of election. in turn, that meant get out there and build, be a real capitalist, pump up industry. You might want t read sometime Weber's "The Protestant Ethic and teh Spirit of Capitalism."
 
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