Recent content by Qingu

Are you thinking of the Enuma Elish? To the OP: The question actually makes an unfounded assumption -- that the universe was, in fact, "created." If time and space are the same thing, then that means time is essentially the same as distance. This means that there is no reason to believe...

The Word of God is a priori knowledge, eh? Care to list the descendents of Adam without looking at your Bible? I think you are lying to yourself.

You are also going to have to define "deliberate, reasoned intentionality." It is not even clear, from the perspective of the Universe, that there is such a thing as causation. Time is a dimension just like space is. If there is no such thing as "before" and "after," as several credible...

Entropy does not mean disorder. I think this thread is a joke anyway.

What is the Law of Entropy? Is it something you have made up? The laws of thermodynamics deal with heat, not order, complexity or lack thereof. Try again (or better yet, read a science textbook and then try again).

Actually the photons of light do not age (from their perspective) because they do not move through time. Things which move at the speed of light do not move through time. However, that is irrellevent and I am pretty sure this is not what you meant.... We know the speed of light from...

Actually there is quite a bit of Biblical evidence (as well as intertextual) that Yahweh was not omnipotent. He was, rather, a usurper, who came onto the scene after defeating Rahab and Leviathan in a primeval battle. Nowhere in the Bible does it say Yahweh creates ex nihilo -- he starts off...

"Word of God" "Transformation" You are getting these ideas from the Bible, which you depend on induction to read. Your argument is circular. Of course it is. It's contingent on logic being true, among several other presuppositions.

Another way to look at relativity is that "distance" and "time" are defined by the speed of light, not the other way around (since the speed of light is constant, and distance and time are not constant).

You use induction when you read the Bible. You read a translation; the translation process, from one language to another, uses induction. Even if you read the original manuscript, you had to learn the original language -- that also takes induction. I am unaware of any non-contigent truths...

I'm surprised there are not more presuppositional apologists on here. I had thought that it was the last bastion of Christian apologetics.

There are assumptions that go into everything we try to evaluate, such as "no fairies tampered with this rock." I would say that radiometric dating makes no meaninful positive assumption (such as "fairies did tampered with this rock") Individual radiometric isotope tests have known errors. The...

I don't think there is a purpose of morality. I don't think life has a purpose. From the Universe's perspective we are just specks of dust. From God's perspective we are his playthings that he predestines to heaven or hell for his whims (i.e. for his glory). Morality is a human invention...

Explain how you can read and understand the Bible without logic and induction.

You'd be surprised how far Christians will go in their denial of the fundamental laws of physics, Grachus. I've talked to creationists who argued that God sped the light up ... then, when I retorted with various reasons why that would be even more impossible, just said the refrain "God is...