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Any evidence that there is a "spiritual" dimension that exists apart from nature/reality?
Yes. Of course. All human experience and history since ever there was a man on earth.
Any supporting evidence for your concept of a "merged universe"?
It fits all evidences and God's word. What more could anyone dream of asking for??

You don't understand where the burden of proof lies, do you?
Yes. On you! If you claim science knows, pony up. Otherwise we all just believe.
If you're going to claim that things were different in the past - that the natural physical constants of the universe had different properties - then you need to back up that claim.
That is what the record indicates in Scripture. Just as the future will be different. Science can't back it up or not.

Multiple variable speed of light hypothesis have been proposed since 1907, but none of them provide a better explanation of the evidence and none have withstood testing.
No. That would just be tweaking our present nature, rather than having a different nature.
All the available evidence points to the natural physical constants being either fixed or subject to incredibly slow amounts of change.
In simple English, for those not too familiar with science and how it works, let me simplify that for you. In other words you view all things with a belief--all evidence.


For example, a 2012 study - reacting to a 2010 paper that proposed shifting fundamental constants - showed that over the last 7 billion years, the ratio of the mass of the proton to the electron changed by 0.000001%.
Absurd fiction. Show us the basis for this claim. That is a pile of beliefs on top of a foundation of a fable, stacked up with a pile of assumptions based on the beliefs!
Studies in 2002 and 2004 showed that rates of radioactive decay have exhibited no change over the past 370,000 years.
Religion only. Show the basis.
Another study that the fine structure contstant has exhibited only a change in 1 part per 100 billion over that past 12.6 billion years.
All based on belief only. 100%. Nothing else at all. I kid you not.
Given that the universe is ~13.74 billion,
No, that is not a given, it is a foolish fable. You assume time is the same as we go away from earth for example. One cannot set eternity and the universe even, to earth time!

Try to get this..the presence your believes does not mean the absence of God's truth.
 
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He has been observing how long exactly!!?? Did you think nature changed fundamentally each week?? It would have changed long before there was any science.

Considering that the Earth is supposedly only 6,000 years old, it can't have changed that long before, can it? I think perhaps people would have noticed in gravity changed suddenly. It would either have sent the Earth spiraling in towards the sun, or out into a "higher" orbit. Not to mention buildings falling down.
 
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It is strange that every time I hear claims about "God says", I always see a person's mouth moving.

Dad cannot tell the difference between "God says," and what comes out of his own mouth anymore. They are one-in-the-same to him.
 
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Okay, I watched some of your video - not the whole thing, but I'll explain why. I'm going to give you some of my opinion, just from an aesthetic point of view - I used to do video work myself. Take this as you like, just know that it has nothing to do with my opinion of your views, but the way you present them.

Your voice is extremely boring. Maybe it's just the way you talk, but you lack emotion, and it honestly doesn't sound like you care all that much about the ideas your espousing - it really sounds like you're half-asleep, and rambling. If I had to give any advice, I'd suggest working on a tighter script, because it felt like you were saying in eight minutes what should really take only two. If you didn't have a script, I'd suggest writing one. Download celtx, it's a good script-writing program.

Your pictures are just random, which is silly - the pictures you're showing should have at least something to do with what you're talking about, and sometimes they seem to, but other times they seem almost randomly chosen, and show a few of them multiple times. Maybe some animations? Maybe show your face and intersperse with the pictures?

At any rate, and again, just my brutal opinion here - it's not very well done, and I'm not sure why you bothered, because it's basically the same thing you usually post here, only delivered in a monotonous voice with random pictures.
 
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They did not know what all that was did they, in Noah's day? They did notice a lot though, and all that I see that was noticed is noticably different than what we notice. This is what you need to notice.

Except there are many miraculous occurrences in the Bible that come after that point, which are also very different from what we see today. Why did this change happen once and then miraculous things kept happening anyway?

Great. So?

I was pointing out that it was ironic and hypocritical for the guy with the Buddhist icon to make anti-religion comments.
 
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Okay, I watched some of your video - not the whole thing, but I'll explain why. I'm going to give you some of my opinion, just from an aesthetic point of view - I used to do video work myself. Take this as you like, just know that it has nothing to do with my opinion of your views, but the way you present them.

Your voice is extremely boring. Maybe it's just the way you talk, but you lack emotion, and it honestly doesn't sound like you care all that much about the ideas your espousing - it really sounds like you're half-asleep, and rambling. If I had to give any advice, I'd suggest working on a tighter script, because it felt like you were saying in eight minutes what should really take only two. If you didn't have a script, I'd suggest writing one. Download celtx, it's a good script-writing program.

Your pictures are just random, which is silly - the pictures you're showing should have at least something to do with what you're talking about, and sometimes they seem to, but other times they seem almost randomly chosen, and show a few of them multiple times. Maybe some animations? Maybe show your face and intersperse with the pictures?

At any rate, and again, just my brutal opinion here - it's not very well done, and I'm not sure why you bothered, because it's basically the same thing you usually post here, only delivered in a monotonous voice with random pictures.

Valid points. However the powerful truth and content of what is being said warrants that it be said in a low budget way. It gets the basic points across that defeat science!
 
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Except there are many miraculous occurrences in the Bible that come after that point, which are also very different from what we see today. Why did this change happen once and then miraculous things kept happening anyway?
Obviously God was still alive and working and the normal nature could be overridden as needed. The issue is what the nature was...not whether God can override it!

I was pointing out that it was ironic and hypocritical for the guy with the Buddhist icon to make anti-religion comments.
Oh. OK. so I'll leave you two duke it out then.
 
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Why does so called science manufacture antiChrist fables so much?

Show me ANY scientific theory that even makes mention of your religious fantasies, let alone attempts to disprove them....
 
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However the powerful truth and content of what is being said warrants that it be said in a low budget way

That makes absolutely no sense.

It has nothing to do with your budget - I have a similar program on my computer, and I was able to make far superior videos. And I was just talking about comic books.

You simply didn't put any effort into the video. That's the blunt truth of it, I'm sorry. I can tell the difference between a video that was made by someone who has pride in their work, and something someone slapped together in an hour. Yours reeks of the latter.
 
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Most atheist here are agnostic atheists, as far as I'm aware, and don't claim that god does not exist.

Most atheists on this forum are not agnostic -- in fact, most are openly and aggressively hostile to Christianity.

By endorsing the myth that science and religion are incompatible, these people do great harm to science. Indeed, in the USA, people like the atheists on this forum have created a situation where the (mostly Christian) population no longer believes anything scientists say, even in the 99.99% of cases where they're right.

Conversely, there are some other people here who carry a "Christian" icon but who do great harm to Christianity (you know who you are).

What seems to unite the two extreme groups is a shared hatred for the "middle ground" -- for scientists who are Christian, for theistic evolutionists, etc. :sigh:
 
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