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Explain the Mystery Religion

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Men wrote and preserved The Scriptures.
 
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...And people with no answers just continue posting in this thread because ___________________
You tell us, you think you have all the answers, not that you've given any to us.

Fooling others is easy, [Kent Hovind and the gang are testament to that] it only becomes hard when you try to fool yourself.

Telling a creationist that their wrong is only rubbing salt into their wounds because they already know but can do nothing about it, and please believe me I feel genuinely sorry for you if you're trapped in creationism.
 
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Let's be honest here, how would YOU feel if you had been born into a creationist family? would you be bitter?
I know I would.
I was born into a creationist family and I'm not bitter in the slightest. "Attitude toward evolution" ranks very far down my list of important things about family life.
 
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Men wrote and preserved The Scriptures.
1 Thessalonians 2:13 For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because, when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which effectually worketh also in you that believe.
 
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How long has creationism been battling against evolution?
This brings up the point of the unchanging face of the Bible. It's more like, "How long has religion been battling against knowledge?" And that's been forever. Religionists used to claim the sun went around the earth. Until they just couldn't anymore... although there are still a few whackjobs out there with crazy convoluted "theories" about how the sun really DOES go around the earth. Socrates was murdered. Galileo was locked up. Copernicus didn't publish until he was on his deathbed. Darwin struggled with the implications of his theory all his life.

The actual words in the Bible haven't changed... but man's interpretation of them has. Oh they'll pretend that's not the case, but it is.

Even Jesus changed how the OT was to be interpreted when he came along. The Bible changed right there WITHIN the Bible. And he was hated by the religionists of his day. Just as we have pharisees here on this board today he had them then. Only thank god ours don't have the power to crucify anyone.
 
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Nope. Wasn't correcting your use of primeval or primordial.
It's 'primeval' -- not 'primordial'.

Logic is believing the universe came from a primeval atom, isn't it?
 
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It's 'primeval' -- not 'primordial'.

Logic is believing the universe came from a primeval atom, isn't it?
Logic is accepting the evidence that the universe had a beginning in a singularity. Not an atom.
 
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Logic is accepting the evidence that the universe had a beginning in a singularity. Not an atom.
From Wikipedia -- on Georges Lemaître:
 
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EIGHTY years ago.

This is what has been going on over the past eighty years...

This is what I accept. Not your sematics and linguistic twisting in an attempt to make it look feeble.

All taken from here.
 
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Men wrote and translated those Words. I really don't want to get into circular reasoning.

I understand that it is believed that God inspired and/or led the hands of men in Its writing.
 
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EIGHTY years ago.
Yes, eighty years ago.

What's wrong with putting a name to this singularity, anyway?

If nomenclature bothers you so much, why aren't you complaining about 'flying' squirrels?

I use the term 'primeval atom', because it gives a mental picture to other plebeians that is so much clearer than 'singularity'.
 
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Because it's inaccurate. An atom is a bunch of protons and neutrons and electrons. That is NOT what our universe started as.

If you must put a name to the singularity call it Beth or Edna. But you know as well as I do that calling it an atom is an attempt to make the acceptance of the Big Bang theory seem foolish. Which it would be if the concept were a helium atom with a single electron whirling around a nucleus. Anything you can do to chip away linguistically at a concept you will do.
 
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Because it's inaccurate.
No, it's not 'inaccurate', chief.

You might want to look up the definition of the word 'atom' -- I have a feeling you're in for a surprise.

And for the record, after having looked up the definitions of both primeval and primordial, I'm changing it back to 'primordial atom'.

I'd hate to be mistaken for Georges Lemaître --
 
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It is inaccurate, "chief".

at·om/ˈatəm/
Noun:
The basic unit of a chemical element.
Such particles as a source of nuclear energy: "the power of the atom".

A gravitational singularity or spacetime singularity is a location where the quantities that are used to measure the gravitational field become infinite in a way that does not depend on the coordinate system. These quantities are the scalar invariant curvatures of spacetime, which includes a measure of the density of matter.

According to the standard theory, our universe sprang into existence as "singularity" around 13.7 billion years ago. Singularities are zones which defy our current understanding of physics. They are thought to exist at the core of "black holes." Black holes are areas of intense gravitational pressure. The pressure is thought to be so intense that finite matter is actually squished into infinite density (a mathematical concept which truly boggles the mind). These zones of infinite density are called "singularities." Our universe is thought to have begun as an infinitesimally small, infinitely hot, infinitely dense, something - a singularity.

From here and here.
 
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