Kylie's Pluto Challenge

[aachen_hexagon]

Ahhh.... blackmailing people with the gospel. Would make baby Christmas Jesus proud.

By any means necessary.

 

[aachen_hexagon]

So are you stopping from doing something that you know you shouldn't do?
Or are you just going to compromise on something you should be doing?

Morality: such a quagmire! It doesn't need to be! We need morality to be set by a higher authority and kick Euthyphro to the curb.

 

[HitchSlap]

By any means necessary.

Well, after all, it's only your soul at stake.

 

[aachen_hexagon]

Well, after all, it's only your soul at stake.

Indeed!

 

[AV1611VET]

A joke. Sorry. I realize it was only one very short verse.

Okay.

As long as you read it...

 

[AV1611VET]

So are you stopping from doing something that you know you shouldn't do?
Or are you just going to compromise on something you should be doing?

Neither.

I'm going to give you the "other side" of my beliefs.

The side you don't see, because I concentrate on just the one side.

The "dark side of the moon," so to speak.

Remember this post from many moons ago?

People think I'm so dead-set against scientists here, and I'll go overboard to make a point: I'll kiss the feet of a scientist before I kiss the feet of a theologian anyday.

 

[Kylie]

And what is this, a Bible study thread?

I'm just curious.

Now, In Genesis 2, God makes Adam. After making Adam, God decides he needs companionship and makes the animals. But Adam doesn't find a suitable companion, so God takes one of his ribs and makes Eve.

Is that literally true?

 

[AV1611VET]

I'm just curious.

Now, In Genesis 2, God makes Adam. After making Adam, God decides he needs companionship and makes the animals. But Adam doesn't find a suitable companion, so God takes one of his ribs and makes Eve.

Is that literally true?

The animals were already made.

God just paraded them past Adam, and when Adam saw Mr. & Mrs. Gorilla, Mr. & Mrs. Giraffe, Mr. & Mrs. Unicorn, he realized there was no Mr. & Mrs. Adam.

Mission accomplished.

 

[Subduction Zone]

The animals were already made.

God just paraded them past Adam, and when Adam saw Mr. & Mrs. Gorilla, Mr. & Mrs. Giraffe, Mr. & Mrs. Unicorn, he realized there was no Mr. & Mrs. Adam.

Mission accomplished.

It seems that you are implying that your version of "God" was not too bright. He made couples of all of the other animals but did not realize that he needed at least two of his supposed prized possession.

ETA: Though atheists are quite often accused of blasphemy it seems to be the theists here that denigrate their God the most.

 

[AV1611VET]

It seems that you are implying that your version of "God" was not too bright. He made couples of all of the other animals but did not realize that he needed at least two of his supposed prized possession.

Either that, or He saved the best for last.

Kind of like when you withhold the best present at Christmas and let the others open theirs first, then when Johnny is in sorrow that he didn't get a cool gift like the others, you say:

"Waitaminit! What's this!?"

And spring it on him.

 

[Subduction Zone]

Either that, or He saved the best for last.

Kind of like when you withhold the best present at Christmas and let the others open theirs first, then when Johnny is in sorrow that he didn't get a cool gift like the others, you say:

"Waitaminit! What's this!?"

And spring it on him.

You might have a point. According to the Genesis myth Adam was definitely not the brightest bulb in the box. He might have been fooled by such sleight of hand (and that is putting it too kindly).

 

[AV1611VET]

According to the Genesis myth Adam was definitely not the brightest bulb in the box.

Either that, or he was.

Adam was created mature.

 

[AV1611VET]

Well, that attempt to get the thread back on topic didn't last long.

I usually interpret pleas to get a thread back on topic as saying, in essence, the new subject is uncomfortable to the one making the plea.

I've seen requests to have a thread put back on topic, and when it is, the posting stops.

 

[Astrophile]

I usually interpret pleas to get a thread back on topic as saying, in essence, the new subject is uncomfortable to the one making the plea.

I've seen requests to have a thread put back on topic, and when it is, the posting stops.

This thread is supposed to be about Pluto, not about numerology, gematria, Galatians 3:26, or how God created the animals and Adam's wife. I should be quite comfortable with you creating separate threads on these topics if you wish to, but on this thread I would rather discuss the scientific implications of the re-classification of Pluto as a dwarf planet.

 

[AV1611VET]

This thread is supposed to be about Pluto, not about numerology, gematria, Galatians 3:26, or how God created the animals and Adam's wife. I should be quite comfortable with you creating separate threads on these topics if you wish to, but on this thread I would rather discuss the scientific implications of the re-classification of Pluto as a dwarf planet.

Fair enough.

I'll go to READ ONLY mode and we'll see how many more on-topic posts are made in this thread.

And for the record, when I necro a thread, I usually do by getting it back on topic; but braniacs here like to scream & kick that a thread has been necroed, not realizing that the OP isn't around to whine & cry, should his thread go off-topic again.

 

[Subduction Zone]

Either that, or he was.

Adam was created mature.

I know what the myth says. By his actions in the story we can see that he is not too bright.

 

[Radrook]

I came across this fellow who claimed that if we went personally to Pluto we would be groping around in almost total darkness. In fact, he claimed that an approaching astronaut would not be able to detect Pluto with the naked eye because of the dimness of sunlight reaching it. That the only reason we see those bright landscapes is because they are artificially enhanced. Is this true?

 

[Kylie]

The animals were already made.

God just paraded them past Adam, and when Adam saw Mr. & Mrs. Gorilla, Mr. & Mrs. Giraffe, Mr. & Mrs. Unicorn, he realized there was no Mr. & Mrs. Adam.

Mission accomplished.

Um, no they were not.

God made Adam in Genesis 2:7. God didn't make the animals until Genesis 2:19. The only way you can get around that is to claim that IN YOUR OPINION, the passages are not arranged chronologically in Genesis 2. And if you are basing it off your opinion rather than a literal reading of the Bible, then you aren't exactly a Biblical literalist, are you?

 

[AV1611VET]

And if you are basing it off your opinion rather than a literal reading of the Bible, then you aren't exactly a Biblical literalist, are you?

Actually, I am.

IN YOUR OPINION, how many times was Adam placed into the Garden in Genesis 2?

Genesis 2:8 And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.

Genesis 2:15 And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.