My theory on creation.

[ananda]

Why then did the Hindus write the Bhagavad-Gita, if not to compel the early Buddhists to come back?

I don't know, you'll have to ask the Hindus. It's not very compelling or inspired at all, IMO.

 

[Subduction Zone]

He put a contract out on Jesus, did he?

What book did you get that from? the NIV?

By your standards he did. Once again you are inconsistent when you make false attacks against others.

 

[Root of Jesse]

Seriously, that man is an idiot. He may not be a liar, but he is a complete fool. If you care to learn his entire series has been refuted:

Irrefutable Proof of God - YouTube

COSMIC ORIGINS VIDEO

 

[Root of Jesse]

I guess? There are a few religions in which people were venerated as gods.

Nevermind

 

[Root of Jesse]

I don't understand it, therefore it can't be true.

Well, since you have all understanding, and perfect knowledge of all things, perhaps you would like to expound upon the paradox of God being both transcendent and omnipresent. And, while you are at it, maybe you could give us a run down on the doctrine of the Trinity, without falling into one of the many heresies which surround it.

No. I don't understand it, therefore, it's God.

 

[Subduction Zone]

COSMIC ORIGINS VIDEO

What is the point of the video? It appears that they accept the Big Bang, but then I jumped around a bit and found them using the failed "odds argument".

 

[Root of Jesse]

You should not rely on convicted liars for your arguments.

Carl Sagan is a convicted liar?

 

[Root of Jesse]

What two states comprise the northernmost, southernmost, easternmost, and westernmost states in the U.S.?

Alaska and Hawaii

 

[Root of Jesse]

First, the prophecy actually says 'young woman', not 'virgin'. Second, if you read the prophecy in context you will see that it is a warning of the imminence of the Assyrian invasion; it is not a prophecy of a miraculous birth more than 700 years in the future. Isaiah 7:10-25 is saying that a young woman is already pregnant, and before her child is old enough to know the difference between right and wrong Judah will be devastated by war, and fertile agricultural land will have reverted to thorns and briars and to pasture for sheep and cattle.

No, not actually.

 

[Subduction Zone]

Carl Sagan is a convicted liar?

Where did you get that from? The person was quoting from Hovind, a convicted liar. It is not illegal to lie about evolution. But the IRS takes a dim view of people lying about their income.

 

[Root of Jesse]

Leaving the householder life for to become a full-time spiritual seeker - after adequately providing for the material needs of his wife and child - was not only seen as an honorable and blessed choice in his culture at his time, it still is in many Hindu & Buddhist cultures today.

That's a problem with Christian cultures, because modern Christianity IMO generally emphasizes the immediate family unit and immediate material needs, and not the support system of the far more tightly-knit extended family or such spiritual quests of the former.

That may be true of Protestant Christianity, but it is definitely not in Catholicism, although many Catholics are fallen away...

 

[Subduction Zone]

No. I don't understand it, therefore, it's God.

Correct, another logical fallacy.

 

[Root of Jesse]

What is the point of the video? It appears that they accept the Big Bang, but then I jumped around a bit and found them using the failed "odds argument".

Didn't watch the entire video because you're not interested. Got it.

 

[Root of Jesse]

Where did you get that from? The person was quoting from Hovind, a convicted liar. It is not illegal to lie about evolution. But the IRS takes a dim view of people lying about their income.

The poster said Carl Sagan's famous 'billlllions and billllions'.

 

[Root of Jesse]

Correct, another logical fallacy.

Not really.

 

[ananda]

That may be true of Protestant Christianity, but it is definitely not in Catholicism, although many Catholics are fallen away...

Yes, there seems to be more of an acceptance for those who wish to walk the path of a spiritually-focused life, in Catholicism ... I spoke from a Protestant perspective (which I was in for 30 something years).

 

[lesliedellow]

Not really.

Yes, really. I don't understand molecular biophysics, therefore God, doesn't quite do it as an exercise in logic.

 

[Subduction Zone]

The poster said Carl Sagan's famous 'billlllions and billllions'.

That is not all that he said. But now you know your error. I assume that you were not trying to lie.

 

[Subduction Zone]

Not really.

Really. That is a classic example of an argument from ignorance.

 

[AV1611VET]

Alaska and Hawaii

Yup.