M.D. Rawlings
Classical Liberal
Why do you and the other fundies feel a need to spam the thread with your pointless cut and paste?LOL! and what is your answers? Creation from a "big bang"?? Life fro evolved pond scum? ROFLMAO!What's more "reasonable" than talking snakes, dead men rising, making animal sacrifice to the gawds, Arks, floods, End of Days, etc.
On the other hand, naturalistic explanations have passed through the filter of the scientific method or are at least founded upon reasonable inductive hypotheses based on the available evidence. This has proven again and again to be far superior to any other method in bringing us to a better understanding of the universe, life, and even our place in it.
It's actually comical to watch you science loathing types assume a lot more than just an absurd, illogical frame of reference. You're forced to postulate natural reality is also evidence of the supernatural (thereby hopelessly blurring what is meant by "natural" and "supernatural"), and you then proceed to assume a written text (in your case, one or more versions of bibles) is somehow accurate in its perception of the metaphysical. This assumption is based purely on the texts self-proclaiming themselves this authority, and upon nothing else. The Flat Earth'er is further burdened by appealing to a worldview where reality isn't cohesive-- a reality in which worlds are created by thoughts, seas part, dead men rise, men "ascend to heaven", shrubbery spontaneously bursts into flame... and Oh yeah, that talking snake thing.
BZZZT Wrong on both counts!
The big bang consisted of matter and energy that already existed, hence it wasn't "created".
Pond scum is a life form.
Huh? So now the laws of physics allowing for quantum fluctuations consist of matter and energy?
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A man walks into a bar and bellys up.
Moments later, just when the man is about to order, a duck walks into the bar, picks up a chair, slams it over the man's head and quacks.
Moments later, a monkey walks into the bar, grabs the duck and drop kicks him through the glass window and into the street. The duck shacks it off, flies back into the bar through the broken window, grabs the monkey by his tail, and throws him out window.
The man struggles to his feet, grabs the duck and throws him across the room. The duck hits the wall head first and is knocked out cold. The man then staggers to the bar and orders a shot of whiskey.
Flabbergasted, the bartender exclaims, "What the hell was that all about?"
"Don't know, exactly" says the man. "But every time someone tells a man walks into a bar joke that damn duck shows up."
Minutes later the duck comes to.
"Hey, duck," says the bartender. "What the hell was that all about?"
"Don't know, exactly" says the duck. "But every time someone tells a man walks into a bar joke, I'm suddenly walking into a bar somewhere in the world behind that man right there. I got better things to do with my time. I figured if I killed the man the nightmare would end."
"So what's the deal with that monkey?" asks the bartender.
"Don't know," says the duck. "That's the first time that lunatic walked into the bar behind me."
Moments later, the monkey walks back into the bar and glares at the duck.
"So what's your story?" the bartender asks.
Says the monkey, "That duck dropped a load on my head as he flew over, landed and walked into this bar.
Not so! That's an original a man walks into a bar followed by a duck joke made up by me. You won't find that anywhere on the Internet but right here.
Got quack?
Oh wait, you got energy and matter existing prior to the Big Bang too? LOL! Yeah. You got quack.