Not preordained. It is important to understand that when the Bible refers to the founding of the world it doesn't mean the creation of Earth. The Greek kataboles literally means "throwing down [of seed]." When Jesus mentioned Abel as living in the founding of the world he was talking about...
The only problem I can see with Genesis is that it has been misrepresented by apostate Christianity and therefore misunderstood by skeptic and believer alike. For example, the stars were not created before plants or the Earth, for that matter.
Nor does the Bible state that the Earth is flat...
I have never and will never belong to an organized religion but I think that everyone is religious in the very basic sense of the word, namely that we all have a strict set of beliefs we adhere to.
I don't fully understand why homosexuality seems the predominant issue with unbelievers. I guess...
Let me make sure I understand what's going on. You, I assume, being a person of science. Of logic and reason, first say there is no evidence for a god. Then you go on to site all sorts of evidence for gods?
Interesting.
Really, now? Weren't the writers of the Bible henotheistic...
Well. I wouldn't have thought the need for it if it were not for your pointing out those. Although, I have to admit, generalizations work. Pansy ***** idealists dont. The former being a practical exercise and the latter being the assumption in that practical jaunt pills or stupidity. Uh...
This forum caught my eye back in November of 2013, I think it was, and I signed up, but - well, I don't know what happened but I only rediscovered my membership recently.
I was raised in an atheistic household. My mom had belonged to various Christian sects growing up and had rightly...
Skeptics often talk about science as if it were one entity in the guise of superior knowledge. The fact is that science has always and hopefully will continue to correct itself. That means that it is constantly wrong, in a sense. The science I was taught in school in the 80's is considered wrong...
Yeah, right. We wouldn't want to look, uh . . . say . . . that artwork in your sig, are those effeminate looking types fondling their nipples? You get a kick out of that ****?