You mixed Christianity with the matrix?!?
What?!?
Why?!?
A simulated universe is actually more plausible than most other religious beliefs, but to mix it with Christianity? Simply stunning.
You are taking arbitrary data from biology and Christian literature to equal 37, and somehow that is proof...
Here I'll get you started...
I would like evidence of something only God could do that humans could not.
We can write fiction, lie, mislead, believe lies we tell ourselves, believe 2+2=5, hallucinate, have intense emotions and out-of-body experiences. We can live by our own morals, evolve, take...
Thanks for catching me up.
Im a messenger from the future sent by H.U.M.A.N.I.S.T. to show TB the laser, that is, the scientific light.
I have knowledge and insight from the future, and I can definitively say there is not an omnipresent god.
TB, you can trust that this true because I say so...
I'd be happy to direct you to that evidence, though I have a feeling you have already seen a lot of it.
Maybe you don't actually base your beliefs on evidence, which is fine but don't pretend otherwise.
Very good sir, perhaps you guessed an unspoken intent. I hope I don't narrow the conversation down too much by answering. I think that the Bible was once thought to be entirely literal and historical, but as time passed, passages that were not compatible with new discoveries, values, knowledge...
Thank you, that would be helpful. But if I could ask another question: What did the authors intend to be literal vs figurative, with the knowledge available at the time?
Which parts of the Bible are literal/historical and which parts are figurative/metaphorical? I have only read Genesis so far, and don't know much about Christianity.
Vocal atheists believe religion is negatively impacting some aspect of their lives or the social, political, and/or economical reality they are apart of. In their eyes, they are trying to make a world a better place by arguing against religion. Furthermore, believing in unicorns has little to no...