I called you out for your hypocrisy on others that believe in the same creator god that you believe in. I just got tired of seeing it.
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@Dan From Smithville . He's the kind of Christian I can respect. Faith doesn't seem to have impaired his ability to acquire an academic education or think clearly or critically. And I get no hint of him being anti-science, anti-LGBTQ+, or anti-atheist. I see no evidence of hypocrisy there. He has every right to be critical of the Christians on the other end of the intellectual and moral spectrum that make such a bad name for his religion.
you believe for no reason in a same nature and laws in the past. To use that in your models the burden of proof is squarely on your shoulders.
That the laws of physics have evolved as outlined by the Big Bang theory are confirmed by the success of the theory in making highly specific predictions that have since been verified.
But I have already explained my reluctance to try to demonstrate anything to a person who doesn't use reason applied to evidence to decide what is true about the world. I have nothing else to offer, so there is never a burden of proof when dealing with a faith-based thinker. Teaching implies open-mindedness on the part of the student, and a spirit of cooperation with the teacher. There is no hope of that happening here.
Things evolving are what 'created' life on earth...no.
Our best hypothesis for the origins of the first life in the universe is naturalistic abiogenesis, which is also sometimes called chemical evolution (and biopoiesis).
The only alternative is a supernatural explanation, which is gross violation of Occam's Razor, since it requires the existence of a god or gods. Also, we have evidence for the building blocks of life coming together to form living cells, but none for gods or creationism.
I agree with the folks who believe that mountains before the flood were much much smaller.
You believe what you want to be true. Nothing useful comes from that kind of thinking. Just compare the intelligent design program to proper science, which is evidence and reason based, and specifically rejects faith-based thought (skepticism). Which of those approaches to reality has been fruitful, and which useless? Like astrology, another faith-based pseudoscience, ID can't be used for anything.
That is how faith poisons reason, even just a crumb of it. If I want to accurately add a column of multi-digit numbers, there is a strict protocol that must be followed. Whenever you add a 3 to a 5, you need to come up with 8 - pure reason. Deviate from that at all - say by choosing to believe by faith that 5 + 3 can equal 7 or 9 will derail your process. This is how faith damages thought:
“If somewhere in the Bible I were to find a passage that said 2 + 2 = 5, I wouldn't question what I am reading in the Bible. I would believe it, accept it as true, and do my best to work it out and understand it."- Pastor Peter laRuffa
This guy is willing to misadd his entire life by faith.
You've done exactly that yourself, but with this flood.You read in your Bible that it happened, believed it on faith not only absent evidence, but despite contradictory evidence, and then proceeded to make up you own science to support your beliefs.
On day one as you were told the windows of heaven brought the waters that were on the other side of space. (firmament) and the fountains of the deep opened up.
You realize that we have been up there. There is no firmament, and the stars are not fixed to a dome.
Also, the earth turned out to be spherical (almost).
in creation week waters were separated from below the firmament (where the stars were made and placed---i.e. space) In the flood the waters above the firmament came down to earth via portals called windows of heaven.
This is where faith has taken you.
Of course there were mountains, but not like the Rockies of Himalayas.
The Rockies of Himalayas were here on earth in their present form (more or less) long before man or his myths.
Just dealt with that canard of an old wives tale in the last two posts.
By dismissing science and inventing mythology. That's your preferred way of navigating life.
Why pretend you have some proper relation and comprehension of the God you insult and reject?
If you're referring to the god of the Christian Bible, it has already been ruled out by the evidence for biological evolution. Even if the theory is wrong and is falsified tomorrow, you've still got all of that evidence that came before to account for in the light of this new falsifying finding, and no other interpretation occurs to me than that an extremely powerful and deceptive agency intended for us to be deceived into believing that life had evolved on earth to the extent that it buried strata of life forms that never lived such that the most primitive appearing would be found deepest and with a combination of radionuclides that made them appear oldest, with progressively more modern forms appearing in shallower strata. And it went to the trouble of creating all of those nested hierarchies and inserting ERVs into genomes as part of the great deception, scattered the ring species to be found, and the like.
That's incompatible with a god who wants to be known, believed, loved, obeyed, and worshiped.
You do not know how high the mountains were.
You keep making the mistake of thinking that because you don't know something, that automatically means nobody does or can. Yes, we know how high those mountains were even if you don't.
But why would you know any of these things? They aren't absorbed by osmosis. They have to be studied. You're uninterested.