Stupidest things god said.
Posted on: March 20, 2010 - 4:05am
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Stupidest things god said.
"Yes, I will punish those who participate in pagan worship ceremonies...on that day," says the LORD, "a cry of alarm will come from the Fish Gate and echo throughout the newer Mishneh section of the city. And a great crashing sound will come from the surrounding hills. Wail in sorrow, all you who live in the market area, for all who buy and sell there will die."
God - Zephaniah, 1-8.
"Experiments are the only means of knowledge at our disposal. The rest is poetry, imagination." Max Planck
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would be quieter than a whole baby.
Big Crunch, Big Rip... although these theoretical events exclude the Earth's existence by the time they happen.
The verse is indeed stupid on a cosmic scale, but in Hebrew times/Antiquity there were only 'really bright stars' (planets), constellations, and the sun. The 'Virgo Supercluster', Cosmic Microwave Background, and of course the Milky Way Galaxy are concepts that would've drawn blank stares from even the brightest (and occasionally atheistic/agnostic) minds of the Iron Age/Antiquity eras...
...many philosophers (theistic and atheistic alike) from these time periods knew nothing besides that which could be observed with the naked eye and with a great deal of help from creative thinking.
Example: one Greek philosopher suggested that earthquakes were caused by perfectly natural phenomena, rather than dead people stomping through the underground. Another astronomer/philosopher from Hellenistic Greece suggested that instead of everything orbiting the Earth, The Earth and the Sun orbited an indiscernible point - he was half right (the Active Galactc Nuclei of the Milky Way). I can't think of their names, unfortunately.
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