Bad Science Atheists Accuse Christians of Believing
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All Christians are creations inherently but not all Christians are young-earth creationists.
In fact the smart ones aren't.
We believe in the Big Bang and Expansion of the Universe just like you do.
In fact I myself roll my eyes whenever I listen to some nutjob Christian who doesn't know anything about science spout
That the earth and even the universe is only 6,000 years old.
Not only is it very bad science, and would actually make God out to be a liar, since at the distances measured by science,
starlight would then therefore have to travel faster than light in order to reach us in the created timeframe.
In other words, imagine that the universe is as large and as vast as it is. OK
Now imagine that at the size the universe is, is a quasar 5 billion light years away in distance.
Well it can't possibly be both 5 billion light years away in distance AND SIMULTANEOUSLY only 6,000 Years Old.
Since Physics does not operate that way, Young Earth Creationism must be wrong because it makes God Out to be a liar.
Because of the vast distance the light from such a distance would have to go faster than the speed of light to traverse the universe and that's impossible
Does not compute
I had to say this just so the atheists know where i stand so as to clear up confusion between creationist and young earth creationist.
This is called a straw man argument-
Atheist says there cant be a god you theists believe the earth is only 6000 years old etc
And that's not what science says so the atheist thinks the christian is bonkers because his god can't get science right
So there must be no god
That's because christians don't know real science because many churches are biblical literalists that teach the creation story from genesis
Believe me back when iwent to church, i remember a guy saying there was no big bang god made the universe, etc
IM LIKE HELLO HOW DO YOU THINK H DID IT!?
BIG BANG PROVES GOD
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that's a good resource.
"Experiments are the only means of knowledge at our disposal. The rest is poetry, imagination." Max Planck
I'd like to point something out.
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
Similarly, the only way to prove that God exists, is if he were to magically appear in front of us as say "Hey guys, I'm God!", at which point we would only have his word on this, I mean, how do you verify that someone/thing claiming to be God is actually the real deal? It's not like you can do a DNA test, or ask something only God would know.
So my basic point is this. If you can neither prove, nor disprove something, until you can, you are simply waxing philosophy, and wasting valuable time in this life, which could be used doing something far more useful and productive.
I am a non practicing Roman Catholic, who believes in God, as a creator of the Universe, because it is the simplest solution, until such time as a better solution is presented to me. Call me a lunatic if you wish, but Atheism is a sort of religion in itself (the belief in the equally unproveable non existance of a God or gods).
Since my last post was apparently incontrovertible (of course I knew this already), I'll deal with a subtle claim that I and everyone else either missed or failed to respond to.
Pay attention. This forum was started, and is run by, atheists.
Enlightened Atheist, Gaming God.
Many better solutions are available in fine book-stores everywhere.
I must ask, what exactly is a non-practicing Roman Catholic? I assume you simply believe in God, but don't attend church, but identify with the denomination due to being raised in it. If I'm wrong, please correct me. I must say that practicing Roman Catholics would argue that you are not a Roman Catholic (but would probably use you in the statistic when bragging about their large number of members). I am really wondering though, since participating in the Eucharist is I believe a mandatory part of being a Roman-Catholic, no?
Theists - If your god is omnipotent, remember the following: He (or she) has the cure for cancer, but won't tell us what it is.
There are two answers to this:
1 - Having been catholic, my mother believes that "once a catholic always a catholic" and many other friends of hers believe similar points of view. So to my mom I am non-practicing catholic.
2 - Non-practicing catholics do not attend church, do not follow the dogma but still associate with the religion. I did this for many years after X number of decades of brain washing. Even though I didn't believe in god, jesus, the virgin, I still associated with catholics and felt a connection to those I previously associated with; but eventually that feeling went away as I cleansed myself of that influence.
So I take it then that you don't believe that transitional fossils exist or that you think that all of them were fabricated? And the similarities shown in genetic coding mean nothing as well, right? And again, your comments that some being designed everything, tell me, what is your proof of that, also, what is your null hypothesis for such a concept? And again, the entire big bang did not release everything 'spinning' there are no assertions that it did so save from various creationist groups.