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Do you have any studies to back this up? Larry used the word "some". You used the figure "99%". Not that I disagree with you, just wanted to make sure you have something other than anecdotal evidence since you are a teacher.
The question is, is the board's fate destined to be the same?Much like the Great Library of Alexandria in ancient times this is the repository of all human knowledge.This stuff is priceless.Makes me realise that I wasted most of my life studying, when I should have been reading the boards...
Scott... there are far more that believe not only in God, but in the Chritian God (in this country at least, and much of the world) then those who believe in all the science that tells us otherwise. I do not speak of the "idea" of God, but the literal Biblical character.We still probably have 500 years of this before the religions that already are losing touch finally lose their grip on socierty, so get used to it.
You can do that in the comfort of your own home for only $19.95. They send you some crystals and an incantation. Add on your horoscope for an extra $4.95!
Yeah, go ahead and "Puff the Magic Dragon," Cheech. It'll just accelerate your train ride to hell.You caught me.Now excuse me while I go feed my pet, Puff the Magic Dragon.
I think this is going to end with the double KO chair shot
To be fair there is an actual theory that the extinction of dinosaurs was due to excess methane gas (they were farting a lot).Now if they walked by a small fire started by lightning and they happened to fart at that exact moment, well, you can imagine the flames that would jet out of their ###!Godzilla looked kinda like T-Rex and he breathed fire. This has been documented in several Soho films.:rotflmao: :rotflmao: :rotflmao: :rotflmao: where the #### was I on this day.
Then how come a gazelle looks exactly like a bard? If a gazelle doesn't die, it just keeps growing, and adding purple velvet hats and lutes, until eventually it becomes a bard. This is proven.
A coffee-drinking goat.
Ah, but now you're talking evlolution again. The pancake-on-head is an acquired trait, developed during one's lifetime to protect one from downpours of maple syrup in IHOP rich environments.:lamarck:
Im Jewish. Therefor, since the religion we are born into is, 99% of the time, the correct (and only!) religion, there is no hell for me.Well, except when my Jewish Mother gets overbearing. Then its hell on earth. Even if Im 31. but i digressYeah, go ahead and "Puff the Magic Dragon," Cheech. It'll just accelerate your train ride to hell.You caught me.
Science tells us there is no God? Do tell, Koya. I am EXTREMELY interested in hearing how you back this argument up.
Not all snakes can talk, but a subset of snakes can talk (that subset would include those that can speak miraculously or those that were an assumed form of Satan). A subset of donkies can also talk (biblically supported).The problem is that miracles are supernatural (or is it supra- I can never remember). You can prove that snakes can't talk, but it is impossible to prove trhat certain snakes did not talk.
Koya is making no sense. Many people believe in God (Christian God, Jewish God, etc) and also believe in evolution.
A chatty chinchilla fits better with the alliteration.
Alliteration was never my theme. "Vociferous lemur" is hardly alliterative. "Verbose iguana" no more so. And "talkative gazelle" just craps all over any alliterative intent.However, if tangfoot pressed the issue, I had "clamorous clam" holstered and ready to be unleashed on an unsuspecting populous.
Articulate aardvark? Longwinded Lemur? Softspoken Salamander? Gossipping gorilla?
Can't speak for everybody, but I would have swooned. Along with my garrulous gorilla.
I would have to scroll way back into the thread to confirm, but I think the idea is that, because the earth isn't billions of years old, and because god created all animals first, then man and dinosaurs must have co-existed. Larry Boy then speculates that myths of fire-breathing dragons might really be stories regarding sightings of fire-breathing dinosaurs. Someone correct me if I'm wrong here.
What I meant was the literal interpretation of a being, having a son in the form of Christ, with a heaven and hell and all that is in the Bible. What I speak of are those who continue to believe in a world created in 7 days, and not by forces that science has explained and proven to develop of billions of years.I was not implying science has proven there is no god. What I meant was science has shown us that MUCH of the religious aspect of Judeo Christian thought, when looked at objectively, is myth.If you wish to believe otherwise, you are entitled. If you wish to believe Noah saved all the worlds creatures, so be it. If you wish to believe women are made from a man's rib, so be it.Personally, science sheds more and more light on the questions that spur our need for a Godly explaination - yet people still hold true to beliefs that are more appropriate for 300, 500, 1000, 5000 years ago, then they are today.Our religions are "explanations" that are thousands of years old based upon no evidence. Mostly based upon myth. However, we have cleared up a lot of what needed splainin' over the last couple hundred years (i.e. evolution). Therefor, it is my opinion (opinion) that our religions are already antiquated. However, they have SUCH a strong pull for so many, it will take a LONG time for our belief systems to catch up with our new knowledge base and what science has proven to be true.Our 5000/1800 year old religion has served its time. Like every religion before it in Western history, it shall give way to a new belief system - one better suited to our time, our base of knowledge and understanding of the world and our individual and group place in that world - and the universe.
Perhaps I was not clear enough.However, many people, over time, will believe less and less in religion, as science gives us a clearer understanding of many of the "fundamental" questions.This will, however, take a long, long time. I never meant that there are not people who believe in both God and science, but rather our concept of God is an antiquated one better suited for life up to a hundred years ago, then it is for society from here, forward.
Religion as a means to explain physical phenomena are basically obsolete. But that's not the only thing that religion does for people.
The blind man/elephant parallel is currently being used in advanced theoretical physics in attempts at unification. Theory dualities are being explored. For example, instead of being thought of as incompatible theories, things like Relativity and Quantum Mechanics are now being thought of as "different parts of the same elephant". It's leading to some interesting developments. At least, according to Ed Whitten it is. And he's pretty bright.
