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This one creationist brought up the evidence of Ark of the Covenant containing Ten Commandments tablets in Jerusalem. This supposed discovery made by infamous Ron Wyatt. I used secular & creationist sources to debunk it. Heck, even the admission of President of the Wyatt Archaeological Research...

All things serve the Beam.

I think the reason they say this is because Bible states that everybody knows God exists. By saying you don't believe in God challenges Biblical infallibility. My former friend accused me of being dishonest when i said i don't believe in God and claimed i had some hidden REAL reason for lying...

Did you ever admit that you were dandan? I havent read all the messages regarding that matter.

What i have read these slightly deleterious mutations gets fixed by genetic drift and positive mutations. Slightly deleterious mutations can only be real problem in small populations.

Bible doesnt consider unborn baby as an individual. For example if you hit pregnant woman and she has a miscarriage, you only pay fine if the woman is hurt (no punishment for murder). But if she only had miscarriage, no big deal. Bible also has instructions to perform abortion (Numbers 5:11-31)...

I think at least part of the problem is that creationists generally believe in whats called in my country "crevolution" (strawman version of evolution). It is this outdated evolutionary ladder type of thinking that everything has to evolve better or otherwise its degenerating. They ignore the...

This is perfectly normal fundie behavior. I have witnessed it in irl and on internet many times. It's like they are being possessed or something.

I wonder how many mental health issues gets fly under radar, because people assume it's part of their religious conviction. How do you separe deep religious conviction from mental illness?

Re: Every non painted/photoshpped picture proves earth is fl Both camps are wrong. Earth is actually banana shaped.

I don't understand this Christ myth theory. To me it seems like a wild conspiracy theory. Why it is so hard to believe that Jesus was yet another messianic claimant, who sealed his fate by declaring himself as a god (A direct threat to Roman emperor, cause only he can be god). If you look at the...

@Laurens What about John the baptist? He is a historical person and what we know, Jesus was associated to him in some way (A disciple originally?). Also, if Jesus was a myth how can he have a brother, which i believe Josephus talks about and which Paul met in person?

Maybe they saw, it's not uncommon that people thought to saw their dead relatives or friends. I have experienced that myself. By analogous you mean "in terms of evidence, explanatory power and explanatory scope"? I think they are better in that case than resurrection, because we have...

Yeah, i checked, i have confused objective morality with absolute morality. Ok, you have different definition of objective. Dictionary definition is: (of a person or their judgement) not influenced by personal feelings or opinions in considering and representing facts. So compared to...

That is not an issue, because the first point already agrees that morality comes from god/gods. Yes that is true and a weakness in my argument, though if you want to nitpick i said "...descripted in those texts...", so it would be a false description of existing god. I don't believe in...

I didn't say those were illusions, i don't believe they happened at all. Illusion is also a weak explanation, but it's still more probable explanation than a miracle for the reasons i stated before. I disagree, see below. Saw or thought to saw? There is a big difference. Why it needs to...

Because they are not rare interruptions inside common events. Even if we go by the bible, there were no witnesses to the resurrection event itself. The empty tomb, what does that prove? The body could have been stolen or moved to other grave, or not buried at all. Grave robbing happened and...

He was probably doing so called "faith healing" yeah. There are videos about those plenty in youtube nowdays. Illusion or fraud is more probable explanation than a miracle. I need to clarify a bit. I meant miracles. Yes, miracles are also supernatural events, but they also are like the name...

Historical method is about probabilities. Supernatural claims are the least probable explanation what happened in the past (due rarity and physical impossibility), so it is very good reason not to trust the supernatural claims of a text which has some non extraorinary claims included as well...

Curvature on sphere earth vs. flat earth could also be tested in computer simulation / game enviroment.