[on the age of the Earth]
What difference will it make if it one trillion or one billion years old? How can a man or a woman be so arrogant to said I do not believe in a Creator, like some of the people who claim that there is no God and calling themself athiest.
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Because there is the possibility for both, a creator or no creator.
So, even though the posibility for the existence of a creator exists (however not according to the biblical story of creation, but rather as someone/something that was before Big Bang) it wouldn´t solve many fundamental questions, but just shift them one level higher.
"What difference will it make if it one trillion or one billion years old?"
"How can a man or a woman be so arrogant to said I do not believe in a Creator"
Applying the usual meta-ethical perspective to scripture, the conclusion presented is that the god of scripture is a chaos creature.
Corollary to this conclusion is the stipulation that the god of scripture is not capable of creating anything, and any creator, real or imagined, must be another [entity] entirely.
"What difference will it make if it one trillion or one billion years old?"
A lot.
"How can a man or a woman be so arrogant to said I do not believe in a Creator, like some of the people who claim that there is no God and calling themself athiest."
If you want arrogance, get a mirror.
Yah, yah, yah, ya goes n says there ain't a god, n then ya goes n calls yerself a athiest. Pffffftt!
[wtf]
The first sentence shows an impressive level of insight. Why worry about how old the earth is, when we've got the far more important issue of how long it's going to remain inhabitable?
The second, however, indicates that Jill has never met a non-Christian in her life. I actually pity her--once she enters the real world, she's going to have quite a rude awakening!
What difference will it make if it one trillion or one billion years old?
Being wrong by a factor of a thousand? Or a bloody million if you're using long-scale, potential confusion over which is a second reason why you should really use scientific notation when discussing this sort of thing. (The first being you might have a slightly greater chance of having a fucking clue what the real difference is between 1e6 and 1e9 rather than "million" and "billion")
"like some of the people who claim that there is no God and calling themself athiest." She sounds like we're trying to convince ourselves that we're atheists, and not ACTUALLY atheists. Shitty grammar. You don't have to be arrogant to not believe in a creator sky fairy, just informed.
I believe that my existence is an insignificant speck on an insignificant speck in an unimaginably vast and uncaring universe, brought about purely by semi-random chemical reactions.
You believe that your existence is the sole purpose of everything that exists, and that the intelligence behind everything loves you more than anything.
Who's arrogant again?
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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