There are many examples like this.
If you Google Nephilim, which are spoke of in Genesis, I don't know of a better explanation of how these incredible structures were built. What I do know is that this really convinces me, among other things that there is a greater power and it is worth your time to really examine it before disbelieving in God for things that God's imperfect creation has done in the world we live in. What if the Bible holds a lot of truth, what if there is eternal life, then, what if you're wrong?
This is exactly what I'm talking about. On the one hand you have a self-described conspiracy theorist YouTube video that claims, with absolutely nothing to back him except he said so, that Inca's shouldn't have been capable of building what they built. An example of this nonsense, was his assertion that a hole in a stone had to have been bored by a vibrating tool, and engineers have backed this up. What engineers? When. Source anyone? That's pretty much how the whole thing goes. I've actually hiked the Inca trail and seen these structures myself, they are spectacular. But the consensus of everyone who's studied them is that they were constructed by the human Incas and while it required enormous amounts of labor, much of it slave labor, it was eminently doable using the technology they had.
What's really baffling to me, though, is that even if you believe some kind of inhuman folks built the Inca Trail, what in the world does Genesis 6 have to do with it?
Genesis 6:4, which to refresh your memory states "4 The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and also afterward—when the sons of God went to the daughters of humans and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown." Pretty much every religion that's ever existed on earth, from Ra the sun god to the Greek and Roman Pantheon to Norse mythology had some kind of super human heroes. Even if the conspiracy theorist was right, it no more proves christianity than it proves Norse mythology. And this is the crux of your particular kind of "proof" of Christianity that's exactly what I saw as a teenager. You never make the connection between A and C. You say look at the world and the animals and how everything works together, God must be real. Maybe. Maybe
a god is real. Is it the god who was ever fine with you selling your daughter into slavery?
Exodus 21:7-11
7 “When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she will not be freed at the end of six years as the men are. 8 If she does not satisfy her owner, he must allow her to be bought back again. But he is not allowed to sell her to foreigners, since he is the one who broke the contract with her. 9 But if the slave’s owner arranges for her to marry his son, he may no longer treat her as a slave but as a daughter.
Is it the god who was ever fine with stoning your son if he was disobedient?
Deuteronomy 21:18-21
18 If someone has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father and mother and will not listen to them when they discipline him, 19 his father and mother shall take hold of him and bring him to the elders at the gate of his town. 20 They shall say to the elders, “This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious. He will not obey us. He is a glutton and a drunkard.” 21 Then all the men of his town are to stone him to death. You must purge the evil from among you. All Israel will hear of it and be afraid.
Is it the god who gave a crap about you eating shrimp or being gay or being a glutton. (funny to hear the 300lb woman at the church potluck with 3 plates of food trot out the anti-gay thing but never quote Proverbs 23:3 " and put a knife to your throat if you are given to gluttony.")
See here's the thing, even if everything your favorite conspiracy whackjob says is true, it still does nothing to support following a particular religion, especially fundamentalist christianity. Basic logic says that it's a fallacy to say A=B therefore B=C. Which is exactly what you're doing. Don't feel bad, it's very common among fundamentalists and is the reason why so many of us who were raised fundamentalists left once we started questioning it and realized it was a pile of crap. So just a little tip for you, it's a bit foolish to try to convert a person with a science or engineering background, who knows your holy book far better than you apparently do having read it cover to cover a number of times and memorized big parts of it, by throwing down some conspiracy theories and telling them to Google Genesis. At least don't try it and expect anything other than them laughing at you, or if they're more polite pointing out the fallacy of your beliefs.
I think you're a reasonable person, unlike fhl, so I think it is important that you understand that I and everyone else like me who affirmatively rejected
fundamentalist christianity (which is very different from rejecting christianity) did not do so because we wanted to be able to "sin" In fact we try (and like all humans occasionally fail) to live by a moral code that is very similar to overarching "do unto others" code that many Christians (except the fhl's of the world) live by, although we usually go by a categorical imperative version which adds to do only as you would wish to become a universal rule. I didn't reject christianity or "have never been saved" or "not have a relationship with jesus" so that I could cheat on my wife, lie, cheat, steal, covet my neighbor's slave or make "graven images", even though the temptation on those graven images sometimes just kills me! It's convenient for you to dismiss us in that way, but couldn't be further from the truth. In fact it's people like fhl who are complete assholes in the name of god who start you wondering, it's people like you who wave your hands around but never have a solid answer that start you really investigating, and it's our own intellect that allows us to realize that the whole thing is not only wrong but actually evil in many cases and something we want nothing to do with. If you have a personal relationship with Jesus that makes your life brighter and you use it as a force for good rather than exclusion, more power to you, I wish you the best and I know lots of great folks like you who I respect. The respect only stops when religion is imposed on those who not only don't share it but rationally reject it, which is sadly all too common in the U.S. these days.
