common creationist claim.you cant get something from nothing,so god did it.

[Free Thinker]

i am wondering if our two resident bible thumpers even listened to the video talking about the universe by Lawrence Krauss?

Lawrence Maxwell Krauss (born May 27, 1954) is a Canadian-American theoretical physicist who is professor of physics, Foundation Professor of the School of Earth and Space Exploration, and director of the Origins Project at Arizona State University. He is the author of several bestselling books, including The Physics of Star Trek and A Universe from Nothing. He is an advocate of scientific skepticism,[1] science education, and the science of morality.[2]


"NOR MUST WE OVERLOOK THE PROBABILITY OF THE CONSTANT INCULCATION IN A BELIEF IN GOD ON THE MINDS OF CHILDREN PRODUCING SO STRONG AND PERHAPS AS INHERITED EFFECT ON THEIR BRAINS NOT YET FULLY DEVELOPED, THAT IT WOULD BE AS DIFFICULT FOR THEM TO THROW OFF THEIR BELIEF IN GOD, AS FOR A MONKEY TO THROW OFF ITS INSTINCTIVE FEAR AND HATRED OF A SNAKE."
Charles Darwin

 

[Free Thinker]

Quote from peilthetraveler:

For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities

the invisible and the nonexistent look very much alike.

 

[Trader666]

Your "brain" is a great example.

Quote from Free Thinker:

the invisible and the nonexistent look very much alike.

 

[PHOENIX TRADING]

Quote from Free Thinker:


i am agnostic. there could be a giant teapot in space that created the universe:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell's_teapot

That's true, it makes about as much sense as the universe creating itself and ultimately US : just by accident.

 

[Free Thinker]

Quote from PHOENIX TRADING:

That's true, it makes about as much sense as the universe creating itself and ultimately US : just by accident.

Seems to me that Christians worship the incredible shrinking god. I mean at one
time it was supposedly capable of flinging thousands of billions of galaxies
into existence with a mere thought. By the time of Noah, it was reduced to
flooding an insignificant speck in the cosmos. By the time of Moses, its best
trick was moving a tiny portion of a minor sea aside for a short while. By the
time of Jesus, it has to send a delegate on its behalf who leaves behind only
rumors that he was able to turn water into another beverage, or render himself
extra buoyant. Now it counts as a miracle if a water stain grows mold that kind
of looks like a bearded face which could be claimed to resemble this supposed
delegate.

 

[jem]

The god which has shrunk the last 20 years is the "God of Random Chance" did it.

Random Chance in the gaps is no longer acceptable science in many scientific circles.

Quote from Free Thinker:

Seems to me that Christians worship the incredible shrinking god. I mean at one
time it was supposedly capable of flinging thousands of billions of galaxies
into existence with a mere thought. By the time of Noah, it was reduced to
flooding an insignificant speck in the cosmos. By the time of Moses, its best
trick was moving a tiny portion of a minor sea aside for a short while. By the
time of Jesus, it has to send a delegate on its behalf who leaves behind only
rumors that he was able to turn water into another beverage, or render himself
extra buoyant. Now it counts as a miracle if a water stain grows mold that kind
of looks like a bearded face which could be claimed to resemble this supposed
delegate.

 

[Free Thinker]

Quote from jem:

The god which has shrunk the last 20 years is the "God of Random Chance" did it.

Random Chance in the gaps is no longer acceptable science in many scientific circles.

For three hundred years now, the Christian astronomer has known that his Diety didn't make the stars in those tremendous six days; but the Christian astronomer doesn't enlarge upon that detail. Neither does the priest.
Samuel Clemens- Letters from the Earth

 

[jem]

Quote from Free Thinker:

For three hundred years now, the Christian astronomer has known that his Diety didn't make the stars in those tremendous six days; but the Christian astronomer doesn't enlarge upon that detail. Neither does the priest.
Samuel Clemens- Letters from the Earth

Mark Twain and you do not understand that time is relative to speed and the observer.

 

[Free Thinker]

Quote from jem:

Mark Twain and you do not understand that time is relative to speed and the observer.

It is always amusing to hear theists proclaim that they dont believe in evolution because it sounds too complicated yet they will readily believe that some grey haired old deity in the sky just spoke and everything we see today popped up from nothing.
--Freethinker

 

[stu]

Quote from jem:

The god which has shrunk the last 20 years is the "God of Random Chance" did it.

Random Chance in the gaps is no longer acceptable science in many scientific circles.

The only random chance in the universe was and is one which a theist imagines.