You die, come back to life, and have multitudes witness this and follow you for millenia, and we'll see how it words for you!
What's really implausible? I just briefly perused Marie's "Countering the Critics" site and read their explanation for the Star of Bethlehem. They proposed three scientific explanations then said that none of them were sufficient. Therefore, this occurence must have been "temporary and supernatural", never seen before and never seen since. Such "supernatural" events seemed to have happened daily several thousand years ago, but not so much anymore. I find that peculiar, to say the least.
Needn't go that far; flying on any commercial jetliner will allow you to see the earth's curvature. :shrug: I had a beautiful view of it when I flew into London at dawn several years ago.This_person said:
Babies don't starve themselves. Mankind allows babies to starve. They have babies when they have no food. They throw food away when they know someone else is starving. They throw $500,000 parties and hire someone who can't feed their own child to serve the caviar. That's not God's work, that's man's work in action. It's OUR fault, not His.
It's impossible for a man to do, today or 2000 years ago.
What's implausible about lifeless goo becoming life, and transforming into water animals, then land animals, then diversing into millions and millions of distinct lifeforms over the millenia, eventually reaching what we have today with no evidence of any of this other than minor changes in traits over hundreds of years? Are you serious?
You're putting your personal rules on the actions of a supreme, omniscient being.
Does that make sense? He's telling us NOT to do it, and then watching us as we do. He's not condoning it being done just because He doesn't stop it. Did you condone your kids not doing their chores? Skipping class? Whatever they did?
Do I seriously believe that many biblical stories can not be taken literally? Yes. Do I seriously believe science resolves - or will eventually resolve - our questions about the world around us with a reasonably close summation of 'objective truth'? Yes. Do I think science should replace religion? No.
You did not extrapolate, my friend. Theoretically, I could progressively cover the entire earth in a plane and view the planet's curvature the entire circuit. But there are many different proofs that can be used by ground-based observers, which is how mathematicians uncovered this fact thousands of years ago.This_person said:
