A challenge to Atheists

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  1. spidergoat pubic diorama Valued Senior Member

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    Texas beer joint sues church...

    In a small Texas town, ( Mt. Vernon ) Drummond’s bar began construction on a new building to increase their business.. The local Baptist church started a campaign to block the bar from opening with petitions and prayers. Work progressed right up till the week before opening when lightning struck the bar and it burned to the ground.

    The church folks were rather smug in their outlook after that, until the bar owner sued the church on the grounds that the church was ultimately responsible for the demise of his building, either through direct or indirect actions or means.

    The church vehemently denied all responsibility or any connection to the building's demise in its reply to the court.

    As the case made its way into court, the judge looked over the paperwork. At the hearing he commented, “I don't know how I’m going to decide this, but as it appears from the paperwork, we have a bar owner who believes in the power of prayer, and an entire church congregation that does not.”
     
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  3. EmptyForceOfChi Banned Banned

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    Lol is that from the Onion or a real report.


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  5. EmptyForceOfChi Banned Banned

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    I see.


    peace.
     
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  7. garbonzo Registered Senior Member

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    I loathe you guys. I'M trying to see if the Bible is inspired. So far they have debunked everything I said. It seems to me now that the Bible isn't inspired. YOU come in here and say IT IS inspired, but WITHOUT providing any proof! What is your basis for believing in the Bible? Why did you just come in here and say that without providing any claims of your own? There were other people that did the same as you before... I don't get it. Right now I am just agnostic...
     
  8. garbonzo Registered Senior Member

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    Just a question to evolutionists: How do evolution develop eyebrows? Eyebrows are there to protect our eyes from our sweat. Did the cavemen not have eyebrows, so sweat got in their eyes and they said, "I need some hair there, so sweat doesn't get in my eyes.", and then suddenly hair began to slowly grow there? LOL Doesn't make sense to me...
     
  9. SciWriter Valued Senior Member

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    We once had hair all over, and still do, at an embryo stage, but it thins. I suppose it was OK to have a lot of hair while hanging in the trees, but probably much more than a nuisance when forced to run about the spreading savannah to exist.

    Most animals still have a lot of hair or fur, but for the larger beasts that ever need to cool a large mass. It’s warmer now, so even the naked elephant is no longer a woolly mammoth.

    To continue abot an idea with no hair (or little); when eats and treats were abundant, our furry ancestors could just laze around, not exerting themselves; but, when the forests shrank, ‘we’ had to walk/run over long distances to secure our prey and food, and so some thick clogged hair all over would not do so well for us. Hair was thus selected out, in conjunction with the arrival of sweat glands that could dump 12 liters a day. We were pink underneath our fur, this turning to black in the hot regions. Hair on the head still works to ward off the direct sun, as well as eyebrows helping some, too. Via our new epidermal sweat glands, we could increase our body and brain size and exert ourselves more.

    I don’t know all the in-depth details of eyebrows, though, myself.
     
  10. birch Valued Senior Member

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    the truth is most fundamentalists are actually the least spiritually and emotionally enlightened or evolved.

    notice he thinks there is an actual 'seal' over others when it really means that people have different abilities or strengths which will translate to different skills. there was also some hogwash about faith being earned which doesn't even make any sense.

    concepts are only understood with the most concrete and arbitrary of terms.
     
  11. Rav Valued Senior Member

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    Additionally it's not hard to imagine that during times when food was scarce and more time needed to be spent hunting and gathering that the lengthy and tedious process of social grooming may have been neglected somewhat in favour of more immediate survival concerns. Since such grooming is necessary to maintain good health (as well as a good appearance for the purposes of being attractive to the opposite sex) "lower maintenance" coats of fur would have been progressively selected for over time. Eyebrows, then, for the above reasons (and more) did not evolve through natural selection so much as natural selection stopped short of removing all body hair, and for good reasons.
     
  12. SciWriter Valued Senior Member

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    That's because, ha-ha, they are more fundamental. Higher mind and capability of learning becomes of more complexity much later on.

    (There was a not too swift guy on Star Trek named 'Quark'.)
     
  13. birch Valued Senior Member

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    fundamental is not the problem, it's what they believe to be fundamental.
     
  14. SciWriter Valued Senior Member

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    Fun with da mental places the ultimate and infinitely advanced Mental as the First, which is surely Descartes before Horace.
     
  15. birch Valued Senior Member

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    body hair for the most part in humans disappeared probably because it was sexually selected for. if you notice chimpanzees, they groom eachother to remove insects and parasites which are an attractive breeding and hiding place for them.

    as for hair remaining in other places it could be such as the hair in areas that have more friction buffer it as well.

    hair on eyebrows could be there to keep sweat off out of the eyes just as the eyelashes help to keep dirt out which hardly do a good job of it anyways.

    anyways its all pretty disgusting in a way.
     
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  16. garbonzo Registered Senior Member

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    God is a spirit, he cannot "carry" any stone, haha.
     
  17. Medicine*Woman Jesus: Mythstory--Not History! Valued Senior Member

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    M*W: The graph shows that people are gullible and foolish by their own doing and without any supernatural deities (god/satan), and besides the graph is way outdated.
     
  18. Medicine*Woman Jesus: Mythstory--Not History! Valued Senior Member

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    M*W: Or, no supernatural deity created or designed us at all. Or, these deities don't exist anywhere but in our faulty understanding.
     
  19. EmptyForceOfChi Banned Banned

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    Im not one of "them guys" Im a Theist not an atheist, im just trying to help you because I know what all of these atheists will say to you they won't listen to bible prophecy or anything related to the bible trust me.


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  20. garbonzo Registered Senior Member

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    They did more than just not listen. They provided credible rebukes. And your not helping any. You reply without even listing why you believe the Bible is true...
     
  21. EmptyForceOfChi Banned Banned

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    Well many part's of the bible are true, some of it on the other hand has been corrupted. It has a very good record of the ancient tribes and explains the origins and movements. It has alot of the sayings of the prophets but some of those sayings have been altered.

    The bible explains many miracles of the older prophets, When you tie the torah/old test,/gospels/Quran together things make alot more sense.

    Use the Quran as the master Copy in it's purest form to test the bibles accuracy.

    Peace.
     
  22. garbonzo Registered Senior Member

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    I love this. Thanks for sharing. I shared it with my whole family, haha.
     
  23. rcscwc Registered Senior Member

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    Ayurveda, the medical sceince, has guidelines about isolating vertain patients. Not only that, even the physician was not supposed to socialise unneccesarily, exposed as he was to all sorts of diseases. No sky daddy is needed for such guidelines.
     

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