@Majek:
where are all the fossils? who said ther should be any?it's not like everything can be fossil and then also fossils don't last forever anyway.=)
Well, you need 'complex life' to really find fossils. Some one cellular organism won't leave much of a trace usually, unless you get lucky and have one frozen or something.
But still, the dinosaurs existed for almot 700 million years. Don't you think that when someone decides to make a subway or a pipeline, they'd be digging them up all the time? :wacko:
1. what do you mean by that? He lived and died that much is fact. if he really did everything what is written in the Bible is another thing. after all that was almost 2 millienia ago. it can't all be proven or denied since not everything is known.
There is not much to explain there. Jesus was a charismatic person who made a bunch of followers, and a strong doctrine was made around his preachings, written down in the bible and to this day people still cling to it.
The facts are that Jesus said "I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will live, even though he dies; 26 and whoever lives and believes in me will never die." That means he was either a liar, insane, or he was telling the truth. Would a liar lie till his death? Would a liar fufill his own prophecy even?
He also wasn't just anybody. He fufilled over 300 prophesies in the Old Testament. That's the equivalent of covering the entire state of Texas with quarters, marking only one of them, then blind folding someone and having them find the marked quarter on the first try. A French mathematician calculated that the odds of one man fulfilling only 40 of those prophecies is 1 in 10 to the power of 157.
But what about the things he did? There were witness accounts! The gospels, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, were all witness accounts of the same thing. They wern't the only ones either.
_Acts 26:24-26
24 At this point Festus interrupted Paul's defense. "You are out of your mind, Paul!" he shouted. "Your great learning is driving you insane."
25 "I am not insane, most excellent Festus," Paul replied. "What I am saying is true and reasonable. 26 The king is familiar with these things, and I can speak freely to him. I am convinced that none of this has escaped his notice, because it was not done in a corner._
How can the things he did happen scientifically? Maybe he fooled all those people… but, how could he have walked on water? Even Peter walked on water towards Jesus, so it couldn't have been an illusion. Or feeding the 5000 & the 4000? That goes against the Law of Conservation, yet there were over 9000 witnesses of the event. Or what about his ressurection all together?
Or what about other religions? Like what about the Dali Lama? Or the miracles in the Hebrew Bible? Or heck, the mere lineage taken into account in the Hebrew bible dating straight back to Adam and God, did they just make people up?
And a huge flood like that wouldn't be possible, the amount of water in the world is finite.
xD Then how do floods happen? Taking into account the amount of water in the atmosphere and in the Earth, I'd say it's very possible. Also, if God really is GOD, do you think it matters?
And the flood as described in the bible most likely did happen, but was limited to a certain region and didn't engulf the whole world.
I doubt that. Noah was most definentally mid-eastern, correct? Then why are there stories of a 'great flood' in North American folklore as well? A massive flood would explain the fossils of sea creatures found on mountains.
Geneaologists have discovered that they can tell the size of humanity's population by looking at the genes in your DNA (it's traced through the mothers' genes only, apparently fathers' genes don't show). Strangely, they've discovered this one instance in humanity when Humans became an endangered species almost instantly. They say that all of humanity were at that point related through a single woman (whom scientists have decided to name 'Eve', out of irony I suppose). What if this woman was in fact Noah's wife?
I've also heard the theory that the massive flood exploded from the earth, causing Pangea to split apart.
I don't know if any of these theories are really correct, but they're interesting I guess. I certainly don't know the circumstances.
3. Is this a trick question?
No, it's not. :) It's like the high frequencies that dogs can hear, but we can't.
And there are probably whole dimensions we can't see.. but so far these have only a mathematical foundation, we haven't been able to test them yet.
I wonder. If all consiousness were wiped out from our universe, would it still exist? How would if be proven? xD
Yes. That's why we will probably need to make artificial intelligence to go beyond the human mental limits if we want to keep digging deeper into the secrets of the universe.
So wait, you're going to create a robot to comprehend what we cannot? I can't comprehend that. xD How will you understand it when it does? I'm saying like, scientifically speaking, is it possible that there are things that no matter how hard we try, we just aren't evolved enough to understand? Like teaching basic math to… a parrot or a monkey, do they really understand what they're doing or are they just repeating what their masters taught them to get a treat? Even though we know the numbers and time, we cannot comprehend that numbers and space go on infinately and that there was never a beginning to time (unless God created it).
I dunno. I suppose my logic is that if there are things that we cannot see with our senses and things we cannot comprehend, then why can't there be a God? I mean, humanity knows perhaps (at best) only 1% of everything there is to know, so why can't there be a God in that other 99%?
oh yeah i believe in a god. it's good to have some faith in something so even when you're down , you can believe it'll get better soon (whether it's your own doing or a miracle from god =) )
A man had his foot in the stuck in the railroad tracks. He prayed to God, "God, please, just free my foot. That's all I ask." He struggled and heard a train horn in the distance. He prayed again, "Please, just free my foot and I'll start going back to church, I swear." As the train grew closer, the man panicked and began to flail about. He pleaded, "PLEASE OH PLEASE!! I'll dedicate the rest of my life to you and give all my money to the poor!! JUST DON'T LET ME DIE!" At the last second, he managed to slip his foot free. The train roared past him as he stumbled backward. He wiped the sweat from his head. "Phew! Thanks anyway God, but I managed it myself." And he walked off. xD Joke badum tish
If we have no way of knowing whether the simple explanation is true, and another 'crazy complex' theory could be true aswell..
XD A man used a time machine from the future, came to earth with his wife, and started humanity as we know it~! (ha ha, just kidding)