[Born-Again Atheist]

Re: Bunch of Richard Dawkins Quotes (Was 'Pro-Jesus?')

Science and philosophy are two different subjects. Science studies HOW we live (physical matter) and philosophy studies WHY we live.

"Genesis

1. God creates light and separates light from
darkness, and day from night, on the first day. Yet
he didn't make the light producing objects (the sun
and the stars) until the fourth day
2. God spends one-sixth of his entire creative effort
(the second day) working on a solid firmament.
This strange structure, which God calls heaven, is
intended to separate the higher waters from the
lower waters. This firmament, if it existed, would
have been quite an obstacle to our space program.

3. Plants are made on the third day before there was
a sun to drive their photosynthetic processes
4. "He made the stars also." God spends a day
making light (before making the stars) and
separating light from darkness; then, at the end of
a hard day's work, and almost as an afterthought,
he makes the trillions of stars.
5. "And God set them in the firmament of the heaven
to give light upon the earth." Really? Then why
are only a tiny fraction of stars visible from earth?
Under the best conditions, no more than five
thousand stars are visible from earth with the
unaided eye, yet there are hundreds of billions of
stars in our galaxy and a hundred billion or so
galaxies. Yet this verse says that God put the stars
in the firmament "to give light" to the earth.
6. All animals were originally herbivores.
Tapeworms, vampire bats, mosquitoes, and
barracudas -- all were strict vegetarians, as they
were created by God. But, of course, we now
know that there were carnivorous animals millions
of years before humans existed.
7. God makes the animals and parades them before
Adam to see if any would strike his fancy. But
none seem to have what it takes to please him.
(Although he was tempted to go for the sheep.)
After making the animals, God has Adam name
them all. The naming of several million species
must have kept Adam busy for a while."

That's a small quote of the "Absurdities" section of The Skeptic's Annoted Bible. "Absudities"... fits well.

[Brother Temperance]

Re: Bunch of Richard Dawkins Quotes (Was 'Pro-Jesus?')

Science and philosophy are two different subjects. Science studies HOW we live (physical matter) and philosophy studies WHY we live.

Yes, and that is why they're both inferior to religion, which studies both why we are here, and the laws by which we must live if we do not want God to kill us.

[SalvationSeeker]

Re: Bunch of Richard Dawkins Quotes (Was 'Pro-Jesus?')

1. God creates light and separates light from

darkness, and day from night, on the first day. Yet
he didn't make the light producing objects (the sun
and the stars) until the fourth day

So what you're basically saying is that without sun and stars, there could be no light?

Even humans can create light, never heard of lightbulbs?

2. God spends one-sixth of his entire creative effort

(the second day) working on a solid firmament.
This strange structure, which God calls heaven, is
intended to separate the higher waters from the

lower waters. This firmament, if it existed, would

have been quite an obstacle to our space program.

No rockets have ever pierced the firmament, that's another secular lie with NO evidence to support it.
Even the pictures of the moon landing are fake, as was actually revealed not too long ago.

Praise God!

3. Plants are made on the third day before there was

a sun to drive their photosynthetic processes

You can grow plants in a basement without any natural light.
As long as you have a light source of some kind.. such as a lightbulb producing the correct kind of light.

4. "He made the stars also." God spends a day

making light (before making the stars) and
separating light from darkness; then, at the end of
a hard day's work, and almost as an afterthought,

he makes the trillions of stars.

There is no evidence that there are "trillions of stars".

The only stars there is are those who are visibly seen on the sky.
And they number, I don't know exactly, 100 or so?

5. "And God set them in the firmament of the heaven

to give light upon the earth." Really? Then why
are only a tiny fraction of stars visible from earth?

Because those are the only stars that exist, smartass.
Here you start with an assumption, and use your unproven assumption to "disprove" evidence to the contrary of said assumption..

Well done, I can do that too, look:

BAA doesn't exist, and because she doesn't exist, she is not really here.

Under the best conditions, no more than five

thousand stars are visible from earth with the
unaided eye, yet there are hundreds of billions of
stars in our galaxy and a hundred billion or so

galaxies. Yet this verse says that God put the stars

in the firmament "to give light" to the earth.

You can see see thousands of stars on the sky?
No, you can't. Scientists may say they can see that many with a "telescope" but that's lies, and neither would the eye be "unaided" then.

Now, do the stars give light to the earth? Yes, they do.

Thus you cannot disprove that's the reason God created them.

6. All animals were originally herbivores.

Tapeworms, vampire bats, mosquitoes, and
barracudas -- all were strict vegetarians, as they

were created by God. But, of course, we now

know that there were carnivorous animals millions

of years before humans existed.

You believe all animals evolved from dead materials, but you find THAT hard to believe?

7. God makes the animals and parades them before

Adam to see if any would strike his fancy. But

none seem to have what it takes to please him.

(Although he was tempted to go for the sheep.)

After making the animals, God has Adam name

them all. The naming of several million species
must have kept Adam busy for a while.

Yes, but Adam lived for a very long time too:
930years to be exact.