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Originally Posted by Justin A
I don't believe you.
It will be on PTR in hand histories.
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Originally Posted by zackryan28
OP and 2/3 of the people ITT:
Haven't you ever heard of prosthetics? Just because God hasn't come down and magically restored somebody's limb doesn't mean he hasn't given amputees other means of living constructive lives.
People tend to take the idea of a miracle way to literally. Being given the knowledge to heal diseases, ailments, and so on is just as much a miracle as Jesus healing the blind or walking on water.
This is a standard religious person's badly thought out answer IMO.
Prosthetics are a very recent invention and still only available to those in well off countries.
Also, citing a relatively small number of cases where an amputee (let's say in the year 1400 for argument's sake) has rebuilt their life does not excuse God (if he exists) for the vast majority of people (and animals) who throughout history have suffered pain, ill treatment and horrible injuries, violent death and short life expectancy.
I have always thought that in some ways religious people are the most intelligent and the most stupid people at the same time. They are the most intelligent because they conduct their daily lives using a sensible code of conduct (which is from a previously written handbook of correct human behaviour), but they are also the most stupid for not being able to work out or to accept that their religions that they have 100% faith in realistically have less than one in a billion chance of being true.
Perhaps religions have clues to the absolute truth within them but as separate entities they cannot be 100% correct because of the very obvious flaws of logic in them.
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Originally Posted by zackryan28
1. What existed the day before the phenomenon scientists refer to as the big bang? If God exists outside of time, then the answer is nothing.
2. Can you provide some reasoning for why you think other species have souls, or why it's an all-or-nothing deal?
"God existing outside of time" is an illogical phrase IMO that you should break down and explain, otherwise it is completely meaningless. I mean aht was he doing, hanging around waiting for big bang to happen? And the when it did why did he choose Earth and not somewhere else?
I don't know if you have noticed but the human species are mammals. So what differentiates us from other mammals? Is it that we are clothed or can you give me some other examples?
Look back far into history and you will find that, to use a phrase that now we use to describe sub human behaviour, we used to "live like animals". Erm, that's because we
are animals. Unless you think we are vegetable, mineral or gas.
Last edited by SageDonkey; 09-26-2011 at 08:28 PM.