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paintballer222
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Does anyone have any opinions on how the Earth really is?

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Zootsuit_riot
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First of all the bible was not MADE up.And secondly ive found many errors while I researched reports for school.


Really now? You defend the Bible quite fiercely. First you say that it hasn't been changed at all, which it has as Devoidless pointed out. Now you say that the stories aren't made up at all?

And I'd like to see some of these errors, please.
jonnypants23
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It has not benn changed just added by incoming scriptures found -_-

And I'd like to see some of these errors, please.


I'll try to find thees errors , but I did my school reports last year.
paintballer222
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God told other people to write the bible. Humans did not make it! Are you talking about errors in wikipedia or the bible.

Yakooza99K
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First of all the bible was not MADE up.And secondly ive found many errors while I researched reports for school.



Yuhuh it was.
fourtytwo
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Yuhuh it was.
If all you are going to do is post random comments that say that you think Christianity is false without putting anything worth reading in your post, why don't you just stay out of these discussions (the ones about Christianity)
Yakooza99K
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If all you are going to do is post random comments that say that you think Christianity is false without putting anything worth reading in your post, why don't you just stay out of these discussions (the ones about Christianity)


What? The Bible WAS made. I mean its kinda obvious, it talks about 4 rivers, two of them not real, and the 2 that ARE real have no source.

Besides that, doesn't the bible tell you to pray quietly and let us regular agnostic folk enjoy science?
fourtytwo
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What? The Bible WAS made. I mean its kinda obvious, it talks about 4 rivers, two of them not real, and the 2 that ARE real have no source.
Show me where you are getting that. The Tigris and Euphrates rivers are only named after the two rivers that were before the flood that they reminded people of. The two other rivers existed before the flood. The flood changed a lot of stuff including geological features.
Besides that, doesn't the bible tell you to pray quietly and let us regular agnostic folk enjoy science?
Yes, it tells us to pray quietly. It doesn't say anything about allowing agnostic people to enjoy science. Also, science is not restricted to non-Christians only. Christians can be scientists too.
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OK So one being made a huge block of rock, gravity, Lava and Thunder - Think of the bad things and why would they be there? Because for all I know God or any Religion is not real (No offense i'm voicing this out as me... Sorry )
Yes, I think the Big Bang was made - How? We don't know, but it's better than illogical stories by people who believed Jesus was magic and magic's not real, I ask them how do they believe both - Their answer:
"I don't know"
Yes Religion can stop people from bad things, drugs, etc
But it is not the right way to go, if someone is good enough to become a better person then he should be able to do it by the right way - Not something made up.

And when I say the big bang made all life - Define life, we are conciousnesses in bodies, machines if you will, if you create an android without AI, just a conciousness then that bloody well makes it a live thing - Just because all live things don't have a conciousness doesn't mean we turn our back on them, a living thing does seven things, Reproduce, Eat, and Move is three, the Android moves, it can eat, and probably when advanced enough reproduce...
I rest my case (Unless someone would like to argue further)

Oh and btw the oldest the earth is is dependent on the oldest rock on it.... 14.7 Billion years I once heared, also 6 Billion and 4.5 Billion.... I think it's 14.7 Billion because that's the best one I can remember

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Delicious... I'm gone for like a month or two, and I notice the exact same topics as before I left XD Christians vs Non-Christians... ugh.

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Well I guess 4 billion plus years. But if you want the part where life first appeared or when humans came about then its a whole new story. Erm jonnypants, bible not made up? Some of the stories are true and I believe that a number have some source as a basis, but stories like multiplying fish and bread? Well that would be handy now given the food-shortage crisis. A flood killing almost every human except Noah? Then why is our DNA quite different( although only 1% different, thats still quite a large number of nucleotides, a few hundred thousand at least), provided the story is true and a majority of the population descended from him? Maybe there was a flood but some details in the biblre are definitely made up. ( Sorry to all Christians)

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i guess the earth is 4.5 billion years old and im afraid that the human race might end of global warming an the earth will be covered with water but i guess its a theory or a rumor

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but it's better than illogical stories by people who believed Jesus was magic and magic's not real, I ask them how do they believe both - Their answer:
"I don't know"
lol Jesus wasn't magic.
Oh and btw the oldest the earth is is dependent on the oldest rock on it.... 14.7 Billion years I once heared, also 6 Billion and 4.5 Billion.... I think it's 14.7 Billion because that's the best one I can remember
How did people figure out how old the rocks are?
FireflyIV
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How did people figure out how old the rocks are?


Radiometric dating.
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Radiometric dating.


Isn't that basically carbon dating/something similar?
FireflyIV
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All the info on radiometric dating is here.

It is a similar principle, but the materials used are far more accurate over millions and billions of years, whereas carbon dating is limited to around 70,000 years.

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