July 15th, 2010 | 
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I explain how I came to see science and the Bible as compatible and started sharing this argument with atheists and non-believers through the Internet. Books Mentioned: The Science of God by Gerald Schroeder A History of God by Karen Armstrong Who Wrote the New Testament? by Burton Mack All excerpts used in this video are either copyright-free or covered under “fair use” in Title 17 § 107 of the USC. A special thanks to snap2objects for providing the Creative Commons 3.0 licensed vectors used for the figures representing myself and the professor in this video. Music: “Voca Me” by Libera .
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i saw the ‘history of god’ in the book store the other day but i wasn’t sure if i should get it. do you advise me to buy it?
@Methereals to read*
Gosh. I have so much read.
@Mooker777
Partial List of Diabolical Frauds Presented as the? “Missing Link”
1913-53 – Piltdown Man, Diabolical Manufactured Planted Evidence
Nebraska Man, Discarded Pigs Tooth
Peking Man, Conglomeration of Co-Mingled Fossils
Lucy, Manipulated Fossil Using? Plaster
Orce Man, 4 Month Old Donkey Bone
Ida, Grossly Unsupportable Classification
Sebida, A PetsMart Gerbil
@Mooker777
Partial List of Diabolical Frauds Presented as the? “Missing Link”
1913-53 – Piltdown Man, Diabolical Manufactured Planted Evidence
Nebraska Man, Discarded Pigs Tooth
Peking Man, Conglomeration of Co-Mingled Fossils
Lucy, Manipulated Fossil Using? Plaster
Orce Man, 4 Month Old Donkey Bone
2009 – Ida, Grossly Unsupportable Classification
2010 – Sebida, A PetsMart Gerbil
@waketheoblivious I always hate to see this false logic, one fake amongst hundreds maybe even thousands of real fossils does not invalidate the real ones.
Think about it, I could make a fake god, find people stupid enough to worship it, and after a few years claim my god never truely existed and by your logic I could say that no god must have ever existed.
I Think everyone should choose their beliefs but study all the possibilities out there. I’ve taken many, philosophy of religion courses and other related classes. I feel that I have explore everything and I AM a free thinker who CHOSE to believe in a God. I do agree that science makes more sense, but yet there are things that science can’t explain and things that speak for themselves.
@possiblefuture To the human mind, beliefs are stronger than facts. Your mind will find and filter information that reinforces your beliefs.
I can’t get over how hardcore you were. You thought God was working through amazon.com. I am astounded. I just cannot comprehend of how that thought process goes. I thought I had a basic understanding of the religious but clearly not.
@waketheoblivious And your explanation for the diversity of life is? And your? irrefutable evidence for that is?
The argument from relativity takes a very different form at times. I had a Christian once claim to me that “since time goes slower as you approach the speed of light [correct], then as god stands in the light, the time given in the Bible must be accurate.”
I had no response to such stupidity.
The original Hebrew Text of the Old Testamnet used a Hebrew word that translates into “shapeshifter, serpant”. The Tora aka Old Testament was written in Hebrew which when converted into a single line of text and analyzed, cleary was not authored by Bedowan Sheep Herders.
Step Right Up Ladies and Gentlemen to Evolution, the Greatest Show On Earth!
1913 Piltdown Man, he is your ancestor and is the “missing link” that satisfys “irrefutable evidence”….. 1953 whoops, he’s a planted hoax
1913-2010 No legitimate “missing link” just a constant series of frauds
2010 The Show Must Go On, Bring In the Clowns Claiming to be Scientists
Second, theistic evolution has to take the beginning of Genesis as an allegory and not literal. By doing this, Adam would not have existed until years later when evolution produced human and if he did not actually sin, then the idea of redemption collapses.
The theory of theistic evolution the belief that God created the first speck of life on earth and then directed its evolution to generate man has several problems. The first is that God would never create such a cruel method for creating humans. Evolution involves survival of the fittest and destruction of the weak. Jesus says the opposite of this in his life. He wanted us to help the weak and the afflicted. Evolution goes against Jesus teachings.
Ok, now I feel wrong about what I wrote on the last video, because you do seem to portray yourself as quite a little nut, even while obviously telling how everything made sense from an inside perspective.
Nice video again.
@xSilverPhinx For me, when I was a Christian, I actually HAD put a lot of thought into it, the problem was that I hadn’t been exposed to other viewpoints. During my upbringing I’d been sheltered from such ideas and as I got older I came to view non-Christian ideas as evil — and so I kept myself away from them. It was as though I’d become my own jailer. Dogma is an ugly, yet highly effective meme.
It’s sort of ironic that you felt that it was god’s will that you continued to talk to that professor – something that would ultimately lead to your de-conversion.
@EternalAlert
I think that the overconfidence stems from not having thought it through well enough. Atheists are atheists because they *have* thought it through (this has nothing to do with intelligence), usually much more than a theist who mostly just have faith which are only validated with cognitive biases and not enough exposure to other perceptions and ways of viewing the same things. All faiths that are blind and not thought through have weak pillars.
an absolutely superb series. what an amazing, important story brought to haunting life by excellent media skills and great narration. 5*
Or maybe the Hebrew word day is Yom and Yom means period of time…
Leaving to find a lost lamb leaves the rest of the flock to the wolves. Why should a shepherd be concerned about one lost sheep instead of the multitude of other sheep he still has?
=P
In other words… piss off Christians. lol
Oh ho ho!
Trying to re-convert a lost lamb, but wound up de-converting yourself. As Luke Skywalker said “Your overconfidence is your weakness”
The exact same thing happened to me actually.
3) All of your assertions about reality are as well just opinion, and rather uninformed versions of it as well since you apparently think that all opinions, beliefs and values are all created equal.
1) The issue is that you’re misusing the word existence, delusion and other words associated with existence in order to try and “win” whatever argument you happen to try and fight.
2) There’s a difference between asserting something doesn’t exist and pointing out there’s no evidence to indicate something does exist and rejecting the claim something.
Again existence is only a comment on the objective, it’s hard to have an opinion or belief without it being subjective no?