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Don’t put words in my mouth. Of course there are several dating methods. They are all imprecise and based on multiple assumptions.
Great paper this guy wrote there. Thanks for sharing. Did you just randomly find this by searching the web?
we're very certain the world is at least a billion years old
richwicks says
we're very certain the world is at least a billion years old
No, you are very certain. And many people including the only person the matters, Jesus Christ are certain that in the end times many will scoff at the Biblical truth. Your denial of universally known truths of the creation is Bible prophecy fulfilled.
I found blind faith incredibly dangerous
Secular Scholars generally agree that the earliest forms of writing were 5,500 years ago. Which is not far off from the time of the world wide flood.
So with all of written/observed history, being 0.0000000136363636364% of what they claim to be earth history. It’s blind faith to believe those charlatans who don’t even practice science. They might as well say aliens created the earth because they have about the same amount of evidence of that as they do of an earth that predates human observation.
Something that hardens my viewpoint of Christianity is BECAUSE people insist there was a literal Adam and Eve, and there WAS a Job, and there WAS a King David, and there WAS a Biblical Flood. No. Way. These are just stories.
You want them to be stories, because you don’t want to believe ANY of the Bible. But if any of the Bible is untrue, then God is a liar. Fortunately He cannot lie.
God doesn't lie, but man often does.
richwicks says
God doesn't lie, but man often does.
Yep like when they claim the earth/universe is billions of years old.
They lie, a lot.
So that is the propaganda you still believe.
“ Göbekli Tepe messes up a lot of what we think we know.”
This!
That site broke history.
Christians that don’t take the Bible literally
You look for eternal life, I wouldn't want that. Seriously, I don't fear oblivion, but existence forever? That's true hell. There's a reason they call it eternal rest.
Who is the "most famous climate scientist"? Name ONE
if any of the Bible is untrue, then God is a liar
Fear is the number one tool to control and manipulate people.
The Bible was written and rewritten by man.
Richwicks,
Have you ever looked into the theory that the Egyptians didn’t build the pyramids and that the pyramids are much older than what mainstream historians believe? And that the purpose of pyramids was to generate energy? The concept aligns with Tesla’s research.
It’s fascinating and makes a lot more sense than Egyptians building pyramids.
You probably know more about G T than I do.
This is why the lake of fire is actually created. It would be more uncomfortable for someone who doesn’t believe God to have to live with Him for eternity
I think the main reason is we are so occupied with making money and consuming. There is no mainstream push to explore our history and mainstream historians have no interest in being proven wrong and having to re-write history books. Plus imagine Tesla was right and there is a way to produce clean energy for the masses. The people in power would never allow it. Or energy companies would just buy you out and destroy that knowledge.
PeopleUnited says
Rubicon says
Fear is the number one tool to control and manipulate people.
Will you take the mark of the beast when the Antichrist forces everyone to take it or lose their head by guillotine?
The only way to lose your head is being involved with religious brainwashing/manipulation and fear mongering.
The fact that Adam and Eve or Noah might not have ever literally existed takes nothing away from the main point of the Bible which is that humans are incredibly flawed, and yet God still loves us.
To make arguments that human reason can’t possibly disprove certain stories in the Bible, just purely out of defense, insults humans and insults the God who created us.
richwicks says
er. If I believed there was a God like that, I would oppose it.
You do.
If God loves us (He does) He would not tell untrue stories.
Totally agree. It gets old and it’s pretty disgusting. I feel for people who are in these religious cults and can’t find a way out.
He Hasn’t come yet.
But during the great tribulation everyone will be faced with a choice to accept the mark of the beast or be killed. That’s not fear mongering, it is a warning for those left behind.
How do you know, for example, that Satan didn't compose the Bible, and THAT explains all the bloodshed and wars over religion?
You are convinced that ever other religion in the world is false, except for your religion, which you were luckily born into, and raised in.
I'm in a tiny minority pointing out that Ukraine's conflict began basically with the US overthrow of Ukraine, not because
What makes you certain the Bible is an exception?
PeopleUnited says
if any of the Bible is untrue, then God is a liar
The Bible was written and rewritten by man.
It is what it is.
When I argue this about ANY religion, it comes down to how do you know your religion is correct, and the answers are "I have faith" or "It helps me" or "It makes me a better person" - any or all of those can be true but that doesn't mean the religion is.
When the Spirit of God lives in you counterfeits are obvious. It’s a Spiritual thing. When Adam sinned he immediately died spiritually, but when we accept the gift of God in Jesus we are born again immediately with the Spirit.
I disagree. With Christianity you can actually read the New Testament which tells the story about the life and death of Jesus. His life is about the best documented historical event that has ever happened, so you should believe it if you believe anything historical.
Find a Roman document about his execution. They kept good records. I can believe it would have been falsified by now.
All the other religions I’ve looked at are either made up stories about things that never existed (Rama, Zeus, etc). Or they are just spin-offs of Christianity (Islam, Mormans), which just go to show the strength of the foundation of the religion.
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The Milky Way is no run-of-the-mill galaxy, according to a new study.
A team of astronomers recently discovered that our spiral-shaped home galaxy is actually too big for its surroundings, Science Alert reported.
The Milky Way is located in a “neighborhood” called the Local Sheet, which is a flat arrangement of galaxies that share similar velocities and are surrounded by empty space called voids.
The team explained that the Local Sheet serves as an example of a cosmological wall and separates the Local Void from the Southern Void. The relationship between the galaxies in the Local Sheet has a strong influence on their behavior, such as their similar velocities relative to the expansion of the Universe.
But the Milky Way appears to be an exception.
In their paper, researchers conducted an analysis using simulations from a project called IllustrisTNG, which models the physical Universe.
They found that, being a billion light years across and containing millions of galaxies, very few galaxies located within a cosmological wall structure are as big as the Milky Way.
The study underscores the importance of considering the local environment when studying our home galaxy, rather than assuming that it is in an average spot in the universe.
The environmental context could also help explain some previously unexplained phenomena, such as the odd arrangement of satellite galaxies around Andromeda and the peculiar lack of them around the Milky Way.