Evolution is even more sad and indefensible than the Big Bang

Posted on June 18, 2019 by A Bit Of Orange

Evolution is even more sad and indefensible than the Big Bang. Now, of course, you need to define evolution so it means what Darwin meant. Too many people water it down until they are merely saying “Change over time.” But everything in the universe changes over time, so if evolution merely means change over time, then it means anything which ever happens. In short, things happen. This is true, but hardly worth saying, and certainly not what Darwin meant when he wrote a whole book on the subject. When I talk about evolution, I am talking about the story that something like a bacteria somehow changed into worms which somehow changed into fish, which changed into lizards, which changed into mammals, some of which are us.

Skeptical Giraffe doesn’t buy your “worms to man” story.

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Genesis 1 did NOT Go “BANG!”

Posted on June 11, 2019 by A Bit Of Orange

Among the Churched Americans who attended public school, it has become popular to try and wed Genesis 1 with Big Bang Cosmology. I used to do exactly this, as I was raised in a Baptist Church and public high school. It made perfect sense that the two models were saying the same things in different ways (before I read Genesis 1 anyway).

While a surface understanding of Big Bang Cosmology and Genesis make it appear as though they can be two accounts of the same event (And again, I used to think so myself) it is not true, even once you get past the ages involved. Just as a few reasons why:

  • Genesis tells the creation of earth before light, earth before sun, and earth before stars. Big bang has the earth as the last in the cosmic creations.
  • Genesis has earth covered in water to begin with, and land being formed after whereas Big Bang/evolution says earth was a molten ball of hot rock with NO water when it formed. Water came millions of year after the surface cooled.
  • Genesis has life first on the land and then in the oceans, where as evolution has life evolving first in the oceans and then moving onto the land.
  • Genesis has dinosaurs (land creatures) being made AFTER birds, whereas evolution says birds evolved FROM dinosaurs.

This list could go on. I once found a list of 28 differences between the two models. More important than the differences is the fact that

Big Bang Cosmology FAILS on its own merits.

Two out of three monkeys are shocked to hear that Big Bang Cosmology fails on its own merits.

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Why Hitler Was Not a Christian | Feedback friday

Posted on June 7, 2019 by A Bit Of Orange

For today’s feedback Friday, we encounter a VERY common claim among the less educated skeptics on the Internet- the idea that Hitler was a Christian, and along with it the idea that we have no reason to reject his claim that he was a Christian. As my reply begins with referring to the comment as a “novelette,”  you should get the idea that is was a HUGE amount of words, even if not a lot of logical thought. Welcome to the internet.

So I chose to focus on this one key point, and to my faithful reader, I said;

Greetings once again!

This novelette has far too much for me to reply to right now, but there were a couple of points which I won’t be able to sleep until I address, and here is the most important:

You: “On what planet does hitler constantly proclaiming his christian beliefs not in any way support the idea that he was christian? What in the world possibly could by that standard? Do we need to find some of his DNA and prove he had the christian gene or something?”

I understand your point, and I can’t fault you for not knowing better, as the America church is barely literate enough to know better. This has been a major frustration of mine for years, but I digress. Your point is a common one- you feel that being a Christian is no more than being a Cubs fan. You say, “Heck, I’ll root for this team,” and that’s all there is to it. I say I’m a Cubs fan and that makes me a Cubs fan. Case closed.

But that is not at all what being a Christian is. That is, admittedly, all it takes to be a Lutheran, or a Methodist, or a Baptist. But choosing to attend a particular church doesn’t make one a Christian any more than going to Wrigley Field makes one a baseball player. Or as we used to say in the 1980’s:

Standing in a garage doesn’t make you a car!

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Slavery and Bacon

Posted on June 4, 2019 by A Bit Of Orange

“Atheists” try to attack the Bible by saying it condones slavery. This is false and has been answered well more times than I can say. If you wish to see how, here is just one of MANY places you can start to learn more: https://youtu.be/o6sTsoGNqe8

And here’s another: https://youtu.be/l2q3fql-BlY

But let’s pretend that it’s true. Let’s pretend that this old, tired, false accusation against the Bible from ignorant internet skeptics is in fact entirely true. Let’s pretend that the Bible gives the old Thumbs-Up to the owning of other people like you would own a cow, a fish, or a toaster. 

The Old Testament condemns the eating of bacon. But I like bacon. I like it very much! Does this mean the Bible must be false or somehow wrong?

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An Atheist with more to say on Marriage | Feedback Friday!

Posted on May 31, 2019 by A Bit Of Orange

Welcome to Feedback Friday! Today’s comment continues a disjointed series of very short rants from a regular caller and long time listener. Under THIS ARTICLE she says:

You cant seriously be trying to defend the statement “atheists have no reason to get married”, that’s insanely absurd.
Marriage has existed for far longer than Christianity has.

To which I reply: Yes, marriage predates Christianity, but NOT a relationship with the one true God. It was GOD who invented marriage back in Genesis. Marriage did not EVOLVE.

But then, neither did we.

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Are Ant Hills SUPERNATURAL?

Posted on May 28, 2019 by A Bit Of Orange

Are ant hills Supernatural? The answer to this question, like so many others, depends on your underlying faith. For right now, let’s assume a purely naturalistic starting point, like we’re taught in textbooks and on TV. Just nature left to nature, with no divine creation, order, and purpose. So, on that view, Are ant hills Supernatural?

Certainly if you consider dirt all by itself then yes an ant hill is something which would not naturally occur. However, because there are ants, an ant hill is something which will naturally occur. It doesn’t require magical dirt to explain an ant hill.

So we can consider the ant hill to be the end product of the ants’ decision (or instinct) to build an ant hill. Even though it would not happen without the ants, we would all agree it is a natural thing.

The ant hill changes the Topography of the yard that it is in, therefore making a observable change in its environment. Yet we still consider it to be natural. We don’t consider ant hills to be damage to the ground unless we are a golf course. We merely consider it to be natural change.

There is nothing Supernatural about an ant hill.

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Miracles and Puppets | Interview with Eric Hovind Part 4

Posted on May 23, 2019 by A Bit Of Orange

Eric discusses the possibility of miracles and the fact that all ministry should be done with puppets.

Find Eric Hovind at https://creationtoday.org

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Jesus, Sand and Stars | Interview with Eric Hovind Part 3

Posted on May 21, 2019 by A Bit Of Orange

Eric Hovind talks about some of the reasons why we can know Christianity is true, and the way the heavens declare the glory of God.

Find Eric Hovind at https://creationtoday.org

 

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And I have to prove GOD? | Interview with Eric Hovind Part 2

Posted on May 16, 2019 by A Bit Of Orange

Eric explains how the simple observation of nature shows that God is our creator, just as the Bible tells us.

Find Eric Hovind at: https://creationtoday.org

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The Trouble with Sunsets (Examining the Flat Earth with no help from NASA)

Posted on May 14, 2019 by A Bit Of Orange

I recently wrote an article for Creation Today about the different ways in which Young Earth Creationists (YEC’s) and Flat Earthers interpret the Bible. You can read it here: https://creationtoday.org/flat-earth-vs-creationism-a-biblical-perspective/

In reply, I had a fellow named Scott imply that I had misunderstood and therefore misrepresented the perspective of Flat Earth believing Christians. During a jaunty bit of back and forth, I was reintroduced to some of the many arguments and evidences which are used in defense of the Flat Earth. One of these is an explanation for the sunset.

According to the flat earth model, the Earth is a essentially flat plane (as opposed to a ball) and the sun orbits around the north pole about 3,000 miles overhead (The sun is either 40 miles across or 300 miles across, depending on how you ask. Yeah, I know. There’s not one standard accepted flat earth model as of yet.). So how do they explain the appearance of sunset? It certainly looks as if the sun descends the sky and then falls below the horizon every day which, of course, fits the globe model we’ve been told in school but not the flat earth model. The answer, I was told, is simple. It’s all a matter of perspective.

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