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.

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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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The Sun Does NOT Exist!

Posted on May 11, 2019 by A Bit Of Orange

I’ve been talking with a flat earther- or whatever the term is which denotes a person who believes the earth is flat but does not also indicate a scathing and self important disdain for that person. His name is Scott, and thus far he has been very polite.

So Scott sent me a video which tries to explain that the sun “setting” is an illusion based on perspective. It’s pretty simple- if you’ve ever watched a plane fly overhead, you will notice that as it approaches, it starts out low in your field of vision and then appears to get HIGHER until it is over you, and then appears to get LOWER as it disappears toward the horizon- but it’s staying the same distance from the ground. The sun does the same thing (so the theory goes) and since this is what we observe when a plane at a constant and fairly close distance moves overhead, so it proves that the sun is also moving at a constant distance over us and only APPEARING to get higher and lower.

Well, I thought that would be easy to debunk, so I decided to take some pictures of the sun through a heavy filter to show that the sun doesn’t get SMALLER as it gets lower the way it should if it were close by and moving parallel to a flat surface. I thought, if I could show that the sun doesn’t change size, then this would debunk this theory.

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The Reason Atheists Troll Christians

Posted on May 7, 2019 by A Bit Of Orange

Since starting my apologetics blogs about a decade ago, I have noticed a strange thing. Persons claiming to be Atheists will show up in my comments sections, saying horrible things- telling me I’m an idiot, calling me a liar, etc. And they show up a LOT. You sort of get used to it after a while, like the stench from that pile of laundry you have been meaning to get to for a couple of weeks. Oh, wait, it’s April already? Ok so… well, the laundry has been a thing for a long time now. And it stinks. But you get used to it. That’s all I’m saying.

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I admit that modern art isn’t that good…

Posted on May 3, 2019 by A Bit Of Orange

In reply to: https://abitoforange.com/2018/01/08/modern-art-sucks-because-atheism-is-stupid/

Your point is extremely flawed. Art doesn’t come from God, it comes from imagination. Now I admit that modern art isn’t that good, but I’m not in any position to critique anyone’s art style, and neither are you. Art is supposed to tell a story, have a meaning. What that meaning is, is up to the artist entirely. So no, there isn’t one true, explicit definition of art, because it varies from person to person. Saying atheism is making art bad is extremely foolish because it means that you are just a very closed minded person and you don’t open yourself up to the possibilities. Maybe I’m biased because I don’t necessarily think that the existence of God is likely, but directly blaming bad art on atheism is, to be blunt, dumb.

Greetings Carley,
Your comment is extremely flawed. I write these blog posts to communicate- to tell a story and have a meaning. What that meaning is, is up to me entirely. Criticizing my posts is extremely foolish because it means that you are just a very closed minded person and you don’t open yourself up to the possibilities. YOU are not in any position to critique MY blog posts.

(Are you going to apologize now? Have I shown you that you should NEVER offer a negative opinion about my writings ever again?
Has it occurred to you that I simply said to you what you said to me?
It should have. I think it was kind of obvious.) Continue reading →

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Flat Earth vs Creationism – A Biblical perspective

Posted on April 30, 2019 by A Bit Of Orange

This article was originally published at https://creationtoday.org/flat-earth-vs-creationism-a-biblical-perspective/

Are Creationists “Flat Earthers”?

While probably most creationists would answer with a resounding “NO” it must be admitted that there are Flat Earthers who are Creationists. These believers in the flat earth would argue that they reject evolution and the modern model of the solar system for the same reasons, and the central reason to some is the Bible.

But what is the relationship between the Flat Earth movement and Young Earth Creationism? Where did this movement come from? And are they right about what they think the Bible teaches? Continue reading →

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Surfing like 60s Batman! | Interview with Eric Hovind Part 1

Posted on April 25, 2019 by A Bit Of Orange

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