Friday 4 March 2011

A response to a Christard.

"But anyone that tries to use science to disprove God is foolish."

No one is trying to 'disprove God'. Don't you get it?

OK, last and final time. If you don't understand this point, I'll think of you as forever an idiot. Its not that science is trying to disprove God. It establishes that the BELIEF in god is UNFOUNDED. You can't disprove Fairies either. Does that then mean that the BELIEF in Fairies is a valid belief?

"All mysteries ever solved all turned out to NOT be magic." - Tim Minchin.

That is to say, that for all explanations RELIGIONS have given to something, science has always overruled it with a BETTER explanation.

Do you still believe the earth is flat or do you accept the modern science that the earth goes round the sun? Do you still believe that demons cause disease or do you accept the SCIENCE of Germ Theory (that germs/bacteria/viruses cause illness)?

The Bible makes absolutely no mention of any of these advances in science, and nor does it account for evolution either which is a scientific fact. I know you don't accept evolution, but then neither should you accept germ theory if you don't wish to be a hypocrite.

The Bible is in fact authored by MEN, by desert dwindling goat herders who present their lack of scientific knowledge in abundance with countless errors.

What errors you ask? Very well then.

1) Mathematical: The mathematical number Pi is the ratio of a circle's diameter to its circumference. The value of Pi truncated at 10 digits is 3.141592653. The bible itself gives us a different value of π.
Then he made the molten sea; it was round, ten cubits from brim to brim, and five cubits high. A line of thirty cubits would encircle it completely. (1 Kings 7:23)

2) Thermodynamic: The very first line of the Bible claims that "God created the heaven and the earth." The first law of thermodynamics, however, indicates that matter and energy can neither be created nor destroyed.

3) Astronomical: a) In Genesis, the moon is referred to as a "light" ("lesser light" actually). The moon is merely a reflector of the sun's light, and produces no visible light, although it does shine in different wavelengths not perceivable to the human eye, such as the infrareds. Of course, when talking to tribal nomads and other desert-dwellers, the concept of referring to the moon as a light was commonplace.

b) The Bible makes it clear that stars are tiny objects in sky that will fall down when Jesus comes back. (Revelation 8:10) Of course, they are IN FACT gigantic spheres of burning gas, some smaller, some much larger than our sun. The Bible is wrong.

c) According to the Genesis creation myth, the earth was formed and floreated before the creation of the sun. Aside from biomechanical problems, this flatly contradicts the nebular hypothesis of stellar formation, in which planets form in the accretion disk created by a young star.

Shall I continue? Or do you want to call a Time Out?

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