Nixit wrote:Now, God knows us all extremely well. If, based on what he knows of us, he figures out that person A will not pray, than he doesn't program into the Earth 'do X thing for person A'. If he figures that person A will pray, he does program into the Earth 'do X thing for person A'. And he's never been wrong.
If this is true Nalaris, then Pie is wrong? Because he said that we all have free will, but that does not seem much like free will.
Pie Wrote:
CARBON DATING is bunk. You guys don't know SQUAT about earths age, and no Carbon Dating "System" Is going to be able to find out. Thus, you have no basis to the earths age. Or anythings age, for that matter. And thus, we can rule out evolution, becous evolution needs time, and we just don't have that much time on the earth.
Regardless of whether Carbon Dating is 'bunk (I don't believe that but haven't done enough research on it to prove you wrong),' that does not rule out evolution. If carbon dating wasn't right, that doesn't mean that the age of the earth is automatically much shorter than what Carbon dating says. For all you know, it could be even older!
And you seem to use this bug thing in the stomach as a reason that scientists are brainwashed.
a) That's only one scenario and doesn't necessarily prove anything.
b) You seem to generalize scientists as one whole group and it sounds like you are saying that every scientist didn't believe this bug thing.
c) They believe it now, right? Perhaps there wasn't sufficient evidence when this concept was first opened to the world... and often times concepts that change many things (I don't know if this qualifies as one though) are often not accepted at FIRST, because it goes against many previous things, but that is not because they are brainwashed. It is simply because there have been things earlier that have been made scientifically solid that don't mix with this new idea... however, scientists usually realize later (usually with MORE evidence) that there, in fact, are bugs in the stomach.
All in all, I don't think you have much grounds to say that scientists are brainwashed (maybe some are, but some people in every profession are most likely), but I don't think that others have much grounds to say that people in religion are brainwashed (obviously some are though).