tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14900114.post112377839844832037..comments2024-03-20T10:47:46.434-07:00Comments on Annotated Skeptic's Annotated Bible: Be fruitful (Gen 1:28-31)Bruckerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08445755788968924719noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14900114.post-1165222774479385742006-12-04T00:59:00.000-08:002006-12-04T00:59:00.000-08:00Look at John Mackay 'Did a good God make Bad bugs'...Look at John Mackay 'Did a good God make Bad bugs' Creation Research (07)32064467. In the DVD John shows using standard text books and 2002 Science 295 p1892.8 March 2002 that the River blindness worm actually dies in the eye contrary to what Attenborough claimsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14900114.post-1125518630688509192005-08-31T13:03:00.000-07:002005-08-31T13:03:00.000-07:00"And if astrology were so obviously false, nobody ..."And if astrology were so obviously false, nobody would believe in it. But many people believe in it in one form or another. (Therefore it must be true.)"<BR/><BR/>I'm not arguing that it must be true, only that the issue isn't nearly as clear-cut as many atheists would like to have us believe. Heaven knows I've tried to disconvince people of their belief in astrology. But I certainly can't tell Bruckerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08445755788968924719noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14900114.post-1125514703996415362005-08-31T11:58:00.000-07:002005-08-31T11:58:00.000-07:00“People have been argiung this sort of stuff back ...“People have been argiung this sort of stuff back and forth since the time of Job.”<BR/><BR/>Yes, but they were arguing without much information. Very little was known about parasites until a couple hundred years ago, and what little was known was misunderstood.<BR/><BR/>"If it were so obvious, nobody would be a believer in God, but so many people are, in one form or another.”<BR/><BR/>And if Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14900114.post-1125511239043081722005-08-31T11:00:00.000-07:002005-08-31T11:00:00.000-07:00I've studied hundreds of theodicies, and I don't t...I've studied hundreds of theodicies, and I don't think this matter is so simple. People have been argiung this sort of stuff back and forth since the time of Job. If it were so obvious, nobody would be a believer in God, but so many people are, in one form or another.<BR/><BR/>Not that I'm saying this line of questioning is fruitless, not at all! I think the subject in many ways is one of the Bruckerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08445755788968924719noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14900114.post-1125509634948166992005-08-31T10:33:00.000-07:002005-08-31T10:33:00.000-07:00“Yes, going blind because of a nematode would be a...“Yes, going blind because of a nematode would be a very sad thing, but you can't say the nematode is ‘bad’ so much, as it is just doing what it does.”<BR/><BR/>I agree. The nematode isn’t bad; it’s just doing what it does. But if it was purposefully designed, then the designer must have made it the way it is on purpose. And <I>that’s</I> bad.<BR/><BR/>“Sometimes I even wonder if this change Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14900114.post-1125506822585756882005-08-31T09:47:00.000-07:002005-08-31T09:47:00.000-07:00Parasites/predators: I believe it's a common theol...Parasites/predators: I believe it's a common theological position, and one that I hold myself, that after the fall, the world went through some radical changes. Sometimes I even wonder if this change concerning animals didn't come until after the flood, as that's when God condones meat-eating, but I have to admit I don't know the purpose of that particular change.<BR/><BR/>Good and bad animals: Bruckerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08445755788968924719noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14900114.post-1125502901372985012005-08-31T08:41:00.000-07:002005-08-31T08:41:00.000-07:00Brucker: "There was no 'parasite and host, predato...Brucker: "There was no 'parasite and host, predator and prey' at this time."<BR/><BR/>Really? Before the fall of Adam there were no predators or parasites? Where the hell did they come from? Did God create them all after Adam's "sin"? (No one knows how many species of parasites there are, but parasitologists think it likely that there are more parasitic than non-parasitic species.) Could you Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com