Saturday, June 08, 2013

One of the Silliest Facebook Religious Memes I've Ever Seen.

Ok, We've all seen Facebook mems Some are funny, some are dumb, and some are just plain strange.  I saw a religious one yesterday that trued to sight the source as proof of itself.   The meme had a picture of the bible and the caption read, "proof that god exists."  Really, That would be like me posting a picture of "The Lord of the Rings" series with a caption saying, "Proof Hobbits Exist."  or a pick of the Harry Potter books with a caption "Proof Harry Potter Exists."  Something being in a book does not prove it exists.  If you're going to convince me that this god of yours exists than you're going to have to come up with better evidence than the bible which there is  no archaeological or scientific evidence to back up any of the claims it makes.  Take the story of Noaa's flood for example. The bible tells us that god destroyed  all of man kind except for Noaa and his family. Who he instructed to build and arc to carry him, his family and two of every living animal one male and female so the Earth could be repopulated.  and after this arc was complete god would then unleash a storm that would last forty days and forty nights and flood the entire planet.  Problem is a storm like that is impossible.  The way weather patterns work just would not allow a storm like that to happen on that massive scale.  Just think of the amount of evaporation that would have to occur.   Also no evidence of such a flood can be found in the archaeological record. If a flood like that had actually happened it would have left some record behind.  Some would say, "well god hid the evidence."  That does not make any sense,  Why would a god hide such evidence,  if he were trying to teach huanity a lesson you'd think he'd leave evidence for all to see.  Just does not make any sense.  Plus we are still discovering new animal species so there is no way that Noaa could have had two of every animal on the ARK.  Also why would Noaa have needed to put fish on the ARK.  Don't fish live in water?  Seems no one has thought of explaining that one and how would htey ave survived on this Ark for that long out of water?  I'd love to hear how these people explain that one.

Also no evidence has been found to back up the story of the Exodus of Jews from Egypt described in the bible.  They kept meticulous records.  If such a massive departure of people had happened there would be some evidence to back it up.  What I think happened is the plagues described in the bible happened and the story of Moses came out of it to explain the events.  Keep in mind how many things were blamed on the gods or god being angry.  Pretty much every natural disaster was blamed on god being angry with humans for somehow disobeying him.  Now of course we know  that god does  not cause earthquakes, floods, etc.  We know the scientific causes of these things. Well most of us do anyway, Pat Robertson and his followers  still has not figured this out but they may learn it someday.  One can hope. The point is just because a book says something does not make it true.

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