Theism- A lost reality! A hopeless, helpless cause!

Outline:I. IntroductionII. The Validity of the BibleIII. SourcesI. IntroductionAh. I never actually thought this would turn into a mature debate, but I'll gladly go through with it. I suppose I'll discuss my opinion on religions, and more specifically, criticize the validity of the Bible. At a young age, I was taught to believe in God and the Bible in and the teachings of Jesus. I actually thought that the moon and its glow was God (in my defense, I was a pretty stupid kid), because how else could I explain a large mass floating through the sky, with bright slivers of its light escaping into my room? I used to pray to God for most nights, whether it was to do well on the test that I didn't study for or to protect my family. But I grew older and began to see things from a different perspective. I strayed from "the path of God," and saw things in a more rational way, applying logic, math, and science to explain things that I didn't entirely understand, rather than God.I believe that religions were created because, in the absence of modern science or the application of logic to explain things that were not understood, people flocked towards religion and the belief that divine spirits controlled the world: the weather, the success of one's farming crops, who lived or died and how the world and all humans were created.II. The Validity of the Bible To reinforce my point that religions were created as a result of people who could not explain their environment any other way, I would like to explain how the Bible, a very well-known and beloved book to millions, contains many fallacies.The Bible is used to explain man's origins and the world. However, these tales of living, breathing human beings being formed from clay or a fragment of a person's bone, a suggestion that alchemy is plausible, or the belief that the world is a meager six thousand years old as opposed to four billion years, when put into perspective, does seem "off." For example, the story of Noah's Ark is downright illogical. According to the Bible, he, his two sons, and his wife managed to make a boat capable of housing two of every creature on this Earth. It would be an estimated around 510 feet long and 51 feet tall capable of sailing for around 150 days (S1). This also means that Noah would have to travel all over the world to acquire two of each animal. The voyages to successfully retrieve every animal on this world would take lifetimes. Another example of the Bible's inaccuracies is the claim that the Earth is relatively six thousand years old. However, trees such as the Old Tjikko have surpassed six thousand years. It's estimated to be approximately 9,550 years old (S2). This fact alone should put to rest that the Bible can make accurate statements on the world.Bill Nye, a prominent atheist speaker, bashed the Biblical belief of Earth being 6,000 years old in a debate against Ken Ham, saying "My scientific colleagues go to places like Greenland, the Arctic, they go to Antarctica and they drill into the ice with hollow drill bits; it's not that extraordinary, and many have probably done it yourselves, like with hole saws to put locks in doors, for example. And we pull out long cylinders of ice, long ice rods. And these are made of snow and ice. It's called snow ice. Snow ice forms over the winter, and snow flakes fall, and are crushed down by subsequent layers. They're crushed together, and are entrapping little bubbles. The bubbles must needs be [from] ancient atmospheres; there's nobody running around with a hypodermic needle squirting ancient atmosphere into the bubbles. And we find certain of the cylinders to have 680,000 layers. 680,000 snow winter/summer cycles. How could it be that just 4000 years ago, all of this ice formed? We can just run some numbers. Let's see we have 680,000 layers of snow ice, and 4000 years since the great flood, that means we need 170 winter/summer cycles every year. For the last 4000 years. Wouldn't someone have noticed that? Wouldn't someone have notice there's been winter/summer, winter/summer for 170 times in one year?" (S3).III. Sources:S1) https://answersingenesis.org......S2) http://mentalfloss.com......S3) http://www.youngearth.org......