God Is Imaginary - Proof 5

== "Proof" #5 - Read the Bible ==
The first portion of this is largely MB setting himself up as the standard and then doing what is the very definition of cherry picking followed by condemning it all based on himself as the standard. It really isn’t worth responding to beyond this unless someone has a specific question about one of his condemnations.
This next section addresses science, which is a little bit more detailed and worth responding to.
~~~If Norm is a scientist it is even worse, and it starts with the very first line:
In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth... That's not true. In the beginning a natural event created the universe as we know it, and the earth did not form until billions of years later.~~~~
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Says MB. This is simply an assertion and it is not difficult to show to be false (see my Case for God), though it may take time to unravel over a hundred years of bad science. Time requires patience.
~~~~The creation story in Genesis is completely wrong. Simply read Genesis and you can see it. For example, the Bible says that light and darkness are created after the water but before the sun. Everyone knows that the sun came first, then the planet and its rotation (which is what causes light and darkness to occur on a daily basis) and then the water, and this all happened over million of years.~~~~
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Again he asserts and also makes the logical fallacy called argumentum ad populum, an appeal to the crowd. “Everybody knows...my position is the right one.” This isn’t an argument at all and has equal weight to my own assertion that the Biblical account of Creation is true.
~~~~ There are many other problems with the Bible:
Man did not come from a handful of dust through some mythological being. Man evolved from other species like every other living thing has for hundreds of millions of years.~~~~
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I address macroevolution thoroughly elsewhere on this website. Suffice to say, he makes another assertion and then provides a link to a different proof. Therefore I will deal with that when I get to that proof.
~~~~The Bible talks about a world-wide flood that covered earth in 5.5 miles of water and killed everything, yet we know it never happened. That is clear from the archeolgical record.~~~~
Again he shows his ignorance of things. The Bible does not claim that the Flood covered the earth in 5.5 miles of water, nor do scientists who believe in the literal account of Genesis make this claim. Furthermore, he asserts that the archeological record shows this never happened, but doesn’t provide any evidence to show this. This is not an argument. I’ll not do his job for him and provide a negative argument against an affirmative argument he never made. Suffice to say, he has to show us archeological evidence to support the assertion before it can be considered.
~~~~There was no tower of Babel where God confounded the languages of mankind.~~~~
Again, another assertion with no supporting evidence. This guy is not very good at this at all.
~~~~The list goes on and on. The Bible is nonsense in a thousand different scientific ways.~~~~
Says MB, but he hasn’t shown us even one, yet.
~~~~Ask yourself this simple question: Why, when you read the Bible, are you not left in awe?~~~~
I actually am, but that’s because I actually understand what I’m reading and have studied the Bible as a whole.
~~~~Why doesn't a book written by an omniscient being leave you with a sense of wonder and amazement? If you are reading a book written by the all-powerful, all-knowing, all-loving creator of the universe, wouldn't you expect to be stunned by the brilliance, the clarity and the wisdom of the author? Would you not expect each new page to intoxicate you with its incredible prose and its spectacular insight? Wouldn't you expect the author to tell us things that scientists have not been able to discover yet?~~~~
It does.
~~~~Yet, when we open the Bible and actually read it, we find it is nothing like that at all. Instead of leaving us in awe, it leaves us dumbfounded by all of the nonsense and backwardness that it contains. If you read what the Bible actually says, you find that the Bible is ridiculous. The examples shown above barely scratch the surface of the Bible's numerous problems. If we are honest with ourselves, it is obvious that an "all-knowing" God had absolutely nothing to do with this book.~~~~
And so we are back to MB as the standard condemning things based on his own world view. This is pure subjectivity and cannot be reasoned against except to point out it is subjective.
~~~~The reason why the Bible contains so much nonsense is because God is imaginary. The Bible is a book written thousands of years ago by primitive men. A book that advocates senseless murder, slavery and the oppression of women has no place in our society today.~~~~
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I may come back to the allegations of murder, slavery, and ‘oppression’ of women if I see the need to, but at this point it is sufficient to say that he has no objective way to condemn actual murder, slavery, and oppression of any kind without some kind of objective standard to judge by. If it’s just his opinion that those actual things are wrong, then who is to say he is correct and a murderer, slaver, or oppressor is wrong?
If we are just a product of evolution, a complex combination of chemicals with only natural selves and no spiritual self, a descendent of chemicals that randomly assembled millions of years ago into the first living organism, how can anyone say anything anyone does is “wrong”? We are only following the natural course our chemicals require and all is meaningless, including his so-called arguments.
In Truth and Love.