Biblical Contradictions graph

[quadz]

Nifty graph of contradictory statements in old+new testaments:

Full resolution PDF: http://www.project-reason.org/bibleContra_big.pdf

[fdrjk]

....How the hell does the graph work? I cant read line

[quadz]

....How the hell does the graph work? I cant read line

The full resolution PDF link didn't work?  You should be able to "View full size" within the PDF...  The graph is explained in the bottom left corner.

[reaper]

how about a contradictory graph of reality and athiesm

 

[quadz]

how about a contradictory graph of reality and athiesm

Like this?

Oh, wait...

[reaper]

No not like that

 

[|iR|Focalor]

how about a contradictory graph of reality and athiesm

 

How about you tell us what constitutes (in your opinion) the definition of "reality" and "atheism", and then we'll laugh at how skewed your perceptions of both really are.

[reaper]

I thought I did that, but I will lay down some truth bombs later, just give me some time.

 

[|iR|Focalor]

Truth bombs? When the hell did you convert to Islam?

[reaper]

hot salami and bakon, hot salami and bakon, hot salami and bakon

[reaper]

One day dinasaurs, the next day people.  No order, purpose, or reality to be explained there, carry-on.

[|iR|Focalor]

Humans evolved. "People" and "dinosaurs" co-existed. Well, they killed each other, if that's "co-existing". I remember the good ole days when we'd team up to hunt and kill wolly mammothseses. That was before you needed a hunting license. Wasn't until everyone started killing buffalos at a rate of 30-50 per person per day that hunting licenses and bag limits were really necessary. Dinosaurs may have been huge and dangerous, but white men were smaller and about as intelligent. Size really doesn't matter unless you're counting bullet calibers.

[reaper]

A couple changes in chemicals and humans evolve as opposed to dinasaurs.  When this happens there is basically a world to unearth that did not exist for dinasaurs.  To an athiest, it's just randomness, but such an elaborate complex system of instructions and interactive materials coming from randomness is highly unlikely.  It's also highly unlikely that something evolves where there appears to be a higher power but there is not.

This is when humans "invented" the word of god.  Now it has problems, but so does everything else.  Life's a bitch and then you die, fuck it let's get high.

 

[|iR|Focalor]

A couple changes in chemicals and humans evolve as opposed to dinasaurs.

As far as I know, (I haven't studied it in great depth) dinosaurs did indeed evolve in their own right as evidenced by fossils found in different layers of rock, which is especially evidenced by the phylogeny of trilobites.

To an athiest, it's just randomness, but such an elaborate complex system of instructions and interactive materials coming from randomness is highly unlikely.

In my opinion, herein lies the one and only "meaning" of life. Our planet is extremely lucky to have had all the necessary elements come together in just the right way to create and sustain life thus far. This is why I'm such the outdoorsy type. I love being out in nature and just watching plants and animals act and interact with one another. It's a wondrous and awe inspiring thing just to watch. So many different species that can be so different from one another, and yet they all share a common thread of only being able to survive by the existence of oxygen. Some can survive on very little. Some must breathe it as a gas, while aquatic species have the amazing ability to be able to absorb and extract it from water. Nature can be deadly, vicious, and ugly sometimes, but if you really take the time to step back and take it all in, it's really ALL a magnificently functioning machine of beauty. I feel sorry for city folks that don't have the opportunity to see it as much as I do every single day out here in the country. Then again, bustling cities can sort of be viewed as miraculous awe inspiring ecosystems in their own way as well. Everything that went into building them comes from the soil of the earth and has been manipulated by the intelligent workings of the human mind and hands to create an environment where humans can thrive... aside from the smog, I guess. Even cities sustain non-human wildlife. Mostly roaches, rats, and pigeons... and sometimes a grizzly bear that might escape from a local zoo on rare occasion and start terrorizing and mauling people downtown.

there appears to be a higher power but there is not.

This is when humans "invented" the word of god.

Luke, I see you've come over to the dark side. It's about damn time!

Quoting out of context is fun shit!

[quadz]

A couple changes in chemicals and humans evolve as opposed to dinasaurs.  When this happens there is basically a world to unearth that did not exist for dinasaurs.  To an athiest, it's just randomness, but such an elaborate complex system of instructions and interactive materials coming from randomness is highly unlikely. 

Dammit reaper.  Read a book. 
http://www.amazon.com/Blind-Watchmaker-Evidence-Evolution-Universe/dp/0393315703  (Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design)



It's not a random process.  Evolution by natural selection is a non-random process.  That there is randomness involved in components of the process does not make the whole process random.  That would be similar to saying: to an atheist, all of Q2 is a random process, because randomness is used to determine spawn points and the spread of shotgun pellets.


On a related note, here's a nifty, highly detailed Tree of Life, based on rRNA sequences:

http://www.zo.utexas.edu/faculty/antisense/tree.pdf