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Arch, It is the opposite of science. Creating gods to explain complex phenomena is what our cave dwelling ancestors did to explain wind, thunder, earthquakes, fire, snow, and rain. Science involves looking for the reasons why something happens. ID or any other form of faith-ridden silliness merely t...

This is why I try to make my disparaging remarks about religion as general as possible. None have any basis of truth so why should any one group be singled out for being worse.

According to this http://www.dandavidprize.org/laureates/past20054-finkelstein.html ..."Israel Finkelstein is widely regarded as a leading scholar inthe archaeology of the Levant and a foremost applicant of archaeological knowledge to reconstructing biblical Israelite history..." and &quo...

It's simple. A pyramid is the easiest, most efficient, most stable way to stack things up high. Put fifty people in seperate rooms with a few hundred blocks each and ask them to make a high, stable structure without glue or mortar and I'll bet every one will come up with a pyramid shape. It may be ...

This is what you're up against, FreeThinker....

"To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous as to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin." - Cardinal Bellarmine, 1615, during the trial of Galileo

BTW, welcome aboard.

Tell that to the thousands who were murdered by Aztec/Toltec priests.

I'm sure they'd be very interested to hear how little power the priests had!

Doesn't mean it was created by some johnny-come-lately god, either.

I've suggested books by reputable scholars, you decline to read them No, I obviously missed that part. Refresh me. Start with Israel Finklestein and William Dever. You only want simple answers to complex problems I'll settle for evidence, if you care to actually give me any. Could the problem be th...

Well, we have Bible Belt Christian assholes running the US and I can assure you that it is far worse.

As for Roberts....look it up. I'm not your research service.

I've suggested books by reputable scholars, you decline to read them. You only want simple answers to complex problems, like you get out of your bible (and I call it yours because you apparently subscribe to its nonsense.) Keep on believing that God created man out of dirt....instead of the obvious ...

Not every civilization has mass-entertainment sports....but all of them seem to have priests sucking the life out of people. You know, Realist, virtually every religion comes down to one basic premise. Some guy says to another guy: "Psst, hey you. Listen. God told me to tell you that he wants t...

Look at how many have collapsed.

But the 3 Giza Pyramids are pretty much intact.

Stan gets it. I don't feel like re-capping the whole discussion at this point.