Myth. Roosevelt was very keen to get involved, but he had trouble selling it to the general populace because of the large number of Americans who were descended from Germans and Italians.
Was teh Vodnik getting serviced? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NZyZsU87ms
The earth is flat and is the centre of the universe. Everything rotates around us.
The modern misconception that people of the Middle Ages believed that the Earth was flat first entered the popular imagination in the nineteenth century, thanks largely to the publication of Washington Irving's fantasy The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus in 1828.
Theologian and pastor Thomas Schirrmacher, however, has argued:Contrary to legend, Galileo and the Copernican system were well regarded by church officials. Galileo was the victim of his own arrogance, the envy of his colleagues, and the politics of Pope Urban VIII. He was not accused of criticising the Bible, but disobeying a papal decree.
Religion isnt flawed as bad as most ppl currently think, its just been used in an unconstructive, negative way by certain ppl which has impacted badly on society in recent times.
The first mass killing of the Jews was carried out by the so-called People's Crusade, which attached itself to the army of knights and followed on behind them ... . They came largely from Flanders. [But] they proceeded down the Rhine, where there had been large Jewish settlements, ever since Roman times, the oldest Jewish settlements in Europe. And they were really destroyed by these hordes, who felt that as a necessary preliminary to the Second Coming, it was necessary to kill all Jews. This was not the official Church doctrine. The official doctrine was that all Jews must be converted to Christianity before the Second Coming. But one way of settling this matter was to kill them, and there would be no unconverted Jewish left. And that's what they did, in very horrible massacres ... .
no proof?Noahs ark is not humanly possible to maintain all the livestock, let alone collect every animal. theres nothing to suggest a boat that large was ever built outside of the bible.It's also impossible for our weather to 'produce' rain its a constant cycle, while flooding obviously can occur its always localised, and the oceans CANNOT rise meters upon meters due to rain.Mary- thats makes an gereat TUI ad.Telescopes have revealed other planets / systems forming. theres nothing rational to suggest ours didn't form exactly the same way.google > flat earth myth <, nobody sane ever believed the earth was flat.
Read the bible my freind... noah didn't take 2 of every animal.. he took 2 of every kind of animal.. ie: male and femal of dog, cat, retile etc... not 2 x lion, cheetah wolf dingo etc!! One must also remember that 4000 years ago and about 2000 after creation, there wasn't the variety of animals/crossbreeding as in today, so there acually wouldn't have been that many... still alot but not as many as you would think.In relation to the boat size, they believe they have found the ark on or in the vasinty of Mt ararat. They have found rivets, nails etc and the dimensions are exactly as in the bible.And to give you another eg of a unbelieveable story in the bible being true... no one in their right mind could believe that the red sea could have parted so that the Million or so jews could cross it with the egyptions chasing...... Well they have discovered extensive eg's of chariets, human remains, horse remains and other artifacts in the middle of the red sea where the crossing occured..... Now we've shown/proved it did happen now you prove it didn't!!!
mmmm what do you base that theory on?? You must have some evidence to back that claim up.
Boats. That's how that shit got there. Boats.And you haven't shown or proved anything. You've given some simple explanations that could make some of the biblebullshit possible. But only possible, not proven in any way.
did you even read what you type?Firstly you left out insects, secondly heard of indigenous animals ? travelled to australia did he to get the marsupials? and then travelled back to drop them off... no, theres no biblical claim for that is there.A) they haven't found jack shit. they thought they did made a doco, but it was completely inconclusive. all they found were rivets & nails, i'm sorry but how could you possibly deduce dimensions from a handful of rivets and nails?B) red sea thats not proof, almost every army of that era travelled by sea and suffered losses at sea.C) Jesus will return soon. SOON, 2000 years is well past soon by any standard. time proves the bible lies.
Read the bible my freind
Let me clarify with an example. In Leviticus, "God" explains that male homosexuality is an abomination! I am not sure if this mean they roast over an open fire for the rest of eternity or if they have simply displeased God greatly and will suffer some other lower forms of torture for their transgressions. Either way, fundamentalist Christians love that part of the Bible (as do many non-fundamentalists unfortunately). I am going to give them this one for now. So, let's assume for the moment being that insane and grotesque idea is true.In the same Leviticus, "God" says that anyone who eats shellfish -- shrimp, lobster, crabs -- shall also suffer eternal damnation. If they are in the sea and do not have fins or scales, eating them is ... an abomination! So, if gay guys are such a problem for society, then the evil shrimp-eaters must be just as big a problem, right? How come I don't hear that one talked about in the press so much? Because it shows how absolutely nuts it is to believe in religion.
i think there may well have been an ark, and a flood even, but i would say that the story was a bit over exagerrated to keep people interested. Not so exciting to say this bloke Noah, his wife and his live stock went on a boat because his valley got flooded.Stories in the bible are just that - stories. To believe things verbatim... err... yeah... no comment...
MrFiskIt']Mary gave birth without having sex.
In fact evolutionist's believe that we evolved from nothing.. ie the big bang started everything but originated from nothing.. The earth cooled after millions of years... it rained for another million and out of the rain that hit the rocks formed what they call the "soup" and out of the soup spawned cells (from water and rock) and out of that here we are... eventually... Ithink it's much easier on the human brain to believe that someone made the earth... well that's what I think.
Click hereAs for religion, it will be outdone by science eventually, religion gave us the answers for centuries while we were too stupid to do the hard yards and find out the truth through science.
Not true, not all evolutionist's believe that we evolved from nothing, how life started is still unknown, people have only come up with theories, one of them being an organic 'soup' another one being that we were seeded by an asteroid from another planet. However evolution doesn't deal with the original of life, only what happened after.
no proof?Noahs ark is not humanly possible to maintain all the livestock, let alone collect every animal. theres nothing to suggest a boat that large was ever built outside of the bible.It's also impossible for our weather to 'produce' rain its a constant cycle, while flooding obviously can occur its always localised, and the oceans CANNOT rise meters upon meters due to rain.
I guess this is a problem of people taking the bible literary, which I know many christens do.This is my view on the Noah flood, in that time, people only knew of a very small part of the world, as the rest had not been explored yet, so to them, their entire world was only as far as they could see.So therefore when the flood happened, he presumed the entire world was flooded, as as far as he could see, there was only water, so he would have assumed the entire world was flooded.As for the ark, it wouldn't need to be that big, as it only had to carry the animals of that area, which wouldn't be that many.
But that's what they teach in the schools... The organic soup theory is being taut as fact even with many flaws...... From what I know, there is only 2 theories, Creation and the big bang.. Creation-god created the universe, Bigbang- The organic soup.. it's either one or the other, you can't be an evolutionist and believe in the creation theory.
Nice theory.. but that doesn't explain how they found clam shells and other marine life on Mt everest.. Nor does it explain hundreds of other natural phenominum that is said to be caused by the flood.... Nice though at least you're thinking outside the square
And Dustow, once again your fundie idiocy gets in the way of logic. You CAN believe in god and believe in evolution. You can believe in god, and that god created the earth, literally, and still believe in evolution. If you had actually read up on what you're trying to argue about you'd know this.
I have long stated that I don't argue that god doesn't exist. You can't argue that! However the bible can certainly not be used as legitimate proof of much.And Dustow, once again your fundie idiocy gets in the way of logic. You CAN believe in god and believe in evolution. You can believe in god, and that god created the earth, literally, and still believe in evolution. If you had actually read up on what you're trying to argue about you'd know this.Evolution and the big band are taught in schools because they're the accepted scientific theories. If the big bang was suddenly disproved, then you can bet they wouldn't stop teaching evolution.
