tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23306308.post4827289011894524483..comments2023-10-11T02:53:32.035-07:00Comments on Five Cent Stand: The Harmony Of Christian Thought and ScienceSeth Wardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02027729307468958273noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23306308.post-39238505253043245712007-05-29T08:12:00.000-07:002007-05-29T08:12:00.000-07:00You got that right friend.You got that right friend.Seth Wardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02027729307468958273noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23306308.post-16490638039066592542007-05-28T21:58:00.000-07:002007-05-28T21:58:00.000-07:00My two cents: I'm outraged too, but sadly not sur...My two cents: I'm outraged too, but sadly not surprised. I simply despise to call myself a Christian knowing full well that I'm immediately lumped with fear-filled people such as those who put up those signs. But I am a Christian, and we were told it would not be easy. I just never thought the burden would be on the "christian" side more than any other.Joeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01315817403467578733noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23306308.post-52882926968182347482007-05-24T19:19:00.000-07:002007-05-24T19:19:00.000-07:00the stan's got it right on... the Big Bang is righ...the stan's got it right on... the Big Bang is right out of Genesis, or in the words of another fundie-ish slogan, "God spoke, and BANG!" (Now, energy is not nothing, it's just not mass. God had to create energy out of nothing as well.)<BR/><BR/>Surely we need to all be looking for truth. I'm not willing to argue for anything unless I'm convinced it lines up with reality. If that turns out to be the 6-day KJV story, I'm OK with that. I'm also OK with the multi-billion year story, and the 4,000-year story. I just can't quite figure out for sure which one it is just yet. The science guys seem to have a pretty good story going at least part of the way. They're still a little fuzzy on exactly how it all works in the details.Robhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12953251818466792517noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23306308.post-79821559857249685922007-05-24T15:11:00.000-07:002007-05-24T15:11:00.000-07:00Don't any of you people have embarrassing family m...Don't any of you people have embarrassing family members? You don't get to pick who is in your family, you're just stuck with them. It doesn't hurt to try and talk sense to them, but you just know that some of them won't listen, no matter what.<BR/><BR/>They're still family (mostly, anyway).Chaotic Hammerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17713799579650424883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23306308.post-79006046936044412052007-05-22T18:01:00.000-07:002007-05-22T18:01:00.000-07:00Sometimes I think Christians get wrapped up in the...Sometimes I think Christians get wrapped up in the wrong details, and get totally out spoken about things we can't necessarily even argue about and prove. <BR/>I can't stand bill boards like that. It's so frustrating to be "represented" by those billboards.kddubhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00363701269234810130noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23306308.post-49780530651990685482007-05-22T08:46:00.000-07:002007-05-22T08:46:00.000-07:00-That's enrollement in the SBC seminaries.-That's enrollement in the SBC seminaries.Seth Wardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02027729307468958273noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23306308.post-603222994399759922007-05-22T08:44:00.000-07:002007-05-22T08:44:00.000-07:00It is good to think positive Euph. But I have a hu...It is good to think positive Euph. But I have a hunch that what you see is what you get. I also don't think that they put the sign up believing people would choose to read between the lines. <BR/><BR/>That’s what I mean by "the Christians with the biggest mouths are usually NOT the ones with the biggest brains."<BR/><BR/>It is because of people like this that there is a growing evangelical Atheist movement today that I think has more momentum than we think.<BR/><BR/>Fundies need to get a clue and realize that they are being lumped together with the maniacs that slammed the planes into the world trade center. There is ZERO love in their rhetoric. <BR/><BR/>The thousands of dollars a month spent on that sign could have served a billion other purposes rather than to make a few fundie congregants happy and piss off the rest of the world, Christians and non-Christians alike, driving away anyone who doesn't believe in a 6 day creation as written in the KJV.<BR/><BR/>I'm tired of this I tell you and I think it is time that a few of us peace-loving moderates rise up and take care of our ridiculous, idiotic, hate-filled, fundie brethren. No telling what the SBC would be like today if the fundies wouldn't have bussed in a billion 4 graders to vote out the moderates and take over the convention. Enrollment is down 70 percent since the 80's and it has split into 4 different parts. <BR/><BR/> I could go on but I'll stop there.Seth Wardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02027729307468958273noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23306308.post-8968572068692552502007-05-22T06:51:00.000-07:002007-05-22T06:51:00.000-07:00A buttload of energy is something more than a plet...A buttload of energy is something more than a plethora, but less than a googleplex. Take it from an engineer.<BR/><BR/>I don't much care for the sign, either. I'm hoping their intent is to say that God is bigger than what our science can explain or replicate, and not that science is bull-hockey. I hopeeuphronyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03172917663193820131noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23306308.post-77870162056718341772007-05-21T20:35:00.000-07:002007-05-21T20:35:00.000-07:00A buttload of energy, huh?How much is that?A buttload of energy, huh?<BR/><BR/>How much is that?FancyPantshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00051762758211575101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23306308.post-38884899536911507012007-05-21T17:34:00.000-07:002007-05-21T17:34:00.000-07:00To continue the thought, protons and neutrons are ...To continue the thought, protons and neutrons are made up of smaller particles called quarks, which are theorized to be made up of multi-dimensional vibrating strings. Don't ask me to explain this any further because I'm not a theoretical physicist. <BR/><BR/>But the point is, for those studying the fundamental make up of matter, it appears that the entire universe may just be an illusion--made up of quantum waves of energy. In other words, ultimately, nothing but energy. <BR/><BR/>(Remember Einstein proved that matter and energy are equivalent with his famous E=mc2. Or, a given mass express in kg, multiplied by the speed of light squared will yield that much energy in Joules. To put it in laymen's terms, a tiny bit of matter yields a buttload of energy. Or looking at it the other way, it takes a buttload of energy to create the tiniest speck of matter.)<BR/><BR/>I agree with you, Seth, on that Billboard. It's ignorant and it really chaps my hide! <BR/><BR/>Physicists and astronomers have made a very strong case for the Big Bang. It's only a matter of explaining <I>how</I> it occurred, not <I>whether</I>. And I don't understand what the big problem about this is with Christians, anyway. <BR/><BR/>"In the beginning, God created the heavens and the Earth."<BR/><BR/>This is the thesis statement for the first chapter of Genesis. The rest is poetry.The Stanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16371931827153392096noreply@blogger.com