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#347851
ArmandT
If this man believes that human population and their technlogical achievements have remained at a linear pace since the 'Flood' (based on his other posts)...
I cannot comprehend the black hole that is his brain.
11/29/2007 9:59:43 PM
#347852
Osiris
No species can survive by itself. All life on Earth has evolved to coexist in relative harmony. What will happen is they will either starve or evolve into cannibals until they consume all the breathable air on the planet and then asphyxiate to death.
As for your God's infallible plan it basically all fell apart when Adam and Eve at the apple.
11/29/2007 10:00:40 PM
#347857
anti-nonsense
so basically everything exists for your benefit?
Arrogant, self-centered ass.
11/29/2007 10:02:00 PM
#347937
Mike
wut?
11/29/2007 11:41:21 PM
#347962
Rhys
I don't understand most of what he is trying to say, but I have to admit, I do agree with his final point. The ultimate goal of humanity should be the stars, and the only way to achieve that is to work together and not let petty, useless things like religion tear us apart.
For some reason tho, I doubt this was what he was going for.
11/30/2007 12:20:28 AM
#347963
Gadren
I'm a transhumanist. I think that what defines humanity isn't our limitations but our ability to go beyond them. I think that with the accelerating pace of technology, there's a distinct possibility of us bettering ourselves, eventually spreading ourselves out among our corner of space.
I tend to think of things in terms of their value to humanity. But I don't fool myself into thinking that anthropocentric value is anything but a subjective value we place on things in our own self-interest.
The Universe isn't here "for" us. There's no preordained reason for the vastness of space. It just is.
I think we should expand and make humanity bigger and better -- but there is no destiny for the Universe you're thinking of, outside of what we ourselves make from the situation we're in.
11/30/2007 12:22:54 AM
#347986
Michael
Damn it! I'm complaining to the government. I want my personal Spaceplane! Hell, while they're at it, I want my own personal nuclear missile as well. Where the hell is my flying car!?
11/30/2007 12:58:53 AM
#347988
t3h_fuhr3r
"The universe was made for meeeeeee!!!"
It was nice when their egos were a little smaller and only thought that the world was amde for them.
11/30/2007 1:02:09 AM
#347992
approximate
May you live long enough to witness our first contact with extraterrestrials. Perhaps that'll deflate your enormous ego.
What an ass.
11/30/2007 1:05:03 AM
#348016
Brian X
Then why does relativity deny faster-than-light travel by any currently-known mechanism (apart from using a few pages of Kip Thorne equations and a gigantic vat of unobtanium/anti-unobtanium fuel)? And why are the cosmos flooded with ionizing radiation that would require the creation of sci-fi technology to allow human survival?
11/30/2007 1:51:16 AM
#348032
Michael
@ Brian X Re: Radiation
This was not always so. Before the Fall of Adam, there was this canopy of ice that surrounded the Universe that prevented radiation from entering the Universe...
11/30/2007 2:32:31 AM
#348037
Julian
And most of it's a vacuum, so you can fill it with your hot air right?
11/30/2007 2:45:22 AM
#348066
Xotan
Lebensraum fuer Alle!
11/30/2007 5:23:23 AM
#348077
Mister Spak
You are wayyy behind in your grammar lessons.
11/30/2007 6:06:36 AM
#348087
szena
@Michael - and the canopy was destroyed in the Flood, which would have been unnecessary if humans had never sinned, which means each family's space ship would have been destroyed before it got out of the atmosphere.
11/30/2007 6:16:06 AM
#348097
anevilmeme
This guy is comic gold.
11/30/2007 6:34:28 AM
#348142
NonProphet
That sounds like Scientology, doesn't it?
Is this a Scientologist fundie?
11/30/2007 8:31:58 AM
#348160
Michael
@Szena: Noah's Ark was a spaceship. It went to Mars, where Noah and his son's built the Face on Mars... (Well, at least it makes as much sense as the fundie shit! LOL)
11/30/2007 9:27:13 AM
#348164
szena
@Michael - there's a fundie on the creation-evolution debate yahoogroup who seriously states that the ark was a space ship and all the animals were cryogenically frozen.
You can't make this stuff up.
11/30/2007 9:31:33 AM
#348174
Caustic Gnostic
We are approximately 1700 years behind, thanks to biblical dogma.
The enormous benefits of science and technology were only made possible by people who gave religion the Finger.
Otherwise, we would still be living and dying in squalor and unreasoning fear, ignorant of even Germ Theory.
11/30/2007 9:45:22 AM
#348178
TB Tabby
Also, if people lived forever, the mechanics of evolution wouldn't function.
11/30/2007 9:53:31 AM
#348184
Brain_In_A_Jar
Ludicrous - you'd die of old age before you could get anywhere near even the closest star to our own, without colossal advances in science and technology. You'd likely have to go even further still to have any hope of finding a star with a suitable planet orbiting it. It was a bloody Herculean effort to get as far as the moon (it went a long way towards bankrupting the entire USSR in the process, and took a huge bite out of US savings too), and even mars is off limits to anything except small, remote control buggies for the foreseeable future.
If your god made the universe for us to colonize, he'd have made it accessible, or at the very least told us how to get space ships up to appreciable fractions of light speed, without annihilating the occupants and using all the fuel on the damn planet in the process.
11/30/2007 10:12:19 AM
#348222
John
If humans were to live forever, why did God kick them out of Eden to keep them from eating from the Tree of Life and becoming immortal?
11/30/2007 11:40:54 AM
#348258
Blackvoice
And why are we behind shedule? Hm?
11/30/2007 12:31:27 PM
#348277
Old Viking
Mankind's most cherished dream is to pollute the entire universe.
11/30/2007 1:21:14 PM
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