(Describing the post Armageddon world)
I believe the Lord will begin to restore the planet to its pre-flood climate, restoring the firmament above the earth (water canopy) and the year round sub-tropical environment descriptive of Eden. Due to the water canopy's innate ability to block UV rays, and therefore drastically decrease cellular degeneration, people will age VERY slowly. (Or perhaps prolonged life is the direct result of proximity to Christ who is God). Those who look like young children may actually be 40 or so years old. Those who look like adults may actually be alot closer to 200 years old or so. It will be a very curious time we are not accustomed to.
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Ok, so this is your belief.
Care to tell us what it is based on?
Or is it just purely wishful thinking?
You know, I think penguins have been shamelessly overused by Hollywood in recent years, but even I know that a world without them (which I daresay you'd swiftly find if there weren't any areas with a very cold climate) would be poorer for it. Fundies never seem to think of the penguins.
@nintendofreakgcn: not all penguins live in frozen areas. There are species of penguin that live happily in much warmer areas, like the Galapagos penguin that live near the equator on the Galapagos Islands or the South African penguin which breed on sandy beaches and on hillsides near the beaches near Cape Town.
That said, those Galapagos penguins survive because of a cold current that goes by the Galapagos Island, and for the African penguins, the waters off the coast of Cape Town are relatively cold as well, despite the Mediterranean climate we enjoy here.
The Durban area experiences a hot, humid, sub-tropical climate due to its proximity to the warm Indian Ocean...and Durban has no penguins. It would, indeed, be a shame to lose those adorable little creatures.
Of course, since their god is omnipotent, maybe he'll invent some new, warm-water penguins to make up for the loss?
wait..
So god will either a) make water lighter than air (which would seriously damage the probability of us living very long), or b) make humans and the rest of the land-based animal world breath water?
sounds like a lot of effort to go to, considering that everything seems to work pretty well right now, how it is...
Yeah cause sub tropical = paradise...
1. Assume the canopy exists... The green house effect would be stupid big...
2. The "firmament" would freeze on one side and boil on the other...
3. UV rays do not cause cellular degeneration as you claim. We die because our bodies get run down. Otherwise the Inuit would live for atleast 100 years a piece since they have no light for half the year.
If Eden was the whole world, how did God kick them out?
Anyway, if Christians think 200 is old, then they are less visionary than modern day scientists who say they will be able to extend human life indefinitely within the next hundred years or so. How will religions that require fear of death function if human technology succeeds in significantly extending life? This is the ~real~ reason Christians are against genetic engineering, its a threat to them as it may take away people's fear and thus make them harder to convert.
@ cool I agree you ever notice how the fundies version of heaven is like a what ever their favorite children s book is . .
Hovind's not just confusing them on science, he's fuckin' up their understanding of their own canon.
Some of these Rapturites are just making up shit with slight connections to either.
Funny how all of these absurd claims are misguided attempts at justifying a literal interpretation of the Bible and trying to explain it in vaguely scientific terms.
The problem is that a water canopy with the ability to block UV rays would probably be blocking all other light rays as well (to see nothing of how this canopy would form or remain in place), and, of course, even if it did just block UV rays, that would just stop skin cancer, NOT prevent celluar degeneration, which is NOT caused by UV rays.
What is this "restoring the firmament" nonsense? Are these morons still trying to explain away the biblical discrepancy between Genesis and the non-existence of a firmament by claiming it disappeared after the Flood? Why then is it mentioned in Psalm 19: "The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork." Besides, Genesis says that the sun, moon and stars are in the firmament. Are they all going to gather up and enter this water canopy? AiG at least waffles the whole thing by saying that the authors were just using the words available to early people and not speaking from a literal, scientific standpoint for which no language existed at the time.
You people just keep adding to your myth don't you.
And I see your as hung up on the culture of youth as any secularist. You do know that your bible says that white hair is something to be proud of, don't you? And they weren't talking about platinum blonde.
BTW, Venus has a canopy that blocks UV light, the first probe that was sent there, melted.
"Those who look like young children may actually be 40 or so years old. Those who look like adults may actually be alot closer to 200 years old or so"
Those who look and sound like lunatics will really be born again fundies.
Stop trying to make sense of your your imagined, post-divine-action world. As soon as you invoke miracles, rationality stops for good. You can't disregard all known scientific laws for one brief period and then continue as if they will all still apply.
You people just keep adding to your myth don't you.
Fundamental law of human behaviour. You can't stop tradition, you can only add to it. If a tradition does cease, it will do so slowly out of a gradual loss of inertia, not out of any deliberate attempt to kill it quickly (there is always the possibility of deliberately accelerating its decline by increasing those slowly erosive forces, but who has the time and energy for that?). People really should be much more careful about allowing anything repetitive to continue long enough to establish a status of "tradition".
Water block UV rays? BAHAHAHAHAHA! Obviously you don't live in the south or have a pool! You can burn to a crisp under the water in direct sunlight. Try it yourself sometime, stay out in the water all day, but keep the emergency room number handy, third degree sunburns are no fun.
... people will age VERY slowly.
Well with fundies all around it will certainly seem slow anyway.
P. S. It's a lot ... a lot ... a lot ... there's no such word as alot.
the year round sub-tropical environment descriptive of Eden.
If this "sub-tropical" thing actually, really does happen, count me out, because I hate hot weather. 'Swhy I live in a temperate climate, you know.
well yes large amounts of water will act as a shield for radiation. It's part of what allowed the earliest life forms to survive before the ozone layer had formed.
Of course, a "water shield" would also act as a massive greenhouse, turning our planet into a pressure cooker.
Although i have yet to see evidence on how reducing UV increases life span, i am pretty sure becoming boiled like a lobster will not increase human life span.
"Or perhaps prolonged life is the direct result of proximity to Christ who is God"
And the username is so pretentious. Why not "Not smarter than a typical block of wood, but nevertheless superior to everyone else because I know all about Jesus".
Dogmeat wrote:
"Good luck living in at least 900 atmospheres of air pressure..." According to Hovind, it was this higher pressure that allowed the dinosaurs to live. When the vapor canopy disappeared and the air pressure dropped to what it is today, dinosaurs lost most of their buoyancy in the thinner air and could no longer support their own weight. Or something. It's hard to tell, when it's Hovind saying it.
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