"My point is that any text book that is older than 5 years is completely outdated. How can you base your faith in a religion that changes its doctrine every 5 years?"
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Over a five year timespan, most adjustments in textbooks, while important, are not major adjustments in major theories. Most are additional data and refinements in theories.
The Bible on the other hand is a mishmash of badly written stories, composed thousands of years ago. It's contentions never refined and no new data ever added.
It's called refinement. Improving knowledge by making it more detailed and specific doesn't necessarily overturn what was known before. No major scientifc doctrine has really been overturned in decades, though new fields have unfolded and fascinating mechanisms behind earlier, cruder theories have been revealed.
Science is unafraid to constantly improve and question itself. Religion stands in sharp contrast, clinging to ideas that have been resoundingly refuted for centuries, and stubornly denying reality whenever it conflicts with texts that have needed revision for millennia.
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Q: What time is it?
A: 10:21 PM
Q: What time is it?
A: 10:23 PM
Both answers are probably false, different answer every time.
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Q What time is it?
A "Late evening"
Looks outside "About half past ten"
Check watch "It's 10:23"
Thinks "10:23 PM"
Thinks again "That's 10:23 PM BST for the benefit of US visitors"
Are they all damnable lies?
Clearly not. Your are merely getting closer to the truth every time you answer the question.
Fundies, on the other hand, answer the question as "6PM" and scream "LIES!!" at anyone who dissents. Proclaiming certainty does not make ones answer certain.
Yes...we must trust the religions that adamantly refuse to change in a changing world and society, and will never admit that they are wrong, or ever were wrong in the past. That's the kind of religion that appeals to me! Not the evil institution of "education"!
I'm sorry, I'd like to take this opportunity to laugh at how you completely missed your own point. If any textbook older than 5 years is outdated, then a religious text that is 2000 years old must be severely outdated.
In fact, it is. Paedophilia is not a sin according to the Bible.
"How can you base your faith in a religion that changes its doctrine every 5 years?"
You're right, once a Holy text is in place, it must NEVER BE ALTERED.
Pity you Christians did just that when you created the "New Testament"....
too bad text books aren't religious texts, they change as we acquire more knowledge. That way, they're accurate.. as opposed to a book older then any living thing that hasn't been changed despite inaccuracies and contradictions.
A five year old car is completely outdated but still usable. A 5 year old computer is next to useless, but might be usable. Science isn't based on faith and neither should be textbooks. As we learn more we do things better, we build things better and we can rely more on what we know. We could also choose to base our lives on 2500 year old mythology and use all of our faith to cling to that mythology, but that would be for losers. How's it feel to be a loser?
EVERY textbook older than five years, is COMPLETELY outdated? So, what, the acceleration due to gravity has changed recently?
Yeah, why listen to anything that continues thinking and responds to evidence? That's why I reject medicine. I mean, first they say leaches, and then, all the sudden, no leaches. First mercury as a treatment for syphilis, and then, suddenly, no mercury. Medicine? Wtf? I'll take witch doctors over that shit. At least they're consistant in their wolfsbane concoctions.
Thats what makes it so good. Its forever improving. While yours is 2000 years old, ours is brand new and up to date. It improves with every step and becomes stronger.
As if your faith has not changed.
I hope this is a Poe. This is the dumbest, most obvious quote I've ever seen.
This fruit is so low-hanging it's underground.
Science updates based on new information.That's a good thing.That's what it's supposed to do.
Do you want a doctor treating you based on 2000 year old 'medicine' or lack there of?
Isn't your 2000 year old book outdated? How is it even remotely relevent now?
@Count Zapolai
Hey, Yogi, what time is it?
Yogi Berra: Ya mean right now?
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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