[Compelling arguments for creation]
9. Why a week lasts 7 days?
10. God would have been stupid, if he couldn't get everything right the first time
11. It's not the character of God to use misfits and death.
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9. Because our calendar system was designed by Christians who arbitrarily decided a week should be 7 days. The French Revolution, it's worth noting, attempted to institute a ten day week.
10. Uh... whoops. I guess I missed the memo where he actually got everything right this time around. Let's be honest; if there was a God and he did everything right, there wouldn't be any atheists.
11. Whoops again?
[Compelling arguments for Norse religion]
9. If the Norse gods were fake, why are so many of our weekdays named after them, huh?!
10. Odin would have been stupid, if he couldn't defeat Jesus in armed combat
11. It's not in the character of Thor to use misfits and death.
Lessee: Sun, Moon, Tiwaz, Woden, Thor, Frig and Saturn. Yeah, they sound like seven days ordained by a Christian God.
"God would have been stupid, if he couldn't get everything right the first time"
Color God stupid. I just had surgery for a bilateral inguinal hernia. If you know what that is, you know that's one thing God didn't get right the first time.
Now death alone, sure, but death AND misfits? That's just sick.
ThaiDuyknahg, you've obviously been fed some false information. A week lasts 7 days because Odin so willed it a few millennia ago. Didn't you ever wonder why we name our days of the week after the Norse gods? What better proof is there for their existence?
9. Because the calendar was written by Christians, and if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
10. Well, he seems to have gotten quite a bit wrong ... our eyes, for starters. Or the windpipe and esophagus being right next to each other. That's the sort of design mistake that would get you an F in a freshman engineering class.
11. Ah, the OT never happened, did it?
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10. Well, he seems to have gotten quite a bit wrong ... our eyes, for starters. Or the windpipe and esophagus being right next to each other. That's the sort of design mistake that would get you an F in a freshman engineering class.
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And who the heck runs a sewer right through a recreation area?
~David D.G.
Crosis, I actually stole it from a comment I saw on a Yahoo!News discussion board, and I've seen someone use a close paraphrase of it on the FSTDT boards once as well. I don't know if it has a literary origin, but I really wish I could take credit for having thought of it independently.
~David D.G.
I've only ever seen it in this joke...
Three engineering students were gathered together discussing the possible designers of the human body.
One said, "It was a mechanical engineer. Just look at all the articulated joints, levers, fulcrums."
Another said, "No, it was an electrical engineer. The nervous system has many billions of electrical connections."
The last said, "Actually it was a civil engineer. Who else would run a toxic waste pipeline through a recreational area?"
To the optimist, the glass is half full.
To the pessimist, the glass is half empty.
To the engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
Actually, interesting fact about the week: it was 7 days long before the Christian justification. A week (7 days) is pretty much exactly a quarter of a moon cycle, and since primitive farming cultures kinda, well, cared about the moon a whole hell of a lot. . .
<<< To the optimist, the glass is half full.
To the pessimist, the glass is half empty.
To the engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be. >>>
To the cynic, someone did a half-assed job of filling a glass.
<<< To the optimist, the glass is half full.
To the pessimist, the glass is half empty.
To the engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
To the cynic, someone did a half-assed job of filling a glass. >>>
To the conspiracy theorist - the aliens are stealing half our food.
<<< To the optimist, the glass is half full.
To the pessimist, the glass is half empty.
To the engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
To the cynic, someone did a half-assed job of filling a glass.
To the conspiracy theorist - the aliens are stealing half our food. >>>
To George W. Bush, the glass is full, regardless of what any unpatriotic liberals say.
To Pat Robertson, the glass will become full if it repents, and will become completely empty if it refuses to repent and goes to hell.
To "Dr." Kent Hovind, if you've never seen the glass, then it must be a miracle from God.
9. Why a week lasts 7 days?
To give us rationalists even more ammunition:
It was already mentioned numerous times that the days of the week are named after the old nordic gods. Furthermore, the names of the months are named after gods or cultural aspects of ancient pagan Rome:
Janus, Februum, Mars, Aperire, Maya, Juno, Julius, Augustus, Septem, Octo, Novem, Decem.
Doesn't sound judeo-christian, does it? Our whole calendar is a completely human invention. "God" has nothing to do with it, and "god" is similiar a completely human invention.
Seven days for seven moving celestial bodies : The sun, the moon and the five planets visible to the naked eye. It is of Mesopotamian origin - Ancient Egypt used ten day weeks, which even included a weekend.
Seven days for seven moving celestial bodies : The sun, the moon and the five planets visible to the naked eye. It is of Mesopotamian origin - Ancient Egypt used ten day weeks, which even included a weekend.
God never got it wrong, huh?
OK, ignoring the design fuck-ups in the human body (and in many animals and plants, too). Ignoring him putting the trees of life and knowledge into the garden and all that followed. Ignoring him sending Moses to the pharaoh to demand the release of his people and then hardening the Pharaoh’s heart against it. Ignoring all that, there is still that point in the story where he had to kill every man, woman, child, animal and plant on the planet because they didn’t behave as he liked it!
Yeah, he is such a perfect planner
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