Hya!
I'm back!
Before I start I want to say I have gotten an email of a Jake, at rocketmail or something giving me some "proof" of evolution, apparently it was a comment on the blog...
I don't read the comments much as I am pretty busy...
It will probably change in a while.
I just want to say that is no proof of evolution and I will explain it at a later stage. (I have several topics planned.)
Now, today's entry will be something I learnt from Dr. Kent Hovind (Which is currently in jail). You can visit his website here or here.
Well, this one guy came up to me (He was a creationist, but he did believe in the gap theory) and said, Martin, what is God like? Thats not an easy question. Well, Kent Hovind said...
Lets say you (The reader) is God, you created your own world. A 2D world. There are 2 people on it, Mr and Mrs Flat. They see 1D and observe 2D (Like us, we see 2D and observe 3D). Now lets say you put your finger on 1 side of the earth, where Mr. Flat is, he would say "God is as circle". Then you put 3 fingers on the other side of the world. Where Mrs. Flat is, she would say, "No, God is 3 circles...". So this argument will go on and on until finally they die. Lets say they go to heaven. They finally get the chance to see God. Now they will see God is not 1 or 3 circles, but nothing even close to circles, something much much more complex. So just like that we can't really understand God, we put our limitations on God. For example, we are stuck in time, God is not. We can't even imagine how something could be with time! Lets talk for 5 minutes and lets see if we can't refer to time!
Yesterday I did that... (Time)
I am 16 years old (Time)
Tomorrow I will (Time)
Today... (Time)
I will be... (Time)
So, we are really stuck in time! God is not, we put our limitations on God, God is something our brains can't even comprehend! Like example, think of a color that does not exist... (You can't) Not shades of the current colors, brand new colors. The 1 guy came to me and said:
Challenger: "Thinking of a new color? Thats nothing! Clearly you are very limited!"
Martin: "Ok, lets say I am limited, now describe your color for me would you?"
Challenger: "Well, it is a little reddish, with a little blueish..."
Martin: "Ok, number 1, thats purple. Number 2 thats not new colors, thats a shade of red, and a shade of blue mixed together. Describe a brand new color!"
Challenger: "..."
Martin: "Ok, think of a new sense that does not exist. I can't!"
Challenger: "Haha, piece of cake! An antenna on one's head then you can sense when something is near."
Martin: "Sorry, that is either a variation of sight, smell, touch or hearing, which ever one you choose."
Challenger: "Well, what about an antenna that can scan everything in an object."
Martin: "A variation of sight."
Challenger: "What about RV? Thats often called the sixth sight or the third eye."
Martin: "Variation of sight."
He deleted me from IM after that conversation.
This one anti-Christ came to me and said:
Challenger: "I believe there is a God, but I believe the devil is even more powerful!"
Martin: "Let me tell you how I see it, let me try to compare it. Satan = Saving light. God = Thunder. Who has the most power?"
Challenger: "God never helps anybody!"
Martin: "Thats not true! God completely overwhelms the devils power!"
Challenger: "Prove it!"
I took him to one of the classes in my school, there were more anti-Christ's plaing anti-Christ games.
The game they were playing is a game, you get a small stick (about match size) and say a bunch of mumbo jumbo, then the stick starts to spin, you simply swear the stick and the stick breaks in half. The challenger said see, that demonstrates the power of satan! I said and his power is very weak! The other anti-Christs said what about a game of glasses. (Basically they put a glass on the table, says some more mumbo jumbo and the glass moves, then something happens to it, I just can't remember what.) They started playing the game, the glass moved. The guy said see allot of power. While the glass was moving they were teasing me and the glass was moving faster and faster and he said my God can't come even close to that. All I did was I got on my knees and I started to pray, at first nothing happened, but as soon as I said "Jesus Christ" the glass stopped moving. I got up and they simply couldn't move the glass. They started it all over, the glass didn't even bunge. Until the one girl got mad and threw it out of the window. I said, "a fraction of my God's power." I walked out.
Point I am trying to make, we don't understand God, but He is almighty, I think that God is the most powerful thing that can ever exist. I don't understand Him, and I probably never will, but I believe in Him, and my life has been great thanks to that!
Thanks to everyone who read this entry.
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Put your hand out in front of you. How can you tell where it is? Can't be sight, you can't see it, you can't hear your arm, nore can you smell it, and I doubt you can taste it. Touching your arm, that would just be coming up with some shit to work your way around it. There are many senses which are working away without you knowing.
ReplyDeleteI agree with the bible, but science IS fact. True science, not theories, the proven facts, like gravity. Bible I see as a basis of morals, guiding people through life, but there actually being a God, I don't believe.
This is the best thing i have readed today!
ReplyDeletePower of God just by Praying!
Kent Hovind stole that "Flatland" analogy from Edwin Abbot Abbot. (And when Abbot was talking about Flatland, he was making a genuinely good point, not a half-assed attempt at pitiful hand-waving about how it's impossible to understand god, so we shouldn't even try.)
ReplyDeleteNot only that, but Hovind is a freakin' dolt. He knows so little about basic scientific facts that I can't help but assume that he has never cracked any book on science in his life. For example, his description of sexual reproduction involved the DNA from each parent splitting in half along the DNA stand and combining with each other, something that I could have pointed out was completely and utterly wrong when I was in 9th grade biology. And he claims to have taught High-school biology? Good thing I never had him as a teacher.
And your story about the Satanists doesn't do anything for me. I doubt that you ever had an encounter with these "Satanists" you describe. You don't seem to know that these kinds of Satanists are absurdly rare, and none of them lay claim to magic powers. Almost all of the people who claim to be Satanists are what are called Symbolic Satanists that use the character of Satan as a metaphor for self-worship, and these people usually don't believe in the supernatural at all, let alone pretend to OH EM GEE MOVING A CUP!!!
And I can very easily imagine a new sense, sir. The ability to detect magnetism by the use of two pieces of iron that move closer together in the presence of a magnetic field that are located somewhere in my abdomen. This doesn't prove anything, though, except that you are mindlessly impressed by the inability to imagine God, something that is by definition anthropomorphic and has been re-engineered to be "indescribable" by people who realize that their previous descriptions were flawed. This doesn't captivate me in the least. Now, Carl Sagan's use of Edwin Abbot Abbot's Flatland analogy, that is truly captivating, because it is describing the indescribable nature of something that we can actually model in mathematics, unlike the shallow indescribability you attribute to your god.
Here's Carl Sagan discussing Flatland: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnURElCzGc0
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