From: tangyapple	Date: December 4th, 2006 06:11 pm (UTC)		(Link)

Hi. Thought you might like today's freethought quotes here:

http://ffrf.org/day/

:)

From: (Anonymous)	Date: August 15th, 2007 05:57 am (UTC)		(Link)
Psalm 93

Psalm 93 where it says 'The world is firmly established, it cannot be moved' doesn't mean that the world is the center of the universe. If you read the rest of Psalm 93, it salks about the lords statues standing strong, etc... This means either: the world cannot be destroyed or Christianity cannot be wiped out.
And Joshua 10:12-13, 2 Kings 20:11, Isaiah 38:8 and Isaiah 30:26, are all miracles. Not one verse in the bible tells us that the Earth is in the center of the universe

and also about the part where you wrote 'Christian Ego and Pride: Science is Humbling'

First of all, Christians beleive that the Earth is 6000 to 7000 years old. 14 Billion years is absolout rubbish. Carbon Dating has been disproved many times.

please reply

	From: u3190	Date: August 15th, 2007 05:59 am (UTC)		(Link)
	Psalm 93

Psalm 93 where it says 'The world is firmly established, it cannot be moved' doesn't mean that the world is the center of the universe. If you read the rest of Psalm 93, it talks about the lords statues standing strong, etc... This means either: the world cannot be destroyed or Christianity cannot be wiped out.
And Joshua 10:12-13, 2 Kings 20:11, Isaiah 38:8 and Isaiah 30:26, are all miracles. Not one verse in the bible tells us that the Earth is in the center of the universe

And also about the part where you wrote 'Christian Ego and Pride: Science is Humbling':

First of all, Christians beleive that the Earth is 6000 to 7000 years old. 14 Billion years is absolout rubbish. Carbon Dating has been disproved many times.

	From: vexen	Date: August 17th, 2007 04:21 pm (UTC)		(Link)
	Re: Psalm 93

1. The Hebrew word is more correctly stated (as I did) as 'stablished' which means "stabilized", like you do to a boat at sea. There is no single word that can be used in its place - "established" is only half way there. As the authors of the Psalms would have believed, like they did at the time, that the world floated on a great ocean, it means that God had stopped the Earth from floating when he 'stablished' it during its creation.

2. Carbon dating is only one method of dating things over the very long scale, based on the decay of carbon isotopes. It is not 'disproved'. In addition, though, there are many other ways at dating the Earth, and none of them have to the conclusion that the Earth is only 6000-7000 years old. The Egyptians and Aztecs who had flourishing civilisations and histories older than that, would surely disagree! You are placing the date of creation way inside known history.

Look at the history of religions like Hinduism, Zoroastrianism, at sciences like geology.

	From: u3190	Date: March 7th, 2008 10:50 am (UTC)		(Link)
	Re: Dating Methods

Carbon dating has not been disproved but it is very unreliable as follows:

If there was a sink full of water, and a tap was dripping into it at lets say, 50mL per hour, how long do you think it has been dripping for?
Assumption 1: It has been dripping at a constant rate.
Assumption 2: There is no leakage
Assumption 3: There was no water in there to begin with.

These are all assumptions that apply to dating which can make it very inaccurate

From: (Anonymous)	Date: April 16th, 2008 08:54 am (UTC)		(Link)
Religion versus Astronomy

Ok, let's calm down. Galilieo and Isaac Newton were both practising and beleiving Christians, namely individuals who beleived that Jesus Christ is The Son of God. As starnge as this is going to sound, it was thier reading of the bible that informed their work and led them to beleiving what they did about the universe. The bible states that the earth is round and nowhere does it say that the sun goes around the earth. This was an idea propagated by ignorant men in the roman catholic church.

State religion, or organised religion has always tried to control peoples thinking for it's own vicious ends. Please people, being men of faith, like both Newton and Galileo, will always lead you to searching for the truth. Doing this will often put you in opposition with Religious people and authorities.

From: (Anonymous)	Date: April 16th, 2008 09:05 am (UTC)		(Link)
Religion versus Astronomy

Ok, let's calm down. Galilieo and Isaac Newton were both practising and beleiving Christians, namely individuals who beleived that Jesus Christ is The Son of God. As starnge as this is going to sound, it was thier reading of the bible that informed their work and led them to beleiving what they did about the universe. The bible states that the earth is round and nowhere does it say that the sun goes around the earth. This was an idea propagated by ignorant men in the roman catholic church.

State religion, or organised religion has always tried to control peoples thinking for it's own vicious ends. Please people, being men of faith, like both Newton and Galileo, will always lead you to searching for the truth. Doing this will often put you in opposition with Religious people and authorities.

From: (Anonymous)	Date: May 30th, 2008 01:56 am (UTC)		(Link)
A Good Movie

Please, take some time to watch the movie, "The Privileged Planet."

From: (Anonymous)	Date: January 29th, 2009 06:19 pm (UTC)		(Link)
earth orbits the sun

Obviously, in human weakness, some of the early voices of Christianity had it wrong. The idea that the earth revolves around the sun, not the other way around, sends the simple message that the universe doesn't revolve around man, but instead man revolves around God, namely the Son, Jesus Christ. The correct voice of the Christian gospel would state that the earth is a type of man, as man was created from the dust of earth (Gen. 2:7) and that the sun is a type of Christ (Malachi 4:2): ...the Sun of Righteousness shall arise with healing in His wings;...This revelation speaks of the idea that Christ is the center of the Christian walk as (John 1:3,4), all things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. In Him was life, and the life was the light of men, and (Colosians 1:17),... He is before all things, and in Him all things consist. Simply put self isn't the end-all to life. Christ is.Remember the wisdom of God is foolishness to man (1 Corinthians 1:18-31.In closing, the early Christians who stated Copernicus' theory was false, were merely misguided men. They are not the authors of truth. Their false interpretations don't change the true Christian message (2 Peter 1:20), and these men were not prophets of old. But the Christian message is this, that Christ came to earth as a man to die on the cross for the remission of sins, and if we repent and believe in Him and confess Him turning our life over to Him as our center we will be born again, or regenerated, translated out of darkness into His light. In doing so we will be sons and daughters of light as stated in Ephesians 5:8, for you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light, and 1 Thessalonians 5:5, you are all sons of light and of the day. We are not of the night nor of darkness. In reference to Joshua commanding the sun to stand still and Hezekiah praying and the sun turning back, this was a figure of speech. It's common sense that if the Bible is true than the sun would appear to stand still as God stopped the orbit of the sun, and that He reversed the earth's orbit to cause the sun to appear to move backward. We need to take literal things literally and figurative things figuratively as the Bible states in 2 Tim. 2:15, be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. In other words, don't misinterpret scripture, but instead rightly divide it against other scripture. Thanks for letting me share some of my own thoughts... I thoroughly believe in each ones right to their own opinion and respect each ones right to speak their own mind. This is a God-given freedom. But don't take my word for it, instead if you will, research these scriptures for yourself and experience them for yourself.