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What seems plausible to one individual may not seem plausible to others. Plausibility is clearly relative, not only to the person, but to a particular person's background and training, which of course change dramatically over the years.
Right. This is trivially obvious. This is why we must resort to evidence. Big Al's comet scenario does not agree with any information about comets that I know of. Do you have any evidence concerning the likelihood of a comet turning water to blood? If not, then the argument that Revelation describes a comet is without backing.
Context is very often tossed out the door by leftists with an ax to grind....
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To the extent that Darwinists trivialize so many things, and take so very much for granted,
Please stop it with the childish insults. You complain about being treated like a child. there is a clear riposte to these accusations; don't behave like one. Throwing around silly and irrelevant nonsense about "leftists" and "Darwinists" is not relevant to the topic nor is it mature and intelligent debating practise.
Everyone everywhere almost without exception knows what wood is, indeed takes wood for granted.
Not so fast. It is amazing stuff, a solid constructed from water and gas. Whereas scientific enlightenment can amaze and delight the better it is understood, Darwinists have the nasty habit of taking precisely the opposite position, trivializing and dismissing the beauties all around us.
So you are saying that wood is very impressive stuff. I agree. So what?
I still don't see what this has to do with comets and Revelation. If your only point is that wood is amazing, therefore we should expect other features of the universe to be amazing as well then fine. I agree.
What I do not see is why the amazing properties of wood make it reasonable to suggest that a story which mentions the seas turning to blood is a good match for a comet. There is no connection.
Do you have any evidence that comets or meteorites cause water to turn to blood? No. That one thing is astonishing does not imply that any astonishing proposition must be true. That wood is amazing does not imply that comets ought to be able to turn water to blood.
Carl Sagan said that spectroscopy was something that STILL amazed him. Had an interloper said that here, he would have been dismissed with: "Well, it's all science, so no big deal. WE understand it. YOU do not."
Again, this is just needless and unfounded abuse. In my experience, science enthusiasts never lose their sense of wonder at the amazing properties of the universe, as your Sagan quote demonstrates.
The unfairness of all dialogues within EvC refutes the very theme at the top right of your screen: "Understanding through Discussion".
My remarks have been interpreted as so incredibly ignorant that one of your co-Darwinists has accused me of being a teenager in high school, unworthy of even wiping "Al Gore's ass."
Does that sound like "Understanding" to you?
Did you ever challenge one of your Darwinist friends for their intolerance or hatefulness?
Good grief. If you want to be taken seriously or treated as an adult, then stop whining like a stroppy teenager and argue your point. I am not responsible for Omni's words or anyone else's, so quit wasting time.
Then you see it as "good faith" as a fellow Darwinist calls me a teenager unworthy of "wiping Al Gore's ass"?
You are familiar with the idea that different people are... well... different people, right? You know that I'm not Omni and that he is not me? Right?
Well then, stop badgering me over what other people have said to you. It is irrelevant to my posts. "EvC members are big meanies!" won't butter any parsnips, nor will it provide evidence for the Biblical record.
I say again, I do not. It would be one thing if his behavior were rare, and were condemned by most or even a few of you.
That such behavior by Darwinists is almost ubiquitous at any such forum as this, and that such behavior is almost never condemned by the Darwinian masses is disgusting, reprehensible, cowardly, and anti-scientific.
So you don't have any evidence for the veracity of the Biblical record? Just kvetching. Oh well, can't say I'm surprised.
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