Autonemesis

That's one of the reasons peer review is essential. Remember the cold fusion guys? No one else has credibly been able to reproduce their experiment. A non-repeatable result is no result at all. Mistakes are caught because the scientific method and the peer review system were created to ensure that they are. The cold fusion embarassment occurred because the investigators (I'm being polite) were impatient, and thought their results were so extraordinary, so revolutionary, that they could not wait for review and publication to reveal their invention to the public. They thought that stuff was all formality, especially with a result so important like the one they thought they had obtained. They found out how wrong they were, and paid for it with their careers (Careers as scientists. As cult leaders, they have a bright future).

Fallibility is unavoidable, true enough, and that's why credibility is paramount.

Philosoft

Why in the blue hell would heaven need to be lit? Do supernatural beings with supernatural eyes need supernatural light to see?
By that logic I'm omnipotent also. I can't do anything that defies my nature either.

Shadowy Man

What is the spectral energy distribution of "God's Holiness"?

Wyz_sub10

Not sure who you are addressing here...

Comments, sarcastic though they may be, that challenge the logic you use to arrive at your conclusions are common in debate.

It would appear to some that you simply do not want to address uncomfortable points.

eh

It's called the electromagic spectrum. This magic energy sure is interesting stuff.

Mad Kally

We use that in Disney Universe.

Oolon Colluphid

Oh really? On the third day he made flowering plants (Gen 1:11-13), and on the fifth day (Gen 1:20-23) he made fish: “Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, [...]. And God created [...] every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind” (whales and birds snipped).

So perhaps, if this is an accurate description, you can tell us why we get fish from the Cambrian onward, but no flowering plants till the late Jurassic? That’s a gap of at least three hundred million years. Where is all the Devonian pollen? Because angiosperm pollen is bloody everywhere after the Cretaceous.

Are you not curious about this?
So why in chapter 2, if the days 1-5 stuff had already happened and day 6 is the human bit, are humans made before plants?
And that’s why he gave us a coccyx, a tendency to choke on our food and the recurrent laryngeal nerve, is it? That’s why he gave us a broken gene for making vitamin C, and a chromosome 2 with telomeres in the middle? If you’d like me to explain the significance of any of these, just ask. But please don’t side-step or ignore them, because they utterly undermine what you’re saying.

Cheers, DT

Godless Dave

Well the Bible you keep referring to was also written by fallible humans. You don't think prehistoric Middle Eastern writers made lots of mistakes?

Shadowy Man

Uh... I guess you don't know what the phrase "spectral energy distribution" means. Never mind.

Answerer

Guys, I wish Magus and River could get together and, you know, fight the hell out of each other.