We are both the same except for the belief in God? We are not the same. We are about as different as two beings can be. I dance in the rain. You don't want to get your clothes wet. And I don't just believe in God. I know there are many angels, each with differing extraordinary abilities. I know the universe is full of intelligent life. You think it's almost empty other than some microbes that you're superior to when the truth is you're near the bottom of a very long list.
We are the same with respect to belief in all but one of the many "gods" that have been worshiped, not the same in all ways. Clearly there are major differences in other areas, for example, I live by reasoned thought and you jump to non-evidence based conclusions about everything from the important stuff to others' dancing habits.
You have no god? You said it.
The evidence is clear that there is no God? You've allowed your mind to over inflate your ego and fool you into believing that you are smarter and more important than you really are. Your only comparison is humans and animals.
You are the one with the over inflated view of your place in the universe, I recognize that humans are just one more type of animal while you are insisting that you are something more grandiose.
The theory of biological evolution is more than just a theory? It's not accepted in the scientific community that life evolved on it's own from chemicals and minerals.
There are enough fibs and slips in your claims to not be making more stuff up. Abiogenesis, while not completely understood, is universally accepted within the scientific community.
A Google search for Moses has 43 million results. Whatever your name is I doubt you can compete with that.
And that proves what, beyond your love of logical fallacies? That is an argument from authority and proves nothing. All it proves is your lack of research acumen since a google search for "Moses" would hit on anyone with that name regardless of surname (e.g., Moses Malone) and a search for the fable's given name, "Móshe" yields less than 3,000 hits.
In any case:
There is a common misconception that the Israelites were in Egypt for over four hundred years, that Moses led them out of Egypt and that there was an epic Exodus that ended with the conquest of Canaan.
We have extensive records from Egypt throughout the Late Bronze Age, both in the form of official and commercial documents and records, so we ought to be able to find evidence that the Israelite people were held captive or evidence of the plagues, theft of large quantities of jewellery and other valuables, escape of over two million slaves (or even a smaller and more plausible but still substantial number) and the destruction of an entire army in pursuit. There is no such evidence. Some say that is probably because the Egyptians would not have recorded a humiliating loss, but archaeologists have scoured the social and commercial records of the Late Bronze Age, and found nothing.
Indirect evidence for Moses would be archaeological evidence of a conquest of the Canaanite cities towards the end of the Late Bronze Age, but there is none. Several cities mentioned in the Book of Joshua, such as Jericho and Ai, had already been abandoned long before the Israelite conquest purportedly occurred. With no conquest, there could not have been a biblical Exodus, and with no Exodus there could not have been a biblical Moses.
The only evidence we have of Moses is in the Bible, where it has all the hallmarks of myth. Perhaps to improve the credibility of the story of the Exodus from Egypt, the Pentateuch books were eventually attributed to Moses, although they were clearly written by multiple authors living at much later times than Moses would have done.
Some historians accept that the legend of Moses and the Exodus could have a core of truth if that is based on just a small band of escaping slaves, because the ancient Egyptian writings say that the Midianites worshipped a storm God they called YHW — a name very similar to the Hebrew God YHWH. They suggest that the escapees could have been saved from death in the Sinai desert by the Midianites, who introduced them to the Midianite god YHW. When the escaping slaves had recovered, they could have taken news of YHW with them as they made their way north, to return to their compatriots in Judah. Was one of these slaves called Moses? We will probably never know. (thanks
Dick Harfield).
Is is a threat that there is no reason for you to see anymore of the universe? You could call it a "theory", hehe...
I see all there is to see, I don't need to make stuff up just to feel important, as you seem to do.
You suppose that parents who give their children presents for Christmas slid down the chimney? Probably not.
So you admit that your argument was balderdash.
You're very black and white, very bland, I bet you don't even sing in the car.
There you go again, assuming facts that are not in evidence.
If my child gets sick the best hope is a physician who has a superb grasp of the probabilities? And what if my child is the 1 in a 1,000 who survived?
That is not a logical construct, that is a non sequitur.
No one is listening when your friend prays? You have made a claim.
No, I have provided data. You may question my conclusions, that is your right, but you may not question my data.
I will look at your evidence for this claim. Do you have any? How many areas of the universe have you been to so that you would know the answer?
More irrelevance that serves only to distract from your failures.
Joan Osborne is a Roman Catholic turned Buddhist? Good for her. Almost anything is better than being an RC.
A bit prejudiced aren't you?
Mathematics is dry only to people who don't understand it? I suppose that's true. I would be bored at your parties with everyone trying to recite Pi farther than others.
I guess you don't know what real mathematics is, you're stuck at the simple question of how many times does the diameter of a circle fit into its circumference. Most folks that I party with are well beyond simple division.
