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Fri May 30, 2014, 06:23 PM

calimary (61,265 posts)

64. Welcome to DU, Bickle!

Glad you're here! It's the eternal conundrum of God. We used to like to play "stump the nun/priest" during catechism class. My favorite was always - "if God can do ANYTHING, can He make a rock so heavy He can't lift it?"

Answer: "Beats the hell outta me!"

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93 replies	Author	Time	Post
Creationists Try to Outsmart Neil deGrasse Tyson on the Great Flood and Climate Change [View all]	xchrom	May 2014	OP
Mankind has failed God and deserves to die?	DetlefK	May 2014	#1
A belief in a "god" is one way to avoid personal responsibilty	randr	May 2014	#8
YES!	AngryDem001	May 2014	#24
I've always wanted to smack them in the forehead and say, "That was part of his plan, too!"	dawg	May 2014	#28
Not much of a god then us it?	Bickle	May 2014	#35
If you want to believe that you have no free will, then more power to you I guess.	dawg	May 2014	#36
It's not a belief, it's a fact	Bickle	May 2014	#67
Whateva.	dawg	May 2014	#80
The article you link to does not claim that anyone has proven free will to be an illusion.	Vattel	May 2014	#81
Wrong sA piece	Bickle	May 2014	#86
Thanks for being a great example of what's wrong with our country	Bickle	May 2014	#87
It's also true that through our own determination we can change those chemical reactions...	DesertDiamond	May 2014	#51
You may have replaced one dogma with another	randr	May 2014	#59
Welcome to DU, Bickle!	calimary	May 2014	#64
Why WOULD he?	7962	May 2014	#85
What a sad and horrible world you live in.	DebJ	May 2014	#73
And when they get drunk, crash the car, beat their spouse, leave their kids go hungry	Ikonoklast	May 2014	#39
That's the brass ring of Christianity! nt	valerief	May 2014	#42
Welcome to DU, AngryDem001!	calimary	May 2014	#66
i grew up in a catholic home	ejpoeta	May 2014	#79
Unless it is success or something like that.	Xyzse	May 2014	#46
Precisely	malaise	May 2014	#65
Watch: The Neil deGrasse Tyson climate denier takedown we’ve been waiting for is finally here	xchrom	May 2014	#2
"Creationists try to outsmart Neil..."	lastlib	May 2014	#3
That line honestly made me laugh out loud n/t	etherealtruth	May 2014	#13
Me too, and...	pipi_k	May 2014	#26
"Creationists" and "outsmart Neil..."	NastyRiffraff	May 2014	#71
Neal Degrasse Tyson could win an argument with these idiots	AnnieBW	May 2014	#90
Its simple, really.....	Mustellus	May 2014	#4
How much evolution must one have for that explanation?	longship	May 2014	#6
Plus humans.	mwooldri	May 2014	#27
That's interesting. Thanks for sharing.	tofuandbeer	May 2014	#76
That's the ticket	madokie	May 2014	#7
Dad?	reflection	May 2014	#10
I guess maybe you could put your dad to the test by asking him if he's "with god."	Mr. Evil	May 2014	#61
LIKE A 1000 TO A MILLION TIMES GREATER # OF SPECIES? IN A FEW THOUSAND YRS? REALLY?	drynberg	May 2014	#11
yes, I did forget it.....	Mustellus	May 2014	#20
What a lot of malarky that is. There is no evidence for that. nt	Bernardo de La Paz	May 2014	#17
Maybe they only took babies! Not arguing just pointing out that this is what the literalists get for	jwirr	May 2014	#21
You are trying to be funny	etherealtruth	May 2014	#29
Arrgh!!!! Nyet, nyet!!!! No evolution!!!! Head explodes...	valerief	May 2014	#43
There ya go.	Jerry442	May 2014	#63
Earth = Ark, maybe?	JesterCS	May 2014	#77
Talk about bringing a plastic knife to a gun fight.	tanyev	May 2014	#5
I love NDT and Cosmos	Gothmog	May 2014	#9
i've just started watching episodes.	ejpoeta	May 2014	#12
Well, the proliferation of flood stories has a simple explanation to me...	Wounded Bear	May 2014	#47
that makes sense to me.	ejpoeta	May 2014	#78
Genesis	Thespian2	May 2014	#14
How do you fit all those animals in one boat? Simple !	Hoppy	May 2014	#15
But Noah didn't save the plants.	Bernardo de La Paz	May 2014	#18
Bwahahahaha!!!!!	valerief	May 2014	#44
and what about the fish, too?	azureblue	May 2014	#72
Oddly, the size of the boat ...	surrealAmerican	May 2014	#34
Easy way to disprove creationists like Ham	RoccoR5955	May 2014	#16
For this to work	abakan	May 2014	#45
Has there ever been a more apropos last name for a given person than 'Ham'?	marmar	May 2014	#19
snark Didn't Noah curse Ham and his offspring?	Rozlee	May 2014	#31
I once had a crazy man in Arby's point to my son and say ...	dawg	May 2014	#37
Shoulda told him he had some back in the woodpile.	Rozlee	May 2014	#48
I was too stunned to say much of anything.	dawg	May 2014	#49
I probably would have been too creeped out myself.	Rozlee	May 2014	#52
That was a genuine crazy man.	Enthusiast	May 2014	#50
What a stupid thread title	VWolf	May 2014	#22
The animals' DNA would fit . . .	fadedrose	May 2014	#23
I don't mean to say that it was aliens...	theHandpuppet	May 2014	#41
You just gave me an earworm	DebJ	May 2014	#74
Wait! According to Joe Barton,	AngryDem001	May 2014	#25
Maybe it was all the methane being emitted by plant eating dinosaurs!	yellowcanine	May 2014	#32
Ken Ham "These legends are ubiquitous because all people in the world are descendants of Noah"	yellowcanine	May 2014	#30
I bet 'creationist' Maya Angelou would kick his ass in debate	maced666	May 2014	#33
Flood legends are not found all over the world	starroute	May 2014	#38
I learned about the Epic of Gilgamesh 30 years ago. Neil was just a kid then.	kelliekat44	May 2014	#40
pfffffffffft	Takket	May 2014	#53
Their hand actually consists of	SwankyXomb	May 2014	#54
and sometimes a duck whistle n/t	DebJ	May 2014	#75
I can't believe I actually have to spell it out for you people --	Hestia	May 2014	#55
ah, but anthropologists have found numerous ways of "stabilizing" oral tradition	MisterP	May 2014	#56
With what technology did Noah collect, preserve, and deploy this DNA?	FiveGoodMen	May 2014	#57
Just the insects alone would require a big boat.	SansACause	May 2014	#58
But they answered all the logical objections raised: It's a miracle!	tclambert	May 2014	#60
On the bright side, if Ken Ham is trolling NDGT, he has less time to troll DU.	Warren DeMontague	May 2014	#62
Actually Noah's flood supports Climate Change ;-)	kmlisle	May 2014	#68
I am the spirit of Noah speaking though Vattel. The truth is:	Vattel	May 2014	#82
Almost every flood story	smallcat88	May 2014	#69
"Outsmart Neil deGrasse Tyson"?	BobTheSubgenius	May 2014	#70
Yeah Ken Ham would get annihilated if he tried to debate Prof. Tyson.	Initech	May 2014	#88
It was probably an impact event	Strelnikov_	May 2014	#83
FFS	ismnotwasm	May 2014	#84
The answer lies in Bill Cosby's question...	freebrew	May 2014	#89
George Bernard Shaw said it best	egold2604	Jun 2014	#91
Creationists are living proof that some of the monkeys came out of the trees....	lastlib	Jun 2014	#92
LMAO	VA_Jill	Jun 2014	#93

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