How old do you believe the Earth is?

[fudebako]

Quite very old.

 

[bulge]

Where the heck did you hear that one?!

Reading the bible, the quoran or the torah. There is nothing else in it.

 

[Kulindahr]

Reading the bible, the quoran or the torah. There is nothing else in it.

You should try reading things before you make such claims -- there's nothing like that in any of them.

<sigh> Here I thought I'd run into something novel, only to find someone's been playing sith their own shit and wiping it on the page.

 

[bankside]

You should try reading things before you make such claims -- there's nothing like that in any of them.

<sigh> Here I thought I'd run into something novel, only to find someone's been playing sith their own shit and wiping it on the page.

He of the "Don't-Look-Behind-The-Green-Curtain...It's-Merely-A-Royal-Chronicle" should make a greater effort to understand symbolism. Ejaculation has been used for millennia to describe creation, and though the imagery is different, the metaphor is the same.

 

[Kulindahr]

He of the "Don't-Look-Behind-The-Green-Curtain...It's-Merely-A-Royal-Chronicle" should make a greater effort to understand symbolism. Ejaculation has been used for millennia to describe creation, and though the imagery is different, the metaphor is the same.

Pointing out that it's a royal chronicle is tearing down the curtain of lies about the text.

Ejaculation has never been used to describe creation in the sources you cited. Like I said, try opening the books before you post little "Oh, look! I spurted something!" wet dream trash.

 

[AsianDream]

I don't know. I only know it wasn't ejaculated by a god, which is quite unfortunate, but since god doesn't exist it is not possible he wanked some time of his eternity and then all of a sudden ejaculated the earth. But I like that god existence story as in that case he must have wanked and ejacted. Great story. Since they told me that god existence story, each time I see a guy wanking, I see him as god creating universe.

On topic - the earth is probably around 4.5 billion years old

On the ejaculation theory of creation (which is at least as credible as any other reliigous idea) ....

It's an interesting thought that every single minute cell in your body (except red blood cells) - of which there are many trillions - contains a complete "blueprint" of how to make you - and any one of them could be cloned to make an identical twin of you.

I guess reality is even more wierd than the reliigons people dreamed up in very early civilisations to try and explain it (leaving asside quantum mechanics - which is even more strange than biology).

 

[Kulindahr]

On the ejaculation theory of creation (which is at least as credible as any other reliigous idea) ....

Only to those who don't bother to give the matter any thought.

The ejaculation theory leaves you with a god who is merely slightly different than the universe -- a material thing really no different than the rest. That leaves a very feeble claim to the title of Creator, because this being is already subject to the basic constants of the universe -- and thus effectively a creature of the universe itself.

It's no different at all from the world on the back of a turtle or the gods pouring their blood on the ground: the one(s) claiming deity are merely more powerful parts of the same universe.

 

[AsianDream]

Only to those who don't bother to give the matter any thought.

The ejaculation theory leaves you with a god who is merely slightly different than the universe -- a material thing really no different than the rest. That leaves a very feeble claim to the title of Creator, because this being is already subject to the basic constants of the universe -- and thus effectively a creature of the universe itself.

It's no different at all from the world on the back of a turtle or the gods pouring their blood on the ground: the one(s) claiming deity are merely more powerful parts of the same universe.

I think you are right that the "Ejaculation theory" or "Greek God" type concept - just describes a more powerful material being.

On the other hand - if you look at credibility in terms of actual evidence or any logical neccesity that there must have been a "universal creator" - then there is very little conceptual difference.

Of particular relevance is the knowledge that the "watchmaker" concept isn't valid - and that the missing ingredient for extraordinarily complex systems (such as people) to "self assemble" - is an unimaginably long period of time.

 

[jeraldjamescapao]

Only God knows. WE can't fathom His greatness. =)

 

[AsianDream]

Only God knows. WE can't fathom His greatness. =)

The age of the Earth is a simple matter of fact - and all the evidence indicates it is around 4.5 billion years - so this is definitely not only soemthing you need to be a God to know

 

[Slaveboy]

Only God knows. WE can't fathom His greatness. =)

His greatness. First of all, there's nothing proving a "him" nor that it's a "him". Why must we constantly try to put something over the universe?