The suggestion that fossils are a test of faith is just so weird!
Why????
Is this the argument that the fundamentalists who believe this will use whenever evidence they can't counter is presented to them?
At what point will they realise how silly it makes them look?
2007-06-07 02:37:56 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Don't you feel stupid when you don't find Links!
Why monkey is still monkey??
Hope you will never find in this life!
Your God - Darwin died in an unknown iland... cursing himself.. to be a total failure to produce any acceptable scientific theory insted of the Evolution Theory!!
Bones or Fossils are not the only evidence for test of faith. Test of faith is depend on the concept of re-birth. The Al-Mighty God created you when you did not existed. He created you from one drop of serum... and Why He cannot give you re-birth !!
The Fundamentalists have some religious / social Rules in life... but what you have...Nothing!!
You live like animal and die like animal.
You must be a proud Monkey. Hee! Hee! Heeeeeee!
2007-06-07 03:32:59 · answer #1 · answered by aslam09221 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It would me more accurate to say that God exercises are faith.
Just like physical exercise, our faith gets stronger when it is tested.
I do not see the dinosaur bones as a test of faith, but evidence of what the world was like before the flood. I think Satan is trying to use dinosaurs fossils in conjunction with the theory of evolution to lead people astray. There are several places around the world where there are human and dinosaur footprints in the same rock. This goes along with what the Bible says, but because evolution says that we lived millions of years apart, many people do not believe the foot prints (even though it is rock solid evidence for the Bible).
2007-06-07 09:48:27 · answer #2 · answered by tim 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I like my faith to be challenged. I think if you don't doubt it, research it, know it, then you'll never really believe it in your heart. You just blindly accept it, which I feel is taking it for granted.
I mesh science and my faith. I look at the myths as stories, guidance. Science tell me how the Gods did it. Not that they didn't.
Fossils are a test? You're right. That's silly. LOL
2007-06-07 09:42:19 · answer #3 · answered by ~Heathen Princess~ 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't like that argument for that very reason. The bones are there because they're there, not because they were put there for a test of faith.
As for dating - how do you *know* the half-life of the carbon isotope used for dating? Its supposed to be so astromically long (just the half-life mind you) that it has existed longer than we have had instrumentation to record it. I don't put any faith in so-called "dating" of fossils.
2007-06-07 09:45:12 · answer #4 · answered by capitalctu 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm reminded of Arrested Development
"Anne's uncle wanted to teach George Michael about Creation, and how fossils were something the Jews planted in 1927."
I miss that show.
2007-06-07 09:42:41 · answer #5 · answered by Southpaw 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Is this Q intended as anything more than a test of faith? Who's faith are you testing; Christians, or your own?
2007-06-07 09:42:21 · answer #6 · answered by randyken 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Why challenge their beliefs at all?
I thought that was the aspect of Christianity that atheists found the most disagreeable: the proselytization efforts. Yet...here we have atheists doing exactly the same thing?
2007-06-07 09:42:58 · answer #7 · answered by Open Heart Searchery 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Tests of faith will make you stronger or break you.
2007-06-07 09:43:51 · answer #8 · answered by sparkles9 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's because he is incredibly vain and needs to prove to himself that he can hold peoples faith while clear and reasonable evidence is in existence to the truth of his non-existence.
2007-06-07 09:41:49 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
whats the point of faith if it is not challenged
2007-06-07 09:40:41 · answer #10 · answered by John C 6 · 1⤊ 3⤋