Homophobes, why do you care?

I'm sure folks in places like Iran in 1976 would have said the same thing...

Neither is DNA, when Eve gave birth to Cain's wife, the moons of Jupiter, Saturn, the importance of hand washing, how to build an airplane, the dangers of global warming, dinosaurs, North and South America, Australia, Antarctica, New Zealand, quantum mechanics, what the Moon i s made of, and a whole shitload of things, which are indisputably true. All of which you'll handwave away, as you've done in the past.

Does anybody else get the impression that Dayton looks at the universe his god supposedly created and thinks, "Meh. I could've done better..."

Stop being an ass. You keep speaking of being offended, but have little regard for others as was already pointed out. You want a modicum of respect or respect for your beliefs, then stop dismissing what others say or what others have accomplished or what they know. There are plenty of people out there whose knowledge and credentials exceed those of yours or what you believe to possess. The bible speaks of humility which is something you may want to reread.

Well, that's not really a high bar, when you think about it. I mean, come on, locating the "snack bar" next to the shithole isn't exactly a genius move. In fact, if you really want people to "be fruitful and multiply" sex is a bad way to go about it. A casual touch, like a handshake, is probably the way to go, if you're after more babies.

Actually the issue of homosexuality is very important. Remember God made man in His image both male and female. Later God separated female from Adam and made Eve. So together male and female are the image of God. Any other combination is a distortion of that image.

If God doesn't like his image distorted, why circumcision?

Yeah, talking like that actually makes you sound crazy.

Another aspect that gets to me, and maybe this needs its own thread, is the victim complex.
"We're losing our rights to bully fags!! ".

You know, you still get to be bigots, you can say all the horrible shit you want at the supper table, you just can't take it outside to play anymore.

And I expect you believe the world is less than 6000 years old, right?

So, essentially God was the first transexual?

Or, when he just made Man is His image, was he gay? Then later realised he was bi and gave us another option?

Once again, from what I've read making man "in God's image" has absolutely nothing to do with physical form or appearance.

It refers to man (humans in general) being given the free will to choose between good and evil.

God certainly can be evil sometimes.

What if God doesn't exist?

We weren't then. That capability was added later when we ate the apple. Which apparently was part of his plan, yet we still got booted from the garden for doing it, even though we were incapable of understanding why it was wrong until afterwards.

"In His Image" most likely refers to being a massive twat.

We're all out of luck I suppose.

Well I am nailing that goal.

My interpretation was that the "apple" was a test by God. A test of obedience. And it was representative of the idea that in some matters we're supposed to trust God without explanation. This was reinforced by the example of Job whom God never explained why tragedy had befallen him and his family.

Next,

1) There is no indication how long Adam and Eve lived in the garden before eating the fruit from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. I could've been millennia for all we know.

2) We have no idea if Adam and Eve would've succumbed to temptation and eaten the fruit had it not been for the direct intervention by Satan.

Why does an omnipotent, omniscient god need to test his own creations? If they're made in his image, then he already knows the answer. If he does it anyway, knowing they're going to fail, and then punishes them for that failure, then that just makes him a massive twit.

Actually it means they weren't created in his own image and, if he thought they were, it means God fucked up.

Therefore, God is lame.

Disobedience being a bad thing would require knowledge of good and evil, and Adam and Eve didn't have knowledge of good and evil until they ate the fruit.

I go with the parallel universes, multi worlds theory to explain the inherent conflict in the logic of an omnipotent God and free will.

I'm sure I don't have to explain this to anyone given this is a science fiction board.

Such poorly constructed stories.
Why, it's almost as if they were written by Bronze Age goat fuckers who didn't know about germs, gravity, planets, meteorology, cosmology, genetics, logical fallacies, plot holes, or human psychology.

Anyone else spot it?

Now let's not be too harsh. Some of them were written by Iron Age goat fuckers...

You do realize that a number of actual scientific and technological breakthroughs actually started out in science fiction don't you?

Kepler's ideas came from science fiction?

Yes, I do realise that...and your sad attempt to constantly patronise me with "you do realise" doesn't change the fact that your "God" is as fictional as Klingons. The vast majority of science fiction theories are rooted in basic scientific theory. You cannot claim that your religion is.

That is unless you can give me even a remote scientific starting point for God?

Multiple posts now there's no use of "invisible sky man". Waiting for the man implications the goldy one man will respond when you don't use "insulting" words.

Oh, and since Dayton is now talking about ideas coming from science fiction, does this mean he is willing to respect Scientology?