07-09-2016, 01:27 PM
An example of hateful: Fred Phelps's "godh@tesf@gs.com"
An example of moronic: Jimmy Swaggart calling evolution "evil-lution".
I consider neither representative of Christianity. Indeed, devout Christians can mock this stuff.
...I have an argument for the existence of God as a Creator and Enforcer, and I think that you might like it.
The Universe makes sense, and we humans exist with the ability to make sense of it. Sure. we have our limitations, one of which is the inability to understand randomness. But random phenomena make the world much of what it is.
Start with the periodic law of the elements and the curve of binding energy. The first row of atoms is but two atoms, the completion of an electron cloud ending with two electrons. If the outermost shell could contain four elements, then hydrogen and helium would be a solid elements, and much of the primordial hydrogen and helium would congeal as planets. That would be a very different universe. Lithium would be a halogen, beryllium would be an inert gas, and boron would be an alkali metal. So those elements aren't particularly common. Carbon becomes an alkaline-earth metal, and common as it is, it would mess up life. Nitrogen would be somewhere in between boron and aluminum as we know them in chemical properties, also messing up life. Oxygen would be much like carbon, relatively scarce fluorine rather like nitrogen but its scarcity messing up biochemistry, neon something like oxygen, sodium a dangerous halogen like fluorine (messing up biochemistry), magnesium a very common (and suffocating) inert gas. I could go further, with commonplace iron taking the role of the element chromium and comparatively-scarce zinc taking over for iron -- making up the magnetic field of an Earth-sized planet much weaker and making blood hard to form.
Change the binding law of nuclear energy so that the low point is calcium or titanium, and iron becomes rare, which would be big trouble for magnetic fields and hemoglobin which would depend upon a far scarcer and less-readily available element. Move the low point on the binding curve of energy to germanium, and highly-toxic arsenic becomes commonplace. Move it to krypton, and planetary atmospheres flood with inert (and irrespirable) krypton.
An example of moronic: Jimmy Swaggart calling evolution "evil-lution".
I consider neither representative of Christianity. Indeed, devout Christians can mock this stuff.
...I have an argument for the existence of God as a Creator and Enforcer, and I think that you might like it.
The Universe makes sense, and we humans exist with the ability to make sense of it. Sure. we have our limitations, one of which is the inability to understand randomness. But random phenomena make the world much of what it is.
Start with the periodic law of the elements and the curve of binding energy. The first row of atoms is but two atoms, the completion of an electron cloud ending with two electrons. If the outermost shell could contain four elements, then hydrogen and helium would be a solid elements, and much of the primordial hydrogen and helium would congeal as planets. That would be a very different universe. Lithium would be a halogen, beryllium would be an inert gas, and boron would be an alkali metal. So those elements aren't particularly common. Carbon becomes an alkaline-earth metal, and common as it is, it would mess up life. Nitrogen would be somewhere in between boron and aluminum as we know them in chemical properties, also messing up life. Oxygen would be much like carbon, relatively scarce fluorine rather like nitrogen but its scarcity messing up biochemistry, neon something like oxygen, sodium a dangerous halogen like fluorine (messing up biochemistry), magnesium a very common (and suffocating) inert gas. I could go further, with commonplace iron taking the role of the element chromium and comparatively-scarce zinc taking over for iron -- making up the magnetic field of an Earth-sized planet much weaker and making blood hard to form.
Change the binding law of nuclear energy so that the low point is calcium or titanium, and iron becomes rare, which would be big trouble for magnetic fields and hemoglobin which would depend upon a far scarcer and less-readily available element. Move the low point on the binding curve of energy to germanium, and highly-toxic arsenic becomes commonplace. Move it to krypton, and planetary atmospheres flood with inert (and irrespirable) krypton.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.