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Thursday, 25 May 2023
"Professor"Dave =most clueless of all Q.E.D?
Proverbs ch.8 Rotherham's Emphasised Bible.
8 .1 Doth not wisdom cry aloud? And understanding send forth her voice?
2 At the top of the high places above the way, At the place where paths meet she taketh her stand:
3 Beside the gates at the entrance of the city,—At the going in of the openings she shouteth:—
4 Unto you O men I call, And my voice is unto the sons of men;
5 Understand, ye simple ones, shrewdness, And ye dullards understand sense;
6 Hear for princely things will I speak, And the opening of my lips shall be of equity;
7 For faithfulness shall my mouth softly utter, But the abomination of my lips shall be lawlessness;
8 In righteousness shall be all the sayings of my mouth, Nothing therein shall be crafty or perverse;
9 All of them shall be plain to them who would understand, And just to such as would gain knowledge.
10 Receive my correction and not silver, And knowledge rather than choicest gold.
11 For better is wisdom than ornaments of coral, And no delightful things can equal her.
12 I wisdom inhabit shrewdness,—And the knowledge of sagacious things I gain.
13 The reverence of Yahweh is to hate wickedness: Pride, arrogance and the way of wickedness; And a mouth ofRiches and honour are with me, Lordly wealth, and righteousness;
14 Mine are counsel and effective working, I am understanding, mine is valour:
15 By me kings reign, And dignitaries decree righteousness;
16 By me rulers govern, And nobles—all the righteous judges:
17 I love them who love me, And they who diligently seek me find me:
18 Riches and honour are with me, Lordly wealth, and righteousness;
19 Better is my fruit than gold—yea fine gold, And mine increase than choice silver;
20 In the way of righteousness I march along, In the middle of the paths of justice:
21 That I may cause them who love me to inherit substance, And their treasuries I may fill.
22 Yahweh had constituted me the beginning of his way, Before his works At the commencement of that time;
23 At the outset of the ages had I been established, In advance of the antiquities of the earth;
24When there was no resounding deep I had been brought forth, When there were no fountains abounding with water;
25 Ere yet the mountains had been settled, Before the hills had I been brought forth;
26 Or ever he had made the land and the wastes, Or the top of the dry parts of the world:
27 When he prepared the heavens there was I! When he decreed a vault upon the face of the resounding deep;
28 When he made firm the skies above, When the fountains of the resounding deep waxed strong;
29 When he fixed for the sea its bound That the waters should not go beyond his bidding, When he decreed the foundations of the earth:—
30 Then became I beside him a firm and sure worker, Then became I filled with delight day by day, Exulting before him on every occasion;
31 Exulting in the fruitful land of his earth, Yea my fulness of delight was with the sons of men. perverse things do I hate.
32 Now therefore ye sons hearken to me, For how happy are they who to my ways pay regard!
33 Hear ye correction and be wise, And do not neglect.
34 How happy the man that doth hearken to me,—Keeping guard at my doors day by day, Watching at the posts of my gates;
35 For he that findeth me findeth life, And hath obtained favour from Yahweh;
36 But he that misseth me wrongeth his own soul, All who hate me love death.
You're welcome.
In the United States, numerous cases involving Jehovah's Witnesses are now landmark decisions of First Amendment law. In all, Jehovah's Witnesses brought 23 separate First Amendment actions before the U.S. Supreme Court between 1938 and 1946. Supreme Court Justice Harlan Fiske Stone once quipped, "I think the Jehovah's Witnesses ought to have an endowment in view of the aid which they give in solving the legal problems of civil liberties."[29]
Dave Farina: team atheism's LVP? VI
Professor Dave — Conspiracy Theorist
Wednesday, 24 May 2023
Dave Farina: team atheism's LVP? V
“Professor Dave” and the Art of Projection
Dave Farina: team atheism's LVP? IV
Professor Dave in his “Debate” with James Tour Showcases the Art of Citation Bluffing
The primordial soup is past its sell by date?
James Tour: Primordial Soup Bluffing Goes Right to the Top
The ostriches four kneecaps vs. Darwinism
Kneecaps: “Ultimately, there might not be a simple pattern”
Tuesday, 23 May 2023
Not losing sight of the truth in the fog of war.
A War of Words? How to Tell Who Won the Tour-Farina Debate
Dave Farina: team atheism's LVP? III
“Well, Everyone Has to Have a Birthday” — How Professor Dave Botches Probability
Dave Farina: team atheism's LVP? II
Where’s the Chemistry? On the Origin of Life, James Tour Exposes Professor Dave as “Clueless”
Dave Farina: team atheism's LVP?
Atheists Review Professor Dave’s Debate Performance
Monday, 22 May 2023
Artificial intelligence is the mother of actual incoherence?
Breaking Google Bard
"..nor the Son."
Mark ch.13:32 NASB"But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father alone."
Our Trinitarian (and Modalist) friends wave away the obvious problem this verse creates for their doctrine by claiming that Jesus was speaking from the Son's then human standpoint.
But is this view in harmony with the context of the verse itself ,lets have a look.The verse begins
"But of that day and hour no one knows.."
Obviously meaning no human knows (BTW was Jesus merely saying that no human at that time knew or that no human has ever known and will ever know.), thus if Jesus was speaking purely in terms of the Son's then human existence surely this part of the verse would have covered that.
BTW :some trinitarians claimed that Jesus reclaimed the human body that he was supposed to have sacrificed upon his resurrection,which would mean that he is still human which, according to them, must mean that he is still not omniscient.
Then to illustrate the utter futility of anyone on earth attempting to calculate the 'day or hour' he continues.
",not even the angels of heaven.."
(again did Jesus mean that no angel presently knows or that no angel has ever and will ever know?) ,now, having made it clear that heaven itself was in the dark re:the Father's determination in this matter does it make sense for Jesus to belabor Earth's ignorance? Certainly what no angel knows no human would.
Why then not allow the verse to interpret itself
"nor the Son,But the Father ALONE."
i.e not even this eldest sibling in Jehovah's family of servants has ever known or will ever know.
Acts1,6,7NASB " So when they had come together, they were asking Him, saying, “Lord, is it at this time You are restoring the kingdom to Israel?” 7He said to them, “It is not for you to know times or epochs which the Father has fixed by His own authority;"
Though his apostles were understandably curious about Jehovah's timing re:the Kingdom the resurrected (hence superhuman) Jesus indicated that the Father had chosen to keep the decision to himself.
It does not seem that Jesus felt belittled by his Father's decision so it's odd that there are those who seem determined to take offense in his behalf.
The bottom line then
John ch.14:28 KJV "Ye have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and come again unto you. If ye loved me, ye would rejoice, because I said, I go unto the Father: for my Father is greater than I. "
PS. 0ne more thing,a good question deserving of a straight answer would be ,why does the Holy Spirit not know the day or the hour,better yet why is the Holy Spirit not even mentioned in this verse.I mean the verse (quite literally) mentions everyone else.
James Tour on why we can't take origin of life research seriously
James Tour: Reviewing the Challenges for Abiogenesis
Sunday, 21 May 2023
The Cambrian explosion is a thing?
FAQ: The Cambrian Explosion Is Real, and It Is a Problem for Evolution
The Flood recollection.
A flood myth or a deluge myth is a myth in which a great flood, usually sent by a deity or deities, destroys civilization, often in an act of divine retribution. Parallels are often drawn between the flood waters of these myths and the primaeval waters which appear in certain creation myths, as the flood waters are described as a measure for the cleansing of humanity, in preparation for rebirth. Most flood myths also contain a culture hero, who "represents the human craving for life".[1]
The flood-myth motif occurs in many cultures, including the Mesopotamian flood stories, Native American in North America, the Genesis flood narrative, manvantara-sandhya in Hinduism, and Deucalion and Pyrrha in Greek mythology.