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Permalink Reply by Keith J. on January 31, 2011 at 1:35pm

Archbishop James Ussher used dates listed in biblical texts to calculate that the universe was created by god on Oct. 23, 4004 BC (apx. 6000 yrs ago).

 

Other biblical historians and scholars have provided similar dates.  Though the bible does not explicitely say what date the universe is supposed to have been created, it does provide dates and events that chronogists have used to estimate the time of creation.  This forms the foundation of Young Earth Creationism.

 

Do you deny that a significant portion of Christians belive that the Earth is but 6,000 yrs old and that this belief is based off of interpretations of the Bible?

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Permalink Reply by Eoganacht on January 30, 2011 at 5:27pm

Being omniscient and omnipotent (besides the contradiction) would suck. Boredom would ensue after you created the space, time and a few particles that behaved exactly as you knew they would. Nothing would sate curiosity. I love the challange of exposing mystery and ignorance. Existing with all knowledge would suck the fun out of life. I wouldn’t go as far as creating humanity if this was so. There is no challenge in creating an imperfect race of stupids if you’re not going to take control to improve things.

Now, being omniscient with some power would be challenging, or omnipotent with only a limited understanding of what you are doing. Then I might have created something such as humanity and then started to improve said humanity (similar to those city simulator games). But I would always be interacting with the world. I would not be absent.

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Permalink Reply by Mario Rodgers on January 30, 2011 at 8:25pm

If I were God, I would "uninvent" myself.

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Permalink Reply by Eoganacht on January 30, 2011 at 11:51pm

I asked a christian once if an all powerful god could destroy itself. She had a fit.

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Permalink Reply by Adrian Montoya on January 31, 2011 at 11:51pm

That is awesome!

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Permalink Reply by Jon Heim on January 31, 2011 at 1:28am

according to LaVayan satanism, we are gods. lol

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Permalink Reply by Be Rational on January 31, 2011 at 11:00pm

If I was God with unlimited power, the only thing I would change is Jersey Shore......probably Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt as well. Trust me, the world will be better without them.

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Permalink Reply by Adrian Montoya on February 1, 2011 at 12:09am

There are so many fun directions to go with this question, serious directions to... Here's a couple ideas for different universes...

 

How about making memories a part of what is passed on through DNA. The world would be so much a different place with people seeing the long term consequences of their actions.  Talk about standing on the shoulders of giants, how much knowledge could a person be born with?...

 

Here's another one, what if space were more permeable. By that I mean what if a being could simply pull open a rift and step through to another part of the world, or another time, or even another planet... There would of course have to be some relativistic binding commonality between the two locations to keep people from opening a hole into the bottom of the ocean or empty space or a star.

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Permalink Reply by Docteur Stephan Halbeisen on February 1, 2011 at 10:19am

Nothing, because I cannot exist..

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Permalink Reply by Adrian Montoya on February 1, 2011 at 2:15pm

Yes, I agree that's the logical answer but can you come up with a creative answer? Say take God, religion, all of it out of the equation and be strictly scientific. How about this... If hypothetically you could re-write any of the basic laws of nature in the universe what would you change?

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Permalink Reply by Mario Rodgers on February 5, 2011 at 5:35pm

I wanna see the ramifications of a proton that's five thousand times heavier.

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Permalink Reply by Peter Metcalfe on February 8, 2011 at 9:17am

I think perhaps I should have said "If God really did exist then what would He have done differently?"

Because there is no doubt the world, and every living thing in it, would be nothing like it is now.

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