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Permalink Reply by Doug Reardon on February 11, 2012 at 3:07pm

The "Magic 8 ball" has all the answers too.

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Permalink Reply by Dave G on February 11, 2012 at 4:42pm

Just answering 'Magic' (or God) for every question doesn't actually answer anything. It just stops you from finding out the actual answers.

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Permalink Reply by James on February 11, 2012 at 6:04pm

Everyone has added some great responses, but you can always point out some of the obvious stuff the Bible gets wrong. Like saying that Pi = 3 and that bats are birds. Sure, the Bible may have answers, but they're not necessarily the right answers. Actually, they're quite often the wrong answers. Just Genesis alone is completely laughable.

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Permalink Reply by Grady Jean on February 11, 2012 at 11:58pm

Religion has all the answers? When was the last time you heard someone say "Hold up, I'll Bible it."? Google +1, Religion 0.

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Permalink Reply by Morgan Matthew on February 12, 2012 at 1:33am

I made a We Think Atheist video about this very topic. Enjoy!

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Permalink Reply by Rosemary LYNDALL WEMM on February 12, 2012 at 2:54am

It's called the Dunning-Kruger Effect:  the less you know the more you think you know;  the more you know the more you realize what you don't know.  Ignorance breeds arrogance.  Knowledge breeds humility.

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Permalink Reply by Unseen on February 12, 2012 at 9:22am

That should be The Socrates Effect, shouldn't it?

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Permalink Reply by Unseen on February 12, 2012 at 9:36am

Of course it's shrinking because, as many people would say, "Everything's relative." What that means that there is always a sense or interpretation according to which the universe is shrinking. Take a smaller example: the world. We hear people say "the world is shrinking" and we know what they mean by that, and it's true in a sense, but not in every sense, and not in the literal physical sense.

Bearing that in mind, of course the universe is shrinking. Our newest, most powerful telescopes are allowing us to bring the very edge of the universe into view.

In that sense, the universe is shrinking.

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Permalink Reply by Ethereal Sincoskie on February 12, 2012 at 10:45am

In ancient times the people who were first figuring things out, wrote things down as they saw it and could understand it. Keep in mind the people who created religions and wonder what they must've been talking about. Shamans for example knew about brain waves, your alpha, beta, theta, ect. We Now have science which puts labels on the kinds of things that Shamans did tens of thousands of years ago. Religion is a philosophy before Philosophy, Science is a Philosophy after Philosophy. So Religion is simply Old Science. And science doesn't have all the answers, neither does religion. Just find a balance in between thank you.

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Permalink Reply by Gary Bergeron on February 12, 2012 at 11:23am

If people who wrote the bible were divinely inspired to write God's message for all of time, why are there no scientific discoveries prefigured in the bible?

Example: Science knows that water is 2 parts Hydrogen, one part Oxygen...H2O. Science also tells us that Hydrogen is the most common element in the universe. Oxygen, a lesser common element. If the writers were divinely inspired, why didn't they write something like this in Genesis: And God took 2 parts of the most common thing and took 1 part of a lesser common thing and made water?

But, they didn't. They didn't know With all their "divine inspiration", they are eerily silent on the rudimentary properties that make up everything.

What truly is amazing, is that I am told that if I want to understand the word of an all powerful god, I must go to a fancy building and have a special dude explain it to me. An omnipotent god would need no interpreter to spread his word and would not need humans to do his work for him!

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Permalink Reply by Sean O' Byrne on February 12, 2012 at 2:21pm

Does religion (Christianity) know where and what jesus did between the age of 12 to 30.... No!!

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Permalink Reply by matt.clerke on February 12, 2012 at 4:55pm

religion rules cause it has all the answer

It has all the answers but alot of those answers are wrong.

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