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MineralMan

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16. Yes, at a time when there were no answers.

Reply to Major Nikon (Reply #14)

Sun Sep 30, 2018, 07:00 PM

Sep 2018

It made sense then. It no longer does. It's time for humans to grow up and recognize that magic is not the answer. We know what the answers to those basic questions are.

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In the beginning, "god" put two lights in the sky. [View all] MineralMan Sep 2018 OP

Eppur se muove. The Velveteen Ocelot Sep 2018 #1

Indeed it does. MineralMan Sep 2018 #3

Genesis was oral history long before it was written. LongTomH Oct 2018 #20

Wow...next you're going to try to convince me Noah didn't have Dinos on the ark! Docreed2003 Sep 2018 #2

Just the smaller ones, though. Those gigantic ones wouldn't fit, MineralMan Sep 2018 #4

Velociraptors aren't so big that they wouldn't fit, but they'd have eaten all the other animals The Velveteen Ocelot Sep 2018 #5

No, no...they were vegetarians, then. MineralMan Sep 2018 #6

They still have their uses. The Velveteen Ocelot Sep 2018 #9

LOL! MineralMan Sep 2018 #10

In the beginning Man created God . . . Journeyman Sep 2018 #7

Ayup... MineralMan Sep 2018 #8

This is a good example of why their gods aren't big enough for my universe. Pope George Ringo II Sep 2018 #11

There. Were. No. Gods. It's all stories told by shamans MineralMan Sep 2018 #12

Indeed. Pope George Ringo II Sep 2018 #13

Yes. It is those questions that started it. MineralMan Sep 2018 #15

Born out of a necessity to answer the question of where the sun goes at night Major Nikon Sep 2018 #14

Yes, at a time when there were no answers. MineralMan Sep 2018 #16

Even when we don't it's childish to pretend hocus pocus is the answer Major Nikon Sep 2018 #17

Yes, of course. MineralMan Sep 2018 #18

Not to mention.. Permanut Sep 2018 #19

We're probably taking that out of context. Act_of_Reparation Oct 2018 #21