How can you claim God invented the wheel. The earliest wheel is 3000 BC (carbon dating) in an area where there were not Jewish people.  How can you have the audacity to give credit to God for something that is an invention of humans. I think you should be ashamed of yourself for lying about history.
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Wanna make a long term bet.
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We're made in the spiritual image of God, but that doesn't mean we ARE God; we make mistakes.  The Bible does have some internal inconsistancies, but it's also about 4000 years old.  You can't expect a story to be reproduced perfectly all throughout that time.  And I don't think it really matters anyway, since the creation story is more meant to be a parable than a factual history.  The message is more important than the individual details.
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The Bible was written by ancient people who also believed  that the Earth was flat. They lacked the intelligence to comprehend the things that they wrote about and they made  mistakes.  If 21st century man witnessed the things that they saw we would not call it God. If you were alive then and had a cigarette lighter and flicked it, everyone would call you God because you could make fire come from your hands. If we all came from Adam & Eve, where did Chinese, Hispanic, or Aborigines people come from?  There are over 1 million different species of insects, how did Noah get to the Amazon Rain Forest to gather some of them? I'm not 100% certain that we came from apes but the World is loaded with religion disagreement problems because we have been forced to accept a God concept from people who had no idea as to what was going on.
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The bottom line of Poki's post is "because someone said so". But that isn't true. \n\nThe oldest book on earth, a copy of Isaiah found with the dead sea scrolls, is essentially identical to what we have today. Through the dead sea scrolls we have again proven that the Bible that we have is reliable and accurate and consistent in it's message. There is no scholarly authority or archaeological evidence that proves otherwise. Nada. \n\nSaying the Bible is corrupt is just the same old lie; "Yea, hath God said...?"
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no homo sapiens did not come from "God" the concept of higher beings was a creation by man to explain the unexplainable, so therefore it was not "God" who created man but man who created "God"\n\nAs for the question homo sapiens came about essentially by pure chance and through the evolutionary process, the first home sapiens started out in africa and spread out throughout the rest of the world, and while the breed with themselves they also breed with the homo erectus and absorbing them
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Thank you for the article- it had some interesting insights!\n\nI have long thought that there was something odd in the part of Genesis 2:1 and the phrasing Genesis 1 used. I've been looking for things that explained it and your article did just that.\n\nIt simply makes no sense that the God who sent His people to the wilderness for 40 years would have (or needed to) rush the planet in 6 days, then fake various items to make it seem much older. He does not work that way at any other time, so why then?\n\nI have said for years that when the Bible and science or reality conflict, our understanding of one or the other is flawed- and I think we've really messed up our understanding of the Bible!
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No one knows when, where or how human life began on this planet. It's all speculation. Some of the theories are based on scientific evidence, but everyone knows that they are just possible scenarios and full of gaps.\nSomeone lied to you by saying that "white people were allways apriciated" and that "black people...were the "sclaves" of white people. It just nonsense that racists use to assert that black people are sub-human or animals. \nIf you believe that Adam and Eve were the first humans ever, and that God created them, and we are all direct descendants, and no other humans can or have ever existed on this planet; then you're basically screwed because nothing in life will ever make sense.
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Have you thought of a wonderful god who doesn't have a creator?\nWhat about the beautiful creator who doesn't have his or her own creator as well.\nThe first cause argument is so old and lame.  If you need a creator to explain everything, explain where the creator came from, please.
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There are massive amounts of evidence to support the contention that extraterrestrials have been visiting earth for thousands of years, and have greatly influenced humanity's religious history.  I suggest you read a book called "the 12th Planet" by Zacharia Stitchin.  He is a biblical scholar and ancient languages expert.  The first 80 pages or so of the book are very dry, but if you can get through that, it will amaze you!  Most of the stories from the first 5 books of the Bible were actually taken from much older stories, which can be directly linked to the ancient Sumerian culture, 6000 years ago.  The stories of Adam and Eve and the Great Flood are both taken directly from Sumerian stories, for example.  The Hebrews literally just changed the names of the Sumerian gods to Yahweh, and changed the names of the humans involved.  Anyway, a HUGE amount of evidence exists that these "gods" were really just extraterrestrials.  There are descriptions of them flying around in aircraft and spacecraft, of them having battles with advanced weapontry, etc.\n     For those who think this sounds crazy, ask youself this:  How did the ancient Sumerians know about the planets Neptune, Uranus and Pluto 6000 years ago, when these planets cannot be seen without high-powered telescopes, and we only discovered them within the last 200 years?  It would be literally impossible for them to have this knowledge, but they had it nonetheless.  They said that their gods told them all about these planets.  They also believed that their gods were from a red planet that was on a huge elipical orbit around our sun.  That sounded crazy to historians and ancient language experts, until NASA found that planet last year.  It will be back in our neighborhood in about 1000 years or so.\n    So, if the ancient Sumerians' gods were aliens, and the stories about the Hebrew's god are just plagerized from the Sumerians, then what does that mean for your belief about god today?  \n   These are just a few small examples of evidence for extraterrestrials visiting Earth in ancient times.  There are many many other books on this topic, and each is filled with historical evidence.  Some other books include Fingerprints of the Gods, Chariots of the Gods, and the Gods of Eden.\nMost people would rather hear a comforting lie than a harsh truth.  Are you like most people?  Or are you going to do the research and come to your own conclusions?
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I believe you have answered your own question.  This is my belief exactly.  The bible specifically tells us that his six days is infinately more then out days.  I believe that God put the wheels in motions and over time we evoved.  Great topic!
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What would my being an atheist have anything to do with the existence of Christopher Columbus?  It's documented history that he landed his ship in the Americas.  It's a common misconception that he discovered them as well.  Understanding history has no bearing on whether or not I believe in God...
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This sort of thinking should be based on observation. You can come up with any theory you like, but if it does not explain what is seen it is useless.\n\nOn this basis:\n\n1. the universe (and implcitly nature) had a beginning, about 13.7 billion years ago\n2. that beginning did not require a creator (though you may choose to believe in one - you just won't find him experimentally)
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What is your question? Is religion man-made? Of course it is. Man created God and then claimed that God created man.\nIt works for a lot of people.  It works for me.  But I respect the belief systems of others--such as atheists, which you seem to be--and I know everything doesn't work for everyone.\nBTW, I know people who actively worship "the old gods" like Ra--they aren't all just crossword puzzle words to some people.
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Exactly. And where did "cave men" come into place here if God created the world..? There are just so many unanswered questions.. Makes me freakin crazy! I really don't believe anything anymore! Just because nobody can prove anything!
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Lots of slave labor, donkey carts, ropes, rolling logs, mules, wagons...the wheel was invented during the building of the time of the Pyramids.
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Some say that they just did not write in 1st person back then.  Whether or not that is true, I do not know.\n\nBut if Moses wrote anything, it is very difficult to tell.  Because so much has been added on over the years by so many different sources.  Notice that if Moses wrote it, it is interesting because it records his death.  And remember that Moses never crossed the Jordan into Israel.  And yet, the wording goes like this, "When Israel was on the other side of the Jordan and had not yet crossed over into the Promised Land..."  That is a very strange thing to say for someone who is currently "on the other side of the Jordan."  It also makes time references, such as, "And it remains that way to this day."  But the things it was saying remained that way to this day supposedly happened in Moses' time.\n\nThat doesn't make sense.  It would be like me writing, "I gave you this answer on Yahoo Answers on May 13th 2006, and the answer remains there until this day."  Well, I would not write that on May 13th!  It only makes sense if I had written it AFTER May 13th.  Plus, there is a king list in Genesis that records kings that lived and died WAY after Moses.\n\nThere is evidence of multiple authorship of the Torah.  The idea that Moses wrote the whole thing just does not hold up under scrutiny.\n\nFURTHERMORE....an honest reading of the Torah does NOT lead one to believe that the Torah itself is even claiming that Moses wrote it!  It does not even TRY to make it look like Moses wrote it!  The idea of Mosaic authorship came later, based on only a few references in the Torah of things which Moses was instructed to write down.  But it in no way indicates that he wrote the whole Torah.  Perhaps he wrote a law or 2.  That's all it seems to indicate.
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What is the point in being a God if you cant draw circular triangles. What kind of a God z dat. God can create rectangular s holes against the cylindirical     c ocks ....        if she likes...\n\n Like square pegs in round holes exactly    ...s,hit away...,\n\n get lost body\n\ndumbass \n\nGod damn you\n\nYou arent a true atheist\nWhat is going on here I really cant understand  Am I a believer? Where is my wine bottle then?