Human lifespans have been increasing dramatically. In ancient times, it might have been considered rare to have lived to 60 years of age. Nowadays, it's quite common to see people in their 80's and 90's.

Also, evolution and de-evolution are the same thing. Evolution says there only needs to be change between generations of organisms, it does not matter what direction thay change is in.

There no evidence that flying spaghetti monsters exist. But they probably don't.

Quote from: Justin Pope

"there's no more scientific basis for intelligent design than there is for the idea an omniscient creature made of pasta created the universe"

A joke response I've seen to this one is, "Then why are all the planets spherical and meatball-shaped?"

Quote from: Scipi on May 22, 2013, 03:15:15 pm

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Now, this is not the case if God exists in a Universe outside ours with a different ruleset. But when we are looking at different Universes, there are infinite Gods to be had anyways. If it is the case that God exists outside our Universe, we can still say that within ours, He doesn't exist, though actions of his might. They would still be subject to the rules of this Universe, however.

Jesus.

He could have very well been a kind of avatar for God. I have my own opinions and knowledge about him that I will not be sharing here, but consider the possibility of him not being who he says he is, but instead a higher being. To the Humans of the time, he would appear to them as a God or the Son of God.

Though that is, of course, my own opinion on it and it stems from a source that I do not feel comfortable sharing. Nonetheless, that is my answer.

I'll have to do a huge, tl;dr on this (though I'll certainly read through the topic once I have time)

But I have a few things I have with religion.

This one is more geared towards the abrahamic religions, but it's something to do with the concept of Heaven as a paradise. Everyone has their own version of what is paradise in their heads. A kind of ultimate universe where everything is perfect.
 Emotion such as happiness and sadness, etc, stem from physical reality either moving towards or away from this paradise, as we perceive it. The largest flaw with the concept of Heaven, is that you actually reach this paradise. Because you are at perfection, because you cannot go higher, happiness ends. Change ends, motion stops. There is nowhere left to go because of that. To me, this is a really bad thing because ope itself comes from the prospect of achieving such a reality. But once you reach is, there's nowhere for hope to come from anymore since there is no imperfection to overcome.

There's also a few things I have with the idea of intelligent design. If nothing existed before God, and God created everything, what was God's reason/motivation to create anything and what was His point of reference for creation? Because nothing existed, there would be nothing that could cause God to begin His creation. Conventional concepts such as boredom and discontent would not exist because there counterparts such as excitement would not exist either because there was nothing that could elicit such emotion.

Now this net one as rather little to do with religion, but is more my ideas on what a soul is. I believe a soul is a construction who's existence lies in higher dimensionality. It is created, but not by any God. More being's whose role it is to create souls. I believe a soul is comprised of many parts, only one of which is "immortal." That would be the "observer" part, or the actual art of the soul that experiences. Now, here's the thing with that, when created a soul is a blank slate. It could become anything, anyone. There's a problem with that, every soul would be too similar to eachother. In higher planes, your perspective would be vastly greater than in lower. Souls wouldn't "specialize" because of that, as in that setting since by and large, they would perceive the same things in the same way. And when your perspective is much greater like that, you wouldn't learn as much and change from it. The solution? Bind the soul to a lower plane temporarily so it can change from other souls and form different conclusions and ideas from them.  In other words, life. All that life is then, is a learning phase. And this makes sense for it to be so when you consider that the majority of our existence (provided there is an afterlife) in death.

Woo, finally got a place to write that all down

That is an epic fail xD

5175: You got Empire at War and Empire: Total War

5168: You think Soru is slowly taking Juju's place for randomness <.<

5164: You remember a time when such irrelevant randomness was kept somewhat to a minimum, or at least well-encouraged to be that way

Tho to be fair this is the humor and jokes board.

I remember when this was in Spam