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Scary_Vanilla1730 t1_j6hsdzu wrote

I'm sorry but if god exists i think he created the universe and time, and so holds knowledge that you can not begin to understand and never will be able to.

We as human can not even have our brain picture what a 4th dimension representation look like and you think you could begin to understand what does it means to be outside of time? Or that we would be able one day to explain the creation of the universe

Now if you don't believe, a scientific explanation that could occur outside of time is such as weird as a god. I don't know why people are so shaken by the theory or religion

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ImCaligulaI t1_j6hs3mu wrote

>Why would someone spread misinformation about this subject?

That's why I wrote intentionally or by misunderstanding from the reader?

There's plenty of kids and people of varying levels of education on here, a lot may not know how fetal development works, what's so bad in finding out more about it?

>So no more humour for anyone in these terrible times. Unless it is scientifically accurate ofcourse

Don't strawman. It's not like the joke was taken off for not being scientifically accurate, lol.

People clarifying on the incorrect parts of a joke or humorous sentence doesn't detract from the joke, especially since this subreddit isn't exclusively humorous and thus it's not implicit it's a joke.

You're supposed to read the showethought, laugh/smile, go read the comments, see people clarifying.

If you already knew and it was obvious for you you can just go "duh" and move on, no harm done. If you didn't know you can go "huh, TIL" and move on, not only no harm done, but you now know something new.

How's that bad?

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Sinelas t1_j6hry94 wrote

Some of the catholics I know have a vision of creation that is absolutely compatible with evolution.

Basically they consider the garden of Eden as a metaphore, the forbidden fruit being knowledge (or consciousness).
Their god is supposed to be omniscient, so it makes zero sense that he forbade Adam and and Even from eating the fruit, knowing that they would eat it anyway, just to ban them from the garden of Eden afterwards, this would be useless cruelty.

Instead, god created man in his image, meaning that he knew that eventually, this man would acquire knowledge.
So he never banned Adam and Eve from the garden, they just could not live in the paradise of not realizing that they will eventually die anymore, so is the curse of consciousness.

You could then see Adam and Eve as a metaphore for the first humans that "became conscious", in that they understood that their life will eventually end, "they realized that they were naked" can meat a lot more than just not wearing clothes.
Leaving the garden of Eden means going from an animal to an human.

Now one point we could make nowadays, is that humans are not so different from many animals, that just have a different form of intelligence, but that doesn't invalidate that methaphore, and nothing said that some animals didn't eat the forbidden fruit as well.

The idea is that human are specials, in that they don't realize their mortality when they are wounded or dying, they are born knowing it, they understand what's in the mirror, what they are and how meaningless their life is in the grand scheme of thing, this is a theme that is not shared only by religious people, but religion here can be seen as a way to explain to people what being human is like, a gift and a curse.

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FindorKotor93 t1_j6hrp8p wrote

But they don't except in the head of validation seeking theists. Very few people ever believe there was a nothing, and the good faith attempts to communicate it to you in your language always fall on eagerly closed minded ears.

We both believe in a first thing, you believe it is infinitely more complex than what it caused by merit of being able to hold the details of our universe in its mind and actively create design from them all at once.

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