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Atheism
If you don't believe in God, I propose that you go on a 24 hour distilled water fast - as much water as you want, but only water - no cheating. This will put you in touch with your mortality, and in touch with God. There are also health benefits to fasting, so you can't lose (unless you have some health issues, so consult your physician first in this case, before trying).
The Coming Revival: America's Call to Fast, Pray, and "Seek God's Face" by Bill Bright . . . http://amzn.com/1563990644
The Miracle of Fasting: Proven Throughout History for Physical, Mental, & Spiritual Rejuvenation by Patricia Bragg . . . http://amzn.com/0877900396
Ray Comfort witnesses to a professing atheist . . . http://www.howtowitness.com/2009/07/18/ray-comfort-witnesses-to-a-professing-atheist/
How do I Reach Atheists, Agnostics, or Evolutionists for Christ? . . . http://www.dare2share.org/top10/how-do-i-reach-atheists-agnostics-or-evolutionists-for-christ/
Famous atheists last words before dying . . . http://youtu.be/IhCkB-fZXWY
Buzz Aldrin in Apollo 11 took communion on the moon. The Apollo 8 crew read from the book of Genesis . . . http://www.godandscience.org/apologetics/communion.html
Dr Francis Collins, National Human Genome Research Institute, interview on CNN . . . http://youtu.be/Ml0FqyFYfrU
Famous Scientists Who Believed in God . . . http://www.godandscience.org/apologetics/sciencefaith.html
People of Faith - Astronauts . . . http://www.godandscience.org/apologetics/astronauts.html
Why are Most Scientists Atheists If There is Evidence for Belief in God? . . . http://www.godandscience.org/apologetics/why_are_scientists_atheists.html
1Co 15:12-34 No resurrection of the dead? (verse 33 - bad company corrupts good character) . . . http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Corinthians+15&version=NIV
Richard Feynman on God . . . http://youtu.be/YltEym9H0x4
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http://atheismexposed.tripod.com/
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Here's an example of how scientists distort, and make things up, because *they* want to be worshipped:
Craig Venter unveils "synthetic life" - YouTube . . . http://youtu.be/QHIocNOHd7A
Disproving Atheists in 82 seconds! - YouTube - Refuting Venter creating synthetic life . . . youtu.be/iAY9d-tiO_Y
http://www.icr.org/article/have-scientists-created-living-cell/
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Dolly, the cloned sheep, was born on July 5, 1996, and lived until the age of six, at which point she died from a progressive lung disease:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolly_(sheep)
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If it can be demonstrated that sufficient evidence exists (i.e., textual, historical, archaeological) to authenticate the Bible as a thoroughly reliable historical document, will you then accept its ethical and moral imperatives? If not, then don't trouble yourself about reading this paper. Yours isn't an intellectual problem, but rather a volitional problem - a matter of the will.
Why the Bible Is the Word of God - Can I Trust the Bible . . . http://www.gospeloutreach.net/bible.html
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Genius - The Movie . . . http://youtu.be/o7pe3_VQbUM
28:54 A cross dresser says it's ok - This is called idolatry. It's where we shape a god to suit ourselves, to suit our sins. You "believe" in God, but you don't obey Him. You're not living in holiness. You're playing the hypocrit, gambling with your life. Get right with God today.
30:38 An atheist once said that John Lennon's "Imagine" is an anthem for atheism.
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Daniel Dennett: Breaking the Spell - Religion as a Natural Phenomenon - YouTube . . . http://youtu.be/5WhQ8bSvcHQ
08:52 Aurochs (is this where the Lorax comes from?)
24:05 It's ideas, not worms, that hijack our brains. These are ideas that can copy themselves, that can make us copy them, not only rehearsing them in our own brains, over and over, but spreading them to our friends, and our neighbors, and our family, and populating the world with many copies of these ideas. This of course is the idea of "memes" that Richard Dawkins first introduced in his famous book, "The Selfish Gene," which appeared just 30 years ago.
38:53 There's competition in people's minds for space - some win in the replication tournament . . . Supernatural agents are for occupying the minds that they find themselves in, some do us good, some do us harm, some are neutral . . . Symbiants come in these three varieties also, some of which are essential to your life, you wouldn't want to get rid of them . . .
42:20 So, don't be disgusted by your symbiants, most of them are harmless - Same thing with all of the cultural symbiants that infest your brain - this is what the "memes" perspective gives you . . .
42:55 Here's a riddle then. How are "spoken" words and "folk songs" like squirrels, rats, pigeons, and barn swallows? . . . Answer: They're not domesticated, but wild . . . they live in close proximity to us to exploit aspects of human ecology for their own benefit - they're just around, and they do very well . . . languages too are like wild memes . . .
"Memes" seems like what the Bible is talking about in 2 Corinthians 10:5: "Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;" (2 Co 10:5)
The organizing, guiding, principle of the Bible is to *always* choose life. That's what turning away from sin is about. If you go against the Bible, then you're in the meme / culture of death . . . Deut 30:19 (NKJV) I call heaven and earth as witnesses today against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose life, that both you and your descendants may live;
The atheist would say the Christian "meme" is just to control people - What actually are the pros and cons of being a follower of Jesus? Do the benefits outweigh the negatives?
Pros:
1.) The guiding principle, the organizing principle, is to always choose life (Deut 30:19)
2.) You know how you will behave from day to day, hour to hour, minute to minute, moment to moment
3.) You will reject behaviors and ideas that lead to death, physical and spiritual
4.) You are guaranteed to have eternal life in heaven, and to avoid of hell
5.) Creation makes sense - It gives you a purpose for living, it gives you hope when things are hopeless
Cons:
1.) You have to give up your identity as the master of your domain, and submit your will to the will of God
2.) You have to accept that the meta-physical realm exists - that is, something beyond the physical realm, that which we can see and touch
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Tracts on Evolution
Apes, Lies and Ms. Henn . . . http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/1051/1051_01.asp
Big Daddy? . . . http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0055/0055_01.asp
In The Beginning . . . http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/5001/5001_01.asp
Moving On Up! . . . http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/1041/1041_01.asp
Questions for Evolutionists - How Embarrassing For The Poor Evolutionist - YouTube . . . http://youtu.be/M6zcDknU6oc
Against the World - Evolution: The Foot in Mouth . . . http://againsttheworld.tv/?p=876
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Intelligent Design
Unlocking the Mystery of Life (Chapter 1 of 12) - Chapter 10 has an incredible animation of how DNA makes a protein . . . http://youtu.be/VWvS1UfXl8k
Designer Needed! No Designer Needed? . . . http://www.ideacenter.org/contentmgr/showdetails.php/id/713
DNA REPAIR--mechanism revealed . . . How DNA Machinery is a ‘Two-Way Street’ . . . http://healthfully.org/mednews/id4.html
For even a relatively simple single cell organism, what created its DNA, the assembly instructions? . . . Give me the evidence for a biological, or naturalistic, method for inert matter becoming self-aware . . . How did the Krebs cycle jump from anaerobic to aerobic? . . . How did the 2 chambered heart evolve into a 3 or 4 chambered heart? This would require a COMPLETE reworking of the veins and arteries, interior valves, and the creation of an interior circuit which can properly interact with the lungs.
Neurology has shown that there is not nearly enough information stored in DNA to create the human brain - but text books teach there is . . . Also, the section of the brain for many processes has been found, but not the seat of consciousness, or self awareness, anywhere.
The Vertebrate Animal Heart: Unevolvable, whether Primitive or Complex . . . http://www.ideacenter.org/contentmgr/showdetails.php/id/1113
Nicene Council - Against the World – The Evolution of a Fairytale . . . http://againsttheworld.tv/?p=824
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Error Correction / Quote Mining: Here is a quote taken out of context by the Intelligent Design Movement:
You have to read the text a few times, and diagram the sentence, but Darwin is not negating his own theory:
The Fallacy of quoting out of context (Darwin / Quote Mining) - Wikipedia . . . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacy_of_quoting_out_of_context#.22Absurd_in_the_highest_degree.22
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Quarks and leptons for beginners . . . http://youtu.be/TGrDj5vFefQ
In this series, somewhere, it talks about the Quantum Foam - if by definition this can never be explained, how can you you say that God doesn't exist?
NOVA The Elegant Universe . . . http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/physics/elegant-universe.html
NOVA The Elegant Universe - Google Video . . . http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1322493346942339345
Different series on the same subject
BBC - Horizon - Parallel Universes . . . http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/2001/paralleluni.shtml
Alternative Reality Hyperspace Universe (part 1 of 5) . . . http://youtu.be/0-nP4yD1hkk
M-Theory: The Mother of all SuperStrings . . . http://mkaku.org/home/?page_id=262
Introduction to M-theory / Membranes . . . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introduction_to_M-theory
Imagining the Tenth Dimension part 1 of 2 / 2:51 The Long Undulating Snake . . . http://youtu.be/JkxieS-6WuA
The Unseen Eye . . . http://youtu.be/oK29fTLXEf0
Carl Sagan 4th Dimension Explanation . . . http://youtu.be/UnURElCzGc0
Fourth Dimension 101 . . . http://youtu.be/uDaKzQNlMFw
Dr Quantum - Flatland . . . http://youtu.be/BWyTxCsIXE4
Rotating Tesseract . . . http://youtu.be/5xN4DxdiFrs
5d-Hypercube (Tesseract ) . . . http://youtu.be/jMMKceXeExY
ATLAS - Episode 1 -A New Hope . . . http://youtu.be/OxENLH1ATV4
ATLAS - Episode 2 -The Particles Strike Back (Part 1) . . . http://youtu.be/iYRQpcJVQx8
ATLAS - Episode 2 - The Particles Strike Back (Part 2) . . . http://youtu.be/DUkzyDbMQ3E
YouTube - Dr Quantum - Double Slit Experiment . . . science has shown that matter is self aware, it changes when you look at it . . . http://youtu.be/DfPeprQ7oGc
Searching for the Missing Universe: Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) . . . http://youtu.be/hv8N8S-j_yU
97 Percent of Our DNA Has a Higher Purpose And Is Not ‘Junk’ As Labeled By Scientists . . . http://wakeup-world.com/2012/10/08/97-percent-of-our-dna-has-a-higher-purpose-and-is-not-junk-as-labeled-by-scientists/
The Black Hole War 280400-1, by Leonard Susskind, C-SPAN Video Library - Around the edge of a black hole is the information that projects us as holograms. If we could get there, the question is, can the hologram change the information? This will determine if teleportation is possible. . . . http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/280400-1
Satan will come up with anything to degrade you, and keep you from understanding that you're a precious child of God. For example:
1.) He will say that we are descended from monkeys, apes, worms, or primordial slime
2.) He will say that in the big scheme of things, that you are nothing more than a cosmic space turd, or a star turd
3.) Demons conducting alien abduction will say that you're a hybrid - half human / half angel, or half human / half alien
4.) He will say that we are holograms
The devil will say anything to get you to lose your sense of being special - and he uses scientists to do it. Not all scientists are bad, some do make the world a better place to live in.
. . . You have to remember that it's the Bible that has the Truth. Test everything against the Word of God - that's how you discern Truth from Lies.
Moriarity / holodeck / hologram Episodes:
Star Trek: The Next Generation ... Season 2, Episode 3, Elementary, Dear Data . . . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elementary,_Dear_Data
Star Trek: The Next Generation ... Season 6, Episode 12, Ship in a Bottle . . . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_in_a_Bottle_(Star_Trek:_The_Next_Generation)
Related to Star Trek: Only God can do teleporting, which He will do in the Rapture. Satan can only mimic and copy it. We see in Star Trek that man can do it, to take away our knowledge of this fact.
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In the Meyers-Briggs personality test, I tested as the INTJ, so I can speak from this:
http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes2.asp
http://typelogic.com/intj.html
Example of how mis-understandings take place:
In the movie "Expelled" on intelligent design, Dawkins said, "In other words, if it were shown that life is designed, then the most obvious candidate for a designer is some advanced civilization from another planet."
So, he's saying that aliens created us, right?
I went to an atheist blog and said, "Did you know that Dawkins said he thinks aliens created us?" ... and I heard over an over again, "No, he did NOT say that."
So I thought, what's going on? Why are they saying that? He did say it.
Then I thought, in my personality type, the "J," Judging, means that I make quick decisions about things. That's why I interpret Dawkins as saying that "aliens created us."
It occurred to me that Dawkins could be the INTP. The "P" (counterpoint to "J") means "Perceiving." INTPs leave things open ended. They stay open to perception - so he didn't actually, really say that aliens created us.
I mentioned this in the atheist blog, and they agreed, "Correct, he didn't say that aliens *did* create us, he said that they're a *more likely* explanation than design by a magical deity. Extra-terrestrial creation of the first monomers on Earth is a far more likely explanation than speaking the world into existence in an instant. At least there's a natural explanation for the extra-terrestrials existing. Stein used a mined quotation out of context ('quote mining')."
I checked it out, and found that someone has Dawkins down has being the INTP:
http://www.typetango.com/intp-personality.php
http://typelogic.com/intp.html
Personally, I believe God spoke the world into existence. If man gets rid of the concept of something external to, and above him, you make yourself into a God, which is dangerous, and the oldest trick in the book.
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Atheists believe in evolution: primordial slime > ape > trans-humanism / eternal life > alien (these are really demons in disguise)
The Christian version is: unsaved > saved > sanctified > heaven / eternal life with Jesus
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HowStuffWorks - 10 of the Biggest Lies in History - Piltdown Man . . . http://history.howstuffworks.com/history-vs-myth/10-biggest-lies-in-history.htm#page=6
Micro-Machines Visualization . . . Unlocking the Mystery of Life (Chapter 10 of 12) . . . http://youtu.be/gdBJt6sdDfI
Question: Micro-Machines / Illicit Sex / Bible says the two become one flesh, a spiritual law / Are viruses created if you do it with more than one person? Do the micro-machines sense this?
Greg Koukl - Stand to Reason (STR) . . . http://www.str.org/site/PageServer . . . there's a training on here . . . show the atheist that he's really an agnostic - because it's impossible for him to really *know* some things - get him to say it in his own words, then he will be more open to the gospel.
Atheists are often very intelligent, and it's this intelligence that is their worst enemy, because they can't see beyond the lies. All they're willing to look at is what is in the physical world, because they want proof - that's where the snare is for them - they want proof, that's where they slip up - They fail to understand the concept of faith, because faith is believing without seeing, which is what it says in the Bible. They're thinking with the carnal mind, so they're stuck, they can't get into the spiritual way of thinking.
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Hypothesis - Prayer is like the placebo effect, it never really cures a person
What's the difference between faith (not relying on a feeling but believing / trusting in something you cannot see) and placebo (the power of suggestion)?
A placebo never actually cures, it can have an adverse effect, and is short lived.
Religion, The Placebo Effect, and Faith . . . http://graceinallthings.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/religion-placebo-effect-and-faith.html
Placebo Faith . . . http://www.str.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=5496
Avoiding the pain of the not-so-mystical placebo effect with the almost-magical run-in period . . . http://www.tcpinnovations.com/drugbaron/?p=213
Scientists analyse placebo effect - a placebo never cures a tumor . . . http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/2616771.stm
What is the placebo effect? . . . http://www.cancer.org/treatment/treatmentsandsideeffects/treatmenttypes/placebo-effect
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Ian McCormack (Part 1 of 10) former atheist, near death experience (NDE) conversion - YouTube . . . http://youtu.be/XgF_iwUNqFU
BBC: PAM SEES GOD. NDE Pam Reynolds. Amazing! Full version! - YouTube . . . http://youtu.be/WNbdUEqDB-k
11 yr Old Went to Heaven and Back, and Tells What He Saw! - YouTube . . . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdUGoFTfP7w
Buddhist Monk Hell and Heaven Testimony (Buddhist Near Death Experience) - YouTube . . . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byig-MjT0Gk
Resurrection of an African Pastor . . . http://www.bibleprobe.com/ekechukwu.htm
Near Death Experience Research Foundation (NDERF) with Evidence of the Afterlife and From Soul to Soulmate . . . http://www.nderf.org/
Near death experiences - Today Tonight . . . http://au.news.yahoo.com/today-tonight/health/article/-/5069041/near-death-experiences/
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Lord's Supper . . . http://www.wels.net/what-we-believe/questions-answers/lords-supper
Real presence of Christ in the Eucharist - Jesus is really there - "in, with and under the forms" of bread and wine . . . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_presence_of_Christ_in_the_Eucharist
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Square roots? Scientists say plants are good at math . . . http://news.yahoo.com/square-roots-scientists-plants-good-math-040924317.html
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1962 - 1963 . . . Prayer and Bible reading taken out of the Public Schools / Madalyn Murray O'Hair . . . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madalyn_Murray_O'Hair
William J. Murray - Madalyn Murray O'Hair Murder . . . http://www.wjmurray.com/
William J. Murray - Wikipedia . . . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_J._Murray
My Life Without God - YouTube . . . http://youtu.be/emrr-fQLYl0
Religious Freedom Coalition . . . http://www.religiousfreedomcoalition.org/
Sharia Awareness Action Network . . . http://shariafreeusa.com/
1995 - The Murder of Madalyn Murray O'Hair . . . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madalyn_Murray_O'Hair#Murder
The Murder of Madalyn Murray O'Hair America's Most Hated Woman by Lona Manning . . . http://www.crimemagazine.com/ohair.htm
True Confession - Kidnapping and murder of Madalyn Murray O'Hair . . . http://www.dallasobserver.com/2003-07-10/news/true-confession/full/
Congressional Prayer Caucus . . . http://forbes.house.gov/prayercaucus/blog/?postid=332395
Congressional Prayer Caucus - YouTube . . . https://www.youtube.com/user/PrayerCaucus/videos?sort=dd&view=0&live_view=500&flow=grid
Military Association of Atheists and Freethinkers | providing community for atheists and humanists in the military . . . http://militaryatheists.org/
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7/24/13 I asked an atheist, "Why aren't there any atheist charities." I got back a list that had some, but also included humanists and deists:
Atheist Centre of India . . . http://atheistcentre.in/SecularSocialWorkASM.html
Foundation Beyond Belief . . . http://foundationbeyondbelief.org/about
EARTHWARD, Inc . . . http://earthward.org/faq.shtml
Fellowship of Freethought . . . http://fofdallas.org/about/
International Humanist and Ethical Union . . . http://iheu.org/article-categories/about-iheu
Atheists Helping the Homeless . . . http://dfwahh.org/
Kiva Atheists Team . . . http://www.kiva.org/team/atheists
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation . . . http://www.gatesfoundation.org/
HIVOS . . . http://www.hivos.org/about-hivos
Union of Concerned Scientists . . . http://www.ucsusa.org/about/
UNICEF . . . http://www.unicefusa.org/about/
Doctors Without Borders . . . http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/aboutus/?ref=main-menu
Oxfam . . . http://www.oxfam.org/en/about
The Nature Conservancy . . . http://www.nature.org/about-us/index.htm
Planned Parenthood . . . http://www.plannedparenthood.org/about-us/
Goodwill . . . http://www.goodwill.org/about-us/our-mission/
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