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Creationist Ken Ham calls to end space program because aliens are going to hell anyway.

But then we may get the space aliens trying to convert us to the worship of Glakk!! and his holy soughter Foos. When then Ken Unkosher Meat?

Eldarion Lathria
 
Uh...Mr Ham?

Why did God knock down the Tower of Babel to keep us from reaching heaven, but he allows rockets to go into space?

Oh, They moved heaven since then ?

Gotcha.[emoji12]
 
Kosh said:
Uh...Mr Ham?

Why did God knock down the Tower of Babel to keep us from reaching heaven, but he allows rockets to go into space?

Oh, They moved heaven since then ?

Gotcha.[emoji12]
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My favorite one is: when Jesus rose into the sky to go to Heaven, exactly where was he going?

This part of the story would have made sense to people living in ancient Rome, who believed in the firmament. The firmament was a solid dome onto which the sky was painted. The gods lived on or behind the firmament. So when the story in the New Testament insisted that Jesus rose into the sky to go to heaven, this would have sounded perfectly sensible to people.

But now we know there is no firmament. Our sky is not made of a solid dome. Did Jesus rocket into space? If so, which star/galaxy/supercluster was he traveling to? Did he have to exit Earth's atmosphere before taking the teleporter to whatever other dimension Heaven is in? If so, why doesn't the teleporter work on the surface of the Earth or even in the atmosphere of Earth? Is the teleporter dangerous some how?
 
There is enough absurdity in the christian bible already without Ham making up even more. But he's made a successful living trolling his whole life. Can't argue with that sort of success.
 
Creationist Ken Ham has said that the U.S. space program is a waste of money because any alien life that scientists found would be damned to hell.

“I’m shocked at the countless hundreds of millions of dollars that have been spent over the years in the desperate and fruitless search for extraterrestrial life,” Ham wrote in a Sunday column on his Answers in Genesis website.
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Wait, wait, wait.
Does Ham think that the ONLY purpose of the space program is t seek new life forms and new civilizations?
I could believe that, really. Many creationists are sure that most scientists are plugging away at science for the sole purpose of disproving God, so maybe they're all flying the spaceships in order to prove life evolved on other planets, therefore No God.

Of course, this stance completely ignores the fact that a substantial government space program will eventually lead to a private space program which will drive costs down to the point that someone can afford to make zero-gravity porn.
 
My favorite one is: when Jesus rose into the sky to go to Heaven, exactly where was he going?

This part of the story would have made sense to people living in ancient Rome, who believed in the firmament. The firmament was a solid dome onto which the sky was painted. The gods lived on or behind the firmament. So when the story in the New Testament insisted that Jesus rose into the sky to go to heaven, this would have sounded perfectly sensible to people.
(From Underseer's post above.)
I believe the Catholics have a doctrine that's about 60 years old that's now nailed, soldered, and buckled into their Maryology, to the effect that upon death, Mary's corpse was lifted up to heaven. How the hell a religion comes up with new story boards like this is anyone's guess. Someone had a weird dream.
I guess you have to take it on faith that Jesus and his mom weren't hit by asteroids, comet debris or space rocks as they traveled up to...again, where, exactly? Underseer's right, and there's really no "up" to go to. It's more like OUT. So maybe Jesus & Mom just followed the drift of the expanding, accelerating universe & drifted out, out, out. We need Einstein back.
 
ideologyhunter said:
My favorite one is: when Jesus rose into the sky to go to Heaven, exactly where was he going?

This part of the story would have made sense to people living in ancient Rome, who believed in the firmament. The firmament was a solid dome onto which the sky was painted. The gods lived on or behind the firmament. So when the story in the New Testament insisted that Jesus rose into the sky to go to heaven, this would have sounded perfectly sensible to people.
(From Underseer's post above.)
I believe the Catholics have a doctrine that's about 60 years old that's now nailed, soldered, and buckled into their Maryology, to the effect that upon death, Mary's corpse was lifted up to heaven. How the hell a religion comes up with new story boards like this is anyone's guess. Someone had a weird dream.
I guess you have to take it on faith that Jesus and his mom weren't hit by asteroids, comet debris or space rocks as they traveled up to...again, where, exactly? Underseer's right, and there's really no "up" to go to. It's more like OUT. So maybe Jesus & Mom just followed the drift of the expanding, accelerating universe & drifted out, out, out. We need Einstein back.
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You need to learn how to use QUOTE tags.
 
marc said:
So in Ken Ham's theology, God is an even worse monster than previously though.

According to him, God has condemned an entire species of intelligent life to eternal torment, for something that wasn't even done by anyone in that species. Heck, not even by anyone on the same planet. And to top it off, this innocent race is given no opportunity at all to be 'saved'.
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It should make us all the more grateful that we were here and had a chance to choose the be previously chosen.
 
thief of fire said:
marc said:
So in Ken Ham's theology, God is an even worse monster than previously though.

According to him, God has condemned an entire species of intelligent life to eternal torment, for something that wasn't even done by anyone in that species. Heck, not even by anyone on the same planet. And to top it off, this innocent race is given no opportunity at all to be 'saved'.
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It should make us all the more grateful that we were here and had a chance to choose the be previously chosen.
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The does seem self-centered enough to fit Ken's sort of theology....
 
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