Re: Three Wise Fools
| Posted On: 05/30/07 11:17:09 AM |
Age 73, VA |
You could also add that even if you can't see electricity, you can sure feel it! (except for very low voltages and currents)
And, of course you can see what electricity can do, as useful energy.
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Re: Three Wise Fools
| Posted On: 05/28/07 12:22:34 PM |
Age 18, TX |
so are you comparing light to god or thomas edison to god? you seem to be comparing god to thomas edison in that they both authored a work that is much debated, both "true" (well, so you assume anyways), and also have made several mistakes in their perceived existence (you point to the "wise men"'s criticisms of edison's past mistakes as if correlates to god; correct me if i'm wrong). however, you seem to also be comparing god to light in that they are both "invisible" and in that they have both been believed non-existent until proven otherwise...or, one was believed non-existent and was proven otherwise anyways. so i suppose i just don't think it's a very good analogy. you haven't defined the "god" in your text for one thing. you make so many assumptions in the text that you clearly haven't proven otherwise for another. third, i don't see how this even correlates to christian apologetics, but rather to some vague "higher power". lastly, why are you wasting your time throwing stones? most of the people you're criticizing wouldn't touch your books with a 10 foot pole. is this just to reaffirm your own beliefs as well as those of your target audience? what purpose does this serve other than to "get back" at the other side of the same coin, richard dawkins?
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Re: Three Wise Fools
| Posted On: 05/27/07 10:50:29 PM |
Age 32, OR |
I am beginning to think Ray Comfort is really a Atheist. It's almost like he is going out of his way to produce these ridiculous statements to give us ammo. If Christians were smart they would distance themselves from him.
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Re: Three Wise Fools
| Posted On: 05/27/07 07:49:26 PM |
Age 20, ANDORRA |
Ray, your excerpt makes no sense whatsoever. If the evidence for the light bulb is there, then that's the reason to believe it (at least some small amount of reason). Where is the evidence for your god? There is no evidence. Just because scientists can't see something, doesn't mean they believe it to be true on 'faith'. The god you're describing is invisible, but that's not the reason atheists don't believe in him. The reason is that there is no evidence for him, no matter where you look in the natural universe, or the only universe people know.
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Re: Three Wise Fools
| Posted On: 05/27/07 09:59:38 AM |
Age 58, OH |
Nice story! But I am confused about why the Wise Fools didn't just test the switch. Don't scientists try everything they can to try to find evidence? If they did, wouldn't we have proof of God. Why don't we?
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Re: Three Wise Fools
| Posted On: 05/27/07 12:20:37 AM |
Age 99, ZIMBABWE |
Your article is nonsense. The first few paragraphs might be read by some to suggest that Edison invented electricity. He did not. He didn't even invent "the light bulb".
He did come up with a useful light bulb and circuitry to go with it, but he was a big supporter of DC electricity which is impractical for lighting cities.
Tesla's AC is far better for that purpose, but Edison was so stupid that he tried to get AC banned. He publicly electrocuted animals to further this aim.
But everything we know about electricity today was discovered by the hard work of scientists. Nothing that we know about electricity was ever revealed by some divine being or through prayer.
Without the work of those scientists, we would never have electricity or any of our modern conveniences, including the computer you use to post your diatribes. We'd still be sitting around fires and living in caves, or tents, or primitive houses with no safe water.
Yet it's this same monumentally successful scientific method which you shamelessly deride every time you try to pretend that the Theory of Evolution is baseless or unscientific.
Electricity didn't arrive through faith, nor is faith required to "believe" in it. Its effects are repeatable on demand and unarguably visible to and useful for all.
Your "argument" has failed dismally, I'm sorry to say. But keep trying. Your entertainment value is inestimable, as PZ Myers shows here:
http://tinyurl.com/22g86w
Budikka
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Re: Three Wise Fools
| Posted On: 05/26/07 07:45:37 PM |
Age 31, AUSTRALIA |
Yipes, what a dangerous argument. This gives Atheists a lot more amunition! I mean this is terrible! It's making christians a total laughing stock! I mean, electricity was accepted by scientists! It moved from country to country and did get accepted by scientists both christian scientists and atheists alike. Then there is that whole gallileo and his telescope story that, well, shows that Scientists can handle evidence that goes against their beliefs but it has taken the catholic church centuries to catch up. This argument is illogical, it's nonsensical. It could drive people away from christianity! This broken allegory is going to be a tool of ridicule that atheists can and probably will use to demolish the standing of anyone who assosiates with it! It makes all christians look stupid!
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Re: Three Wise Fools
| Posted On: 05/26/07 02:51:22 PM |
Age 34, WI |
Ray needs to think more about his writing. This is a very confusing analogy and really makes no sense. I'm not even sure of the point of his essay. This just looks like another hoodwinking for the dim christian masses. I'm sure Ray's bank account is nicely padded, though. There's always a dimbulb out there to hand his money to a fraud.
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