Eternal life isn't good in any form what's there to life if I cannot die.]

Edit: Also Heaven doesn't seem fun to begin with.

 

Overrated_Hero

Well, I'm assuming most people have a hard time accepting death, which contributes to the low amount of apathetic people in this respect.

It's strange for me, though. I accept death, but I still don't want to die.

Science rejects the concept of truth and uses theories as merely instruments for explaining and predicting phenomena. In other words, gravity, evolution, special relativity, and other theories are just explanations of the world, not "truths" are necessarily true, or at least in regards to how precisely it happens.

Genetic_Code

And if those explanations aren't the truth, or at least close to it, what is?

I agree with helium, the thought of being dead scares the sh** out of me more than anything else. I want to prolong my life as much as possible.

I like the new banner, even though the 'A' in the background still looks a bit Star-Trekky.Funky_Llama

I think the system would work better if each candidate is required to be nominated by someone else, otherwise there's a high chance that almost everyone would be a candidate and everyone would vote for themselves.

On that note, I nominate Funky_Llama

I have a question for you, Lansdowne5, how do you know that the stories in the Bible are really the "Word of God?" Sure, you can say it's the "Truth" if you want, but what validates your claim?

Also, evolution might not be true, but it makes more sense when you take into consideration how old the Earth is and how the natural world as we know it works. And if you plan on saying that the Earth is only a few thousand years old, let me explain to you how scientists find out how old soil is.

Certain isotopes are radioactive in nature, such as Carbon-14. These isotopes are unstable, and radioactively decay at an even and constant rate, at least according to observations based on measurements taken over prolonged lengths of time. Therefore, all isotopes of carbon-14 will decay in exactly the same way. In case you're wondering, when it decays, it slowly disintegrates into protons, electrons, etc.

Knowing this, we can pinpoint the exact age of a carbonaceous material using a mathematic formula; this formula's been proven to be correct by testing the formula on decayed carbon-14 isotopes of which they knew the date already.

Using all this knowledge, scientists have found that the Earth is at least 60,000 years old; there are probably other forms of dating isotopes that go farther back, but I don't feel like looking them up right now.

So, knowing that the Earth is at least 60,000 years old, which contradicts the Bible, how can you say it's completely true?