for the pedants in the audience, it would have been ‘zombies’ in new testament greek (koine), not ancient hebrew. and the word is in roman letters: soma (s-omega-m-a). it means body or cadaver depending on the context.
Even if there were any validity to Jason’s argument, it still wouldn’t be an argument in favor of Yahweh specifically. It could just as easily “prove” the existence of Thor or Zeus or Amaterasu or the Flying Spaghetti Monster or some unknown deity. It always strikes me as odd how people will jump from logical fallacies “proving” the existence of a Creator to the idea that it proves their specific god.
Jason:
The uncaused first cause was the universe itself. The origin of the universe, occurring outside of time(as this event made time) does not need to follow our rules of causality. It simply is.
You apply that arguement to explain away why God doesn’t need a cause, I use it for the universe.
My assertions are somewhat more plausible because we can at least observe the universe.
Let me guess– Jason posits that all things must have a cause, implying that a creator god is what got the party started. (Or perhaps he is arguing in fact that it is impossible that anything exists?)
Strange how he would ask of a theory that only concerns itself with how small changes/mutations over time lead to survival of the fittest selections and more complex/adapting organisms, to do cosmology’s job to explain the origins of the universe.
I hope Jason can appreciate the irony that, in order to answer his true question from the correct field of science, that we need to consult the work that a Jesuit priest came up with, which is now known as the event referred to derisively as the Big Bang.
Furthermore the requirement of creator god doesn’t explain what created the creator god. You still need either something out of time or spontaneus creation.
Puca Ajebogel, a zombie is a re-animated dead human, a mobile corpse. A golem is a machine made from clay, powered by some form of psychic magic stuff.
The difference between the two would be the difference between Adam and Lazarus. Adam was a puppet made from clay for a god to play with whereas Laz was a real, live corpse who got revived.
Jesus was neither. He just got tired, went to sleep and missed the whole Easter weekend, waking up just about in time to eat some chocolate eggs.
Eve, incidentally, was not quite a golem. She was a meat popsicle crystallised around a segment of Adam.
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lol ‘fan fiction’ that craked me up
check the bbc today, a buterfly evolving to resist a parasite is news, amazing.
So what is the old Hebrew word for ‘zombie’ anyway?
I wanted to help, but Google Translate didn’t have an ancient Hebrew option – “dead holy people raised to life”, I believe, was the English version…
that’s no way to talk about one’s neighbors, Matthew!
I was half expecting a punchline involving http://restrictedsection.org/ ๐
Brain dead maybe, not brain eating. That would be an easier explanation.
“that would explain the rise of Christianity” ROTFL
Just wanna add more hahahas and some lolz…
and finally… again, this is utterly brilliant
for the pedants in the audience, it would have been ‘zombies’ in new testament greek (koine), not ancient hebrew. and the word is in roman letters: soma (s-omega-m-a). it means body or cadaver depending on the context.
I’m waiting, on the edge of my seat, for Jesus’s retort… could the be the beginning of the end for the not-so-ambiguously gay duo?
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To say that a Christian is brain dead is not an intelligent conclusion. Let me ask you this.
Where does the ability for anything to exist come from?
Without an uncaused first cause, we are left with a never ending negative, which makes the existence of anything impossible.
I must say that evolution cannot answer my question, and that you will prove yourself no mathematician if you do not concur with my point.
There must be a source of existence. It is too absurd to think their is not.
I don’t know what’s funnier, the comic or jason’s post here. LOL!
Even if there were any validity to Jason’s argument, it still wouldn’t be an argument in favor of Yahweh specifically. It could just as easily “prove” the existence of Thor or Zeus or Amaterasu or the Flying Spaghetti Monster or some unknown deity. It always strikes me as odd how people will jump from logical fallacies “proving” the existence of a Creator to the idea that it proves their specific god.
Jason:
The uncaused first cause was the universe itself. The origin of the universe, occurring outside of time(as this event made time) does not need to follow our rules of causality. It simply is.
You apply that arguement to explain away why God doesn’t need a cause, I use it for the universe.
My assertions are somewhat more plausible because we can at least observe the universe.
Athesism and zombies in four frames, perfection ๐
Let me guess– Jason posits that all things must have a cause, implying that a creator god is what got the party started. (Or perhaps he is arguing in fact that it is impossible that anything exists?)
Strange how he would ask of a theory that only concerns itself with how small changes/mutations over time lead to survival of the fittest selections and more complex/adapting organisms, to do cosmology’s job to explain the origins of the universe.
I hope Jason can appreciate the irony that, in order to answer his true question from the correct field of science, that we need to consult the work that a Jesuit priest came up with, which is now known as the event referred to derisively as the Big Bang.
Furthermore the requirement of creator god doesn’t explain what created the creator god. You still need either something out of time or spontaneus creation.
Either way the creator god is unnecessary step.
Zombie, not very dissimilar from golem?
Puca Ajebogel, a zombie is a re-animated dead human, a mobile corpse. A golem is a machine made from clay, powered by some form of psychic magic stuff.
The difference between the two would be the difference between Adam and Lazarus. Adam was a puppet made from clay for a god to play with whereas Laz was a real, live corpse who got revived.
Jesus was neither. He just got tired, went to sleep and missed the whole Easter weekend, waking up just about in time to eat some chocolate eggs.
Eve, incidentally, was not quite a golem. She was a meat popsicle crystallised around a segment of Adam.