[Question for debate: What is absolute truth?]
But still, that person may CHOOSE to deny the evidence.
Here's a thought;
Exhale all the air from your lungs, and do NOT take a breath for one minute.
Without oxygen, the lungs can not function.
Where does the oxygen that we need to live come from ?
There's some "evidence"
But still, that person may CHOOSE to deny the evidence.
Basically, through my own personal observations and life experiences, you can NOT prove anything to anybody if they're not able to be open minded enough to consider any other conclusion than their own.
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My god, with the exception of those first two sentences, it's all true.
So your experiment demonstrates that if you don't inhale oxygen, you will pass out and start breathing again. What does that have to do with choosing not to believe evidence?
Yeah, what cousin Ted said.
She should have picked a longer time period than a single minute. I regularly exhale as much as possible and sink to the bottom of swimming pools for over a minute.certainly would not approve.
Edit : corrected a stupid comprehension error.
I mean, the problem with fundies is that they think that everybody is in their tribe. Which "evidence" are they speaking about?. I mean, it´s just something that not everybody accepts(2/3 of world are not Christians). It´s a matter of faith.
Maybe I'm really dense but I don't get her "experiment" at all. So in order to prove God she would ask me to hold my breath and after a minute she would stand there with a smug face and say "See?".
Perhaps suggest this little experiment.
Wow, so many award possibilities here: Mirror Award, "So Close, Yet So Far" Award, or "There Go The Last Shreds of Science" Award. I just can't decide!
Where does the oxygen that we need to live come from ?
How is asking a question "evidence"?
There are life forms that not only don't need oxygen, but are actually killed by it. It's believed that the earliest forms of life evolved in a relatively oxygen-free atmosphere. Oxygen, which is a waste product of photosynthesis, gradually accumulated and allowed the evolution of oxygen-breathing organisms. So Madeline has it backwards: oxygen wasn't created for us to breathe; we evolved to breathe the oxygen.
"Without oxygen, the lungs can not function.
"As for why I would do this, it's decent exercise for something of which this person certainly would not approve." -- Bob_Zimmermanthat
Aha, Evidence! Truth! indeed, both beautiful and perfect things. Perhaps then, come truth.
The oxygen that we breathe now, comes from plants "exhaling". The increased oxygen in the atmosphere a few hundred million years ago or so, was a lot of organisms dying and releasing oxygen in the air. The increased oxygen killed off most lifeforms at that time. Our ancestors managed to survive the increase.
But that's all evidence of evolution. So, when are we going to get to evidence of your particular god? How was he created?
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