The Bible says that the "Chariots will rage in the streets." How else is this possible unless mankind harnesses electricity. The future was already spelled out for the scientists, all they had to do was figure out how to implement it. Sorcerers and Wise men in many ancient civilizations did these kinds of things.
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The bible says a lot of completely non-sensical, far-out crap that has absolutely no place in reality. Bending reality to conform with your dogma makes you look like a tool. As for believing in sorcerers and whatnot... I'll just shake my head and pity you. Electricity is not magical in any shape or form. Allow me to remind you that this is the 21st century.
Yeah, because those ancient people could never have imagined harnessing HORSES to their chariots. They could only think of things that wouldn't exist for two or three thousand years. I know that when I tell my wife that we're going out to dinner tomorrow, what I REALLY mean is that in two thousand years, people will have lasers on their heads.
"The Bible says that the 'Chariots will rage in the streets.'"So what?
"How else is this possible unless mankind harnesses electricity."
Well, harnessing horses made that possible in the iron age.
"The future was already spelled out for the scientists, all they had to do was figure out how to implement it."
Nothing was "spelled out," but scientist have figured out how to do some amazing things.
"Sorcerers and Wise men in many ancient civilizations did these kinds of things."
OK, sort of. Sorcerers are imaginary, just as are witches and wizards. Many of those CALLED sorcerers were bright persons who invented or tried to invent better ways of doing things.
The future was already spelled out for the scientists huge help to Gilbert, Maxwell, Volta, Franklin, Gauss, Ampere, Faraday, etc. as they worked out the details of electricity, magnetism and electrical generation during the 18th and 19th century. I suppose the references to King David inspired the invention of the DVD, too (get it? DVD - Da Vi D, nudge, nudge , wink , wink?) [/sarcasm]
How else is this possible unless mankind harnesses electricity.
Even if the word "chariot" happened to be incorrectly translated from the original as "magic horseless chariots with smoke coming from them", that would only be another example of the human capability for imagination.
Yeah, everyone delwing into this kind of thing sure got burned on a stake for the crime of sorcery.
Last I heard, modern-day chariots (e.g., cars and trucks, which aren't mentioned in the Bible, either) run on internal-combustion engines, not electricity.
His follow-up comments are equally hilarious :How am I twisting words? How else does a chariot "rage" unless it is given life-like properties by discovery of technologies?
And then later, after the existence of horses was pointed to him :
If it was speaking of Horses, it would say "Horses will rage in the streets." It was not speaking of the horses, but specifically of the chariots. The description sounds remarkably like jammed city streets, gas/electric powered cars, and drivers with road rage.
"The chariots shall rage in the streets, they shall justle one against another in the broad ways: they shall seem like torches, they shall run like the lightnings." (Nahum 2:4)
People harnessed horses a loooong time before they harnessed electricity. 150 years ago, horses provided all the transportation in the streets. That's why, when we discuss cars, we talk about their horsepower.
Ignoring the fact that chariots existed in the time frame described in the Christian book, and people raced them recklessly ("raged") all the time... does this person not realize that horses pulled them? And that most cars run on gasoline, not electricity?
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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