If there is no God... who holds back the oceans from going over thier borders?
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The laws of physics? The fact that there isn't enough liquid water to cover the entire surface of the planet?
Nah, you're right, must be an invisible man who lives in the sky.
"If there is no God... who holds back the oceans from going over thier borders?"
Obviously it's the magic puddle elf who also keeps all of the mud puddles in their respective holes.
I thought everyone knew this.
If I remember right, this is a reference to the last part of the Book of Job, where God starts bragging about his many powers, including holding the sea in place, walking on the bottom of the ocean, knowing how big the Earth is, knowing where snow is stored and when mountain goats give birth.
I thought that YHWH was more of a Solar than lunar deity...
oh right, you just pull crap out of your ass 'cause you know nothing
"Hello? INS? I have to report a border violation. I saw the Atlantic Ocean climbing over a levee in an attempt to enter the U.S. illegally."
I think the "whispering wind" refers to the sound you hear when you put your ear to his head.
Berny:
"Does this idiot also believe that you can see place names and border lines on the Earth from space?"
Yes, and it's true too! It's a pain in the ass though to have to rewrite them every time France gets taken over.
Well... Since god do not exists, it means you have to eat a lot more beans!
You see, when you do, you will fart a lot more and make the atmosphere really heavy and that will keep the oceans in place...
* head explodes *
Jeremiah 5:22
Maybe it's the mix of the moon's gravitational effect on us, with the Sun's gravitational effect on us. Added to our orbit and rotation and how close or far we are from the sun and moon... Then when you...
Aww fuck it.
"Godidit" is so much easier to say.
Neptune?
Osiris?
Poseidon?
<funny foreign accent>"ranta"... I believe it's "shore" in English. A very complicated but convenient thing indeed that divides the bodies of water from land. We don't have oceans in Finland, just a tiny sea, but I've been to Norway and they appear to have similar technology too!
@ KT
I before e except after c,
John in Oz quoted
"There are NO atheist's in hell !!!"
Appalling English aside, very true.
The distressing part of this is that the answer is understood quite well and is not especially complex. A little research would yield some insight into how reality works, but without even doing so much as that the leap is made right to goddidit. The terrified intellectual desert that is fundamentalism is painful to see.
Outside of the stupidity (well, still in, really).....yeah, God has a world full of water, holding it back..for people breathing air.
"If I remember right, this is a reference to the last part of the Book of Job, where God starts bragging about his many powers, including holding the sea in place, walking on the bottom of the ocean, knowing how big the Earth is, knowing where snow is stored and when mountain goats give birth."
Funny we can do and know all those things now...guess that makes us god, huh?
Along some parts of the UK coastline, where erosion means what were nice homes a couple of miles inland when they were built are now abandoned buildings handing over the edges of cliffs, the answer appears to be "nobody, but there are engineers doing their best to slow them down"
Not who. What. And that what would be the very same laws of physics that keeps everyone's brains (except yours, apparently) inside their heads and not spilling all over the keyboard in front of them, despite the spectacular fail you have just written.
a) A functioning brain is required to type words in a grammatically coherent manner.
Therefore,
UNIVERSE HALTED.
@werewolf:"Levees? Dikes?"
Well, no wonder the Netherlands never get tsunami, then: allowing gay marriage must have given a huge boost to the efficiency of their flood protections!
In case of the Netherlands, the Dutch wage a continueing and mighty heroic struggle against the very oceans themselves, and thus far are victorious. No mere body of water can drown the human spirit!
Other countries are inhabited by people who chose to live on land that wasn't submerged in the first place.
God is not needed for either of these situations.
Say it with me now
G R A V I T Y
Um, the moon couldn't possibly have anything to do with it, could it? You know, that whole gravity thing. That couldn't be right.
"If there is no God... who holds back the oceans from going over thier borders?"
Yukari Yakumo, of course.
... I'll get my coat.
Your fat ass on a day out at the beach, that's what.
Though you'd better keep an eye on them melting ice caps. The water could be up to your ears soon, although there is in your case absolutely no risk of it causing any brain damage.
This is rather as if you imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, 'This is an interesting world I find myself in - an interesting hole I find myself in - fits me rather neatly, doesn't it? In fact it fits me staggeringly well, must have been made to have me in it!'
Why,a super top secret agency,formed by the Republican Party,of course.They are just waiting for Ken Ham to get his ark built,and fill it two animals of each"kind",before unleashing the next worldwide flood.duh.
It is I , Merlot, Lord of shorelines !
bow before me or I will let the water get your feet wet.
I do get some help from ya know , Gravity.
The borders themselves! Duh!
If there is a God, why don't he keep on holding back the oceans at all times?
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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