AUDRIC PINDER

SCIENCE ISSUES

People who think freely are not mentally bound by the predominant views of their culture. They recognize that men have put words into the mouth of God throughout human history as well as given God other human characteristics by creating myths.

They recognize the entity we call God does absolutely nothing to prevent humans from creating and spreading myths.

The free thinker is therefore very careful about believing anyone who speaks on behalf of another person, especially when the supposed other person is invisible.

The free thinker has no fear of thoroughly critically evaluating and questioning anything that men have said or written has come from God.

When the free thinker evaluates the claims men have made on behalf of God, they think the following kinds of thoughts, "Does this claim sound like the product of an intelligent, all powerful, all knowing mind or the product of human imagination and/or reasoning? Does the nature of reality or do everyday life experiences suggest this kind of God exists?"

What the free thinker often does first is evaluate whether or not a particular doctrine is rational.

Next, they may evaluate the times and social circumstances in which the doctrines developed for determining whether or not those circumstances mixed with human imagination sufficiently explain the origin of the doctrines.

A person that thinks freely may be placed outside their cultural mould, but they often cannot help thinking freely because they find enjoyment in seeing things from a broader perspective.

Here are some questions that come with my free thought. If you can provide an answer to a question and not just a band aid for it, email it to me and I will buy you lunch tomorrow.

* Why did God create Adam as a male with reproductive organs if he didn't figure out Adam needed Eve till after creating him?

* If Eve never had a child nor felt pain how would she have known whether on not bearing a child was supposed to be painful or even what pain was when God told her she would be cursed with it during childbearing?

* Why was God asking Adam and Eve a bunch of questions as if he didn't already know any of the answers?

* If Adam named all the animals how come we are still naming them today?

* If the tree of knowledge of good and evil was the tree it was how did Adam and Eve have knowledge of whether it was good or evil to eat from it?

* Why would God drown the elephants in the Amazon (in South America) in order to drown a few people surrounding the Mediterran-ean? (Noah's flood)

* What are invisible people like angels and demons doing when they are off their schedule of interfering in visible people's affairs? Do they work shifts?

* In which way do invisible people intervene in human affairs? For example, do they block an individual's own thoughts and interject their thoughts into the individual's mind?

Do they ever request or demand actions from the individual with the individual aware that it is them speaking? Do they manipulate physical objects by means we cannot see or only when we are not looking?

* If invisible people have human appendages, what do they use them for? Our particular appendages for example everything from legs, fingers and toenails, to our nipples and the hair on our bodies are only necessarily existent because of the specific kind of physical reality in which we exist and the means by which scientists who study origins believe we originated (evolution).

* If we were to mold the first human directly from non-living chemicals would we give him unnecessary features like an appendix, toenails, body hair as well as numerous other characteristics which would suggest to those who would later research human origins that humans came about as a result of the morphing of another species?

Body hair is believed to be what remains of fur that existed in ancestral species and nails, claws. Body hair was useful in the various species that evolutionary biologists believe to be human ancestors but became useless as they morphed into us over eons.

The hairs on our bodies even automatically straighten when we are cold, which does nothing to warm us, but creates added warmth in creatures covered in fur.

* If the devil tempts everybody, who tempts the devil? If he just does what he does, how do we know we don't just do what we do?

* If God is all powerful how can the devil have any?

* If a human soul is ever possessed by demons is such a soul to be blamed for its actions?

* With trillions of planets in the universe and the power to create countless trillions of other universes, why did God have to kick the devil out of heaven to earth? In Bible writing days people believed earth was a flat circle fixed at the centre of a much, much, much smaller universe. The firmament was visualized as a solid floor for a completely human looking God.

The invisible humanly God, dwelt in a place just above earth's clouds called heaven which he shared with other invisible humans possessing wings called angels. The wings were used for flying down to the ground like birds.

With this prior perception of reality which was collectively imagined by individuals in Bible writing times, kicking the devil and the angels that chose to be on the devils side out of heaven to earth made much more sense.

In my opinion an even better approach would have been to simply annihilate the devil etc. Kicking the devil to earth seems irrational when it comes to how our reality actually is.

* If God cannot annihilate the devil, how could he create and why would he create an entity that he cannot eliminate?

* If God is an all powerful, all knowing, ultimate cause of everything, how could he not be the ultimate cause of any particular thing that has occurred? Before attempting to answer perhaps imagine arranging the parts of a car with a faulty engine or pushing the parts in such a way so the car self assembles automatically with an engine problem.

Imagine doing this knowing exactly how the car would turn out and exactly when and why and with complete power to not bring the car into existence or create it another way?

* If when someone does not share beliefs we have been taught by others we are to believe they are deceived by the devil, how could we ever know whether or not we are the deceived ones?

* If we live after death why do we have to die first? If we exist after death in another place that is imagined to be in most ways like here, for example visible and touchable, why is this place invisible and untouchable now?

* If a person is automatically incapable of being bad when they are in heaven, why is anyone inherently banned from heaven?

* If God does not want anyone to burn for endless trillions of years in hell, why didn't he just have everybody born in heaven as some theologians believe happens with aborted babies?

If there really is a hell and aborted babies automatically go to heaven which in turn means they totally avoid the risk of hell, would this make abortion good or bad for the baby?

* If we exist with fully functional minds apart from our bodies, where does the rest of a person's mind go when the person's brain is damaged?

* Why would God allow even a little bit of mythology to be incorporated into writings he knew people would interpret as completely historical and completely factual?

* If the actual reality of a person is an invisible non killable soul did Jesus die or just his body?

* Some believe God gave birth once. Is God capable of having twins? If not, how about another son or a daughter?

* If the first man was built physically mature then why not also psychologically mature? For example why was he not built aware that his picking and eating of the fruit would result in multiple billions of future people being tortured for all eternity? (The belief that such a quantity will be in hell is required by all fundamentalists. A literal interpretation of the bible is literal; period.)

* If the devil and all his de-mons are eventually cast into the lake of fire with billions of people, who will keep the flames burning for all eternity?

Could it possibly be the supposedly perfect person who loves people more than they love themselves and can do no wrong? If not this person, who?

* Some people believe hu-mans created most of the creatures on earth, for example wasps, mosquitoes and scorpions when Adam disobeyed God by picking and eating a fruit?

My question for anyone that believes they deserve and are responsible for all the suffering on earth, plus a potential endless trillion years of suffering afterward is why should a soul that was born knowing nothing believe it was born causing and deserving an infinity of pain? The scummiest of the scummiest of the scummy people on earth do not cause or deserve that.

* What is it about God and gruesome, torture, whether it be having himself tortured or having those who do not successfully believe he had himself tortured tortured for endless trillions of years, that makes torture in particular necessary for satisfying him?

* If God is already everywhere, why does his presence need enter a particular building like a church? This is only rational if God is conceptualized as a finite invisible human as he was in bible writing days and still sometimes is today. If God is ever not already a particular place then how can that place even be there?

* If God existed forever and therefore could have created an infinity of things, why should we believe he only created the current 10 million quadrillion suns (stars) of our universe along with the current trillions of lifeless planets?

Why would he do so all for us? If we are the centre of Gods attention, why did it take forever for him to decide to create us? If God was not always existent then something else created God, which in turn would make the entity that is believed to be God not God.

In other words, if a living intelligence that has not always been living and therefore is not eternal created us, it would mean an alien that evolved somewhere else created us. This alien would not be the God presented by any major religion.

* If every time a doctrine seems irrational, we tell our self, we don't understand but God does or this does not make sense to me but from Gods higher perspective it makes sense, how could we ever recognize if a doctrine is potentially irrational simply because it is?

Doesn't this kind of approach potentially automatically put us in a position of believing any so called infallible book is infallible even when it might not be?

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