Throwbacks from Facebook: Fact vs. "Fact"

I suppose I was thoroughly annoyed while writing this summary of research that I did. This was nearing the end of my "first love" stage with Christian apologetics. My tone may come off as a bit rough or angry, but my intents were well placed. There's some good information here and if you like the content in this post, I suggest you do a bit of reading on the links I posted afterwards.
1 Peter 3: 15
¹³Who is going to harm you if you are eager to do good? ¹⁴But even if you should suffer for what is right, you are blessed. "Do not fear what they fear; do not be frightened." ¹⁵But in your hearts set apart Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect, ¹⁶keeping a clear conscience, so that those who speak maliciously against your good behavior in Christ may be ashamed of their slander.

Fact vs. "Fact"

Fact: If an event has a probability of 1 in 10^150, it has no chance of happening by chance through all cosmic history [Mathematician William Dembski]

How can people reallly put their trust in evolution and call it science?
Imagine putting letters in a huge hat and pulling 10 million of them out at random. How possible is it that you'll write a best seller? Virtually zero. That is how possible evolution is. Apparently we all happened by chance. Well according to the same science that proposers of evolution cling to so dearly, the chances of all life evolving from a single cell - the same cell - is approximately 1 in 10^4,478,146. Further...even if it DID happen in that seemingly impossible case - suppose you DID manage to write that best seller - how could male AND female evolve from the same cell? Wouldn't one die out without the other, especially taking into consideration how random and slowly evolution takes place. A male "randomly" appears and a female "randomly" appears at the same time after taking into consideration the near impossible odds of evolution happening anyway? That doesn't seem very scientifically sound to me. If anything...if evolution was indeed real it would prove the existence of God...not disprove it. As a side note on evolution...the same fossil discovery efforts that found the cavemen and supposed money-man hybrids that are the basis of evolution found another fossil that's almost identical to us. The thing is that it was dated (by those same scientific methods) some thousand years earlier than the earliest caveman fossil. So you mean to tell me that we de-evolved to monkeys and THEN evolved again. I don't even want to know what the [scientific] odds of that happening are.

Evolution just isn't cutting it.

Another thing. I don't understand how people who claim there is no God. There are two main groups who try to disprove God's existence. Philosophers and scientists. Philosophers say that if there was a God, we wouldn't have evil in the world. This is such a played out argument that has no grounding. Cold doesn't exists. Neither does darkness. Vacuums don't exist. They are the absence of heat, light, and matter respectively. In the same way evil is the absence of God. Philosophers say that if there was a God, He would be so beyond us that we wouldn't be able to communicate with Him. The fault here is that in saying that they are putting limits on a limitless "Concept". I'm sorry I can't remember any more philosophical arguments...it's almost 3am and I'm tired.

Now apart from evolution, scientists claim that there's no proof for God's existence. Then we bring the typical "cause-and-effect" argument and they say that we were always here so there was no real cause. They say the universe has been in an infinite loop of births (in the form of Big Bangs) and deaths (in the form of collapsing on itself or otherwise). The fact eludes them that Someone had to be there to divide by zero (to start the infinite loop). They say that there's no proof for Jesus' existence outside the Bible from objective sources, yet there are so many writings from Jews, Muslims, and athiests of the time about a wise man named Jesus, a heretic named Jesus, a prophet named Jesus. You see, those kinds of scientists don't mind going out of their way to disprove God and making up theories and providing false evidence (like evolution) but they wouldn't be caught dead researching the other way. Objective right?

Now people say that Muslims' Allah and Christians' God are the same being. They may even go as far as saying that they are the same as Buddah, Krishna, Brahman, and the Guru Granth Sahib. Those people couldn't be more wrong. Starting with the easiest ones (the latter four), they cannot be the same as God for obvious reasons. Buddah doesn't care about his subjects, all that matters is rebirthing and reaching Nirvana. Krishna, Brahman, and all other Hindu gods are spirits inside statues while God condemns worshipping statues. The Guru Granth Sahib is a book...'nuff said. The biggest argument is that of Allah. Some people say Islam is a religion of peace, others say that it's quite the opposite. Many say that those who think of Islam being a warlike religion only hear the misguided side and quotes from their holy book taken out of context. However, those people are (as usual) incorrect. Below is a link containging an objective study of holy war in Islam with verses taken completely in context. It's really long so I'll summarise it for those too lazy. More or less, Islam started out as a religion of peace. The Muhammad got political power becoming the leader of a city. Slowly but surely, holy war began to play an increasingly larger role in Islam. It started as forbidden, then allowed in defence, then encouraged, then commanded. Details in the study.

I think this will be my last point, I'm not quite sure yet. It seems to be a popular notion that the Bible has been tampered with over the years. Tell me then how 66 books written by more than 40 different people in 3 different languages in about 10 different countries could be such a cohesive piece of literature? The odds of that are comparable to evolution (ok not really but you get the point). People say that it is far from cohesive but those people are taking verses out of context and are doing so without looking at the context of the original languages and culture of the time. People say that the scriptures have changed between the time which they were written and the time which they were collected by organised Christians. What they don't know, however, is that the Dead Sea scrolls which were found in the past few centuries are PERFECTLY consistent with those found and reconstructed from second and third hand copies of original books. So they survived over how many hundred years and you mean to tell me that they've changed that much since? Don't think so. Too many studies and analyses of those same documents have taken place that have proven accuraccy in transmission and translation over the years.

There is no other religion or world view that can boast as much scientific backing, spiritual backing, and cohesiveness as Christianity.

So:
if Jesus has fulfilled some 2000 prophecies and the odds of one man fulfilling only 8 is 1 in 10^17.
if all this was communicated in a trustworthy book
if so many "scientific arguments" have been disproved by actual science
if God, Allah, and all the rest are NOT the same

How can someone not see that Christianity is right?
How dark is the veil that covers their eyes?
How much longer will they claim they see the truth and that we are the deluded ones?
How long will they hold to the lies that science and society feed them?
How much longer will we sit back and listen to their fallacious arguments?

I think it's time to step up our game.

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Links
No Evolution & No Big Bang
http://www.faithfacts.org/evolution-or-creation/origins-and-silly-putty
Trustworthy Bible
http://www.faithfacts.org/search-for-truth/maps
Islam and Holy War
http://www.faithfacts.org/world-religions-and-theology/contrasting-christianity-and-islam
http://www.answering-islam.org/Bailey/jihad.html

Most of the facts in this note came from http://www.faithfacts.org/
I've forgotten the other references but I'm sure they won't mind ^_^

Also, I'll be proud to rebutt any argument so bring them if you have them (and facts to back them up).
I promise I'll use bible verses as little as possible since many people tend to get annoyed by that.

Peace.

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P.S.

Ah! Some people might say that Christianity isn't as cohesive as I make it out to be due to the wide variety of denominations and such that exist. Please note that there is but one Truth and that Truth is absolute. It is not relative so it's the same for everyone, everywhere, at all times. These numerous denominations are as a result of misinterpretations of scripture taken out of context, and the devil twisting the minds of people to teach other people distorted doctrine. Of True Christianity, there is no denomination. Just Truth. I do not claim to know the absolute Truth, but you better belive that I'm finding it. Something tells me that I'm in for a long ride.

~Xavier Lloyd.