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Monday, 6 April 2015
God's IQ
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The average human has an IQ of 100. The very smartest humans have IQs
hovering around the 200 mark. Those blessed with such talent can do things that
the rest of us can only marvel at.
Kim Ung-yong was born in 1962 in Seoul, South Korea. He began speaking
Korean by the age of four months and by two and a half years of age, he could
read Korean, German, Japanese and English. He began a physics course at Hanyang
University at age three. At the age of eight, he was invited by NASA to study
in the Unites States. Kim's IQ was measured at 210 giving him, at that time,
the Guinness World Record for the highest IQ for a living person.
Now try to imagine the brain power of a person with an IQ of 1,000. This
is ten times the average IQ and five times higher than the prodigious Kim Ung-yong's
IQ. It's very hard to imagine what talents a person with such an IQ would have.
Try it.
But notch that up to an IQ of 1,000,000 and we can no longer
comprehend—thinking about such an IQ is far beyond our imagination. What would
a person with an IQ of 1,000,000 be able to achieve? Then realise that an IQ of
1,000,000 is MINISCULE compared to the intelligence God is said to have.
With that extraordinary thought in mind, think about the Bible. Much of
the Bible is said to have been written by prophets that God spoke to directly.
Even if we allow for the frailties, misunderstandings and mistakes of the
humans who put it on paper, the Bible should be a very special book indeed.
(And we should expect such an awesomely brilliant God to have chosen prophets
he could rely on to do a good job.)
Think about how much you could learn from the most brilliant human you
have ever read about, then multiply that by a few billion... You're probably
still not close to what God could teach you. So we should have the highest
expectations of the Bible. There should be no mistaking a book inspired by God.
But the Bible does not live up to expectations. The Bible is full of
discredited science, superstition and Iron Age morality. No, the Earth is not
flat, no the sun does not revolve around the Earth, no the Earth is not
stationary and no, it does not rest on pillars. Nor is it moral to hold slaves
or to sell your daughters as sex slaves or to stone disobedient children to
death.
Saturday, 24 January 2015
YAHWEH, the DIY God
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As if that was not enough, God promised them the lands of the Kenites, Kenizzites, Kadmonites, Hittites, Perizzites, Rephaites, Amorites, Canaanites, Girgashites and Jebusites AND he gave them permission to slaughter, rape, take slaves and pillage to conquer these lands. Incredibly lucky that God was so understanding.
God gave the Israelites laws to live by and they were lucky AGAIN! He turned a blind eye to the cruel habits of these Iron-Age herdsmen and allowed them to continue holding slaves, selling their daughters, stoning brides for not bleeding on their wedding night and even killing their children if they were unruly. God really wanted his chosen people to be happy.
To top it all, God stayed totally hidden until he revealed himself around 3,500 years ago. No-one knew anything about him before that moment (they already had plenty of other gods to worship). And who were the ONLY people on the planet he chose to reveal himself to? The Israelites!
It all worked out so well.
To top it all, God stayed totally hidden until he revealed himself around 3,500 years ago. No-one knew anything about him before that moment (they already had plenty of other gods to worship). And who were the ONLY people on the planet he chose to reveal himself to? The Israelites!
It all worked out so well.
It couldn't have been any better if the Israelites had made the whole thing up.
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- Nildogma
- As a 20-year-old I was insatiably curious about the world and passionate about rejecting superstitions and all kinds of false beliefs. I still am today. Sometimes when people believe things that are not true, it make little or no difference but sometimes the consequences can be disastrous and deadly. Now, I do what I can to help people improve their thinking skills, especially in how they impinge on core beliefs, such as cultural values and religious beliefs. I have an active Facebook page for which I create memes and write articles almost daily. I also engage people in on-line debates. You can find me here: https://www.facebook.com/bill.flavell.1 I lecture at universities around the world and present or debate at public meetings. I also, draw on my management consultancy background to help freethought groups, almost anywhere in the world, to get organised, develop strategy and improve their media and presentation skills. If you would like me to present at your university or for your church group or freethought group, please contact me.
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