Re: OP

I just want to know if they have souls. I've heard somewhere before from somebody who claimed they heard it from a reliable source who was the friend of an expert that eating something with a soul allows you to "absorb" the soul of that which you ate. And I think absorbing the soul of a brussel sprout would be cool! Hmmm.... I wonder if Burger King fish sandwiches have souls. I love those things... Mmmmm.... *drooling*...

RE: And God put Adam in the Garden.

One of my favourite bits in "Gulliver's Travels" is where Gulliver mentions an order of monks who eat only cabbages which have died from natural causes.

I think that's called reductio ad absurdum.

A little bit of extra information about the Book Of Genesis, which involves Noah: After the ark had settled on Mt Sinai, Noah realised they would need to live on the ark for some time. Problem was the smell, from the waste of all those animals. Noah sent one of his son in laws back into the ark to clean the bilges. Down he goes. Very dark because there are no windows. Son in law decides to light a lamp-----------There are two significant results from that one action:

(1) Noah's son in law discovers methane.

(2) The resulting explosion explains why Noah's ark has never been discovered.

Let's see a theist refute THAT.

PS I really like broccoli, but hate cauliflower.

I REALLY HOPE THIS WAS A DRIVE BY.

Oh look, another supernaturalist has turned up here to embarrass himself in public ...

Weak argument against the Word of God emerging from flawed interpretation.

The mere fact that the purported "word" of your imaginary magic man needs "interpreting" to begin with, is a fucking huge red flag, pointing to the far humbler origins of the requisite mythology.

Indeed, any genuine fantasticially gifted magic entity that actually existed, would not only know how to deliver any "message" it purportedly wished to deliver to us in an unambiguous manner, instead of via obscurantist prose scribbled by pre-scientific nomads, but would also know that mythology is possibly the worst medium to use as a means of disseminating substantive knowledge.

So already, we know you're talking bollocks, even before I move on to the rest of your canards ...

Man was created in the image of God, ie, we have a spirit(for God is Spirit).

Nothing here but blind assertion, that is discardable with the same lack of effort you put into presenting it.

Or in other words, we are spiritual beings, having sense of right or wrong.

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!

Have you actually READ your fucking mythology?

The WHOLE FUCKING POINT of the Genesis myth, is that humans were, according to its assertions, "created" WITHOUT ANY CAPACITY FOR ETHICAL THOUGHT. Which they had to acquire by eating that piece of magic fruit. The fruit they were told it was purportedly "wrong" for them to eat, but which, in accordance with the assertions of this bad fairy tale, they could not have known in advance was "wrong" for them to eat, because, once again, THEY WERE PURPORTEDLY "CREATED" WITHOUT THE CAPACITY FOR ETHICAL THOUGHT. According to your sad mythology, they only acquired this capacity AFTER eating the purportedly "forbidden" magic fruit!

Congratulations on coming here, and demonstrating that even by the usual parlous standards of the pedlars of apologetics who come here, you're at the bottom end of the Bell Curve.

There are no contradictions on inconsistencies in the Bible.

Bullshit. Your mythology is REPLETE with inconsistencies, canards, absurdities and contradictions. The only people exhibiting failure of reading comprehension, are people who think this mythology is some fantastic, special brand of "wisdom", instead of what it really is, namely, the product of the rectal passages of a bunch of piss-stained Bronze Age incels, who were too stupid to count correctly the number of legs that an insect possesses.

Contradictions arise when non-believers try to twist verses while possessing incomplete reasoning skills.

Poppycock. Please explain to us, if you're such a fucking genius, why your mythology claims your imaginary magic man purportedly presented "thou shalt not kill" as a purported "commandment" to its followers, and pretty shortly afterwards, claims your imaginary magic man then exhorted the same followers to launch a series of bloody Lebensraum wars and exterminate thousands? That's about as fucking contradictory as it's possible to be. I also note with interest, the manner in which the same magic man is claimed to have exhorted those raving followers, during at least one of those bloody Lebensraum wars, to take underage girls as sex slaves, presumably after slaughtering the parents of said unfortunate underage girls, pretty much in direct contradiction to the numerous edicts elsewhere to control one's genitalia.

You're talking out of your arse, sunshine.

Moving on ...

I can always interpret your "contradictions" to show that they aren't really contradictions, just failure of reasoning.

Not without making shit up on a grand scale you can't. Look, I've seen the apologetics emanating from your ilk for over a decade, and the requisite collapsed intellectual soufflé is hilarious to behold. I've seen your ilk try to tell me that black is white, up is down, and that the laws of physics only work whenever it's convenient for a particular piece of your mythology for them to work, and that otherwise, your imaginary magic man can tell the laws of physics to go fuck themselves whenever it's adminstratively convenient. It's pretty obvious that this is the first time you've stepped outside your little bubble of mutual congratulation and complacent self-satsifaction.

Many "atheists" try to prove contradictions by misapplying the context

And when we ask you and your ilk for the purportedly "right" context, we get almost as many different answers as there are supernaturalists. You're a joke, sunshine.

Oh, and as for your tiresome quote from the professional liar for creationist bullshit that is Berlinski, that was flushed down the toilet even before he uttered it.

The point is, "image of God" refers to having a spirit.

Blind and therefore discardable assertion. Oh, and I shafted your previous outing in this vein above.

Having a spirit simply means that we were created superior to other living beings

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!

Let's see you run that one past a hungry polar bear out in the wilds. We'll enjoy seeing you become its lunch if you're stupid enough to try this.

and that we possess knowledge of right and wrong.

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!

Oh wait, YOUR MYTHOLOGY ASSERTS THAT WE ONLY ACQUIRED THIS CAPACITY, BY DOING SOMETHING YOUR IMAGINARY MAGIC MAN TOLD US NOT TO.

Are you really so fucking stupid, as to think we've not seen shit like this from your ilk before?

I think what's more ridiculous is that atheists claim time,matter and chance created the brain.

Oh dear, he's peddling THIS brand of supernaturalist shite.

Item one. The people who claim that testable natural processes are responsible for our brains, and make this claim on the back of a supertanker load of peer reviewed evidence, are scientists. This has nothing to do with "atheism", and isn't part of the remit thereof. This is because atheism, in its rigorous formulation, is nothing more than suspicion of unsupported supernaturalist assertions. That is IT. We leave claims about such topics as the origin of the universe, or the origin of life, to the disciplines for which said topics are the proper remit, such as cosmological physics or organic chemistry.

Furthermore, none of the scientists in question thinks "chance" was involved, certainly not in the farcically naive manner presented in creationist canards and bullshit such as you're peddling here. Indeed, there's an entire branch of mathematics devoted to the rigorous study of stochastic processes, a fact you manifestly never knew about before you came here peddling your drivel.

Here's a clue for you, boy. Don't come here picking a knife fight with people who deploy Atomic Annies.