Posted on 09/27/2005 9:10:31 AM PDT by Crackingham
" And that was the entire response."
I am sure that was the best response they could have given. Let's not pile on. :)
This thread started at noon today and you haven't got over 1000 posts yet? You all takin' the night off ???
Oh, so the Greek story where the survivors tossed rocks over their shoulders and people sprang up is divinely inspired?
You should note that most civilizations sprang up at the mouths of, or along the banks of rivers. Flooding was a natural occurance. Of course, your predispositions will prevent you from seeing the obvious, but maybe the average lurker will understand what I'm getting at.
I know. However, as the unofficial historian of the Freeper Crevo Wars I must remain somewhat objective in recording the casualties and battlefields. I can be as partisan as I like in the fighting, but for historical purposes I must remain neutral.
Rocks? There are no rocks in my Greek story. Do you have a reference?
Before the beginning of the universe, there was nothing in existence until Chaos came into being. Who or what was Chaos was, the Greeks not really made clear. The Greeks usually associated Chaos as a male entity. Chaos could be personification of the abyss or void, a formless confusion.
Out of the void, came Nyx ("Night") and Erebus ("Darkness"). Also from Chaos--Eros ("Love"), Gaea ("Earth") and Tartarus came into being. It was Eros that made it possible for propagation between two beings to produce offspring.
By her brother Erebus, Nyx became mother of Aether ("Upper Air") and Hemera ("Day"). This was the first sexual union. By herself, Nyx became mother of several abstract personifications: Thanatos ("Death"), Moros ("Doom"), Hypnos ("Sleep"), the Fates or Moerae and Nemesis.
Gaea, by herself, bore Uranus (Sky), Ourea (Mountains) and Pontus (Sea).
Gaea mated with her son Pontus and she became mother of two ancient sea-gods, Nereus and Phorcys, as well as Thaumas, Eurybia, and the sea monster Ceto.
Gaea married her other son, Uranus, and he became ruler of the universe. Gaea became the mother of the Titans, Hecatoncheires (Hundred-Handed) and Cyclops ("Wheel-eyed"). The birth of their children resulted in a war by the gods that lasted for generation.
Uranus became ruler of the universe after marrying his mother, Gaea. Uranus was the father of the three giant creatures with hundred hands and fifty heads, Briareus, Cottus and Gyges. These giants were known as the Hecatoncheires (Hundred-Handed). They were monstrous in size and strength. They were so ugly that Uranus hid them within their mother's body. Uranus probably did the same to his other three offspring known as the Cyclops. The Cyclopes were also giants, with a single eye in their foreheads. The three Cyclopes were named Arges, Brontes and Steropes. Imprisoning the six gigantic creatures within her body caused Gaea a great deal of pain.
The Titans were also his offspring, but they were smaller in size and fairer in looks. Unlike their ugly brethren they weren't imprisoned. Gaea was furious at the treatment of her earlier sons, so she appealed to her son, Cronus, youngest of the Titans, to overthrow her husband and his father.
At night, when Uranus was about to lay with his mother-wife (Gaea), Cronus castrated his father with an adamantine sickle and threw his father's genitals into the sea, near the island of Cythera. The Giants, Erinyes (Furies) and Meliae were born from the blood that fell on the ground, thereby impregnating her (Gaea). The Olympians would later fight the Giants, aided by the hero Heracles.
In the sea, the water began foaming around the severed genitals of Uranus. This foams drifted across vast distant of sea, before it reached the isle of Cyprus. From the foaming sea, Aphrodite, goddess of love, divinely beautiful and naked, sprang into being, already as fully grown young woman.
Waiting on the shore of Cyprus, Eros (Love) and Himerus (Desire) waited to greet her. The other gods paid honour to her. Aphrodite would later become the member of the Olympians, even though she was technically not an Olympian.
The Greek Flood story, not the creation story. There were two survivors. To repopulate the Earth they were directed to toss rocks over their shoulders. Wherever the rocks landed a person sprang up. Because the guy was stronger, the rocks he tossed were bigger, and a man sprang up wherever they landed. The female's rocks were smaller, and women sprang up where they landed.
Yeah, but chaos cannot come from Nothing; the Prime Mover is responsible for the chaos.
Its late and I haven't shaved. Will consider this later...
Are you new to this debate? I don't remember seeing your name before. You know you will get nowhere with that line of reasoning because "evolution is different". The way it's talked about by evolutionists makes it sound as if there is some kind of controlling force operating to guide evolution. Never mind about details like natural disasters NEVER resulting in an increase in order or that something like a Ferrari engine not being able to just show up someday after billions of years of chance. I fail to see where they can back up why evolution is not subject to the natural laws that everything else is. Good luck but you won't get anywhere.
Because every child should grow up wondering whether their parents would sacrifice them if God told them to. Small wonder I didn't end up religious.
Why would there be hundreds of stories all over the world if only one family survived?
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On behalf of the Grand Master, I am,
PatrickHenry
Massive boredom. (God went on strike for a while)
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