Is the tree of life a real tree?

@josephw said
If you think I mischaracterized what you said, then rephrase the comment so that what you say is what you mean.

Just read the whole post and stop acting the fool.

@josephw said
Besides that my original post was to the author of the OP. Are you a spokesperson for divegeester? Or are you giving preliminary talking points for divegeester before he arrives?

Thanks for the dreary banter.

@moonbus said
The whole of the Book of Genesis cannot be a historical, factual, description of events which really happened. Noah's flood, for example, never happened. Not globally, anyway; certainly there were localised floods which no doubt left a deep impression on the collective memory, but there was never a global flood which covered the Himalaya and the Alps and the Andes and the Roc ...[text shortened]... before, not a few thousand ago. Elementary facts refute a literalist interpretation at every turn.

So what you're saying is is that God is an inept moron that doesn't understand the science he created, nor does he have the power to fool you.

You've outwitted God! Good for you.

@fmf said
Just read the whole post and stop acting the fool.

Say what you mean and stop trying to fool me.

@josephw said
Say what you mean and stop trying to fool me.

Yawn.

Go back and read it again.

@fmf said
Thanks for the dreary banter.

Thanks for the high minded condescension.

@fmf said
Yawn.

Go back and read it again.

I quoted what you said back to you. Now you're just running from it.

@josephw said
I quoted what you said back to you. Now you're just running from it.

You doctored the text you were ostensibly quoting. You omitted most of the sentence.

The post that was quoted here has been removed

Just because you live in a culture where the age of consent is 48 doesn't mean everyone else on Earth is a pedophile.

@kevin-eleven said
Just because you live in a culture where the age of consent is 48 doesn't mean everyone else on Earth is a pedophile.

I never claimed that it was doctored by someone with a low rating and poor insight into math.

@fmf said
You doctored the text you were ostensibly quoting. You omitted most of the sentence.

"...is disagree-with-you banter entirely swimming in your own "subjective feelings"."

Yours is, mine was a reasoned response to anyone that presumes to interpret the text as metaphorical by identifying the error of their "subjective feelings".

"In the beginning God created...". Is that a metaphor? It is if you don't believe God created. It is a subjective response to base belief on "feelings", but belief is based on objective observation of truth in action. Creation is an observable fact based on the objective evidence of all that exists.

The blind and unbelieving eye can't see it, and instead heaps up presumptive evidence to support unbelief.

Contrary to what you think.

@josephw said
So what you're saying is is that God is an inept moron that doesn't understand the science he created, nor does he have the power to fool you.

You've outwitted God! Good for you.

It’s not about God. It’s about a collection of legends and myths left over from a time when people believed in goblins, fairies, kobolds, witches, sorcery, and magic.

The post that was quoted here has been removed

Nope. "70 percent of indonesians are pedophiles" is what YOU said. Several times. I alerted them. They were removed. You eventually got banned.