Comments by "Philip Rayment" (@PJRayment) on "Religious discrimination hearings resume" video.

  1. What made-up God are you talking about? I worship the real God.
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  2.  @davem3325  "Atheist's have to pay taxes!!!" So do Christians.
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  3. Paying such low wages would probably be illegal.
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  4. I didn't think Hillsong was the PM's church. I might be wrong, but I'd like to see some evidence.
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  5.  @larrylongprong5219  Happy clapping is not something unique to Hillsong, so that will not prove anything.
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  6.  @larrylongprong5219  Yes, but how does that address anything I said?
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  7.  @larrylongprong5219  What is there to explain? God is recorded creating the heavens and the earth, the sun, moon, and stars, flying creatures, sea creatures, land creatures, and man. Dinosaurs were land creatures, so God created them.
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  8.  @larrylongprong5219  You asked about dinosaurs, not how long ago they purportedly lived. No, Jesus is not 2000 years old, and dinosaurs did not live millions of years ago. God is eternal, existing outside of time. Time was one of the things that He created (as part of the space-time-matter universe). God already existed when time began. God is three persons in one, often known as God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. God the Son took on human form, being born as a baby about 2000 years ago. But, being God, He existed prior to that, although not in the form of a human being. People who don't believe in God set out to try and explain things like the age of the earth and how the variety of living things came about without invoking God. That is, they assumed that everything came about naturally. And they came up with elaborate explanations of this, and claimed that the earth has been around for millions of years (later changed to billions, and currently about 4.5 billion). However, there is no way to measure the age of something. Instead, other things, like radioactive isotopes are measured, and an age is calculated from those measurements, making various assumptions about what caused those measurements. Those assumptions include that it all occurred naturally. In other words, they start with the assumption that God wasn't involved and didn't create when He said He did, and, *voilà*, they conclude that it happened without God and much longer ago! Well, given that they started with that assumption, that becomes a circular argument, i.e. a logical fallacy. Meanwhile, there is much evidence that dinosaurs didn't live that long ago. This evidence includes intact soft tissue and DNA (which tests have shown cannot last that long), intact C14 (used in carbon dating, but which would be long gone after a hundred thousand years or so), and many recorded sightings of dinosaurs by human beings over the past few thousand years.
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  9.  @larrylongprong5219  Some problems: First, you've not shown it was gibberish. So that sounds like you simply waving it away for no good reason. (Not being able to answer it is not a good reason.) Second, no cut and paste involved. I wrote that myself specially for you. Third, I believe in God, not a sky fairy. That sounds like insult where there should be rational argument. Fourth, I like the fact that you believe in that thing that Christians invented (science). It can't be done without assuming things that came from Christianity. Fifth, if you do believe in science so much, why did you ignore what I told you about how the evidence contradicts the claimed age of dinosaurs? Sixth, why do you still believe the scientists when I have shown that it is a circular argument?
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  10.  @larrylongprong5219  "I believe in Indisputable FACTS!" No, you believe in disputable facts. You believe that dinosaurs are millions of years old, but that is disputable, as I disputed it, with evidence. "Overwhelming evidence that proves your theory wrong..aboriginal rock paintings going back 10’s of thousands of years.. " Yes, tens of thousands of years according to that naturalistic science that a priori assumes that God didn't create, which is the circular argument I mentioned. "to cast everything aside as nonsense astounds me." I'm not casting everything aside. I'm not casting aside the evidence. I'm casting aside the naturalist interpretations of that evidence, because the evidence fits better with the biblical account (see examples already provided).
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  11. "government spent crucial weeks focused on making it legal to fire gay people." Is that in the proposed legislation? If so, where can I see a copy?
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