Comments by "Mat Broomfield" (@matbroomfield) on "'Human greed causing death and destruction in the Himalayas' - BBC News" video.

  1.  @track333track  That's a ridiculous solution. It's not a matter of literally spreading people across the planet evenly like butter on toast. Vast portions of the planet are uninhabitable.
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  2.  @1newme425  "The creator has the right to destroy his creation, especially when that creation turns bad. God has full sovereignty." And that comment there is why atheism is massively on the rise across the western world. All those evil babies he HAD to kill.
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  3. So not "human greed" then? It's the human need for safe energy.
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  4.  @1newme425  Yeah, cause that helped the population the last time he drowned the planet.
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  5.  @1newme425  God is a fictional character in a book that was written in the bronze age. I don't care for him in the same way as I don't care for the villain in any story. What I DO care about is people like you who act as though he is real, then use that to worsen other people's lives. I care about most life, human and otherwise. I passionately HATE the idea of abortion, but I see it as a necessary evil that is better than the alternative. The fact that you believe in original sin for an action that was GOD'S fai;t not adam and Eve's tells me all I need to know about your logic. Omniscient, timeless god KNEW that they would disobey, and he did not give them the ability to discern right and wrong, yet he made them anyway. THEN he punished and held responsible 11 billion people who had no choice in the matter. That's the behaviour of the kind of psychopath who would murder his own children. Oh wait...
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  6. What if the only place to build dams is in places like this?
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  7.  @brettmeikle  You appear to be suggesting that balance would be attained if the ratio of human to other invertebrate biomass was different. You failed to note that all biomass on the planet is dwarfed by the number of viruses and bacterium. Should be go on a mass extermination or breed until we achieve the same biomass?
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  8.  @1newme425  It's not murder when it's not yet a human. Is it murder when you have sex and your sperm are flushed down the toilet? They're independently alive. They'd POTENTIAL humans. A fetus is not a human. It's not a baby. I don't know at precisely what point it becomes one; when it develops a brain I'd say. Before that, it's just cells made of human stuff. I never said Jesus didn't exist. There's reasonable evidence he did but it's far from irrefutable. But nice try, switching Jesus for God. If I was God, I would have created my creations not to REQUIRE destruction in the first place. God is supposedly omniscient, yet he either didn't see that coming, or didn't care that he'd end up wiping out 95% of the creations he supposedly loves. "Sorry I can't allow you to lie. You can't passionately hate it and then let it happen. One is a lie. You are lying. If you did hate it you would be against it, and fight with everything in you to stop it. That's why I know it's a lie. There is no mitigating excuses, non. " So glad that you became a mind reader now. So there's no mitigating excuses for abortion, but they're just fine when God does it? You are so full of it I'm surprised you can stand your own hypocrisy. I'd explain the mitigating factors, but you are clearly not capable of rational thought. "Look to simple information theory.. It's not random, there is always a mind behind it." Oh dear, you're going to pull that one now huh? You really need to stop watching Answers in Genesis and William Lane Craig - they don't prepare you well for these conversations. For a start, you are equivocating over the meaning of "information." The sun conveys information. Within the laws of physics, it can be read and comprehended. "Things go the other way, entropy, goes to simple not complex." Wrong on multiple levels. For starters, entropy only occurs in a CLOSED SYSTEM. We do not know that the universe IS a closed system, and the Earth most certainly is not, nor ever has been. And if things go towards simple, how do crystals and snow flakes form? How do babies grow? "That's why a mind is involved." Ha ha. Even IF there was a mind (and all the stages can be explained without one), that doesn't lead to God, and certainly not the Christian God. "That's the proof. It's so amazing, and wow, my mind is blown." Is it blown by all the parasites that eat us, the diseases, the viruses, the disasters, the massive, massive loss of life, the misery, all the animals that live in horror then die brutally, the plants that kill us, and our own so, so VERY imperfect bodies? You don't get to claim the nice bits for god and disavow all the other stuff. "with it was random, it's not. If it were it would be just a soup of nothing." I suggest you don't argue subjects you are clearly massively ignorant and indoctrinated on. NOBODY claims evolution is random except ignorant Christians misrepresenting it. "Look and see things in another way, and then a lot of what we are told will be like, hang on... It's just a world view telling you," The lack of self awareness here is absolutely staggering. I already DID look beyond my world view - as a former Christian, and what I saw was an embarrasing fairy story created by patriarchal warlords and priests and goat herders from the bronze age. "That's why first seek God and you will see." Nope. Not how it works. I seek THE truth, not YOUR truth. I don't start with the conclusion then look for ways to make it true. "You will be so happy to see as well, because it's the truth" That's why the majority of prison inmates in America are Christians right? That's why US evangelicals voted for a POS like Trump as president right? As for happiness, a cow might be happy in its ignorance but it still ends up in the slaughterhouse. I will not delude myself simply to make the bleakness of the universe more palatable. You seem genuinely well-meaning, but you are like a walking poster child for the silly apologetics of Ken Ham or Kent Hovind's pitiful apologetics. They're conmen and liars and you've surrendered your intellect to them.
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  9.  @railroadforest30  Easy to say in your home that has enough electricity.
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