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Atheists think, and Christians know... (imgur.com)

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[–]dustinyo 48 points49 points ago

Nobody thinks that happened 'one day'. Most of what you see in nature is millions of years in the making.

[–]JaredNC86 37 points38 points ago

On the contrary, most Christians believe it happened in "one day."

[–]nermid 2 points3 points ago

Actually, as has been discussed before (since this is a super-repost), this is a man-made lake.

[–]dustinyo 0 points1 point ago

Are the trees and mountains also man-made?

[–]nermid -1 points0 points ago

The mountains? No. The trees? Possibly.

[–]dustinyo 0 points1 point ago

Great. Now re-read what I said. Key points "Most of what you see in nature" and "Nobody thinks that happened 'one day'." Even man-made things in nature don't happen in one day. But if being disagreeable for the sake of being disagreeable makes you feel smarter, enjoy!

[–]dilligasatall 4 points5 points ago

Well in their defense, if the sun wasn't there yet, a day would be pretty darned long.

[–]AL_CaPWN422 7 points8 points ago

No, it wouldn't. A day is 24 hours which is about as long as it takes for the earth to make one full rotation. If the sun burned out or didn't exist, time still would.

[–]dilligasatall 0 points1 point ago

If it burned out yes, but originally a day wasn't known as a full rotation of the earth, but rather thought of as a rotation of the sun, (remember WE were the center of the universe) so before the sun was popped into existence by the great sky fairy by their logic it would have made a very long, dark morning.

[–]blaghart 4 points5 points ago

A religion hates logic so don't try an justify it using logic B I find it more impressive that God apparantly made the sun and the heavens in the dark...Cause honestly I always like to have lots of light when I work...

[–]Jtcor 0 points1 point ago

He had night vision goggles

[–]blaghart 0 points1 point ago

have you ever tried making anything with those? XD

[–]Jtcor 0 points1 point ago

Yes

[–]blaghart 0 points1 point ago

Have you tried making a whole planet?

[–]dilligasatall 0 points1 point ago

lol, They only seem to hate logic that disproves thiers... perhaps making everything in the dark is the real reason for the platypus... lucifer jokingly moved the bins holding the animal parts around and didn't tell god until he had glued them together, and god got so mad he booted him out of heaven for it and made light so it wouldn't happen again. Makes perfect sense.

[–]blaghart 1 point2 points ago

God doesn't get mad according to The New Testament...u no, the christian book :P

[–]dilligasatall 0 points1 point ago

He must have gone through therapy, because he certainly was a belligerent old codger in most of the old testament.

[–]come_on_seth 1 point2 points ago

and that's putting it nicely

[–]blaghart 1 point2 points ago

Maybe having a kid mellowed him out

[–]Cerebres 1 point2 points ago

you can still count in hours. so 24 hours have past. day and night dont matter.

[–]dilligasatall 3 points4 points ago

True, but why do we base a day off of 24 hours? Because of the sun. If earth took twice as long to rotate once, a day would have been 48 hours instead of 24. No sun= no time basis for a day.

[–]sentryDefiant 3 points4 points ago

This. if the earth rotates slower, then a day lasts longer. If you don't have a frame of reference, and you want to call something a day, how do you do that? You can't go...well there's no sun yet, and 24 hours is just a day, that's a fact. It's not a fact until you have a reference and it happens enough times to qualify as a fact.

Having said that, if the people knew a day and God (which doesn't exist but just for shits and giggles, say it did) wanted to tell his story, and God knew it was actually 24 of their hours (another thing that changes with reference) that made a day, then he could have said, hey it took a frame of time lasting this much time, or what you people know as a day. Then okay, he can have a day before making the sun since he would know (by being all-knowing I guess) how long it took.

[–]AL_CaPWN422 0 points1 point ago

This kind of makes sense, but still weird. Time is constant, so at least one day would have passed, but one cycle of nighttime and daytime wouldn't have, so it wouldn't have been a "day" at that time, but a day would have passed.

[–]dilligasatall 1 point2 points ago

Yup, to us its screwy logic, but to them considering they lacked the facts, it did make sense. Imagine how much different the bible would have been if the original writers even had something as simple as modern grade school education to work from.

[–]ben876 -1 points0 points ago

But let us not forget that in the oh-so-perfect never-failing bible it says that a day in God's eyes is 1,000 years so mst Christians actually believe that the Earth is 12,000ish years old but the just don't know it

[–]Pianotico -1 points0 points ago

If the sun wasn't there yet, the world "day" shouldn't exist.

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[–]sentryDefiant -1 points0 points ago

The devil hates it when people correct themselves too. The edit button and the reply button are his greatest foes!

[–]topical_storm -1 points0 points ago

I think you're missing the part where it's satire.

[–]dustinyo 0 points1 point ago

No, I got it. I'm pointing out the stupidity of the original caption. Not sure why that's difficult to grasp.

[–]topical_storm 0 points1 point ago

No, I'm saying even the original is a satirized view as well.

... right? ... Oh god, now I'm questioning it... This is the one group of people that might have seriously written that...

[–]tothemooninaballoon 21 points22 points ago

It's a man made lake. Lake Louise.

[–]pseudolobster 26 points27 points ago

Different picture. You're thinking of this version.

Also, that's innacurate. The Lake Louise in Canada is not a man-made lake. It's a natural lake in the Rocky Mountains. This picture isn't Lake Louise either, it's Lake Moraine, which is like a few dozen miles from Lake Louise.

Searching for man made lakes named Lake Louise, there's one in Minnesota, but it's not the one in the picture I linked, and I'm not sure it's the one in OP's picture either. Pics for comparison.

[–]tothemooninaballoon 9 points10 points ago

I stand corrected. Thanks for showing me the right thing.

[–]hacksoncode 5 points6 points ago

That's true, but at least modern bananas really were created by humans.

[–]bigmexicanwoman 1 point2 points ago

Just got back from Lake Louise. It's in Banff National Park, not Jasper.

Edit: I know you guys aren't claiming it's in Jasper, just further correcting the original image.

[–]squigs 0 points1 point ago

So that means... This is not a meta motivational poster at all. There never was an "atheists think..." caption for this image. Someone decided to create a new one setting up a Chrisitan because they realised their earlier riposte made them look stupid.

[–]wortelcake 1 point2 points ago

Maybe, maybe we should all say this is a repost...

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[–]zGABP -1 points0 points ago

Such splendid sarcasm.

[–]Seanofthebread112 0 points1 point ago

Repost

[–]YoRpFiSh -2 points-1 points ago

Still stupid

[–]mack2028 -2 points-1 points ago

this is a man made lake.

[–]SomeFokkerTookMyName -1 points0 points ago

You're Jehovah, Harry!

[–]WhipperSniper -1 points0 points ago

This is Mirror Lake in glacier-carved Yosemite National Park, and ironically that awesome glassy effect was vastly depreciated by people trying to improve it by damming it up downstream. So in the end this lovely scene formed by accident over millions of years, then screwed up in one day by people. Just like most of nature.

[–]Wodashit -1 points0 points ago

Well according to Terry Pratchett the universe was made by wizards.

[–]tward14 -1 points0 points ago

Glacier natl park! Beautiful

[–]Valendr0s -1 points0 points ago

Isn't that a man-made lake?

[–]WoollyMittens -1 points0 points ago

I'd rotate the horizon by half a degree clockwise. :/

[–]BlazedOtter -1 points0 points ago

This landscape isn't just amazing because of randomness and evolution. It is pleasing because we as humans have evolved to find it aesthetically soothing.

We relate the idea of freshwater, good weather, and greenery to bountiful resources and optimal survival in the wilderness. If this picture was just piles of shit, but humans evolved to survive on shit, we would still find it pleasing.

[–]come_on_seth -1 points0 points ago

And talking to the all knowing will degenerate into fiery threats of 'I will defriend you' on FB when the most egregious inconsistencies are pointed out.

[–]Umber_Hulk -1 points0 points ago

One day.

Billions of years.

Whatever.

[–]AntonyoSeeWhy -1 points0 points ago

That's nonsense. It could not have been made in a day.

That's impossible.

It was made in six days.

[–]donderz420 -1 points0 points ago

I have seen a post a level deeper. That lake is man made and it's in Canada.

[–]Puffy_Ghost -2 points-1 points ago

That's Lake Louise. It's a man made reservoir.

[–]richertai -2 points-1 points ago

Ok, now someone post the counter picture where it's revealed that this is actually a manmade lake. Fuck, these reposts are getting tiresome.

[–]azripah -2 points-1 points ago

Please stop posting this.

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