ooh... new question to write

@a_hardin ...really?

It said it's likely to get closed. I'll let the people decide. :)

@a_hardin Lol, nice.

There, I credited you :)

@a_hardin [chuckles] You hadn't heard that one before? :P

@ElendiaStarman nope

@a_hardin [looks sideways at you] ...just how young are you? :P

In earth years or in saved years?

@a_hardin LOL. I was asking in Earth years, but I'd like to know your Christian background as well. :)

29/2.4

I was baptized and grew up Catholic, but didn't get it until I made a Tres Dias retreat a couple of years ago.

didn't "get it"

@a_hardin Very nice. I grew up Christian and I've been a believer for at least 13 (probably at least 17) out of my 19ish years of living. :P

We're trying to raise our children in that way. He's 4, and we love it when he talks about God being "powerful" and "mighty".

I feel like God may have let me stay in the dark until I had a family. If I would have known back then what I know now, I probably would have ended up becoming a priest.

Hmmm...interesting.

Now I know my calling is my family first and foremost. :D

Very cool. :D

On a side note, just reached 40 votes in a day. Waiting for my Vox Populi badge... :P

Yeah, so annoying!

i don't think the vote limit should count towards answers on your own questions, though

i've gotten so many great answers but can't upvote them, yet

i'll be back, though

Lol. At least you only have to wait 2 more hours...

... how'd you know that?

Because if I try to vote again, I get a yellow box that tells me I can vote again in 2 hours.

ahhh

so the hours are the same for everyone

i thought it was just me

I'm out, talk to you all tomorrow!

It's all based on Stack Exchange's time. Same goes for when "tomorrow" happens.

@a_hardin Seeya!

I just realized that this site is producing almost 60 questions per day...and it's only in private beta. I think public beta is going to be incredible... O.O

Can we ask SE to add trivia bot with biblical questions here? :D

@El Chrisitanity is controversial topic; and there is certainy infinitive amount of question as there is infinitive amounts of information in Bible. To this day I have not seen anyone who has total understanding of the Bible.

@ChaosGamerΕΛΥēelū That's certainly true. And to think that 15 questions per day is a "healthy beta"... :P

@El and 30 questions per day for private beta.... Why don't we leave the number of member to 190? XD

Atheism had 2.2 questions per day :>

@ChaosGamerel: Also, how do you say the last part of your name? :P

@Sotiris ...wow. No wonder they failed. :P

@El Its the initial of English Langauge and Usage in Greek and Latin. Don't worry, I gonna change it to Sonic asap. Rigth now I have to wait about... 12 more days.

@ChaosGamerΕΛΥēelū Lol. I'm a Sonic fan too. :D

@Soriris Of course, Atheism is.... kinda simple subject. There is no God. Period. I guess God was displeased. Xd

@ChaosGamerΕΛΥēelū Yes. Well they could quote Dawkins' book and give different interpretations :P Probably a book for Spaghetti monster could offer better question ratio :)

Also, the Atheism beta lasted 94 days. That means they had about 207 questions in that time. It's been almost 3 days in Christianity beta and we already have over 150 questions. :D

@Sotiris this? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Spaghetti_Monster

@ChaosGamerΕΛΥēelū yes. Don't laugh, it's one of their basic arguments

@Sotiris I can't stop chortling... I mean... serving spaggeti was religion....

globalpost.com/dispatches/globalpost-blogs/weird-wide-web/…

@Sotiris [shakes head]

@Sotiris ...You gotta be **** kidding me... I mean, I won;t think of them as idiots if they were Confucious people... atleast Confucious people are respectable...

As the second highest user on Atheism, I can say that Atheism.SE sucked. Unlike Chrisitianity, there is no doctrine to discuss. It was really hard to write a question, and then the quality was lacking in the answers you got if you managed to ask a question. I doubt that Christianity will suffer the same faith as Atheism.

@Borror0 of course, God takes care of his belivers.

@Borror0 *fate right? :P

:D

@Borror0 Suffer the same faith as Atheism? We certainly don't share the same faith and I'm not sure we should suffer it to exist.

Okay, that is an hilarious typo.

Aetheist does not have faith.

@Borror0 Agreed! I'm still laughing! :P

@ChaosGamerΕΛΥēelū in fact it requires greater faith to be an Atheist

@ChaosGamerΕΛΥēelū I don't know, they say it takes faith to believe there really is no God. I think there's something to it. It's a system of beliefs.

you can read the book "I don't have enough faith to be an atheist"

[pumps fist] Yes! Vox Populi! :P

what does Vox Populi mean anyway? :P

@ElendiaStarman you spammed the votes? :D

@Sotiris I did it well! :P

@Caleb As an atheist, I find that to be a rather silly statement. I don't believe in god in the same way that I do not believe there is a pink unicorn on Pluto: I have seen no evidence suggesting there is such a thing.

@ChaosGamerΕΛΥēelū It means I used the maximum 40 votes in a day.

I am rather surprised. there is only 10 percent of us here, and I actualy think that chatting is fun.

@El Reallly? Does it literaly mean that?

@ChaosGamerΕΛΥēelū Well, that's what the badge is for.

@ElendiaStarman good job mate

@Sotiris Hehe, thanks. I had tried yesterday, but I somehow hit a vote cap with only 38 votes...

I wouldn't say that belief in god necessarily requires more faith though. Often, believers feel that there is sufficient evidence for god. It's really a debate of what sufficient proof is rather than faith, at least in my opinion.

@ChaosGamerΕΛΥēelū As for literal meaning, I'll bet it's Latin that means "Popular Voice".

@ElendiaStarman You have 40 votes, but only 30 of those can be used on answers.

@ElendiaStarman I tried one time to do at stackoverflow, the most difficult bagde for me lol. I finally spammed community wikis

@Borror0 But the weird thing is that I couldn't upvote either questions or answers. I did it perfectly this time though. :D

So, if you voted on 8 questions and 30 answers, you can no longer vote on answers. That would be the cap you reached.

@ElendiaStarman Okay. That is weird. I'd fill in a bug report.

@Sotiris Lol. I don't have Vox Populi on math.SE mostly because there's a lot I don't understand.

@Borror0 You can actually look through the chat history and see when I was mentioning it.

I must and will get tumbleweed, tenacious and Unsung Hero badge...

@ChaosGamerΕΛΥēelū ...on Christianity.SE? o.O

@Borror0 you know, I was surprised that Atheism even made it to the beta.

@El I alwys relish a challenge :).

@ChaosGamerΕΛΥēelū Well then, GOOD luck! :P

@ChaosGamerΕΛΥēelū So was I. I didn't commit because I was pretty sure it had no chance of success. I was correct.

@El gee, you gave a me a CONFIDENCE.

Jeff says that Atheism brought a lot of good users into the network, so even though the site was a failure, it was still worthwhile.

Maybe next time another idiot will make Pastafarian.SE.

@Borror0 How did Atheism bring good users into the network?

@ChaosGamerΕΛΥēelū At least that one would have the advantage of having a single central topic... :P

@El maybe because the opinion about no God is shared with scientists. :P

@ElendiaStarman I'm not sure I understand your question. He refers to users whose first SE was Atheism, and then created accounts on other sites. Many of those users are ones he considers to be great users.

@El and scientists are good addition to the any site.

@ChaosGamerΕΛΥēelū ...are you sure? A large proportion of scientists believe in a God...

@Borror0 Ah, I see. So Atheism was one of the first to be made?

@El Huh.... But isn't the whole point of science is to think logically? and God is considered illogical in our short minds.'

@ChaosGamerΕΛΥēelū Not necessarily. If the universe had a beginning, then how was the universe created?

@El and enter the BIG BANG theory! :P

@ElendiaStarman Atheism is one of the few sites that died. I think Jeff noticed the effect more because those users remained after the site died. I would be surprised if Atheism was particularly special from other sites.

@borror0 How do you exactly know when the site is dead? If there is some people left, isn;t that still consdered running?

@ChaosGamerΕΛΥēelū The site is offline.

huh.

@ChaosGamerΕΛΥēelū At 2.2 questions per day after 94 days...there's not really much point in keeping it going.

Jeff and Joel don't want a ghost town to survive. They think it's a disservice to have a poorly performing site. those users could/should go to a more successful site.

@El 94 days???

@ChaosGamerΕΛΥēelū Indeed. But what made the thing right before it exploded? :P

@EL whao whao... that means there were only total of 2 quesitons???

@ChaosGamerΕΛΥēelū Nope; 2.2 questions per day. About 207 questions in total.

@ElendiaStarman What says it needs to be made? Most atheists assume that the Universe always existed. Theists believe god(s) always existed. Neither are particularly different assumptions, when you think about it.

and to think that we have 150 questions in few days...

@ChaosGamerΕΛΥēelū Exactly. :P

@Borror0 Because galaxies are moving away from each other. This and other evidence of expansion implies that reversing time would show a contraction into a single point. Also, if God didn't begin to exist, then there's no need for some Entity to create God.

By the way, the second part of my argument there comes directly from this: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmological_argument

@ElendiaStarman Also, if [matter] didn't begin to exist, then there's no need for some Entity to create [matter].

@ElendiaStarman It's important to realize that the big bang is a beginning not the beginning. It is entirely possible that something existed prior to the big bang.

@Borror0 That's very true. But how do you explain the expansion of the universe and the background radiation?

@ElendiaStarman Big bang theory

@Borror0 Also possible. What about those?

@Borror0 Well, what's your theory as to how the Big Bang was created?

Also don't forget the dark matter.

@Borror0 that's true, but Hubble shown that the universe had a start

@ElendiaStarman It's important to realize that matter (or, more precisely, sub-atomic particles) != universe. The big bang created the universe.

@Borror0 Well, where matter is, time exists. At that point, you run into problems of having a beginning infinitely far into the past.

@ElendiaStarman I don't speculate. It's a waste of time for a layman to speculate on a subject in which he is not well versed enough to make valid points. I rather not waste my time. If I did want to learn more about the topic, I'd grab more physics books to learn more about the topic. That'd be a worthwhile use of my time.

@ElendiaStarman Quantum physics made me give on trying to apply our sense of logic to physics.

Relativity....

@Borror0 [chuckles] Quantum physics is a mind-bender for sure.

Out of curiosity, @Borror0, what's your academic background?

@ElendiaStarman Economics.

Well, economics major and minor in political science.

@Borror0 [chuckles] Good idea for you to not continue debating in physics. :P

Ya. I was actually going to say "Better debate a physicist than an economist, if you want solid answers."

Lol, @Sotiris, you have 7*7*7 rep. :P

hi all, Just wanted to say that I love this community :)

I cant stay away...

Ah, @Jonathon! You're back! :P

[chuckles] Excellent! :D

my brain is starting to fry as I work on Body Gloves website

been taking more breaks then i should lately because of the amount of work here..

@JonathonByrd [chuckles]

my goal is to hit 220 points a day

@JonathonByrd that's a little tricky for such a small site, but go for it :P

Automattic, the owners of wordpress built stackexchange didnt they?

@JonathonByrd ...isn't that impossible, what with the 200 point rep limit and all? :P

no, answers marked as accepted don't get rate limited

so my goal is to have one answer accepted a day, at minimum

@JonathonByrd Really? They don't contribute to the rep limit? Nice...

some people have a lot of questions but never accept an answer

before playing the game you gotta know the rules :) aids in max effectiveness lol

So what does the gospel mean to you guys?