How do you answer the "trivia" type questions which cannot be answered from the Bible or science (yet)?
For example (you don't have to answer these ;) ):
What was there before God created the universe?
Can God make a rock He can't move?
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.
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
@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.
@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 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 ...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.
@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.
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.
@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.
@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.
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.
@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.
@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.
@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.
@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.