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KotO[REvan]

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I find it interesting how many people who believe in the young earth are keen to point out "constant" rates of things. In the opening post for example we have the constant rate of desert growth, moon distance, population growth, etc. Yet, whenever a scientist wants to bring up any manner of radiometric dating it is immediately ignored out of hand.

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Those things are/were man made. The universe wasn't. Your analogy is invalid, methinks.

Okay, you have a point. Should I have used dinosaurs as an example instead? (no sarcasm intended)

 

*woosh* that was the sound of a joke going right over your head.

 

and mastrubation IS in the Bible.

Where? Now I'm curious. Oh, and I knew jmac was joking....

 

LOL @ TommyCat.

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Where? Now I'm curious.

Referencing the Sin of Onan

 

Now Judah took a wife for Er his first-born, and her name was Tamar. But Er, Judah's first-born, was evil in the sight of the LORD, so the LORD took his life. Then Judah said to Onan, "Go in to your brother's wife, and perform your duty as a brother-in-law to her, and raise up offspring for your brother." And Onan knew that the offspring would not be his; so it came about that when he went in to his brother's wife, he wasted his seed on the ground, in order not to give offspring to his brother. But what he did was displeasing in the sight of the LORD; so He took his life also. (NASB) Genesis 38:6-10

 

There are different interpretations as to exactly why this act invoked the Wrath of God, but masturbation was a taboo subject, so it's generally thought(from what I've read), that the wasting of one's seed extends to masturbation as well.

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There are different interpretations as to exactly why this act invoked the Wrath of God, but masturbation was a taboo subject, so it's generally thought(from what I've read), that the wasting of one's seed extends to masturbation as well.

From a linguistic perspective, it seems pretty clear that that's what the text refers to. :)

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