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| My God Can Beat the Shit Out of Your God For discussing any and all religious viewpoints. Intolerance will not be tolerated. Keeping your sense of humor is required. Posting messages about theological paradoxes is encouraged. |
# 1
2007-06-24, 14:04
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Recurring theme in nature?
http://tinyurl.com/378bnm
I got this picture in an email, saying: "Who else, but God?". The email is obviously meant to sway disbelievers.
Do you think this suggests a creator, or is a coincidence? Perhaps it's some kind of deep natural pattern that was embedded in certain genetics, since the beginning of evolution  .
Last edited by joecaveman; 2007-06-24 at 14:19.
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# 2
2007-06-24, 14:41
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Re: Recurring theme in nature?
Your brain makes you see a parrot for the same reason you recognize stick figures as humans
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# 3
2007-06-24, 14:43
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Re: Recurring theme in nature?
Quote:
Originally Posted by Pilsu
Your brain makes you see a parrot for the same reason you recognize stick figures as humans
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I'll slap you down as "coincidence", then?
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# 4
2007-06-24, 21:46
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Re: Recurring theme in nature?
See anthropomorphism.
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# 5
2007-06-24, 22:09
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Re: Recurring theme in nature?
It suggests a creator, like all living things.
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# 6
2007-06-24, 23:13
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Re: Recurring theme in nature?
Something like 300,000 species of flowering plants in the world, and one looks kinda like a bird.
Well, hot diggity damn.
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# 7
2007-06-25, 00:09
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Re: Recurring theme in nature?
Well I can definitely see how that could help it, no bugs would try to eat it if they thought there was a bird there.
How does this prove god again
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# 8
2007-06-25, 00:23
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Re: Recurring theme in nature?
Quote:
Originally Posted by Pilsu
Your brain makes you see a parrot for the same reason you recognize stick figures as humans
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+1...
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# 9
2007-06-25, 00:37
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Re: Recurring theme in nature?
Right. For some reason I expected a debate of some sort. Looks like a consensus.
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# 10
2007-06-25, 02:42
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Re: Recurring theme in nature?
This is slightly more creative than finding the Virgin Mary in your mattress satins.
=â¬K=
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2007-06-25, 02:54 |
UnkleBill 
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Re: Recurring theme in nature?
I would find discovering an Abe Lincoln Potato way cooler.
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2007-06-26, 02:35 |
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Re: Recurring theme in nature?
Wow cool.
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#13
2007-06-26, 03:01 |
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Re: Recurring theme in nature?
I don't get it.
They are all pictures of a flower called the "parrot flower". What did you expect them to look like? Slugs?
Try the link below.
http://images.google.com.au/images?svnum=100&um=1&hl=en&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=Bird+of+Paradise&spell=1
I think the flowers all look like.... "Birds of Paradise". Shit. Watch out. God's gunna smite all us unbelievers......
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#14
2007-06-27, 01:29 |
joecaveman
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Re: Recurring theme in nature?
What did you expect them to look like? Slugs?
Who are you talking to? I realize that a bird-resembling flower is just as special as any other flower.
But I got an email from someone who obviously feels differently, I wanted to see what other people thought.
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2007-06-27, 01:39 |
chumpion
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Re: Recurring theme in nature?
Who are you talking to? I agree that those flowers have nothing to do with anything.
But I got an email from someone who obviously feels differently, I wanted to see what other people thought.
Fair enough.
Out of all the flowers in the world, some are going to resemble something else. That one looks a bit like a parrot.
It raises a good point about the mentality of religious people, I think. They can see this flower looks like something, so therefore it must have been created. But what they lack the ability to do is look at 1000 other flowers that all look different, and put the parrot flower into perspective. It just happens to resemble that shape.
It's the same with all those manifestations of the virgin mary. In Sydney a few years ago, some people claimed to see her on a fence post at a certain time of the day. What they failed to do was look at the other 1,000,000 fence posts, and realise one had to look something like her. I'm sure there was one that looked like a dog, one that looked kinda like a car, and all sorts of things. Hell, if we looked long enough, they is probably one that could sort of look a bit like an "&T" symbol.
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#16
2007-06-27, 01:41 |
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Re: Recurring theme in nature?
oh heeeyy. that first page is in thai. I'm Thai! :D
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#17
2007-06-28, 06:48 |
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Re: Recurring theme in nature?
Although I do believe in God (or a creator of some sort), I do not think the physical appearance of an object or being is an indicator of His presence. I believe an object's form is best suited for its function.
Also, that flower only looks like a parrot from a specific angle, which wouldn't be enough to actually convince other animals it is, in fact, a parrot.
- Tom
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#18
2007-06-28, 19:59 |
crazy maniac
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Re: Recurring theme in nature?
maybe it evolved that way? something about the bird shape being attractive to birds that spread the seeds of the flowers.
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2007-06-29, 01:26
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http://tinyurl.com/28ozhm
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Re: Recurring theme in nature?
the pictures are taken at a certain angle. I'm sure you could make anything into anything with a good angle and good lighting.
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