re: Do you think human giants ever roamed this earth?

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Do you think human giants ever roamed this earth?

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First of all, the direct evidence supporting this is flimsy. Second, people continue to do insane things for religious and political reasons, even with all the knowledge of modern times. And countless people have been willing to die for a cause of some kind throughout history. A dozen people supposedly being willing to die over a messiah figure 2,000 years ago is hardly anything noteworthy, if it ever happened in the first place - which is questionable. In this world, lies are told and mistakes are made millions of times a day. But there has never been one irrefutable piece of evidence supporting anything supernatural. In conversations about this I like to use an analogy: Let’s say you’re at a body shop, and you end talking to a guy sitting next to you in the waiting room. You ask him what kind of work is being done on his vehicle. He says he is having repair work done because he hit a deer. You think nothing of it because that is a common thing in the southeast. He might have been lying - maybe he got drunk and rear ended someone and just didn’t want to tell you - but there’s no obvious reason to doubt his story about the deer. You would likely take him at his word. But what if he told you he hit a kangaroo? Kangaroos do not live in North America outside of zoos. This is an extremely bizarre story you’ve being told, and it is unlikely that you would believe him without further evidence. You would probably need at least pictures and a news article on the internet about a kangaroo escaping a local zoo to even start to take him seriously. I am more inclined to accept something at face value if the claim is common, even though it-possibly could be wrong. But if you’re telling me something outrageous, I need more evidence. quote: Who allows themselves to be killed over a lie? Brutal deaths. Not just drink some koolaid and go to sleep. Thousands of people have committed self-immolation - and it doesn’t get much worse than burning to death - for various reasons in much more civilized times. It just doesn’t “impress” me for anyone to be a martyr over a religious figure, especially millennia ago. quote: Look up writings of C.S Lewis, Simon Greenleaf and others. People way smarter than me who sought to prove it all bunk only coming to the conclusion they were wrong. I find it more relevant to look at the science side of things. Things like mankind supposedly inheriting a world free of death and suffering - which couldn’t be in more direct conflict with modern science and completely undermines the need to Jesus and redemption in the first place - and Noah’s Ark are

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Whether you agree with him or not, what he posted was relevant.

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No. He was arguing his side.

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Then you're just avoiding his argument.

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He did. You're simply ignoring it, or you're dim

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