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Lv 5

Christians/ Atheists and fence dwellers, why do atheist scientists define darkness as absence of light?

It is really absurd almost synonymous with calling trees unprocessed furniture.

Darkness has always been there way before light appeared, how can it be called absence of light?

For how long have atheists been like this?

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  • 4 years ago
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    your brain waves travel at the speed of dark by the sounds of it

  • 4 years ago

    Have you looked up the definition of darkness in a dictionary? You really should do that.

  • Nous
    Lv 7
    4 years ago

    Why are you so ignorant and uneducated?

    Not scientists but the DICTIONARY trying to explain it to BAD Christians like you!

    Which extremist sect or cult indoctrinated you to believe that God was not clever enough to use the big bang, evolution and science as his tools?

    Pope Francis says the theories of evolution and the Big Bang are real and God is not “a magician with a magic wand” putting an end to the “pseudo theories” of creationism and intelligent design! So the Catholic Church, Church of England and mainstream churches all accept the big bang and evolution!

    Lord Carey the former Archbishop of Canterbury put it rather well – “Creationism is the fruit of a fundamentalist approach to scripture, ignoring scholarship and critical learning, and confusing different understandings of truth”!

    Christian Fundamentalist is a complete contradiction in terms!

    CHRISTIAN – A follower or believer in Jesus.

    FUNDAMENTALIST One who believes the Bible is literally true and must be followed exactly.

    Therefore they are followers of the bible and not Jesus making them non Christians!

    But worse is to follow it also makes them ideologists.

    IDEOLOGY An idea that is false or held for the wrong reasons but is believed with such conviction as to be irrefutable.

    So Christians have a loving and forgiving god and fundamentalist - well - Just are not Christians!

  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

    Just like cold is the absence of heat.

    Heat makes molecules move more quickly,

    and thus, increases the surrounding temperature.

    As you remove light, darkness is what is left.

    LIGHT is what is measurable and quantifiable,

    until gone, then you have total darkness.

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  • 4 years ago

    If you would be so kind as to post an update, giving us poor, ignorant visitors to R&S a BETTER definition, we would honour you for being ever so much smarter than we are.

    If you have no better definition, please pheel phree to phuck ophph.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    4 years ago

    because light is a thing

    like dryness is an absence of water

  • 4 years ago

    Atheists believe that the existence of God cannot be proven, Scientists, even Christian one have agreed that darkness is the absence of light from a scientific perspective.

    Atheists have believed that the existence of God cannot be proven always, that is the definition of the word.

  • 4 years ago

    Because there's no other way to describe it without referencing light.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    4 years ago

    Since they learned to think clearly.

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