I'm not going to answer these questions for you, Perry. But what I will do is offer you an alternate question and suggest you practice some intellectual integrity in how you scrutinize yours and mine.
Intellectual Integrity: Recognition of the need to be true to one's own thinking; to be consistent in the intellectual standards one applies; to hold one's self to the same rigorous standards of evidence and proof to which one holds one's antagonists; to practice what one advocates for others; and to honestly admit discrepancies and inconsistencies in one's own thought and action.
How do you explain David's graphic portrayal of Jesus' death by crucifixion (Psalm 22) 1000 years before Christ lived?
How do you explain that C.T. Russell and Co "accurately predicted" the end of the gentile times well before 1914?
How do you account for the odds (1 in 10 to the 157th power) that even just 48 (of 300) Old Testament prophecies were fulfilled in Jesus Christ?
How do you account for the odds that prophecies of the Quran have been fulfilled as predicted? http://www.alislam.org/library/articles/prophecies.html
Also, are you familiar with the term retrofit?
In what sense was Jesus a "good man" if He was lying in His claim to be God?
In what sense was Muhummad a "good man" if he was lying in his claim to be a prophet?
If Jesus' resurrection was faked, why would twelve intelligent men (Jesus' disciples) have died for what they knew to be a lie?
If Joseph Smith's golden plates didn't exist (the ones from which Smith said he translated the BoM), why would eleven intelligent witnesses sign a statement testifying they'd seen the plates and eight of the witnesses testify to have held them?
How can something as small as a brain understand extremely complicated aspects of the universe, even though it is (supposedly) just a bunch of chemical reactions and electrical signals? But at the same time, this brain can’t create another brain like itself, so how can nature, that has no brain, create a brain? Why can't this brain even create a simple living twig? Why is the simple cell likened to the complexity of large functioning city by experts?
How can a Mandelbrot set produce infinite complexity from simplicity?
Why didn't Perry come up with the theories of relativity?
Why do inferior "creations" have superior parts, such as the eye? (Eagle's ability to see long distances, monocular or binocular, or the cat's ability to see with much less light than humans need...) Why didn't your [concept of] god create us with the best of everything?
Is it absolutely true that "truth is not absolute" or only relatively true that "all things are relative?"
If nothing is impossible for your [concept of] god, can he create a rock so big even he cannot lift it? [and other platitudinous shit]
What do you say about the hundreds of scholarly books that carefully document the veracity and reliability of the Bible?
What do you say about the hundreds of scholarly books that note the lack of supporting evidence for Biblical miracles and the other outlandish BS found therein?
Have you ever considered the fact that Christianity is the only religion whose leader is said to have risen from the dead?
Have you ever considered the fact that Jehovah's Witnesses are the only religion who are "preaching the good news" worldwide?
Why don't non-believers refer to Jesus as the late Jesus Christ?
That's just stupid. Why don't those who believe Elvis is dead refer to him as the late Elvis Presley?
If the authorities stole Jesus' body, why? Why would they have perpetrated the very scenario that they most wanted to prevent? If Jesus merely resuscitated in the tomb, how did He deal with the Roman guard posted just outside its entrance?
Why would the authorities need Judas to identify Jesus? Wouldn’t they already know who he was? Why would then need him to lead them to Jesus? Couldn’t they just have him followed? (per Bart Ehrman, leading NT scholar)
How can one realistically discount the testimony of over 500 witnesses to a living Jesus following His crucifixion (see 1 Corinthians 15:6)?
How can one realistically discount the testimony of over 900 witnesses who must've thought Jim Jones was the reincarnation of Jesus, Akhenaten, Buddha, Vladimir Lenin, and Father Divine in the 1970s? Galanter, Marc (1999). Cults: Faith, Healing, and Coercion. Oxford University Press; 2nd edition. ISBN 978-0-19-512370-8
What do you make of all the anthropological studies indicating that even the most remote tribes show some sort of theological awareness?
What do you make of all the cargo cults that focused on obtaining the material wealth (the "cargo") of the advanced culture through magic and religious rituals and practices? -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult
If every effect has a cause, then what or who caused the universe?
If every effect has a cause, then what or who caused your [concept of] god?
How do you explain the thousands of people who have experienced heaven or hell and have come back to tell us about it?
How do you explain the thousands of people who have experienced alien abductions and have come back to tell us about it?
How do you explain the cosmological constant?
How do you explain the Biblical flood?
Is it wrong to ask such questions? Why?
Is it wrong to be willfully ignorant of science? Why?
