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Massive 'ocean' discovered towards Earth's core - environment - 12 June 2014 - New Scientist

I was on tumblr and I found an article about a large underground reservoir of water, miles below the earth's crust.



Here is a quote from the article

A reservoir of water three times the volume of all the oceans has
been discovered deep beneath the Earth’s surface. The finding could help
explain where Earth’s seas came from.


The water is hidden inside a blue rock that lies 700 kilometres
underground in the mantle, the layer of hot rock between Earth’s surface
and its core.


Some geologists think water arrived in comets as they struck planets,
but the new discovery supports an alternative idea that the ocean oozed
out of Earth’s interior layer.


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The source linked here is the same link below:



Massive 'ocean' discovered towards Earth's core - environment - 12 June 2014 - New Scientist



Made me think about that this might answer the question about where is the rest of the water that covered the earth during Noah's flood. 

Logical Fallacies via Tumblr

I recently found the above graphic on Tumblr. It attempt to show how Christians often commit logical fallacies. I think it is important to recognize that some of the examples are truly bad and should not be used. Others need to be understood. Let's look at each one and see if the examples make sense. 

Special Pleading

"Everything has a cause but God"

The reason why non-believers think saying such a thing is special pleading  is because they think that God is like every other created thing in existence and Christians are merely trying to assert that we can think of God as a special case. This is not what Christians are advocating. If God was a created being, then who ever made God would be God and worthy of worship and glory. The buck has to stop somewhere or you have infinite regression. The universe is not eternal but had a beginning therefore it can't be UNCAUSED.Something or Someone came before it. That cannot be avoided or ignored. Dr John Lennox dealt with this problem.



Emotional Press:

"Jesus suffered on the cross to save you miserable wretches from eternal torment."

I don't see this as playing on emotions. This is just telling the truth. Not one of us is more of a wretched sinner than anyone else. We have all failed to meet the standards of God and your own. That is undeniable. Someone has to pay for that. You can pay for it in hell or you could accept that Jesus paid the penalty for your sins on the cross.

Knocking Down Straw Men:

"Evolution is like a hurricane assembling a fully functional 747 from parts."

What we have here is a failure to communicate. The way evolution is now  understood and explained is not chaotic chance driving the evolutionary process. This is why it's bad idea to raise this argument. It is a straw man. The analogy does not work. 

Stretching the Truth

"Those trapped miners were saved by a miracle from  God."

Such a statement stretching is not stretching the truth. In order to make that charge, you have demonstrate that the saving of the miners was not miraculous and that God did not do it. That is not possible. 

Running From Contrary Evidence

God created the universe, so it can't be 14 billion years old. 

The Bible does not say that the universe is not 14 billion years old. This is another argument Christians should not use.

The True Christian.

Those atheist arguments don't have any effect on me. 

I do not see how this argument says anything about true Christianity. The reason why atheistic arguments  against God would have no effect on a believer is because they are bad arguments.

The Double Standard

I found  the following comic on Tumblr and I think it shows the fundamental double standard.  I don't know if the author of the comic strip is for or against same-sex marriage but it does point out an obvious contradiction. If it does not matter who you love but only standing up for that love, then what do you tell the pedophile who wants to marry a child or the person who wants to marry a dog or a cat or a horse or all of the above? Most people agree that we need to limit this, but on what grounds? And how far? Personally, I think the way God has limited this is the only logical and fair answer.

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Women in Islam

I recently came across an interesting post on Tumblr where Muslim women are protesting western media and feminist demonizing Islam as being anti-women.  Take a look at the following link:
 
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It become a commentary on race where the women are pointing out that white women's experiences and viewpoints should not dominate feminism. There are many Muslim people who don't do honor killings or believe that women are any less than men. For me the question is: Are the militants and terrorists - men who marry children, beat their wives and daughters, and treat women as less human than men - practicing true Islam and following the Quran or is it the westerners who live in North America and Europe - who have more egalitarian values - truly practice Islam? They both can't be right. Which is it?

No. The woman in the above picture is not living in the Muslim World. She's not under threat for her life.  But the woman below does look oppressed.

Then there are women in the west who try to toe the line and bridge the two extremes. CNN did a story on Maryam Basir who clings to her Muslim identity but makes her living as a bikini model! She does and carry on the parts of her religion she wants to do and rejects others


They interviewed a Muslim who lives in the West who says you don't have to follow or believe every word of the Quran to be a Muslim. I found that interesting because I doubt that the Taliban or Al-Quaeda or any of the leaders of Egypt, Lybia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Sudan, or Saudi Arabia would agree with him.