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I hope are not too sidetracked from what we started talking about. i.e the origin of matter.
As to the rest: viruses have always plagued humans; humans have always performed hostile acts towards others, and terrorists are actually not a major cause of death; Climate change is the only phenomenon which can even remotely fit your criteria, but it hardly promotes your cause, because the earth has experienced multiple dramatic climate fluctuations before.
You mean you're pulling those facts out of thin air.
Not all facts are true.
FACT: a thing that is indisputably the caseConcise oxford dictionary
Yet none of the types of disasters you describe are unique to the present, and people 2000 years ago suffered more from them
For just as the days of Noah were, so the presence of the Son of man will be (days of the end). For as they were in those days before the flood, eating and drinking, men marrying and women being given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark; and they took no note until the flood came and swept them all away, so the presence of the Son of man will be.
Increase in the following is undeniable :Terrorism
Immorality (including homosexuality, infidelity, pornography industry etc)
Drug abuse
Lark of regard for others
yet again I'm sure you can finish off the list yourself.
(Laudnum was pretty popular in Victorian times. Hashish has been around for a long time and regularly used. And when was drinking Alcohol first invented? I think the Babylonians were quite keen on it.)
QuoteIncrease in the following is undeniable :Terrorism(The Bible is full of it and life on the Northwest Frontier was always that way)
(Try Ancient Rome)
Quote(Try Ancient Rome)Try Netherlands with there homosexual population. I mean you must know that this is a really free society we are living in. Even churches now condone.
Your position is not defendable. Few if any of the ills you describe are unique to modern society.
QuoteYour position is not defendable. Few if any of the ills you describe are unique to modern society.They are not unique but they are on the increase. Some may be explained to population increase, global warming and others to moral degradation (and I didn't come up with the phrase).
a large number of persons do not believe that God exists. And since many of these persons are scientists, some individuals jump to the conclusion that to believe in the existence of God the Creator is unscientific. Yet others think to be a real scientists (of astronomical proportions) you have to be Atheist. That's very unfortunate.