There are 58 poisonous plants, some milder than others (it depends on which part is eaten, roots, leaves, seeds, flowers, fruits, etc.). Possible fatal ones include: Autumn crocus, Castor bean, Daffodil, Hyacinth, Hydrangea, Jimson Weed, Lily of the Valley, Mistletoe, Morning Glory, wild Mushrooms, Poinsettia, Hemlock, Sumac, Rhubarb, White Snakeroot (which was one of the most common causes of death among early settlers in America), Yew (eat it and you die within minutes), and so on. If they don’t kill you they may cause diarrhea, convulsions, paralysis and even comas.
A new book out called Wicked Plants tells us about them. In order for human beings to learn these plants were poisonous people had to die from eating them. That's a nice way to learn about them. Praise God for his creation! Praise God for informing us about them! God is Great!
Indeed, and one more: Did nobody ever tell inerrantists that the techniques used in the NT are characteristic of crafted literature rather than raw historical chronicle?
I would argue that in light of passages like Hosea 13:16, Isaiah 10 and 13:15-17, Turek's notion that god doesn't want powerful corrupt pagan leaders to engage in mass slaughter of the...
The reply from apologists like Frank Turek is that the reason God does not do more to correct people's errant views of Christianity is because of the ripple-effect: god knows that by allowing...
If you want to kick an inerrantist's ass real good, demand from them an error or contradiction in the Apocrypha, the Pseudepigrapha or the Dead Sea Scrolls. Then ask them how likely the...
That conservative Christians and fundamentalists are Pharisees is clear from a) Jesus never expressed or implied his followers' salvation or sanctification depended on them affirming that...
Turek of course is famous for saying that one can resist the Nazis by hiding Jews under his floorboards, and that he can even lie to the Nazis so as to resist them. It is a whole shtick in his...
Obviously, I think that the Scripture teaches that thou shalt not murder and that an unborn child is a human being. In fact, maybe the clearest place it says that, that your unborn...
And this wasn't supposed to have been a problem in the first place, given that Jesus promised he'd return to rule in power before all of his original followers were dead....
Turek's position on women's reproductive rights is in the gutter, and he thinks he has the Buybull on his side. Obviously, I think that the Scripture teaches that thou shalt...
If Christianity true so confused why God doesn't just correct all 40000 denoms and religions and say HEY THIS IS THE TRUTH! LOOK HERE! I AM PUTTING IT IN 8 BILLION PEOPLE'S MINDS. But...
Theologians & apologists are like Terminator 2 robot that morphs into whatever the fuck it wants at the time to suits its own purpose. Innerancy is this, no it’s that, no it’s this other bloody...
However, especially today, ‘agnostic’ very often means: ‘I have no positive belief in God, but technically, I cannot know for sure.’ I think that a lot of atheists wanted to annex the agnostics...
It is like what Aron Ra says: science converges whereas religions diverge. The divergent nature of religions; their shivering and splintering into countless sects, seems to prove to me that there...
"I've begun to suspect that a major division in American life, perhaps the major division, is the one between carnies and non-carnies; that is, between those who understand...