questions lang lang sa creationists:

1. kung naniniwala kayo sa bible na na kayang bumuhay ng patay ni jesus christ, does that mean na naniniwala din kayo na kayang tumakbo ng one year non-stop ni hercules in pursuit of a golden deer?

2. kung naniniwala kayo sa bible that jesus chist can walk on water, does that mean na naniniwala kayo na pinatay nga ni hercules ang Lernean hydra with nine heads?

Siyempre ang sagot nyo e "Greek mythology lang naman yan." Pero you're forgetting that it's only now that we call Hercules a myth. To ancient Greeks, he was the son of God (Zeus), and when he died his soul went to Mt. Olympus. Ancient Greeks built temples and other places of worship in honor of their gods and goddesses. Now we consider them as part of "Greek mythology."

Now some of us are saying "Aren't the ancient Greeks a crazy lot? They even believed that a man can run non-stop for a year?"

Hindi kaya 2,000 years from now e meron namang subject sa college na "Christian mythology?" And 2000 years from now, college studes will be saying "Aren't the ancient Christians a crazy lot? They even believed that a man can walk on water?"

Man invented god kse merong mga tamad na tao nung araw na hindi kayang magconduct ng research to explain the laws of nature. For example, there was a god named Vulcan, kse ancient people saw a mountain erupting and they didn't know the explanation behind it. So one of them said "It's the work of god, and this god's name is Vulcan." But now that man knows how volcanoes are formed, does he still worship Vulcan?

Ang hirap kse sa creationist, sa sobrang tamad o kakulangan ng talino para magresearch, nagiimbento na agad ng sagot. Hindio nila ma-explain and "hows and whys" ng universe so it must be the work of a supreme being. Hindi nila alam kung saan nanggaling ang homo sapiens, then they must have been created by God. And they reached these conclusions without even having dug a fossil or used a telescope (in the case of Galileo vs. the Catholic Church).

The scientific man has a different approach: "Teka muna, hanap muna tayo ng ebidensya. Mahirap yang wala pang ebidensya e me conclusions na. At hindi sapat na ebidensya ang isang libro even if it was written thousands of years ago. Anybody could have written a book like that."

If Homer, the author of Greek classics such as Oddysey and Iliad, had written the phrase "These are the words of God" on the preface of his books, I'm sure madami ngayon ke Zeus pa rin sumasamba.

Kaya tuloy dito sa Pilipinas, merong mga towns na tatlo oa apat ang churches, pero wala kahit isang hospital. Kaya pag nadisgrasya ka, pari o madre ang mag-oopera sa yo. You wouldn't want that to happen to you, would you?


The so-called Christian nations are the most enlightened and progressive ... but in spite of their religion, not because of it. The Church has opposed every innovation and discovery from the day of Galileo down to our own time, when the use of anesthetic in childbirth was regarded as a sin because it avoided the biblical curse pronounced against Eve. And every step in astronomy and geology ever taken has been opposed by bigotry and superstition. The Greeks surpassed us in artistic culture and in architecture five hundred years before Christian religion was born.
-- Mark Twain, from Albert Bigelow Paine, Mark Twain, a Biography (1912), quoted from Barbara Schmidt, ed., "Mark Twain Quotations, Newspaper Collections, & Related Resources"

There are those who scoff at the school boy, calling him frivolous and shallow. Yet it was the schoolboy who said, "Faith is believing what you know ain't so."
-- Mark Twain, Following the Equator, ch. 12, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar" (1897)