{"id":631,"date":"2008-12-08T23:13:33","date_gmt":"2008-12-08T21:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/?p=631"},"modified":"2008-12-08T23:13:33","modified_gmt":"2008-12-08T21:13:33","slug":"god-aids-and-tools-in-orbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/god-aids-and-tools-in-orbit\/","title":{"rendered":"God, AIDS and tools in orbit."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>God essentially created two conflicting accounts of Creation: one in nature, and one in the Torah. How can it be determined which is the real story, and which is the fake designed to mislead us? One could equally propose that it is nature which presents the real story, and that the Torah was devised by God to test us with a fake history! One has to be able to rely on God&#8217;s truthfulness if religion is to function. Or, to put it another way &#8212; if God went to enormous lengths to convince us that the world is billions of years old, who are we to disagree?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u2192 Wikipedia, rebuttal of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Omphalos_(theology)\">Omphalos hypothesis<\/a> by Rabbi Natan Slifkin<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/hands_in_a_bar1.gif\" alt=\"\" title=\"hands_in_a_bar1\" width=\"640\" height=\"241\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-637\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Anti-retroviral drugs used to treat HIV\/Aids are being bought and smoked by teenagers in South Africa to get high.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u2192 BBC: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/africa\/7768059.stm\">Getting high on HIV drugs in S Africa<\/a> [via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.warrenellis.com\/?p=6843\">WarrenEllis.com<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>Remember the toolbag that an <del datetime=\"2008-12-08T20:06:23+00:00\">taikonaut<\/del> <del datetime=\"2008-12-08T20:06:23+00:00\">kosmonaut<\/del> astronaut dropped a couple of weeks ago while fixing the ISS? Well, you can track it &#8211; along with any other satellite &#8211; here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.n2yo.com\/?s=33442\">33442 Shuttle Toolbag<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>God essentially created two conflicting accounts of Creation: one in nature, and one in the Torah. How can it be determined which is the real story, and which is the fake designed to mislead us? One could equally propose that it is nature which presents the real story, and that the Torah was devised by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/god-aids-and-tools-in-orbit\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">God, AIDS and tools in orbit.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[461,462,463,458,459,424,460],"class_list":["post-631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-found","tag-aids","tag-drugs","tag-getting-high","tag-god-who","tag-orbit","tag-philosophy","tag-space-debris"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=631"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":640,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631\/revisions\/640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monocultured.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}