new use for old fishing boat

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And religion provide the inspiration.

If you need it, sure! :D

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At one time, oxygen was a poison, wasn't it?

It's still is.

We just are adapted to it. But there are still more than a few organisms out there which die quickly when exposed to oxygen.

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Genesis 1:26 through 1:30. All of everything is ours to use.

The Bible contradicts itself...

Isaiah 24:4-6 - The earth dries up and withers, the world languishes and withers, the exalted of the earth languish. The earth is defiled by its people; they have disobeyed the laws, violated the statutes and broken the everlasting covenant. Therefore a curse consumes the earth; its people must bear their guilt. Therefore earth's inhabitants are burned up, and very few are left.

Jeremiah 2:7 - I brought you into a fertile land to eat its fruit and rich produce. But you came and defiled my land and made my inheritance detestable.

Revelation 11:18 - The nations were angry; and your wrath has come. The time has come for judging the dead, and for rewarding your servants the prophets and your saints and those who reverence your name, both small and great — and for destroying those who destroy the earth.

The old testament doesn't count.

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The Bible contradicts itself...

Isaiah 24:4-6 - The earth dries up and withers, the world languishes and withers, the exalted of the earth languish. The earth is defiled by its people; they have disobeyed the laws, violated the statutes and broken the everlasting covenant. Therefore a curse consumes the earth; its people must bear their guilt. Therefore earth's inhabitants are burned up, and very few are left.

Jeremiah 2:7 - I brought you into a fertile land to eat its fruit and rich produce. But you came and defiled my land and made my inheritance detestable.

Revelation 11:18 - The nations were angry; and your wrath has come. The time has come for judging the dead, and for rewarding your servants the prophets and your saints and those who reverence your name, both small and great — and for destroying those who destroy the earth.

I don't see the contradiction. Genesis says pretty clearly to me that we have to be responsible stewards of this amazing planet Earth. Your quotes above remind us that God takes seriously the sin of destroying the Earth. I can't wait for the Pope's encyclical on this subject.

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The Bible contradicts itself...

Water is wet.

Fire is hot.

Are we playing Captain Obvious?

Yeah, the bible's contradictions start right in the first two chapters of Genesis. Who came first, man or beast?

There is quite an explaination of this and the other Genesis contradictions, and why they are not a problem, on this page