Biblically, plants are not alive and do not die.
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Then logically shouldn't that lead you to the conclusion that the Bible is wrong? Oh wait, I sometimes forget that you lot are immune to logic, reason, and reality.
Well then, your bible is wrong. Yet, you don't see it. My plants are alive, and many of them died over the weekend when we were flooded. They pollinate and every year I have new perennials that I did not plant. That is how they spread their lives.
Look around you in the fall. Then look again in the spring.
Then use your brain.
Pi = 3, and insects have four legs. Once again, the bible is fictional, and you should realize that.
`When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, `it means just what I choose it to mean -- neither more nor less.'
If the Bible said that soda cans were the spawn of Brazilian poison dart frogs, would....
Who am I kidding, you would believe that.
Yeah, so? Biblically, bats are birds, rabbits chew cud, insects have four legs, pi = 3, the entire world can be viewed from the top of a high mountain, if goats mate near a striped stick they'll have striped offspring, and demons cause illness.
And then you get into the really crazy stuff.
As far as I remember, in one version of the story, Jesus cursed the fig tree and it was immediately withered. In another version, it took a week or so to wither. In another version, he just warned the fig tree to have figs 'next time'. And another version has Jesus telling the story of a man who warned his fig tree.
So, somewhere, some place, there was a fig tree. That's all we know for sure.
John 12:24 "Unless an ear of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds."
Although not exactly scientific, this does suggest that the Bible does say that plants are alive and can die.
"Biblically, plants are not alive and do not die."
While in reality they are alive and do die. Guess which one I'm going to listen to.
Nono, it's the plants you've got in your trailer that aren't alive, and therefor, don't die.
However, unlike plastic, real plants do die.
As I recall, Jesus wanted figs but it was not the season for figs (no refrigerators back then). He went to a tree, which understandably had no fruit, and cursed it for not bearing fruit out of season.
For the supposed son of god, Jesus sure was a retard.
Biblically, plants are not alive and do not die.
Factually, plants are more intelligent than you are.
Oh, another Bob, how surprising. Gee, you're just a big old genius there, aren't you, Bob?
My family has run a nursery-landscaping-lawn care business since around 1984. I can tell you without fear of contradiction that plants are alive and they can definitely die. Plants fulfill all the scientific criteria necessary to be considered "living". Inserting the word "Biblically" into your sentences does not lend them any verisimilitude.
I can't believe I've finally found someone dumber than the girl in my 7th grade science class who asked if water is alive.
"is a condition that distinguishes organisms from non-living objects, such as non-life, and dead organisms, being manifested by growth through metabolism and reproduction."
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life
This is real life, not the bible.
In fundieland, plants don't have the "breath of life," therefore they aren't alive, therefore Adam and Eve could eat all the plants they wanted and there would still be no death in the world.
It's all an elaborate way to get around the requirement that something had to die in order for Adam and Eve to live before the fall.
And where in the Bible does it say that plants are not alive, Bob? Baptists are supposed to "speak where the Bible speaks and be silent where the Bible is silent."
God said Adam and Eve could eat any of the plants in Eden (except the fruit of the two trees, obviously) As there was supposedly no death in the world before the Fall the only way for Adam to eat the plants without killing them was if they weren't alive to start with. QED. And then there's all that 'the blood is the life' stuff.
Well, I think that another reason why Biblically plants aren't alive is how they survive the flood, despite being under a few kilometres of water for 40 days and 40 nights.
"The Bible is the truth, it's reality which is wrong!!!!"
Up is down.
Left is right.
Black is white.
Tell that to the dead raspberry bush in my front yard. I wish I was enjoying some sweet, juicy raspberries, but alas, the hail storms have taken that joy from me.
ok, thatas a new one on me, definatley one io never learnt at uni during my biology degree. still.....the bible does say the earth is only 7,000 years old (so no agricultural revolution then
Realistically, anything without a type of brain cannot function and so is dead.
Fundies, against all logic, are alive, and yet have no brain.
We must therefore conclude that fundies do have a brain, but that it has run away and is currently hiding in fear of ever being discovered by the body into which it was born.
In light of this new discovery, we must ask all fundamentalists to please shut up and confine themselves to the space under a rock to spare their brain further embarassment. Thank you, good bye.
@Anon-e-moose
"Biblically, plants are not alive"
"Even L. Ron Hubbard disagrees:"
Hmm, maybe that's not helping your case much!
@whatever
Actually, if even the likes of LRH disagrees with Bob - insofar that if plants are alive (even determining such with an E-Meter. Thus even $cientology proves fundie Christianity wrong), then it annihilates Bob's fundie case that 'Biblically, plants are not alive'.
Thus in actuality, Bob Dudley doesn't have a brain.
@Swede
"My plants die sometimes.
I think I'll keep to reality."
Plastic flowers die on me. But then, after all the mowing of our front & back gardens (which I'm sure is the source of my present - albeit occasional - back problem), hedge cutting etc in my youth, that I had to do, post-leaving home I swore that I would never touch another garden implement (thank fuck I live in a flat, thus the surrounding gardens at ground level aren't my responsibility!).
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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