Barry Lyons

I’m all over the place as a writer: I've written about the Beatles, cannabis, the Second Amendment, and Indiana Jones (

[Barry Lyons @lyonsnyc]

If the Bible is the "Word of God," all I can say is God needed an editor. Why are there two versions of Genesis? What, God couldn't make up His mind on which version He preferred and so He decided to just throw both of them at his creation and let them sort it out?

[Barry Lyons @lyonsnyc]

@Tsar_Martyr Here's one. Did you know that "Christian values" don't exist and have never existed? I explain why here: https://t.co/BJ0OOoHbtU

[Barry Lyons @lyonsnyc]

@FrontFins @KatieMcClure75 @MMax2x @DavidFischer @grok Nobody knows how the Universe came to be. In the early 1930s, a Belgian priest who was also a cosmologist, formulated an understanding of the "beginning" of the Universe that was later described as a "Big Bang," but as for what *caused* the BB to happen nobody has an effing clue.

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@KatieMcClure75 @MMax2x @FrontFins @DavidFischer @grok So what you're saying, indirectly, is you read my piece about Noah's Ark but that you just want to believe the story anyway because...because your "faith" in believing something that is not true is stronger than what any historian or geologist can confirm. Do I have that right?

[Barry Lyons @lyonsnyc]

@KalishJr @McClureShawn It seems to me that Shawn is just having a bit of fun, to see what ChatGPT would do. He's not relying on it for solid answers. In the meantime, the limerick is good!

[Barry Lyons @lyonsnyc]

@KatieMcClure75 @MMax2x @FrontFins @DavidFischer @grok Your first sentence is correct! But this leads to a question: Why do MANY believers (yes, many) read Genesis literally? They really believe in "Adam & Eve" (they never existed); they really believe in a "talking serpent" (fun fantasy, I guess). And so on. It's fiction, people!

[Barry Lyons @lyonsnyc]

@anchoredso37497 P1: Abiogenesis concerns the origin of life.
P2: Nobody knows how life emerged.
P3: However, after life *did* emerge, scientists discovered that life flourishes and reproduces through a process called evolution by natural selection.
C: Therefore, evolution is true.

[Barry Lyons @lyonsnyc]

@bleymingus @Tsar_Martyr Funny. And true.

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@LarsTheBadMan @GaryAdams713

[Barry Lyons @lyonsnyc]

@bleymingus @Tsar_Martyr I love this moment from Ricky Gervais's "After Life": https://t.co/Slaas3lhes

[Barry Lyons @lyonsnyc]

@Tsar_Martyr We don't. But theists argue that morality can't exist without a god, which only goes to show that theists are apparently incapable of understanding how morality can emerge in the apparent absence of a god that no one has shown to exist.

[Barry Lyons @lyonsnyc]

@anchoredso37497 P1: Abiogenesis concerns the origin of life.
P2: Nobody knows how life emerged.
P3: However, life *did* emerge, and scientists discovered that life flourishes and propagates—it evolves—through a process called natural selection.
C: Therefore, evolution is true.

[Barry Lyons @lyonsnyc]

@Joe_ICHTHUS @pnbphilosophy Atheism is about doubt. Atheists doubt that God exists. What is unclear about that? Where is the logical fallacy?

[Barry Lyons @lyonsnyc]

@KatieMcClure75 @MMax2x @FrontFins @DavidFischer @grok Yes. I mention them in my essay that I guess you didn't read.

[Barry Lyons @lyonsnyc]

@Tsar_Martyr @nnncurtis Atheists don't believe in gods. That's it. Seems that should pretty easy for any theist to understand: theists believe in a god (or gods: see Hinduism); atheists do not. What else is there to comprehend beyond that?

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@EricWorthi81372 @Tonyc3163 @DavidFischer @grok

[Barry Lyons @lyonsnyc]

@EricWorthi81372 @Tonyc3163 @DavidFischer @grok What mystery? What are you referring to? I'm only saying that this "outside of time and space" talk is rooted in sheer imagination. It truly is make-believe that some religious person somewhere invented—and then it got traction. Anyway, "mystery" is a crutch for religious people.

[Barry Lyons @lyonsnyc]

@KatieMcClure75 @MMax2x @FrontFins @DavidFischer @grok Moving on to another thing that the Bible gets wrong, feel free to get back to me and tell me how and why I'm wrong with what I say about the alleged "global" flood. Hint: There was no global flood. Thanks in advance for reading. https://t.co/GyUZLHdeS0

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@MasonJamesShow @Tsar_Martyr Yes. But to underscore or amplify your point, no god and no religion has anything to do with why we are moral creatures. And on a directly related point, "Christian values" don't exist and have never existed. I explain why here: https://t.co/2LTFQQR7Jc