Atheists: What is your opinion on the number of earthquakes as of late, and the Bible already warning us?
Mar 12, 2010
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Earthquake Questions
Coincidence? Why is it everything in the Bible ever predicted has come true?
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39 comments
Don H on March 12, 2010 at 1:46 am
Picking and choosing random events and pretending that they are prophesied in the bible must be fun.
I’ll have to try it.
Love and blessings Don
Maurog III on March 12, 2010 at 1:46 am
Wait, where DID the Bible predict that the rate of earthquakes will be roughly the same for 2000 years?
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eqarchives/year/eqstats.php
Sirensong sunshine on March 12, 2010 at 1:46 am
Just stop with the ignorance! There are no more earthquakes than in the past 20 years!
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eqarchives/year/eqstats.php
Confirmation bias and 2000 year old mumbo-jumbo are a potent combination, it seems
EddieJ on March 12, 2010 at 1:46 am
There have always been earthquakes.
Life Guru on March 12, 2010 at 1:46 am
its a couple earthquakes, maybe youve just seen 2012 too many times
I know nothing on March 12, 2010 at 1:46 am
Oh I believe it’s a sign, but not anything that small purple crock if shit was talking about.
harmonograph on March 12, 2010 at 1:46 am
No more than usual… Why this hysteria?
Dr. Who? on March 12, 2010 at 1:46 am
There were millions of HUGE earthquakes before man ever existed. The world didn’t end then.
Smooth Raven Kitty on March 12, 2010 at 1:46 am
I think nothing
Tectonics in action
I hope it will stop, because every freaking third question is about the Bible predicting it
John F on March 12, 2010 at 1:46 am
There is NOTHING significant about the earthquakes.
Earthquakes happen.
Sometimes they happen frequently.
Your inability to grasp this fact, is both sad and pathetic.
The Bible has never been a source of predictions.
Dreamstuff Entity on March 12, 2010 at 1:46 am
Really? Did it predict that the number and severity of earthquakes will be below a specific threshold before a specific date, and above it after that date?
Show me, and I’ll convert on the spot. Otherwise, stop making such silly arguments.
Earl Hickey on March 12, 2010 at 1:46 am
wow. time for your meds, bigot.
chiffmonkey on March 12, 2010 at 1:46 am
Number of earthquakes now are seen as being higher becuase people have tvs and are more aware of what’s going around them.
The bible warns of earthquakes yes, but that doesn’t stop the fact that they are a geological phenomenon pertaining to plate boundaries. Earthquake numbers can and will fluctuate regardless of prophecies.
HH on March 12, 2010 at 1:46 am
Name 1 thing the bible predicted that came true.
There are thousands of earthquakes everyday, just because you don’t know about them doesn’t mean they don’t happen.
The Pacific plate has been shifting, it happens. Stop freaking out about it.
Also, why are Christians always hoping that the apocalypse is right around the corner? If you hate life so much, then that’s your problem, but why pray that the rest of us have to go down with you?
NaturalBornKieler on March 12, 2010 at 1:46 am
There are no less or more earthquakes now than any other time in history. The only difference is that there are mass media today where every natural disaster anywhere in the world immediately hits our headlines.
Do you believe in Nostradamus and other crazy prophets too?
Super Atheist to the Rescue on March 12, 2010 at 1:46 am
If by "everything" you mean "nothing"
You can make any "prophecy" come true if you interpret it the right way. Now, if the bible said "in 2010 there will be two major earthquakes 2 months apart", then I would believe you, but something like "the earth will shake much in later days" or whatever self fufilling prophecy you want to believe in is not gonna be enough.
Btw, how’s that whole "bats are birds" thing working for you?
daken on March 12, 2010 at 1:46 am
So, if the bible predicted these earthquakes, why didn’t you warn people about them and save countless lives?
Clint F on March 12, 2010 at 1:46 am
shut the hell up 2012 will not happen and when it doesnt im laughing at every ones face who says it is!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Aidan on March 12, 2010 at 1:46 am
Maybe so, maybe not. We just don’t know. It’s more than likely not the end, as it’s just a regular natural disaster which is occuring, them happen all the time, it’s only because this one that happened in Chile was a major one. There’s nothing to worry about, so don’t live in fear, it will only interfere with your outview on life.
c on March 12, 2010 at 1:46 am
It is the grossest form of self-delusion to believe that Bible predictions are coming true.
The rate of earthquakes is no greater now than it has been for hundreds of years. Two major earthquakes in very different parts of the world are something of a coincidence, although the nature of earthquakes is that the do tend to be clustered: one earthquake sets up the conditions for another, so they tend to come in bunches.
drmultiverse on March 12, 2010 at 1:46 am
The number of earthquakes is roughly constant over time. The two recent ones are more noticeable but that is all. What has increased is not the number of earthquakes but the number of news organizations, the speed of communications, and the number of people living in earthquake prone regions.
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Total 1900-2005 = 2061 earthquakes
Average: 19.4 magnitude 7.0 and greater earthquakes per year
Arthur Always on March 12, 2010 at 1:46 am
Everything Ed Cayce said came true.
Everything Nostradamus said came true.
Everything the Mayans said came true.
Everything every sheister magician ever said has come true.
Saying that natural events will happen is hardly prophetic.
Spazznacious on March 12, 2010 at 1:46 am
‘there will be earthquakes’….OMG, how could that NOT come true? Here’s a prophecy from me to you and it foretells a temporary decrease in the number of living well established celebrities: "celebrities will die, there will come a great dying of celebrities". It must mean I have a direct line to God, right?
mia delight on March 12, 2010 at 1:46 am
Earth quakes alone, are not a good predictor of the end of the world.
pǝʞɔıʍ ɥɔʇıʍ ™ ǝɥʇɟo ʇsǝʍ on March 12, 2010 at 1:46 am
Everything the bible ever predicted has come true? You really believe that?
Such a climate of fear and paranoia, I’m glad I outgrew all that.
Earthquakes happen every day, somewhere in the world.
I fail to see what plate tectonics has to do with the bible.
Peachie on March 12, 2010 at 1:46 am
These two are not being given a thought. It’s the next two that will happen soon that MAY!
Old man on March 12, 2010 at 1:46 am
The frequency of earthquakes has actually decreased in the last few years.
So much for you doom merchants.
Mpenda Yesu on March 12, 2010 at 1:46 am
Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be earthquakes in various places, and famines. These are the beginning of birth pains.
Andie on March 12, 2010 at 1:46 am
As a Christian, I feel compelled to warn you against reading what you want to into the Bible. Sometimes things happen in our world, and they simply happened. Even though the end of this world will come, not everything that happens is a sign of that end. That’s all – just be careful what you project upon the Bible.
theo the cod BTFH on March 12, 2010 at 1:46 am
Dumbo 17:12 And lo, there shall be an average of 17 magnitude 7 earthquakes a year and 1 of 8 or greater. And lo again, the incredibly stupid will be tempted to announce the end of the world with boring repetition through all the ages.
I got you babe on March 12, 2010 at 1:46 am
The bible hasn’t predicted everything that has happened. That is wishful thinking on your part.
1 eye dog on March 12, 2010 at 1:46 am
And the solar flairs that the sun is having
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And not one word of em on the news
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And the solar scientist convention that was just held of world wide scientist of the stud of our sun
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Not one of em mentioned the effects that all those excess flairs are having on the earth
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The south pole just had a ice burg 48 mile by 24 mile slam into a glacier 48 mile by 24 mile and make a sheet of ice the size of Road Island
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Heading for the southern oceans the one place on the planet you do not want a sheet of ice that size go
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You DO not WANT that to happen
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Because the global effects on the planet weather will be next to the day of utter caios
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And the only reason I can find out why they are not telling it on the news is
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The fear of global panic
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And with the finical condition and now the earth quakes that are happening
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Oh and by the way you ain’t seen earth quakes yet
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We the wife and I are already getting our life in order here in Maineville Ohio and getting ready to move to the southern states
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before the big one hits .
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The year when all the planets are on the same side of the sun and all that gravity will pull all those solar flares in one direction
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And that date will be in the summer months of 2012
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Gp and check it out and you will be a asking what the hell is going on
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Even the History channel on has special of it on their web site to watch
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Dana C on March 12, 2010 at 1:46 am
"There will be earthquakes in various places."
That’s quite a prediction. I guess I’ll make one of my own predictions: There will be rain in many places. I hope I’m right.
jtrusnik on March 12, 2010 at 1:46 am
There aren’t more earthquakes than in previous centuries. The only differences are:
1 – Our technology has gotten better at detecting them; and:
2 – The 24-hour new cycle ensures that we hear about things happening around the globe all the time. Nobody knew about earthquakes half-way around the world, not because they didn’t happen, but because nobody was sending the information all across the world.
Burnt_Toast on March 12, 2010 at 1:46 am
Earthquakes are happening at the same frequency as they have in the past. More and more are being reported though thanks to technology, the media and people exploiting peoples fear of Armageddon.
stanthemansmum on March 12, 2010 at 1:46 am
There have been millions of earthquakes throughout earth’s history. It is a little thing called plate tectonics. The surface of the earth is made up of ‘crusts’. The land part is known as the continental plates. These are for ever banging against each other, pulling apart etc and have faults in them which lead to stress being placed upon the ‘joins’. The Himilayas is a result of two plates crashing together and pushing the land mass up for example. It is the release of this pressure which causes earthquakes – not some sky daddy having a hissy fit!!! Get a geography book aimed at 10 year olds and start reading!!!
Michelle R on March 12, 2010 at 1:46 am
Name me a time in which there were no earthquakes, and then we’ll talk.
Extra on March 12, 2010 at 1:46 am
There are no more earthquakes now than there were 10, 20 or 100 years ago.
ScoobySchu on April 5, 2010 at 9:11 am
http://www.scientificblogging.com/comments/34141/Re_Why_So_Many_Earthquakes_Decade
Why are there such discrepancies about whether or not the number of earthquakes are increasing. Search for yourself; there are credible sources for both sides that dispute whether there are increases.
The news media are quick to report there are not increases, however, the above link shows a cumulation of data that suggests there are increases. Shouldn’t this be an easy question to answer…unless there is a desire that Truth would be avoided.