Glad you brought that up. Which means these 'messages' that prophets receive are simplified or dumb downed to a point where the simpletons of the past could understand. The word billion was non-existent since at that point it was an inconceivably huge number.

This also mean that your obnoxious religion was compatible with their barbaric and ignorant nature. One that we could all do away now. Also, according to genesis your god created the earth first and then the light. This could not happen since the sun is millions of years older than earth. Plus isn't it petty to create humans so that he can be worshiped by them. What sort of narcissistic dumbass would do such a thing.

Care to define the meaning of perfect? The fact that you cling on to the idea of what is perfect or not goes against the teachings of Buddhism. Since the first step of becoming an 'enlightened' person is to see reality as it is, free from bias, conceptualization and ideas. If by that definition he is perfect, then so is everyone else. We just don't know it.

The nature of ignorance is that..you don't know you are wrong, therefore you need to find out. The Buddha was not a perfect human being, albeit his philosophy which still stands out today. He once starved himself to the brink of death believing that the act would help him gain some sort of spiritual transcendence. He was wrong. Therefore he taught the 'middle-way' or the path of moderation. Took him decades to realize this.

'Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.'

-Thomas A. Edison

Oh believe me, there will be plenty who loves to believe the old 'either you have it or you don't' nonsense. But you cannot choose to ignore the other bulk of evidence that hard work is the key to success.

Watch this. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6FvEwLBgBo (Why Hard Work Matters)

And yes, Bill Gates is mentioned.

The impact of one meteor caused multiple chain reactions. Including volcanic eruptions.

Define threat. For the sake of rational argument, let's talk about individuals who are relatively well mannered since violence is never tolerated in any society. Order is more preferable to chaos. Now, the other threat I am talking about is ignorance. What pisses me off is when these group of pricks walk up to me and proceed to offer me a shot at going to heaven. What an excuse for compassion. The Christian dogma teaches them that life here is a punishment for their disobedience in some fictional heaven. And life should be spent to seek redemption. The false sense of guilt, inner filth and misplaced gratitude is a bane to existence. Christianity uses stories that channels these irrational emotions to lure the gullible.

Would you just stop saying polytheism stems from a belief that thunder is caused by a deity. Thor could control lightning but the phenomena still occurs with or without him. Happy Thursday by the way. In certain parts of Europe festivals are still held to commemorate Thor's blessing for the abundance of food. Polytheism is a detailed field of study and an interesting one too. It is good fun anyway to bask in the wonders of folklore. No pagans or the likes would question science. The kinds of people you believe them to be no longer exists. The only difference between you and them is that they are willing to keep their traditions alive.

You clearly do not understand polytheism. It is not the assumption that all natural phenomena are caused by deities but the fact that they may be governed by not only physical but non-physical realities thus, there may be a need to personify them into various personalities in order to somehow address them with respect or seek alms, blessing and so on. Pagans, Taoists, Wiccans and so forth do not disregard science, quite the contrary: They see it(WE in fact. I consider myself one) as another form of knowledge that can be used to manipulate reality. (Physics, Biology, Chemistry). So is respect, prayer, meditation and love. Just so you know lightning gods are told about in every part of the world. These beings shape their form according to OUR personality (based on era, demographic, geographic, culture) to assist us, be they meek, mild or moody.

1. There was never a point of time where anything was created or destroyed. It merely changes form. Example: Energy

2. To understand God, you first have to understand yourself. Are you speaking as your personality or soul. These two differs completely. 99% or the time your ego, id and super ego governs your entire system of thinking. For example: The desire for truth, the desire to return to an original source (father figure, family), a sense of greater purpose, the desire to surrender you will to a higher power(how lost do you feel anyway?) and of course fear of death. These are desires that stem from your living conditions. It becomes irrelevant after death. See? External reality (the way things are) and internal reality (the way things you believe to be) becomes cloudy. You CREATE your reality.

3. Two of the above statements may be hard to explain to any human 2000 to 1500 years ago. (Civilisations before has a fairly respectable understanding of the term 'spirituality') Therefore, any sort of 'revelation' given by the smartest of angels fall into simplistic translations and quite often self serving and delusional.

4. You can start believing the planet is created by a god all you want but know that the development of life on earth as we know now it has been a rare occurrence indeed. The chances are one in a gazillion. There are specific conditions to be met and it took billions of years for us to get here not 7 days. The creation of life is a NATURAL phenomena. A RARE one.

Conclusion: 'Wisdom is not the absence of ignorance but the understanding of it' -Me.

Really? I remember when vampires begun to get popular, just about everyone asks the same question. But please remember that our perception of fictional creatures especially one that grows in complexity over time has its humble beginnings and I assure you they do not in any way resemble its true form. So are zombies. They spawn from african black magick rituals and Hollywood always have the knack of bringing the mundane.. back to life by reusing the whole 'failed experiment' premise. Effective but OLD. Parasites and virus add some good touch to it which seems to make everything much more believable. And by the way, before asking if such condition can befall mankind, you need to question if it can happen to animals first.