One thing that now bugs me about the saber fights in these prequels is all the saber swirling that the jedis do to try to look cool. Especially at 4:27. It just looks stupid.

poor kids...communism whipped them into perfection and WTFism

lol
power humping as a baby rabbit

this is hilarious! what a friggin awesome cannon! it just annihilates those gallon jugs of water!

lol from the video: "clearly, stuff like science and reason have no place in our lives"

speak for yourself man!

Genesis does specifically say how long each creation event took place. God created a different thing each day for six days, and rested on the seventh. People have distorted and re-interpreted the word "day" to mean epoch to satisfy their theory of evolution over billions of years (both cosmic evolution and the evolution of life). Whoever transcribed this Genesis creation account among the Israelites wrote it in this way for a reason. If he wanted to say "long periods of time" he easily could have with other words from the Hebrew language. When you compare the Hebrew word for "day" used in Genesis 1 with "day" used elsewhere in this book, it's the same as an ordinary day of the week: 24 hours, sunrise to sunset. There is no indication that this account, which specifically tells us that creation occurred by God for 7 days, means anything other than exactly what it says. To suggest otherwise is to ignore/change what it says. Furthermore, the idea of creation happening in 7 literal, 24 hour days was essential for the Israelite worship of their God, because God used this to justify that his people set aside one day out of the week as special - the Sabbath - and this was taken literally because of the fact that God created (or worked) in 6 literal days, and rested on the 7th. Thus, the Israelites were commanded to do likewise, resting on the 7th day after their literal 6 days of work, in order to obey their God because He did it first in creation.

Aside from this point, as one who acknowledges the existence of God, I find it illogical and presumptuous to suggest that God "used" evolution in his creation of this world we now live in. I've talked with all kinds of people who believe in God, yet also try to squeeze in this man-made theory. The problem is that they just don't fit together: they inherently contradict each other. On one hand you've got this mention of God speaking everything into existence in the account in Genesis. And on the other, you've got a theory that scientists use to explain both cosmic evolution (big bang/stars, galaxies, planets) and the evolution of life over looooong periods of time. If you take God at his word in Genesis, agreeing that he spoke his creations into existence and that they were "very good" in his sight, why would God use evolution to slowly and gradually create better and better and more adapted creations (suggesting that they were not good enough to begin with and had to get better by evolution)? Macro evolution necessitates that life starts at a fundamental, undeveloped, and ill-equipped state, and gradually gets "better" and more adapted to its environment. If this is so, then God's creation was NOT good to begin with, and had to spend countless millions of years to change and get better all by itself.

As far as HOW God created life and the earth and space to begin with, Genesis says that the spoke it into being, and right afterward, He saw that it was good. If God used macro evolution to create life over millions of years, He would be speaking for a very loooong time, don't you think?

Furthermore, as I said earlier, in macro evolution, for adaptation and mutation to occur, life must successively reproduce and die, passing on and changing traits for millions of years. If things are dying before Adam and Eve first sin, then there was no original sin because death was already happening.

Genesis 2 is a special "up-close" look into what happened in the Garden of Eden, not creation as a whole, which is given in Genesis 1. Creation had already been completed as a whole, for it says in verse 2:1 that "Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them."

Yet he is actually not far from each one of us, 28for

"'In him we live and move and have our being';[c]

as even some of your own poets have said,

"'For we are indeed his offspring.'[d]

29Being then God's offspring, we ought not to think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone, an image formed by the art and imagination of man. 30The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent, 31because he has fixed a day on which he will judge the world in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed; and of this he has given assurance to all by raising him from the dead."

Paul Addresses the Areopagus
22So Paul, standing in the midst of the Areopagus, said: "Men of Athens, I perceive that in every way you are very religious. 23For as I passed along and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription, 'To the unknown god.' What therefore you worship as unknown, this I proclaim to you. 24The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by man,[b] 25nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all mankind life and breath and everything. 26And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place, 27that they should seek God, in the hope that they might feel their way toward him and find him.

Acts 17

Paul in Athens
16Now while Paul was waiting for them at Athens, his spirit was provoked within him as he saw that the city was full of idols. 17So he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and the devout persons, and in the marketplace every day with those who happened to be there. 18Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also conversed with him. And some said, "What does this babbler wish to say?" Others said, "He seems to be a preacher of foreign divinities"--because he was preaching Jesus and the resurrection. 19And they took hold of him and brought him to the Areopagus, saying, "May we know what this new teaching is that you are presenting? 20For you bring some strange things to our ears. We wish to know therefore what these things mean." 21Now all the Athenians and the foreigners who lived there would spend their time in nothing except telling or hearing something new.

Farhad, Romans 1 specifically addresses the issue of the many gods/idols that people have made and worshiped in the past and present.

21For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22Claiming to be wise, they became fools, 23and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.

Seeing that humanity is sinfull, it's to be expected that all the cultures of the world would worship their own gods. God "gave them up" to these idols because they forsook Him and "did not honor him as God."

According to Wikipedia, "Irenaeus was an important figure defending the four main Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, John in the New Testament in 170, stating in his Against Heresies: "But it is not possible that the Gospels can be either more or fewer in number than they are. For since there are four zones of the world in which we live, and four principal winds, while the church has been scattered throughout the world, and since the "pillar and ground" of the church is the Gospel and the spirit of life, it is fitting that she should have four pillars, breathing incorruption on every side, and vivifying human afresh. From this fact, it is evident that the Logos, the fashioner demiourgos of all, he that sits on the cherubim and holds all things together, when he was manifested to humanity, gave us the gospel under four forms but bound together by one spirit."

So, since I believe that God exists and that God desires to make himself known, I don't find it implausible to believe that God would have willed, or guided the process of recording the books of the New Testament, even though they were historically written at different times by different people during the first century. There is evidence that the canon of Scripture we have in the New Testament now was already in place long before these councils met to confirm the canon. The early church needed to confirm the canon of Scripture because there were many false writings and forgeries that were circulating from groups other than the proto-orthodox Christians. Historians have a Christian record, written by Athanasius, the bishop of Alexandria, that is the earliest recording of the entire list of the 27 books of the New Testament canon that we have today. It was written in the year 367 C.E. and also has a proscription of heretical books. The canon could have been confirmed earlier than 367 C.E. but this is the earliest document that historians have found naming all 27 books. Irenaus of Lyon was an anti-Gnostic church father that already make mention in 170 C.E. of part of the canon being authoritative: the 4 gospels.

(I've got to split this comment up into a few parts because the website doesn't accept it)

Well, first off, it helps to believe that there is a God. If you don't believe in God, then of course it's going to be difficult to historically justify the reliability of the New Testament for yourself. I don't have any magical answers to change history, but since I believe there is a God, and that He chose to make himself known to all people, I think that we are without excuse. I believe this God has made himself known not only with the observation of this amazingly complex yet beautiful creation and existence around us, but namely with this curious people-group called the Jews that have been constantly persecuted throughout all of history and claim to have been chosen by this God of their ancestors, the Israelites (who also were heavily persecuted, enslaved, and fought against) and the mention of this man named Jesus who was recorded in these writings around 2000 years ago, a man whose followers spawned a religious movement called Christianity that remains the most widely proclaimed religion in the world, a religion that has reached almost every people-group on every continent by now.

no i just can't fit them all in one post

28And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done. 29They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips, 30slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, 31foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless. 32Though they know God's decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them.