Idlemessiah said:
I had Jehovas witnesses a few weeks back. Its funny cause me and 3 of the people I live with study archaeology and thus human evolution, so we had a half hour debate on evolution, natural selection and picked a few holes in the bible too.
Ooh, Jehova's witnesses are fun. My dad is an engineer and he invited some into his house once. He asked them about their religion and then they got to the part about limited room in heaven and a revival on a new earth after the apocalypse. This is where it gets fun.
My dad was excited about the number 144,000 (which they believe is the max # of people in heaven) because it's "more than enough to establish a genetically diverse population on a newly colonized planet". Better still was the revival part, I can't remember exactly what he said but it was something along the lines of there being clues in the bible for astronomical coordinates to tell where this new earth was. He grilled them a bit on how their religious leaders were doing on designing and building a spaceship to "fulfill god's plan to send man into deep space". He kept on spouting technical details and asking them questions about interstellar travel and finally told them to "stay put" so he could "get out the blueprints and explain the theories properly". By the time he came back from the basement, they were gone.
