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This is off topic but it is something that has always irked me. The theory of evolution is a scientific theory of the same stature as General Relativity or Quantum Mechanics or Electrodynamics or Molecular Biophysics or any other scientific theory. When theists say things like this they have no idea just how stupid and ignorant it makes them look. It’s as if they think that scientists are somehow trying to cover up religious evidence. As if scientists have no interest in discovering things that are actually real. If a scientist makes a discovery that is real then all of the other scientists will be all over it. You see scientists are keen to make new discoveries constantly. It is how you gain prominence in science. If a scientist could trap a ghost or demon, or find evidence that there is intelligent design (which by the way is not actually a scientific theory because it doesn't actually make any predictions that can be differentiated from any other current theory) they would be all over it. It would be like capturing King Kong of finding dinosaurs on a lost island. The fact the religious must screw up their brains to force them into a paranoid mode that I find difficult to comprehend is just incredible. You accuse me of megalomania but this one thing alone makes any mental problems you may think I have pale in comparison. Starboy | |
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| Molten Ash Location: Michigan Posts: 103 | Most (if not all) religion is practiced as though it was a superstition. It is time for the "christian" religion to pass in to the historical record. It no longer fits the need of modern technological society. It was formed for a two thousand year of society of farmers and heardsmen. |
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| BANNED: Repeated insults Posts: 4,828 | I agree Voyager, the Bronze Age is long gone, time for the worldview of that era to bite the dust of history. What people who do understand this should be asking them selves is how such a worldview could persist in this obviously different age that is glaringly different than the age from which it came. I can only think of the following, lies and deception, willful persistent profound ignorance, fraud and malfeasance. If supernatural theists were forced to be honest about all the bizarre claims that they make they would be laughed into the next galaxy. Now to be fair to the supernatural theists, they have bent a little in the storm of time but the winds are getting so strong that if they don't start bending a great deal more they will be snapped off at the trunk and blown away. And it just doesn't have to be so because religion can play a role in a modern society, a very important role. The theists just have to learn to do it without lying. If they don’t stop there will come a time when the people will tar and feather them and ride them out on a rail or far, far worse. Starboy |
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| Volcanic Erupter Posts: 3,799 | The theory of evolution is a scientific theory of the same stature as General Relativity or Quantum Mechanics or Electrodynamics or Molecular Biophysics or any other scientific theory. Starboy[/quote] This is crap. Evolutionary theory has many problems, and nowhere near the scientific support that, say, General Relativity has. And when you try to use evolution in support of your anti-religious drivel you always conveniently neglect to mention that the Theory of Evolution has absolutely no explanation for the orgin of life. The lack of transitional forms of life between species is also a major obstacle to the acceptance of this theory. While evolutionary theory may very well be proven to be true in the future, it certainly hasn't got the stature of a theory whose proof lies in the rubble of two major cities in Japan. "What people who do understand this should be asking them selves is how such a worldview could persist in this obviously different age that is glaringly different than the age from which it came. I can only think of the following, lies and deception, willful persistent profound ignorance, fraud and malfeasance." More meaningless claptrap. When you are able to explain to me the concept of the Trinity I will be much more willing to listen to your refutation of it. "Everybody knows that the boat is leaking Everybody knows that the captain lied." - Leonard Cohen |
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More ignorant and willfully stupid theists! All scientific theories have problems, every single one of them. GR doesn't incorporate QM. Electrodynamics is only a phenomenological theory and doesn't actually explain what charge and fields are composed of and what is going on when one transforms from one form to another. But all the same these theories are extremely useful because they can explain a great deal more about these phenomenons than was previously explainable. If you got an explanation that does a better job of predicting what will happen before the fact then bring it on. The theory of Evolution is very much in the same vein as all these other theories. It explains what is observed in nature. Species are observed to change over time. It is observed that those changes are in response to their environment. And that the changes come from variations of traits within the species population. All of that is there to see by anyone who cares to look just as charge, electric and magnetic fields are there for anyone that cares to look. To deny this is to be a willfully ignorant idiot. Quote:
In the Bronze Age when people got sick they thought is was because of a supernatural reason. This is where the idea of sin came from. It was a Bronze Age explanation of why bad things appear to happen to people. The religious have built several religions around this concept which included such explanative concepts as souls, angels, ghosts, demons, devils, jinn, genies, god(s), heaven, hell and on and on and on. The funny thing is that these days if anybody tries to stop medical treatment for their children because they think that a priest is more likely to cure their child rather than a doctor they are considered to be insane. We no longer live in a world where we explain reality with those Bronze Age concepts. We now use atoms, electrons, cells, DNA, molecules, supernova, and on and on and on, oh and EVOLUTION. Those are the explanative concepts of our age not all that crap from the Bronze Age. But of course the religious are so willfully ignorant that they have deliberately ignored that the world changed around them and refuse to admit it. Starboy | ||
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And I repeat, the Theory of Evolution has absolutely no explanation for the orgin of life. The lack of transitional forms of life between species is also a major obstacle to the acceptance of this theory. "Species are observed to change over time. It is observed that those changes are in response to their environment. And that the changes come from variations of traits within the species population." Variations within species are fine, now show us some evidence that one species can evolve into another. "Everybody knows that the boat is leaking Everybody knows that the captain lied." - Leonard Cohen | |
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2% of atheists? This number certainly goes against all observations. US is very ungodly country, no matter how many people profess to believe. Majority of US population believe the media, so they can't possibly be Christians. Quote:
Generally, I feel sorry for you. Besides your argument that atheism = superiour intelligence, is simply laughable. But, whatever helps you feel better in this world, I doubt you will much enjoy the next. | |||||
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If you really want to know what the Amish think , you ought to go and check it out: http://amishrakefight.org/gfy/ "Everybody knows that the boat is leaking Everybody knows that the captain lied." - Leonard Cohen | |
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Adherents.com It has been my experience that the religious do not have a clue as to what it means to be an atheist and also just about everything else in the world including evolution. They take the words of their pastors as if it were the word of god. What makes it so absurd and dishonest is that the pastor does not trust you to find out for yourself because the pastor knows that it will conflict with the superstitious nonsense that they wish to maintain so they fill your heads with lies and misinformation so you may be inoculated against the so called evil outside world. It never occurs to any of you that if what the pastor maintains is actually real then such dishonest tactics are not needed because reality will tell the tale. Look, I am not a Christian and I will not pretend to tell you how to be a Christian. All I can go on is what people say they are, what they say and what they do. There is no reason to think that anything you say about being a Christian is any more valid than anything the Pope says or the Dali Lama or anybody else for the matter. If there is a god, and it takes sides, it doesn't appear to be telling anybody about it. The fact that so many of you claim that there is a god, and it does take sides, and it is always on the side of that particular claimant is further evidence that you are all a bunch of liars. You cannot all be right and still think that everyone else is wrong. Quote:
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| Guest Posts: n/a | it's a flame war because of your own behavior and wordings. you have no one else to blame. the things that i mentioned above, esp, and such, i know are real because i have experienced or witnessed them. juist coz you're too blunted from society and conformity to detect them doesn't mean no one can. |
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| Volcanic Erupter Posts: 8,663 | Is the act of cloning supernatural? We know by all evidence that nothing in nature would perfectly clone it's self and so it is not anything natural. So we could contend that science is trying to perform supernatural activites that we do not see in nature - like nothing in nature would fly to the moon, clone something, or that honesty is based on judging a book by it's cover. So unless the rocket scientists are sub-natural for flying to the moon like a witch on a broomstick then it must be called supernatural. How could science invent a rocket to the moon if they first did not honor imagination and the "dreams" of people like Kennedy to gain the motivation to reach that goal? Science is not just about the study of past fossils to determine that life was an accident. It is also about creating supernatual realities not found in nature. And another thing, should I claim that science is advocating fantasy just because of few of their best people wrote some science fiction books? They also tell stories you know and some of the stories, like Star Wars, is a clone of the Bible. The point is that both science and religion has it's own brand of supernatural beliefs and experiences. technosoul. |
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People fool themselves all the time. If you are serious about not trying to fool yourself then you must honestly consider alternate explanations for what you experienced and attempt to sift through the data or conduct further experiments to try to gain evidence that would favor one explanation over all the others. Have you done this? And if you are honest with yourself even if you favor the supernatural explanations you must concede that they still may all be very well explained by some heretofore unknown natural explanation. Can you concede this? If you have not been honest with yourself then you are no different from any of the other supernatural theists who prefer the magical explanations to the more obvious natural explanations, but have no evidence that would cause one to prefer the supernatural explanations whereas we live in a world where all the other phenomena appears to be satisfactory explained naturally. There are several examples of theists that have posted on this thread that have illustrated the dishonesty of supernatural religion because it is obvious that they have not examined the competing claims that conflict with their religion any where near as thoroughly as they have studied the explanations that favor their supernatural religions. And yet they feel that their position is somehow honest when they reject the scientific explanations. Some also appear to think that theirs is an honest position when they try to rebut arguments with stale canned theistic arguments (probably from some website) that I have heard so many times that it has forced me to think that something rotten is at the top of supernatural religion. Starboy | |
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| BANNED Posts: 129 | Starboy, obviously you are unable to understand me for we are speaking different languages. You speak a language of an animal ( which you convinced you are), I speak the language of a Human who has soul ( which existence you deny). Therefore since you are a selfconfessed animal I will take the following advice: Mt 7:6 Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you. |
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| BANNED: Repeated insults Posts: 4,828 | Can't figure out why anyone would want to be a Christian. They do not have the convictions of their own beliefs. Apparently because I lack a belief that I have a soul then *poof* I don't have a soul even though they are taught to believe that I have a soul. But of course their religion provides them with all sorts of oh so holy put downs for people that do not agree with them. But of course they still love you as a person but hate everything that you believe, and then they are shocked to find that people may not care for such dishonest bahavior on their part and see it as a fundamental character flaw induced in them by their own religion. Go figure. Starboy |
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| BANNED-Warned multiple times about instigating. User then reported topics multiple times to mess with staff. Posts: 4,412 | Hey! Bible Believers. Sell everything you own and send me the money, please. Email me for the address. Matthew 5:42 "Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away." |
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