RE: Evil Atheists
September 22, 2011 at 4:19 pm
(This post was last modified: September 22, 2011 at 4:21 pm by Statler Waldorf.)
(September 20, 2011 at 11:18 pm)Epimethean Wrote: It's perfectly fine to suggest that the skywizard created man and woman out of dirt and ribmeat, that a tree was planted in their backyard which was illegal for them to eat from, that a critter in the tree conned them into eating from it, that as a result all man is doomed until a dude who is both god and not god, both god's son and also a human comes along to absolve them of something they had nothing to do with, and the endtimes as reported by the scripture readers take a few millennia to be shown inaccurate again and again, and yet you find issue with evolution, Stat?
Yup. I could type out a straw man argument concerning evolution that looked far more ridiculous than the straw man you typed above, but unlike you, I know that straw man arguments are irrational.
(September 21, 2011 at 8:25 am)Zen Badger Wrote: You couldn't, because atheism is not a code of morality. It is merely an absence of belief in a god or gods.
You might as well use Aunicornism(an absence of belief in unicorns) to achieve the objective.
False analogy, disbelieving in the universal and transcendent moral law giver can in no way be properly compared to disbelieving in a magic horned horse.
(September 22, 2011 at 4:37 am)ElDinero Wrote: People have the right to believe whatever they want.
According to whom? Just because you assert this right exists does not mean it actually exists.
(September 22, 2011 at 6:59 am)Zen Badger Wrote: Since you have yet to prove the existance of this hypothetical lawgiver it is rather a moot point.
No it isn’t.
(September 22, 2011 at 8:41 am)ElDinero Wrote: I've had my fill of you. You're a zombie. First you use Expelled to make a point,
I see how this works, so you can use your biased evolutionary sources to try and make your points but he can’t use his own sources to make his point? How convenient!
(September 22, 2011 at 8:43 am)Epimethean Wrote: The bible loves racism-and attendant murder:
From Exodus:
So Moses said, "This is what the LORD says: 'About midnight I will go throughout Egypt. Every firstborn son in Egypt will die, from the firstborn son of Pharaoh, who sits on the throne, to the firstborn son of the slave girl, who is at her hand mill, and all the firstborn of the cattle as well. There will be loud wailing throughout Egypt-worse than there has ever been or ever will be again. But among the Israelites not a dog will bark at any man or animal.' Then you will know that the LORD makes a distinction between Egypt and Israel."
This is just the icing on the cake, though I am certain the bibblers will come a running to say, "But the NT supersedes the OT, so we cannot be blamed for that, because jeebus took it away from our history."
The fact that xtians love to cite the OT when it suits them makes them proud owners of the whole text.
First of all, how is that racism? Killing every first born child of the nation that is oppressing your people hardly seems like racism. Secondly, before you make such appeals you need to first establish why racism is even wrong in your Darwinian worldview. I know it is wrong because all people are created in the image of God; however, from an evolutionary perspective it just seems to be one group of people out competing another group of people. Darwinism is evil.
(September 22, 2011 at 8:58 am)ElDinero Wrote: This is a bit unfair now. Carnavon must love getting fucked in the ass because at the moment me, Rhythm, Epimethean and Zen Badger have him over a barrel.
Three people making baseless assertions doesn’t make the assertions anymore true you know. I think it’s funny that he is handling three of you just fine.
(September 22, 2011 at 11:09 am)Rhythm Wrote: Firstly, biological evolution and abiogenesis are not the same thing. I don't have the answers there, and neither do you.
Actually they are both part of the General Theory of Evolution, just because you can’t defend abiogenesis doesn’t mean you can just disconnect it from the theory.