☢The Theistic Response➼ to Atheists saying, "It Doesn't mean God Did it"

[robvalue]

Here's my video about evolution, hope it helps.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qV3WPyp8WmU

[downbeatplumb]

Most everyone here I suspect is from the city.  I had a farm for 12 years.  I never saw a dog mate with a cow and produce a sheep.   When I bred my mares with jacks I got mules.  Which are sterile.  I understand the idea behind evolution.  Would not reject it as one of the tools that God uses to accomplish His plan.  Just do not see any compelling evidence for it.

Well that explains Trump getting elected.

"Post fact" is phrase of the year and I think Petes quote summarises the reason why.

[Homeless Nutter]

Most everyone here I suspect is from the city.  I had a farm for 12 years.  I never saw a dog mate with a cow and produce a sheep.[...]

Oh, wow... 12 years!!! Well - you must have god-like understanding of biology, then...  I mean - it doesn't matter, that evolution of life on Earth occurred over billions of years - 12 years on a farm definitely undermines all the scientific efforts of humanity. Bravo, sir - your Nobel Prize is in the mail...   

You see - I grew up in the country-side. Your highly technical talk about them dogs and cows, strewn with all this advanced farming jargon, don't intimidate me, son. But I also paid attention in school and therefore I know how evolution works and I don't have to base my entire knowledge of how the Universe works on what kind of inter-species erotica I have, or haven't seen over the past decade. 

Just because you're a farmer, doesn't mean you have to be stupid...

[robvalue]

This is exactly what I talk about in my video.

It's the equivalent of me saying, "Christianity claims that a man called Jesus tried to make a helicopter out of wood. That's so dumb! Why would you care about that?"

You can't argue against something until you have some basic understanding of what it is.

[Homeless Nutter]

I grew up in the country-side. Never saw no invisible wizard f*ck a virgin and produce a magical Jew... Christianity is false. Check and mate, chrish-chuns...

[AceBoogie]

1. LaVey states that “Satanism encourages any form of sexual expression you may desire, so long as it hurts no one else.”

2. First Corinthians 6:18-20 commands us to “flee from sexual immorality. All other sins a man commits are outside his body, but he who sins sexually sins against his own body. Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your body.”

3. The Satanic bible concerning the existence of the afterlife is that there is no such thing as life after death, and thus life must be lived to the full in this world. This is the premise on which many of the Satanic teachings are based, for it removes the element of accountability. Hebrews 9:27, however, indicates that “man is destined to die once, and after that to face judgment.” 

4. Eternal destruction is the only thing that will result from its false teachings. The fires of hell will be a bitter reality for those who have been taught that hell does not exist.

I've numbered parts of your post to address points individually.


So you've been aware of what Satanism is this whole time or you finally googled it after I had to repeat myself?

1. Sure, sexual freedom is encouraged in Satanism, so long as you're not hurting anyone or doing anything to anyone without their consent. What exactly is wrong with that?

2. Dr. Suess' captivating classic, 'One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish' states, "From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere."

3. How does the lack of an afterlife remove the element of accountability? How does a man 'face judgement' if he's dead?

4. Eternal destruction? From whom will this eternal destruction come? Hell doesn't exist. Grow the fuck up.

[Tonus]

You see - I grew up in the country-side. Your highly technical talk about them dogs and cows, strewn with all this advanced farming jargon, don't intimidate me, son. But I also paid attention in school

There's the problem, at least in parts of the USA. The pressure from creationists limits a lot of the teaching of evolution so that many teachers --even when they are free to teach the subject-- prefer to steer around it. I think that in my time in school I may have heard the subject broached once or twice and never in any degree of detail. Even in liberal NYC, science/biology teachers seemed to want to avoid the hassle of even mentioning the subject. So for many Americans, our understanding of evolution is whatever snippets we get from TV or --more likely-- from the pulpit.

For a long time, my understanding of evolution was that a species was a stable point along a developmental path, and that transitions were just that-- creatures that were somewhere between point A and point B and not well adapted for anything, requiring a cascade of quick and super-convenient mutations to occur in order to reach point B and avoid extinction. Thus a lizard might birth offspring with feathers instead of scales, and unless successive generations quickly birthed feathered lizards with hollow bones and toothless beaks we would not end up with birds and the lizards would die off. Which is why you see evolution satirized in this manner by people like Ray Comfort. His approach works because it attacks the incorrect version of evolution that many people believe, and not an actual understanding of evolution. The more ignorant people are about a subject the easier it is to compare it to ideas that are insane, and to make the insane ideas appear to be the only viable option.

[The Joker]

I assume that's the point you're trying to make, and no. Ain't watching no Kent Hovind vid. Of course he thinks it's stupid, he has never evolved.  

Yeah, Kent Hovind. The guy with a bought PhD in "Christian Education" who made his money selling gullible idiots that Satan invented the Theory of Evolution in the garden of eden; a canopy of ice enveloped the Earth's atmosphere, causing both the longevity of the patriarchs (because barometric pressure) amd Noah's flood when it broke up and crashed into the sea; and that dinosaurs still exist because Jackson's chameleon. That's the level of expertise we're going to have to match.

You forgot Dr. Georgia Purdom received her PhD in molecular genetics from Ohio State University. Her professional accomplishments include the winning of a variety of honors, research presentations at national conferences, and the completion of six years of teaching at Mt. Vernon Nazarene University (Ohio), where she served as a professor of biology.

What about Ken Ham and his gang?

[Alex K]

Yeah, Kent Hovind. The guy with a bought PhD in "Christian Education" who made his money selling gullible idiots that Satan invented the Theory of Evolution in the garden of eden; a canopy of ice enveloped the Earth's atmosphere, causing both the longevity of the patriarchs (because barometric pressure) amd Noah's flood when it broke up and crashed into the sea; and that dinosaurs still exist because Jackson's chameleon. That's the level of expertise we're going to have to match.

You forgot Dr. Georgia Purdom received her PhD in molecular genetics from Ohio State University. Her professional accomplishments include the winning of a variety of honors, research presentations at national conferences, and the completion of six years of teaching at Mt. Vernon Nazarene University (Ohio), where she served as a professor of biology.

What about Ken Ham and his gang?

Kent Hovind went to jail for not paying taxes. Ken Ham is legally collecting *other people's* tax dollars. So, Ken Ham definitely wins in the smarty department. Still, both have no clue about evolution.

[AceBoogie]

rob you're an OG awesome vid.