(October 19, 2015 at 10:43 am)JBrentonK Wrote: Believing in evolution is pretty stupid. Since after all evolution teaches us that we did not come from humans (the bible), what it teaches us is to ignore the bible. It's conclusion is that we come from a rock. Pretty stupid. The truth is is that Adam is incapable of thinking about his origins, BECAUSE he is a rock before he ever thought to question God's origins. So the "origin of the rock" IS Adam, but it can in no way be equivalent to that of an animal, as evolution teaches.
The big bang is another stupid atheist proposition. It teaches us that there is a beginning and it was caused from nothing. Being caused by nothing, we are expected to believe that another possible big bang could take place. This refutes the idea of an absolute creator having not created "everything", because "everything" must exist somehow.
The above are just two examples of the stupidity of atheists. This thread is devolving into the stupidity of atheists, and I just thought it was a good idea that we all recognize that in order to not be stupid, we have to bring God into the picture.
Yeah, the problem with that (the biggest one, anyway, perhaps second to your "from a rock" idiocy) is that roughly half of the evolutionary biologists on earth are believers, and the largest chunk of those believers by far are Christians, who have no issues with the Big Bang or with evolution, who are actually experts in the field of evolutionary biology. My favorite personal example is Francis S. Collins, the lead researcher on the Human Genome Project, who wrote an entire book proving that humans are descended from the same ancestor as chimpanzees, and why we know that it is so. He actually considers DNA to be "the language of God", and evidence of the work of the Creator.
So your evolution = atheism is a bullshit argument. It's true that evolutionary biology disproves a literal reading of Genesis, but that's not an issue for non-literalist Christians; evangelicals make up a very small percentage of Christianity overall, except in the United States.
A Christian told me: if you were saved you cant lose your salvation. you're sealed with the Holy Ghost
I replied: Can I refuse? Because I find the entire concept of vicarious blood sacrifice atonement to be morally abhorrent, the concept of holding flawed creatures permanently accountable for social misbehaviors and thought crimes to be morally abhorrent, and the concept of calling something "free" when it comes with the strings of subjugation and obedience perhaps the most morally abhorrent of all... and that's without even going into the history of justifying genocide, slavery, rape, misogyny, religious intolerance, and suppression of free speech which has been attributed by your own scriptures to your deity. I want a refund. I would burn happily rather than serve the monster you profess to love.
I replied: Can I refuse? Because I find the entire concept of vicarious blood sacrifice atonement to be morally abhorrent, the concept of holding flawed creatures permanently accountable for social misbehaviors and thought crimes to be morally abhorrent, and the concept of calling something "free" when it comes with the strings of subjugation and obedience perhaps the most morally abhorrent of all... and that's without even going into the history of justifying genocide, slavery, rape, misogyny, religious intolerance, and suppression of free speech which has been attributed by your own scriptures to your deity. I want a refund. I would burn happily rather than serve the monster you profess to love.
