(April 23, 2019 at 10:08 pm)CDF47 Wrote:(April 23, 2019 at 9:57 am)Gae Bolga Wrote: The first and best lies we tell are the ones we tell ourselves.
You didn't reason your way to belief if the process involved anything you've mentioned in all of these many pages. Why engage in this little charade to begin with, though? You and I both know that's not how you came to your beliefs - and that's okay-...just as you and I both know that you very much do take issue with the notion that you're an evolved ape.
IMO, you need to work more on being comfortable and honest with your faith and less on rationalizing it to atheists and yourself ad hoc.
"Magic book says".
IDK what use it would be to point to what "science states", when scientists get things wrong all the time. Science also states that magic book was comically wrong about space, the stars, and our origins. Pick a lane.
I am not an evolved ape.
In fact you are still an ape.
The branch Hominidae of which we are part is classified as a kind of ape.
Quote:The [b]Hominidae[/b] (/hɒˈmɪnɪdiː/), whose members are known as [b]great apes[/b][note 1] or [b]hominids[/b], are a taxonomic family of primates that includes eight extant species in four genera: [i]Pongo[/i], the Bornean, Sumatran and Tapanuli orangutan; [i]Gorilla[/i], the eastern and western gorilla; [i]Pan[/i], the common chimpanzee and the bonobo; and [i]Homo[/i], which includes modern humans and their extinct relatives (e.g., the Neanderthal), and ancestors, such as [i]Homo erectus[/i].[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hominidae
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.