RE: The Watchmaker: my fav argument
March 23, 2021 at 1:42 am
(This post was last modified: March 23, 2021 at 1:42 am by Fake Messiah.)
Religious people should be aware that Intelligent design does a terrible disservice to God since, for starters, this designer was pleased to design only microorganisms for nearly 2 billion years of Earth's history. Even in the Cambrian, he was not yet interested in designing a vertebrate.
Then Intelligent design casts him as a magician who periodically creates and destroys creatures, habitats, and ecosystems millions of times over, throughout the geologic ages, with the sole purpose of producing the human species.
Then Intelligent design casts him as a magician who periodically creates and destroys creatures, habitats, and ecosystems millions of times over, throughout the geologic ages, with the sole purpose of producing the human species.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"