(December 3, 2011 at 5:11 pm)lucent Wrote:(December 3, 2011 at 4:52 pm)aleialoura Wrote: People who would shamelessly admit to being a young earth creationist are the most worthless and dangerous kind of xtian. They're the kind that would stifle truth if given the power, and trample upon things such as the beauty and elegant nature and reality of life, the universe, and everything.
Most dangerous to your preconceived notions about reality, most certainly.
No the most dangerous in reality, period. Why? Because they perpetuate myths that have no value in reality.
(December 3, 2011 at 4:52 pm)aleialoura Wrote: I am an atheist because I don't believe in any gods. It's impossible to know whether gods exist, so the people who believe in gods have to take a leap of faith to do so. I have seen evidence with my own eyes that the earth is much older than 6k years, and that evolution is a fact. What kind of absurd fucking idiot would I be if I denied it because it wasn't recorded that way in some shitty fucking book written by ignorant fuck sticks with an agenda? I'd be a Lucent, with hot tits, and a good brain, wasted. Thank fuck I am me.
What evidence is that?
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http://www.nature.nps.gov/geology/usgsnp...earth.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOKW_7KajCU
Quote:You stand in awe that you're a space chimp? If you believed in God, your eyes would be open and you would see the truth as it really is, as opposed to how you prefer it to be. God does expect you to use your brain and not be satisified with just-so stories that masquarade themselves as science. How about you actually challenge yourself and refute the arguments in this book?
http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/0...ition=used
I am not a chimp. Chimps are:
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Family: Homininae
Tribe: Hominini
Subtribe: Panina
Genus: Pan
Humans are:
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Family: Hominidae
Tribe: Hominini
Genus: Homo
Species: H. sapiens
Not much difference, as you can see. In FACT, there is only 1% difference in DNA between Humans and Chimps, and everything Humans are that distinguishes us from Chimps can be found in that 1% difference in DNA.
I am not ashamed to be made of the same things that make up the stars. I am happy to know some truth about the origin of all species on earth, including myself.
If I were a chimp, I would not be ashamed. In fact, Chimps are actually quite a bit more civilized than Humans. They don't delude themselves with silly myths, for one thing. They don't tear each other's throats out because one Chimp doesn't believe the same bullshit the other believes. I think it would be fantastic to be a Chimp. Not shameful at all.
Whether you accept it or not, when you go to the doctor, your doctor got their doctor degree by studying and learning all about the biology of your species. Your doctor knows you are an animal, and that you are related to a Chimp very closely.
I haven't read that book, but it probably isn't brimming with any sort of real evidence for anything but that man, as a species, still clings to the definition of evidence that is viewing the world subjectively, and then basing their "evidence" upon things that are how they would like to see them, and not how they actually are.
I used to believe in god, Lucent. I saw no truths, just what I wanted to see. My eyes were closed, and now they are open to see the beauty of reality as backed by peer reviewed scientific facts that continue to grow and change as our perception becomes ever clearer with the passage of time, experience, and discovery. Your beliefs never change, never grow. They're stuck in the fucking bronze age. I feel very sorry for you, sir.
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