RE: Why do Atheists spend so much time debatng the existence of God?
October 2, 2013 at 8:58 am
(This post was last modified: October 2, 2013 at 9:00 am by Tortino.)
(October 2, 2013 at 8:56 am)max-greece Wrote: You haven't understood what intelligent design is. Its creationism with another name = denial of evolution - God made everything as it is 6,000 years ago.
That can be in a religious studies class - not in science class.
Other than that:
I am ruder to salespeople than I am to the religious when they come knocking at my door.
That YOU think religion and science are not at odds is fine - but you don't speak for all theists.
Actually both theist and atheists have to defend their world view if they put it out there. If you keep it to yourself - no problem.
Re-read point 5 - you didn't get it the first time.
"The theory of intelligent design is simply an effort to empirically detect whether the "apparent design" in nature acknowledged by virtually all biologists is genuine design (the product of an intelligent cause) or is simply the product of an undirected process such as natural selection acting on random variations. Creationism typically starts with a religious text and tries to see how the findings of science can be reconciled to it. Intelligent design starts with the empirical evidence of nature and seeks to ascertain what inferences can be drawn from that evidence. Unlike creationism, the scientific theory of intelligent "
(October 2, 2013 at 8:56 am)max-greece Wrote: You haven't understood what intelligent design is. Its creationism with another name = denial of evolution - God made everything as it is 6,000 years ago.
That can be in a religious studies class - not in science class.
Other than that:
I am ruder to salespeople than I am to the religious when they come knocking at my door.
That YOU think religion and science are not at odds is fine - but you don't speak for all theists.
Actually both theist and atheists have to defend their world view if they put it out there. If you keep it to yourself - no problem.
Re-read point 5 - you didn't get it the first time.
In all honesty, how many times does a Mormon or Jehova's witness knock on your door? Where I am , maybe once every 5 years. Is that really such a big problem in your life?
