RE: Evidence God Exists
March 11, 2010 at 6:00 pm
(This post was last modified: March 11, 2010 at 6:00 pm by Violet.)
AngelThMan Wrote:You're being naive if you think that someone who has strong convictions about their beliefs is going to succumb so easily. I've never expected that of atheists. I haven't heard anything that refutes any of my arguments here. All I've gotten is denial that our species is superior. I've mentioned that our intelligence is unique, and people bring up that dolphins have sex for pleasure, and that ants build lairs underground. It might be your opinion that these points render my arguments invalid, but it isn't mine. You're falling into the trap of thinking that just because you believe something, someone else has to believe it, too, which is what atheists constantly accuse believers of doing. Just because you agree with an atheist's point of view doesn't mean that the argument they provide is strong. I am open to ideas, but only if people stop denying that our intelligence is special and unique, and then 'convincingly' explain how we are the only species that evolved this way.
I see no reason to believe our intelligence more 'special' than a lion's teeth are 'special'. If you can provide sound reasons why, then there is the possibility I might believe you. However... our intelligence is demonstrably not unique. It is a fact that a fair number of other 'advanced' mammals (
We are more adept with our intelligence than other animals on Earth... in the way a lion is more adept with its jaws than we are with ours. But that doesn't make us unique nor special.
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day