Argument #2: Evolution Of Species

[Fidel_Castronaut]

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Apologies if this has already been covered; I'm catching up and replying on the fly.


Here's how it works. Please take the time to take this on board, beacuse it really is key to the entire issue.

The Earth, like every planet we know, is spherical. Slightly flattened at the poles, hence "oblate". Now...

A man believes the world is a flat, circular plane. Does that change the shape of the world?

The man points to an ancient book which supports his belief. Does that change the shape of the world?

The man finds ten people who agree with him. Does that change the shape of the world?

Those people recruit thousands of followers. Does that change the shape of the world?

Some of those people are scientists. Does that change the shape of the world?

Eventually the group grows to millions, some of them world leaders. Does that change the shape of the world?

Soon the entire population believes the world is a flat, circular plane. Whole websites and libraries are filled with literature declaiming the truth of the world's being a flat, circular plane.

Does that change the shape of the world?

Would the world, if able to express a preference, care?

That is why the argument from popularity is a logical fallacy. We already know there are people with such beliefs; but belief in a thing does not equal the true nature nor even the existence of that thing.

Are you insinuating that the Bible says the world is flat? It doesn't say that.

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Blasphemy of the holy spirit. Unforgivable sin.

Are you claiming that the unforgivable is somehow now forgivable? Sorry, Rev - I have to call bullshit on that.

You're just making this shit up as you go, aren't you?

The way you blaspheme the Holy Ghost is by continuing to reject the Lord. Hope you don't do that.

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How about something we can fucking observe?!

It was observed, and millions of changed lives attest to their own personal testimony of how Jesus changed them.

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God sucking my dick without an intermediary would probably do it for me.

I must warn you I will place you on my ignore list if you continue to be so disrespectful to the Lord.

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You're not Jesus.

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And that somehow makes it not nuts?

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So do heartworms.

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So sharks and whales and cod are all the same 'kind'?

The Lord was not terrible specific on that kind of breakdown.

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First you invoked that God can do anything, literally anything, a kind of magic, and then you claim you don't invoke magic.

One of these statements is a lie. Which one is it, Rev?

Regardless, that ERVs can be made consistent with the God hypothesis by invoking magic doesn't make them any less strong as evidence for evolution, as they are consistent with that hypothesis as well. They are a startling confirmation of common descent even IF you could achieve the same result with 'magic'. Do you have any actual evidence that God rather than evolution did it, or are you gonna settle for invoking magic as an answer?

I don't God's divine power magic.

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Rev, the only thing we're 'disrespecting' is your imagination, not your silly god thing (which has no evidence for its existence).

If you don't want your beliefs to be ridiculed or commented on, don't share them with us.

Otherwise, don't expect us all to sit back and take everything you say as given, or indeed take a tone of 'respect' towards them. No beliefs deserved to be 'respected', especially ones that use an imaginary being as a motivator and justification for behaviour.