RE: Evidence God Exists
April 28, 2010 at 8:56 am
(This post was last modified: April 28, 2010 at 8:58 am by SleepingDemon.)
Angel you're arguing this all wrong. Mankind's advanced communication and written languages have done more for our species over the last 10,000 years than the human hand. Every technological marvel today exists because someone took another person's idea, and somehow made it better. The automobile was at one point the horse drawn carriage, which at some point was a chariot, which at some point goes back to the guy who invented the wheel. Every invention, every step forward in human ingenuity is done so only because we have the ability to pass down knowledge. Our species really isn't all that smart, but we have common knowledge, we have shared intelligence that has driven our species to an unprecedented level of sophistication.
But on the flipside, the tradeoff is that most animals have pieces of what we have. Dolphins and whales have a very complex vocalization process which makes for very elaborate communication. The social behaviors of primates almost mirrors our own. Animals can show emotional responses to degrees that we can barely comprehend. We just so happened to have enough brainpower to comprehend those first few verbalizations. As we began to use our brains to create more and more complex languages and technology, our brains developed further. But were it not for those first few steps, we would probably be a race of hairless apes lost somewhere in history, and another species would have taken hold.
That is what creationists truly don't understand. They always try to glorify human beings, when in reality, we really aren't all that special. We became self aware, sure, increased brainmass, increased memory, evolved throat and tongue apparatus used with lungs to create elaborate verbalizations, sure, and were it not for these adaptations, we would have been unable to pass down knowledge, which means we would still know very little, as some of us do already.
Human beings exist because 65 million years ago some cataclysm, be it an asteroid or whatever, caused the mass extinction of a large portion of animals on this planet, including the dominant creature, the dinosaurs. They were highly evolved as well. T-Rex was a 40 foot predator that could smell something 10 miles away, could run upwards of 30 mph, his mouth could take volkswagon sized bites out of anything, teeth evolved with the sole purpose of pulverizing flesh and bone. An overall magnificent speciman of 150 million years of evolution, but one day, it all came to an end. Giving our ancestors the planet. Were it not for that event, or that series of event, we WOULD NOT EXIST. Just like if there were another mass extinction, or even a single species extinction, wiping humanity from the face of the planet, another animal, like deer, or donkeys, would take the role of dominant species, and in 65 million years would have dexterous thumbs.
But on the flipside, the tradeoff is that most animals have pieces of what we have. Dolphins and whales have a very complex vocalization process which makes for very elaborate communication. The social behaviors of primates almost mirrors our own. Animals can show emotional responses to degrees that we can barely comprehend. We just so happened to have enough brainpower to comprehend those first few verbalizations. As we began to use our brains to create more and more complex languages and technology, our brains developed further. But were it not for those first few steps, we would probably be a race of hairless apes lost somewhere in history, and another species would have taken hold.
That is what creationists truly don't understand. They always try to glorify human beings, when in reality, we really aren't all that special. We became self aware, sure, increased brainmass, increased memory, evolved throat and tongue apparatus used with lungs to create elaborate verbalizations, sure, and were it not for these adaptations, we would have been unable to pass down knowledge, which means we would still know very little, as some of us do already.
Human beings exist because 65 million years ago some cataclysm, be it an asteroid or whatever, caused the mass extinction of a large portion of animals on this planet, including the dominant creature, the dinosaurs. They were highly evolved as well. T-Rex was a 40 foot predator that could smell something 10 miles away, could run upwards of 30 mph, his mouth could take volkswagon sized bites out of anything, teeth evolved with the sole purpose of pulverizing flesh and bone. An overall magnificent speciman of 150 million years of evolution, but one day, it all came to an end. Giving our ancestors the planet. Were it not for that event, or that series of event, we WOULD NOT EXIST. Just like if there were another mass extinction, or even a single species extinction, wiping humanity from the face of the planet, another animal, like deer, or donkeys, would take the role of dominant species, and in 65 million years would have dexterous thumbs.
"In our youth, we lacked the maturity, the decency to create gods better than ourselves so that we might have something to aspire to. Instead we are left with a host of deities who were violent, narcissistic, vengeful bullies who reflected our own values. Our gods could have been anything we could imagine, and all we were capable of manifesting were gods who shared the worst of our natures."-Me
"Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, even if religion vanished; but religious superstition dismounts all these and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men." – Francis Bacon
"Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, even if religion vanished; but religious superstition dismounts all these and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men." – Francis Bacon
