RE: Atheism is unreasonable
November 9, 2014 at 11:15 am
(This post was last modified: November 9, 2014 at 11:17 am by His_Majesty.)
(November 8, 2014 at 5:12 pm)Simon Moon Wrote: This is far from unsupported. ALL the evidence, or lack thereof, points to an Exodus as portrayed in the Bible, never happened.
1. There were never over 1.2 million Hebrews living in Egypt.
How do you possibly know this?
(November 8, 2014 at 5:12 pm)Simon Moon Wrote: 2. There is no evidence that Hebrews were ever slaves in Egypt.
How do you possibly know this?
(November 8, 2014 at 5:12 pm)Simon Moon Wrote: 3. Over a million people wandering around the desert for 40 years would have left a lot of evidence. None has ever been found.
What kind of evidence are you looking for? Abandoned tents? Sleeping mats? Food wrappings?
(November 8, 2014 at 6:08 pm)pocaracas Wrote:(November 8, 2014 at 2:12 pm)His_Majesty Wrote: Because dogs produce dogs, cats produce cats, fish produce fish. Have you ever observed any exceptions to this? I will answer for you: No. So why do you believe that the animals of yesterday was able to do something that the animals of today have never been observed to do?
First, learn to quote properly! I had to fetch the quote from the correct place to put it here!
Second, because "yesterday" represents a long, long, long, long, long, long time. More time than what we've had available to test that.
Still... we see some forms of bacteria turning into different forms of bacteria,
Fruit flies that evolve new reproductive processes,
E. Coli that develops the ability to use citric acid as a carbon source,
domestication of foxes,
let's not forget, ring species.
And many others... not to mention the fossil record and all the neat changes of fossil characteristics with the time that they're dated to.
Putting it all together, it seems that evolution is a process that has happened on this planet over the ages and is still happening, today.
You can't base your conclusion about evolution just by looking at what you see around you in your day-to-day life. Darwin had the luck of being the first to notice the pattern. Others came later and noticed it in other species, in fossils, everywhere!
I agree, it happened so long ago, that it never actually happened at all.