A Near Perfect Reply To Creationists

[lilkanyon]

I believe in a passage in the bible (at least I think it's there). Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. The 'word' could have stopped there and the world would be a better place.

[Forsaken]

Amazing read for the free-thinkers.
Will make no difference to the creationists, though. As if by magic, the "Goddidit" theory will fit in perfectly with this argument.

[thesummerqueen]

There's only one bit of the bible that I like. "Remove your shoes, for you tread on holy ground."

I tell people that when I try to explain my passion. Remove your shoes, and stand on the bare earth. Know you stand on worlds unfathomable. Below your feet dwell crawling and creeping things, breaking the rocks and crumbling the soil, devouring the dead and turning decay into life. It is a living, surging sea of microbes and blind creatures that hide the roots of mighty oaks and delicate poppies.

All ground is holy.

"What matters is the immersion of the hands in the earth, that ancient ceremony of which the Pope kissing the tarmac is merely a pallid vestigial remnant." ~ Margaret Atwood

[Welsh cake]

I don't even acknowledge creationists.

Replying to them is giving them the podium they need to rival their delusions with actual facts and scientific discoveries.

Who was I talking about again?

[Minimalist]

Perhaps if we break it down into small bite-size chunks it won't overload their tiny brains?

I think another way of saying it is "Stop being so stupid you ignorant you Stubborn bastard!"

Works for me.

[KichigaiNeko]

Very nice read Summer...Thank you

[Oldandeasilyconfused]

I'll say that is some good shit ... but reading that quote made me think of an intelligent force/mind/God even more.

The thought also crossed my mind.

However, I put that down to the vestiges of a chronic Catholic upbringing,which equates sublime wonder,awe and beauty with the divine*.


*logical fallacy:argument from incredulity and I think the teleological argument :

X is SO subtly beautiful,awesome,magnificent and complex that it could only have come from a God (or THE God, A'llah)

[Undeceived]

The Way Of Looking At The Universe…

You are the creation of a God who probably defies your brain's ability of understanding. You have been made remarkable. The information contained in your genome is so detailed that it contains three billion DNA base pairs, and any error in copying a single one could result in your decay. God made us as we are. You are not an accident resultant of unthinking, random and accidental formations of elements. You share a common ancestry with every human being who has ever lived. You feel the need for purpose because there is purpose and you are restless until you find it. That purpose is God. All the pleasures in the world provide only temporary satisfaction, but the joy given by God is lasting. You may want to believe you are among the smartest humans to have ever lived and have every solution, but billions have before you have thought the same thing. Many have fallen victim to the deceptions of the world. Satan puts empty packages before you, tempting you to take them. God gave you the ability to resist and learn using his Word. He made you special from the beginning, he made you an heir to his heavenly kingdom. If we believe in him and his sacrifice on the cross we will be set free.

Why do we marry and carry on? God made marriage to illustrate the love he has for us--he loves us as a husband adores his bride. And by teaching the next generation we ourselves learn valuable lessons. If God took away free will we would not love him truthfully. The world suffers because of the sin it had an option to do. Any intervention would have been a freedom snatched from us. God gave us the ultimate free world. We can recognize its creator or we can make ourselves out to be gods... we who bear no credit for our lives.

We are biology. But we are also so much more. God made us with minds like his that could think and feel and consider. An animal functions on instinct, but we are able to examine our own body and motives as well as others' forms and decisions. We know right and wrong. A few basic particles assembled for the purpose of continuing to exist could not reason, nor should it ever want to. Our brain is so complex that 99.9% remains undiscovered, and scientists have yet to find the area for the soul or morality, or why we are driven toward anything at all.

People of every nation and background have for years tried to develop their own answers, postulating theories for what they do not understand. They do not want a higher being to be accountable to, so they devise ways our world could have arisen without him. Nothingness is a sort of freedom. It means you can do whatever you want without repercussion. Rather than fight the weight nothingness gives you, I challenge you to listen to your misgivings. Stop avoiding God. Live for him and you will find more life in yourself than you ever thought attainable. Living for others gives us satisfaction. How much more would we be rewarded if we lived as a tribute to our heavenly Father!

[thesummerqueen]

The very idea of you taking that shit seriously makes me laugh so hard I almost choke. That's not even kidding.

[Minimalist]

God made us as we are.

Provide evidence (real evidence not brain farts) of your fucking god or you are nothing more than a fundie jerkoff.


(Which we already know.)