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Healthy Sceptic Here
Jovian Offline
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Healthy Sceptic Here
May 6, 2012 at 5:16 pm
Hello everyone.

I've considered myself to be a strong atheist for several years now. I used to be indifferent to the whole evolution vs creationism "debate", as I simply viewed Creationism as a handful of crackpot paranoid loonies that nobody took seriously. However when I realized how big the Creationist disinformation campaign has become I felt I needed to educate myself and call Creationists out on their bullshit. I always loved science, but I didn't do that well in school and missed out on an opportunity for a career in science.

Anyway, it would be nice to here from fellow freethinkers. I wrote an article on my views on the whole creationist and evolution "debate" (or lack of one) and trying to expose Creationist lies and fallacies. I was wondering if any of you guys could read it and make sure the information in it is accurate?
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RE: Healthy Sceptic Here
May 6, 2012 at 5:22 pm
Welcome. Watch your step, lest you step in the bullshit. It occasionally gets deep around here.
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RE: Healthy Sceptic Here
May 6, 2012 at 5:23 pm
Welcome Big Grin

We all love to expose creationist bullshit, so you have come to the right place.
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Paul the Human Away
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RE: Healthy Sceptic Here
May 6, 2012 at 5:35 pm
Welcome. We have some voluntary quarry hanging about. Have at them!
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RE: Healthy Sceptic Here
May 7, 2012 at 1:08 am
Welcome Jovian
"The Universe is run by the complex interweaving of three elements: energy, matter, and enlightened self-interest." G'Kar-B5
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RE: Healthy Sceptic Here
May 7, 2012 at 1:14 am
I am also new, but welcome!
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RE: Healthy Sceptic Here
May 7, 2012 at 2:10 am
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Howdy.
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RE: Healthy Sceptic Here
May 7, 2012 at 2:52 am
Hello and welcome! ^_^
When I was young, there was a god with infinite power protecting me. Is there anyone else who felt that way? And was sure about it? but the first time I fell in love, I was thrown down - or maybe I broke free - and I bade farewell to God and became human. Now I don't have God's protection, and I walk on the ground without wings, but I don't regret this hardship. I want to live as a person. -Arina Tanemura

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RE: Healthy Sceptic Here
May 7, 2012 at 6:46 pm
Welcome to the forums, Jovian.

I used to debate a bloke named Jovian on the Undernet IRC network, many moons ago.

<Meson> Were you once a Christian, Jovian?

<Jovian> I suspect I was at once.

<Meson> What changed, Jovian?

<Jovian> I got educated.

<Meson> Explain

<Jovian> Education taught me to not believe in myths.

<Ryft> When did you stop being a Christian, as it were?

<Jovian> you want a date?

<Ryft> An approximate one.

<Jovian> probably 20 years ago.

<Ryft> Great, thank you. And you are now how old?

<Jovian> 40 something Smile

<Ryft> Okay, good. This, then, explains a great deal.

<Jovian> really? A great deal? like what?

<Ryft> You spent the first half of your life, notably through the most formative years, as an uneducated myth-believing simpleton. It makes abundant sense how you would fall into atheism.

<MrDav> lol
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when
called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
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RE: Healthy Sceptic Here
May 8, 2012 at 1:17 pm
Welcome Jovian Smile
I respect you too much to believe that you could possibly hold those ridiculous beliefs. - Richard Dawkins, 2012
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