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Fri, 12 June 2009 17:08

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you do realise, altzan, that 'atheist' is not actually a synonym for 'believes in the big bang theory and the theory of evolution'?

It's certainly true that those two theories tend to be more widely accepted among atheists than by the religious, but atheism is a word which says what you don't believe, not what you do believe.

Epicurus's challenge may seem popular, but a quick flick through the Bible reveals that if the book is accurate, God is evil.

Tell me, altzan, if you suddenly found out that you were created not by your parents in the usual way, but instead in a laboratory by some crazy mad scientist who also happened to have killed a shitload of the other humans he'd created, loosed plagues upon the world etc, and wrote a book demanding everybody obey him or suffer horrific punishment...

...would you obey him?

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Yeah, there's a lot I don't know, such as how God came to be. I still believe he came to be, though.

You and every other creationist. And yet you all still say you find creationism more credible than evolution.

Evolution says the origin of life was the most primitive sparks of life which took millions of years to evolve into anything that you would even see had you walked past it. (and remember, we've had laboratory tests proving that organic matter can arise from inorganic matter).
For Creationism on the other hand... the origin of life is absolutely NOT the bits in Genesis where God makes the animals and man and woman. No, no, no. Creationists all think it is, but if you have an entity with extraordinary power who created all the animals and humanity, and is also capable of spying on both our actions and our thoughts... then the origin of life is when he came into being.

So let's compare the credibility of the two. What's more likely?
1. extremely primitive forms of life arose (we pretty much know how) and spent millions and millions of years evolving (we know how)
2. a superbeing with enormous magical powers, capable of making or ravaging planets, capable of creating life or snuffing it out on a whim, capable of seeing and knowing even the contents of a person's brain... appeared... uh, how, again? oh yeah, nobody knows.

you know, our understanding of science develops gradually. before people like darwin, einstein, newton, democritus, galileo etc came along, our explanations for certain things would've been so stupid that they would embarrass a modern-day child. but they were the best we could do. there was a time when our best guess of how everything came about literally was "god did it". now, we've got much better explanations.

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I only posted that picture to counter all the others being posted. Don't take it seriously.

Indeed. For starters it uses the word "magically"... hi, we're atheists, you're the ones who believe in magic.

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