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by fundamentallyflawed on January 29th, 2012
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Evolution and abiogenesis are two quite different matters.
by canoeguide on January 29th, 2012
I was merely going in the direction most of these questions point. To God.
Sorry to skip ahead.
by fundamentallyflawed on January 29th, 2012
But they don't point there. You're skipping past the end of the road and going straight on to Never-Never land. You were supposed to turn at the first star on the right.
by HasntBeen on January 29th, 2012
Evolution has evidence, god does not.
Hasn't, Are you sure the 1st star on the right doesn't lead to the Land of Lost Boys?
by canoeguide on January 29th, 2012
Ha ha. You kill me, you really do.
There's two Os in Goose, boys.
by fundamentallyflawed on January 29th, 2012
Your snickering is strained by a lack of sound arguments.
Bottom line: there is not a single solitary shred of evidence for God's existence. There is a ton of evidence that human beings are superstitious and prone to myth-making. One need not have an advanced degree to see where that road goes. To care about the truth is to hold mystical ideas at arm's length.
by HasntBeen on January 29th, 2012
Evolution silly. The idea. The world in which that could happen. The atoms that make up the animals you claim evolved. The fact you think. All GOD.
Evidence is all around, and you saying otherwise doesn't make it true. Without absolute knowledge yourself you can't claim their is no being/force/God any where in the universe with absolute knowledge. There will always be the chance, the possibility that God is real and you saying otherwise doesn't change that fact.
Your argument is as unfounded, silly and stupid to me as you think mine is.
by fundamentallyflawed on January 30th, 2012
Except that your arguments are provable fallacies:
"The atoms that make up the animals you claim evolved": this is a strawman. I have said nothing about where matter came from, but the existing theory (the Big Bang) does a pretty good job of explaining how atoms came into being. It does not explain where the *energy* came from -- the energy which comprised the Big Bang itself. The atoms themselves are fairly well explained. So: fallacy to you, incomplete explanation to me.
"you can't claim there is no God": strawman fallacy. I didn't claim there is no God. I claimed that there is no evidence for God's existence, and you have provided none. You're also trying to shift the burden of proof: the burden of proof is entirely on you, as you are claiming that something which has no manifestation exists. Ok, show me how that is so...
"you saying otherwise doesn't change the fact." Since you have demonstrated no facts, there's nothing to change.
In general, I've heard better theism defenses many times. You're not even on the scale. I assert that your entire religion is superstition: folk wisdom combined with myth repeated endlessly. I further assert that you cannot demonstrate the validity of even a single one of the miraculous claims your religion makes. In short, you haven't any arrows in your quiver.
by HasntBeen on January 30th, 2012
These fundamentalists & reality denialists all have a heavy dose of cognitive disconnect. The majority of them, however, have stopped claiming the Earth is flat. That's a very small step, but it's in the right direction.
by canoeguide on January 30th, 2012
I just don't see superstition disappearing from the Earth until the human brain undergoes some evolutionary changes which eliminate its endemic weaknesses. These ideas persist because they appeal to a brain which has certain addictions wired-in via evolution. So I don't know that there's much that can be done except to keep putting pressure on the superstitions themselves. You can't eliminate them, you can only play Whack-a-Mole endlessly.
by HasntBeen on January 30th, 2012
The basic meme I rely on is that while it's abundantly clear stupidity cannot be fixed, ignorance (with time, evidence, rational thinking) can be overcome except in those cases where the uninformed person continually retreats into willful stupidity. Some do that because of cognitive dissonance, some from an assumed agenda not easily surrendered, and a few from the schoolyard bullyism of needing to be a burr under someone's saddle.
by canoeguide on January 30th, 2012