I Didn't Know We Were in Church?! By that statement I'm saying this,
"Scepcop, why are you so hell-bent is pushing the (not so)
Intelligent Design issue?" idea… what you’re arguing and defending, is one of their main points when it comes to creating doubt in the minds of the less-educated and biblically gullible…
… and no, I do not believe for a second that “all” Christians are ignorant. Yet, the vast majority of them (especially in the U.S.) are “stupid”! Ignorance can be changed via study & schooling; Stupidity on the other hand, is voluntarily created by those that are too damned lazy or arrogant to actually LEARN. But back to the topic…
The issues you are bringing up first get tabled in
Of Pandas and People: The Central Question of Biological Origins () by Percival Davis and Dean H. Kenyon and have been challenged (and proven impotent) time and again, the most public side of which involved the famed Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District () and the related documentary
Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial (see the documentary here ) So, given the amount of actual INTELLIGENT debate and the mountains of actual FACTS presented by the scientific community vs. faith-bases conjecture, why in the hell is this being made an issue?
Am I missing something?
Sorry, but I’m just seeing the same old rhetoric tied to this chestnut and for anyone that’s halfway studied, especially in the higher education arenas, to start playing pitchman for the religious right… let’s just say that it makes me real nervous. Hell, I believe that some kind of “Higher Consciousness” exists in the Universe, but I do not believe for one second that IT literally created “ALL” let alone the delusion that everything just sprang up from nowhere here or on any other life-bearing
body (as we are seeing, some moons and potentially, asteroids have life-giving potential… including micro-fossils (collected by our landers on Mars and elsewhere I believe… can’t recall the details but do remember seeing something on Science Channel about it) denoting previous life-existence)
Yes, it is quite possible that, as Darwin has had the words spoken for him,
“God merely used natural process” in order to populate the planet – POSSIBLE, but not likely… at least, not in the Genesis sense of things (which, by the way, isn’t where the original “Creation Tale”
of the Hebrew came from (try the Indus Valley and accounts that
pre-date the biblical tales by over 1,000 years) and too, Genesis has TWO different creation myths, not just one… something the bible-thumpers try to obfuscate or explain away, but…)
I’m not vested in all the analytical elements around this argument, I simply cannot and have never been able to digest and embrace the fantastic idea that everything “just happened”, even when I was a kid and being taught what I was “supposed” to believe… it was just one side of the bible game that wasn’t digestible…one of many. So I must ask again, why has this been brought up as an issue Scepcop? Unless you’re being sucked into some kind of religious nut club, why are you buying this? I simply can’t believe you are that gullible.