Posted on 12/29/2011 1:01:09 PM PST by daletoons
Atheist militant Richard Dawkins has produced a children's book entitled "The Magic of Reality" and in doing so has joined the Millstone Swim and Dive Club. Spreading his venom for God to kids under the guise of Scientism is about as putrid as it gets. Children using simple God-given logic conclude the existence of a creator. It requires an abandonment of logic to attain self omniscience and declare there is no God. The materialist's faith in the escape hatch of "there just wasn't enough evidence for me" won't wash on judgement day. Here's a book idea: The ghost of Christopher Hitchens, Jacob Marley style, appears to Richard Dawkins and sets him straight. Dickey would probably make a hash of it, too bad Hitchens isn't still around to write it.
Stranger still to be the only creature on the planet with the inclination to ponder such things yet refuse to do so.
See post 15.
Q: How did we get here?
A: Some big magic invisible creature must have done it!
Q: Why?
A: Someone must know, let's ask around! Oh yes, here's a book! Let's read the book!
Anyone who has worked with college kids can tell you that the preferred answer to weighty questions is "Here, here's the study guide. Just memorize this for the test."
>> “If this occurred as a single random mutation, then it was one heck of a miracle to have two fully functioning systems, with all the parts and processes, and that these would be complementary to each other.” <<
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You have no faith!
Add another 100 trillion years; it’ll all work out somehow...
>> “Children conclude that the creepy guy in the van just wants to give you candy.” <<
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You apparently were that simple-minded as a child, but no child I’ve ever known was. Before a child’s mind is polluted by hate filled school teachers, they see clearly that “nature” is far too complex to be the result of a hundred trillion fortuitous accidents, all of which would have been sent back to accident one upon the first failure.
The accident imaginators will never have an explanation for sexual reproduction.
Children are dazzled by a glow-stick.
Just exactly why do you have a problem with a superior being?
Just on this earth how many are far beyond you (and me) in intellectual capacity?
Just on this earth how many are far beyond you (and me) in power and influence?
It seems that the biggest defenders of evolution are also the biggest defenders our nation's atheistic, compulsory-attendance, compulsory-funded, socialist K-12 school system.
I wonder why that is?
Fundamentally, if it weren't about indoctrinating the next generation of voters in our nation's socialist K-12 schools and our colleges and universities, all this controversy would evaporate like dew on grass on a hot summer's day. The only people who would give a twit about evolution would be the handful of people actually working in this very **narrow** area of science. The study of evolution has little impact on the work of nearly any other scientist, engineer, or productive worker in *any** area of honest endeavor in the entire world.
The accident imaginators have yet to present any kind of plausible way for sexual reproduction to arise out of a-sexual kritters.
(that of course hasn’t stopped them from stroking their psuedo-intellectual organs with glee)
You live among simpletons, I presume.
None of my kids were ever dazzled by them.
Gee! I bet your beliefs **never** bleed into your classroom ( being a professional, that is.)
Pushing evolution on captive children and force taxpayers to pay for has NON-neutral political, social, and non-neutral religious consequences for our nation, especially in the voting booth.
Schools weren’t always a failure, although they’ve always had a tendency to teach only a limited portion of the group.
Schools began the downward glide in the mid ‘60s when they began to rely on opinion rather than proof. That is when evolution was inserted forcefully.
Fortunately most of my teachers knew how foolish evolution was, and didn’t attempt to cover up its vast shortcomings. We had one notable athiest teacher that often became enraged when the class found her amusing.
Not exactly. Moses was not a charismatic speaker but backed up his words with a multitude of miracles, as did Jesus. There have been spectacular, undeniable miracles in the Catholic Church, that rise above the more frequent faked miracles, at least once every few decades.
In a few generations they will say that about Obamacare. They will say, “Socialized medicine wasn't always a failure”, and it likely won't be. Why? Because of the professionalism and values of those still in the corrupt system. In a generation or two those people will be dead and **then** we will see the full horror of socialized medicine.
Well...Socialized schooling is a corrupt system. It was merely the professionalism and values of the teachers still living and breathing American value that was giving CPR to a still born idea. The chest was going up and down, and the heart being pumped but the idea of socialized medicine was dead on arrival.
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