As a firm believer in evolution I think we can still both agree on the graphic above.
If I left anyone off that I needed to encourage or offend, please add them. If I sent this to anyone who didn’t care to see it...
There’s always tomorrow.
GG
Preach it, brother!
orange potato
Amen and Amen. Please ping me on all your posts.
Thomas Jefferson to John Adams ....
"It is too late in the day for men of sincerity to pretend they believe in the Platonic mysticisms that three are one, and one is three; and yet that the one is not three, and the three are not one. But this constitutes the craft, the power and the profit of the priests." - to John Adams, 1803
If we don't make it up...
Who will?
ALL THE NEWS THAT'S FIT TO BE TAKEN OUT OF CONTEXT
You’ve got ‘em cornered now.
I agree too, sir!
JJS, JSDude1
Wow! What a post!
The lies, the hypocrisy, the seething burning hate and the overall general nuttiness.
If you are really an Atheist pretending to be a Christian in order to scare people away from religion, you’re doing a great job.
As far as I can tell you're speaking of my question in the earlier thread (post #276). My actual question was, "do you consider your assertion that teaching evolution delivers children into the “hands of Hell” an example of “reasoned debate?"
Your reply was essentially, "Yes, because the Bible says so", and then you mentioned something in the Bible that seems to imply (in the context you were using it) that it would be better to drown someone rather than let them teach evolution to children.
Y'know, it's funny...I know a number of Christians, and they don't talk like that.
“I found that there is no reasoning with the true-believers in the Temple of Darwin....”
Could you be reasoned out of your belief in God?
As a firm believer in evolution I think we can still both agree on the graphic above.
ping
IMHO, move back away from it, take it all in, and the two come together beautifully (at least in my mind). God made the earth in 6 days and took a day off. Some folks believe that, fine with me. Because of the proof of evolution, there is no God ... and some believe that ... also fine with me. But if you have a deeper faith and have a secure grounding in your faith, you'll see evolution is absolutely real, something humans could figure out, but never be able to accomplish themselves ... leaving only wonder. So what could "cause" this incredible process to not only function beyond time, but perfectly "automatically?" There's where I find my concept of God. I'm not going to limit him to a 6 day a week union worker taking Sunday's off to watch the Jets. In my mind Evolution is a fact, and so is God. You just have to step back to a point where they will converge and you'll see the whole picture.
I smile ... its a non-issue (for me).
Your problem here is that belief in evolution is not limited to a bunch of drug crazed evo-athiest, Obamabots on FR that you think are gleefgully fabricating false science for the purposes of tugging on God's nose hairs. Christianities largest denomination, with a billion (with a "B") Roman Catholic Church supports Theistic Evolution as do many of the Catholics on FR. As so eloquently states by cardinal Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI in "In the Beginning...." A Catholic Understanding of the Story of Creation and the Fall;
It says that the Bible is not a natural science textbook, nor does it intend to be such. It is a religious book, and consequently one cannot obtain information about the natural sciences from it. One cannot get from it a scientific explanation of how the world arose; one can only glean religious experience from it. Anything else is an image and a way of describing things whose aim is to make profound realities graspable to human beings. One must distinguish between the form of portrayal and the content that is portrayed. The form would have been chosen from what was understandable at the time -- from the images which surrounded the people who lived then, which they used in speaking and in thinking, and thanks to which they were able to understand the greater realities. And only the reality that shines through these images would be what was intended and what was truly enduring. Thus Scripture would not wish to inform us about how the different species of plant life gradually appeared or how the sun and the moon and the stars were established. Its purpose ultimately would be to say one thing: God created the world.
So be careful whom you call an idiot. That group includes many who are vastly your intellectual superior.
No, you just do it here.
Isn't this rather hypocritical?
LOL...let me know when the novel-length argument clinic comes out :o)
Apparently, you have a lot more evolving to do. We will place a pod beneath your bed tonight...
Unfortunately, there are a couple of fatal errors to your post.
#1 You appropriate “Christianity” to mean your version of creationist, fundamentalist Christianity, presuming that one cannot believe in Christianity and evolution.
#2 You go into the realm of “creation science” by claiming a “full frontal assault on the Temple of Darwin” - which really is a barely veiled assault on centuries, even millenia of reason, research, and philosophy.
The hysterical attack by “creation science” folks on the theory of evolution advances neither science nor religion - it is an attack from those who presume religious purity on those whom they deem less pure than themselves.
The premise of your posted article is ignorant on grounds of faith & reason - and is the constant reminder that whether here in America, or in Afghanistan religious fundamentalism must never achieve political dominance, because it destroys both faith and reason.
And I have no doubt that it will be just as amusing as this post of your's is.