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Originally Posted by curioushuman
Personally i think it was the aliens  Relax rifle do you feel the need to belittle someone to make yourself feel important or superior ? you just proved one of my points that alot humans are too arrogant to admit when they are wrong. I was making suggestive remarks. And yes i have basic knowledge but i am definitely not a rocket scientist, riddle me this then since you say you have all the credentials to speak your mind and i do not, where did the atom come from or if the big bang required space, mass and energy then how did these elements just appear ? |
Oh trust me: I know what it feels like to be regularly belittled by the ignorant and intransigent dogmo-theists who surface here and make accusatory and insulting remarks about my chosen professions, which, except for my current hobby of raising chickens, are all scientific or engineering based. As in: logic and science, as opposed to emotion-driven and denialist. I've been shot at (metaphorically) by too many dogmo-theists here, and so I shoot back. With known knowledge and facts.
In fact, I encourage you to speak your mind. But I don't try to give Christians lessons on biblical philosophy or history, now do I? What if I simply declared all the bible to be a proven lie written by Germans, simply because I don't like it? What credibility would I have then? And yet, I'm told almost daily that Evolution is just that and worse. And then they say things like: "Evolution tries to say that we all came from apes, or from nothing! There's no evidence for Evolution!"
Really? Is that what Evolution says? Really? And there's absolutely no evidence at all? Really?
As then so often happens, theists call me arrogant, but I know they just don't have a better argument. or any argument at all!
Tell you what,
curious:
Let's try this on you (we've tried it on lots of other theists...):
As in: Pick one aspect, one key established element of Evolution and you tell me
exactly what part of it doesn't work as claimed. Mutation rates? DNA? Necessary time? Transcription errors? tRNA? Transitional organisms? Fossils?
We'll patiently wait for your educated response, OK?
So, far as I'm concerned, all-encompassing commentaries that make no sense or are based on hysteria are fair game, wouldn't you say?
Science does not
ever claim to
know it all, but there's a lot of things you could have asked me about, let's say, 150 years ago (DNA? Electrons? The orbits of the planets? Lasers? iPods? Cell phone technologies? Military drone planes and smart bombs? Vitamins?). So, in your mind does that then make them all impossible or non-existent? Nope. Not hardly.
So don't get all smarmy and ask me about the origin of atoms. I'd then have to ask you about the origin of God. Both unanswerable right now, but as to atoms, we
may well come to an answer one day. And soon! Not so for God. There's no evidence for Him, but lots for atoms. and when we
predict things based on atomic theory, darned if it doesn't come true! (See: Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and a nuclear power plant near you).
And... just watch the new LHC experiments and read, my boy, read. Soon enough, they'll have some new info on Higgs-Boson particles.
But now, let's predict spontaneous regeneration of a lopped-off limb on a war vet. Or a real, unambiguous prophecy come true
(date, time, event, location). Or the categorical and incontrovertible healing of a cancer patient in an all-Christian or Jewish hospital
(Sorry; they die at a slightly higher rate than atheists. Who'da thunk, huh?). Or tens of millions of children dying each year from child abuse, starvation and disease? All easily preventable with, apparently, a finger-snap by God. Seems He just doesn't care though...
The
only reason I occasionally note my credentials is that I
do have some in the areas I talk about, and yet we get, as I observe all the time, Christian folks making absolute comments on C-D all the time about Evolution. Or a range of other things they have no more education on than what they pick up on Good Morning America. Comments that are so
off base and
so inaccurate that you have to wonder if they've spent even
10 minutes reading the grossly inaccurate Church literature on the subject!
Again, how can a person actually come here to debate science when they can't even spell it?
Well, as Art Linkletter used to say;
"Children say the darnedest things!"
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Yep; that's what we say alright: something outa nothing! Yep!
