Sheepish:
Just to throw some more into the mix. I know there is a God, cause he answers my prayers. I've seen undeniable evidence. (Sorry if you haven't) I've seen and experienced healings, provision and comfort. It wasn't just in my heart guys.
If this evidence is really undeniable, you could become very rich if you take James Randi's challenge, or at the very least help lots of sick people. Unfortunately, I've seen people die from horrible diseases despite many people praying for them. Any idea why your god picks and chooses who he helps?
Like the only time we ever ran out of food, and had just prayed a really simple prayer, "Lord, you know we are out of food, and we rely on you for our provision, we could sure use some food....amen"....and my husband opened the door, and a lady was walking towards us, arms laden with white plastic bags full of food, asking if we could use some food. (I will add we did not look poor, or hungry as we were neither, just out of food and money at the moment!).I got a lots of stories.
So you weren't poor or hungry, you just had no food? And God sent a little old lady to bring you food? How nice! Glad to know nobody who prays will ever starve.
I correspond with an athiest in Russia, of all places. He is a retired psychotherapist, and psychologist. Even he says they don't believe in the THEORY of evolution there.
"Even he"? Even a pychotherapist and psychologist says that Russians (some, all, who knows?!) don't believe in a biological theory? Congratulations! I believe that that is the single worst example of an argument from authority I have ever seen.
Why do you think it's called a theory.
Because it is a model describing the behaviour of a natural phenomenon, because it has been widely tested and used to make accurate predictions. The fact that it is still useful a century and a half after Darwin came up with it is testament to its explanatory power. Why do you think it's called a theory?
Even Darwin knew it had holes.
Of course he did. The most obvious being that he wasn't aware of a discrete unit of heredity, without which his theory would have been unworkable. Fortunately Gregor Mendel's discovery of the gene lent powerful support to Darwin's theory.
It's for people who don't want to face the fact they are answerable to a Sentient Being.
So you think the tens of thousands of scientists, and hundreds of millions of other people who accept the fact of evolution do so because they want to hide from your god? What arrogant mindless nonsense you spout, Sheepish! Probably most people who realise evolution occurs also believe in some sort of god. What are they hiding from?
If evolution, what really matters? We are animals evolving. The world is as it only can be.Who cares about the future?
I do for one. I care about my own life and that of my future progeny - and to varying degrees, all life.
There is no need for right and wrong.
Of course there is. Why on earth would you believe otherwise?
But if you corner an evolutionist, he wants justice and mercy like everyone else.
You don't have to corner one. Everyone wants to be treated fairly, regardless of their beliefs on our origins. That says nothing about whether the universe is inherently fair. In fact it appears not to be. It appears in every testable way to be completely arbitrary.
Why would you bother to even be on this site. You are simply evolving and there is no "seeking" baby, you're bound for the compost pile!
Why don't you kill yourself now, and shed your earthly shell?
You can denigrate the true origen of the species all you want, talking down to folks who know their Creator, but in the end you are left with a dying earth and no hope. How's that working out for you?
Now we're getting to the real reason you believe. It's not because you actually think there's a big invisible man in the sky who grants your wishes, but because you're afraid of dying and are too weak-willed to face it.
See how annoying it is when someone accuses you of believing something for ulterior motives. I, for one, believe what I am compelled to believe by the available evidence - real evidence, not your anecdotal kind - regardless of the consequences. It might be nice to have a fairy godfather who'll bring me food whenever I'm hungry but, in reality, I don't.
200 years since humans separated from old world monkeys 30 million years ago" has somehow falsified the Haldane population genetics calculated maximum "speed limit" of 1 beneficial substitution every 300 generations - every 6,000 years with a 20 year generation time.
