the thing is sunsets shouldn't be beutiful if evolutionsts are right,
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Martinez, there are so many athiests that can have a sense of wonder because they DON'T claim to know everything, nor do they claim to have regular communiques with someone that does.
If Martinez really wanted to attack evolution, he/she might want to question what advantage an appreciation of aesthetics could have possibly conferred onto our ancestors. Or he/she could demonstrate how the idea of what is "beautiful" is a timeless concept that has not changed since the dawn of time. Or how that something that is "beautiful" could not possibly be something that indicates danger...oh, look a pretty lion...
... A better argument would be "Evolutionists can't appreciate the beauty in nature because they insist on cluttering it up with made-up facts. Is it really a good idea to believe in something that won't let you appreciate the beauty of a butterfly or the wonder of life?"
Hey Martinez,
Y'know, it took a sort of science for the first troglodyte that picked up a stick and sharpened one end...it took science to understand how to prepare, and conserve, a fire...
"sunsets shouldn't be beutiful(sic) if evolutionsts(sic) are right"
Huh?
Even if you had a point, which you don't, that would prove NOTHING, seeing as how far we have come from our origins anyway.
You seem to be stuck in the Medieval alchemical Doctrine of Signature: "As without, so within." Take a look around you; not everything that is "good" is beautiful and not everything that is "evil" is ugly.
There are many things in this world that are both beautiful and frighteningly dangerous. The crystaline structure of arsenic salts. A coral snake. A Shinisaki sword. Fire. A lionfish.
Imagine that you had never seen or heard of chocolate before, and someone handed you a lump of fudge. Would you put that squishy lump of brown in your mouth?
Actually, to me, that <I>is</i> what it symbolizes when I'm in a city. Because I'm a female who would be walking alone at night, and that automatically makes me a target for any number of sick individuals.
Thanks, God!
"Minimum time to reach safe dwelling?"
Sounds like some sort of second-rate dystopian sci-fi.
Although me being a smaller-than-average female university student, that IS approximately the meaning my anxious father attaches to the sunset.
I'd never thought about it that way before, but Martinez presents *such* a compelling argument. Evolutionsts[sic] must be wrong about the overwhelming evidence in their favor. Those sunsets can't be beutiful[sic] if evolution is true! Sign me up, Martinez!
A little piece of my brain melted when I read this.
Sunsets aren't beautiful for me. The only thing I look forward to is the vampires coming out.
@Kiro:
I'm the same. All the guys I know all seem to have this obsession with getting me home before dark, getting me fed and getting me into a nice nightgown before leaving me to do as I wished in my room alone. My father, my brothers, my friends, my boyfriend, and even my best friend(female) seems to do this. Probably because there are very few people who couldn't pick me up, carry me away and rape me.
....There are also very few people who would come out of that alive.
"preditors"
Whatever those are.
I do enjoy the sunset, especially from the top floor of my brick-built house, well out of reach of all the predators in this country.
Hang on, what predators? Hunters wiped out the last of them in the 16th century. Maybe Martinez is trying to tell me I should fear the midges (grr, nasty little whiny, bitey things!).
“the thing is sunsets shouldn't be beutiful if evolutionsts are right,”
“they should be a thing of horror and fear!”
“they should sybolise, minumin safe time to reach safe dwelling before the preditors come out!”
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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