[How about you? What kind of evidence would convince you that life on Earth reached its present state via evolutionary common descent?]
I don't see any reason to believe in evolution since God in His infallable Word said He created the world in six days. That's the basis for the seven day week; the fall of Adam is the basis for salvation in Jesus Christ; the provision of a man and a woman is the basis for one man-one woman marriage. God said that's how He did it. Only if God gives me another reason revealed in scripture would I consider believing in evolution.
The secular humanism I've seen promulgated by people convinced we were not created has wrought the evils of relativism, nihilism, hopelessness, lack of purpose, etc. I'm glad you're not saying God doesn't exist.
I'll take your remark about a copyright message or email as a joke. Ha ha. I don't think this would happen (but then God has surprised us before. Imagine him creating the nation of the United States in the late 1700s so we would be the future protectors of His modern nation of Israel!).
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That's the basis for the seven day week
monday: the Moons day
tuesday: Mars day (masculinity/war god)
wednesday: Wodan/Odins day (wisdom/war god)
thursday: Thors day (god of thunder)
friday: Frigg/Freys day (venus/fertility god)
saturday: Saturns day (god of agriculture)
sunday: Sunnes day (sun-goddes)
That week is pure blasphemy!
So in other words, reality is wrong. And yet your book is somehow "right", even though it is trapped within the confines of reality. It has somehow escaped the matrix of this universe, so that the truth could be written down. And returned to the matrix. This could only be done one time, ever. Also, the physical evidence of a much older universe has been planted, or made in the creation. It could have been done in the same way as loading a save-state in an emulator, where it looks like it's been running a long time when in fact it has just started.
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You're wrong. And Caturday is the most holy of days.
So, no evidence trumps all the evidence. Now that's good thinking, TAC.
How 'bout this, you provide credible proof of God's existence and his authorship of the Bible, and I will stop accepting the ToE or anything else you find objectionable. Come on. I'm on pins and needles.
I don't see any reason to believe in six-legged insects, since God in His infallible Word says they have four legs. Only if God gives me another reason revealed in Scripture would I even consider believing in six-legged insects.
Oh, by the way, I hope you champion the states' Tenth Amendment right to remove ancient mythology from their science curricula.
And here I was, thinking the one-man, one-woman marriage came about from there being a roughly 1:1 ratio of men and women. Gotta love how fundies ignore how many wives Solomon or David had (amongst many others).
As for creating the U.S. to protect Israel... why not just make Israel capable of protecting Israel? Seems your g0d isn't powerful enough for that, as tanks (modern iron chariots) pwn him.
happymealungen wrote, "That's the basis for the seven day week
monday: the Moons day
tuesday: Mars day (masculinity/war god)
wednesday: Wodan/Odins day (wisdom/war god)
thursday: Thors day (god of thunder)
friday: Frigg/Freys day (venus/fertility god)
saturday: Saturns day (god of agriculture)
sunday: Sunnes day (sun-goddes)"
Sweet, I was born on a Friday. Does that mean I'm a sex god? Oh right, fundy. Go play with your toys, the adults have work to do.
@Pariah - Yes, but in Latinate languages:
Lundi/Lunédi = Monday (moon)
Mardi/MArtedi = Tuesday (Mars)
Mercredi/Mercoledi = Wednesday (Mercury)
Jeudi/Giovedi = Thursday (Jupiter/Jove)
Vendredi/Venerdi = Friday (Venus)
Samedi/Sabato = Saturday (okay, this is an exception, along with Sunday... blame the Catholics.)
What's particularly striking as those most of those Roman gods are homologous to those in the Norse pantheon from which English gets its weekdays...
"That's the basis for the seven day week"
I've always wondered about that, if God chose to make a week 7 days long, why didn't he also make the number of days in a year be a multiple of 7? That would have fit nicely.
Heck, he could have also made a year to be exactly x number of days long so we wouldn't have to screw around with leap years. God is such a sloppy creator.
You know, it's the "infallible word" part that alway s kills the credibility of these arguments. A fundy can twist scripture any way they want to justify their own bias or hatred and then claim they are righteous because of God's "infallible word". Sorry, you don't get to ride on God's coat tails you rat.
You have no idea what secular humanism is, do you? You see that word "secular" and your fundy brain just has a grand mal seizure and refuses to process the "humanism" part of that phrase.
See, humanists like me tend to think that our purpose on earth is to help our fellow humans, because each of us has something to contribute to the world as a whole. Humanism breeds empathy, caring, hope, and love, not those other things.
And relativism isn't bad. How morally underdeveloped do you have to be to think that?
Secular humanism brought hopelessness and lack of purpose? That's news to me, considering that on any given Sunday, you'll hear that the members of the congregation have no reason to succeed in this world if Jesus is coming back to snatch them all away.
Funny thing is the 7 day week doesn't match any natural cyles, such as seasons, years, or salmon migration.
"I don't see any reason to believe in evolution"
The 1988 Seoul Olympics. Ben Johnson. Won the men's 100 Metres Gold in a record-breaking time. But was tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs.
2009 Berlin World Athletics Championships. Usain Bolt:
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He even deliberately slowed down before the finish line, yet still broke the 100 metres world record. He's not even your Spartan-esque dedicated athlete (he loves clubbing & socialising with the ladies!) If he has a 'performance-enhancing drug', then Chicken Nuggets beats anything now or has yet to be made, in terms of sports pharmaceuticals.
Previously in the 2008 Beijing Olympics. 100, 200, & 4x100 Metres Relay events: all Golds . Then more recently in 2012 London: 100, 200, & 4x100 Metres Relay events: all Golds . Broke world records too.
I suspect that - in the form of Usain Bolt - we are already seeing the emergence of Homo Superior . He certainly annihilates Creationism, if everything was placed on this world, as is; unchanging. And that's before I mention Labradoodles , which didn't exist before 1988. AD .
Confused?
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