I don't know much about evolution, infact I don't know anything about it. Mainly because I believe in God.
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If someone comes down with extensively drug resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB), they put you under federal quarantine.
So how come people with extensively fact resistant fundementalism (XFR-FM) are allowed to walk around exposing others to their stupidity?
Won't someone think of the children?!
To echo the others... Fundie in a nutshell!
Out of curiosity, does anyone know if there is actually anything in the bible along the lines of 'thou shalt not think for thyself'?!
Blind stupid devotion of that kind is why Jim Jones was able to talk nearly a thousand people into drinking cyanide-laced Kool-Aid.
So do many biologists. Evolution has nothing to do with whether or not someone believes in God. Evolution contradicts a literal interpretation of Genesis, but so does a bunch of other science. So believing in God doesn't prevent someone from believing in evolution, and conversely, simply denying evolution won't make Genesis true, because you'd still have to deny physics, astronomy and geology.
Nth'ed on the Fundie in a Nutshell Award.
Driver God doesn't enter into it, you don't know much about evolution because you are willfully ignorant.
"Blind stupid devotion of that kind is why Jim Jones was able to talk nearly a thousand people into drinking cyanide-laced Kool-Aid."
Many of Jones' followers drank the Kool-Aid voluntarily, but all the rest were forced to at gunpoint. Of course, it does prompt the question of why anyone would go to Jonestown in the first place.
Come on guys, at least the silly bugger is honest.
Well, not completely honest. More honest would be "Partly because I believe in God, but mostly because I'm a moron."
I just have this image of a sweaty, pimply, mid-pubescent bully picking his nose while saying that...
And Doctor Whom, I desperately want to call Poe on that link you provided. I mean, come on, someone actually out there telling Christians that they shouldn't think for themselves at all ? That's, just... phenomenally stupid.
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Yeah, having said that, I must now retract my "Poe" call. Sorry. :D
BlackWolfe:
Obviously you haven't read much of Martin Luther's writing (apologies for the long post):
"There is on earth among all dangers no more dangerous thing than a richly endowed and adroit reason, especially if she enters into spiritual matters which concern the soul and God. For it is more possible to teach an ass to read than to blind such a reason and lead it right; for reason must be deluded, blinded, and destroyed! "
And
"Whether reason considers the doctrine of the holy Trinity foolishness, what do we care about that? It requires no great art to argue cleverly about such matters : I could do that as well as others; but, thank God, I have the grace of not desiring to dispute much here ... Thus every Christian should do, too, in all the articles of our holy faith: one should not argue and dispute much about it whether it is also possible, but solely see to it and ask whether it be the word of God."
That's right, my friends, Luther was an arsehole.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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