Question for Atheists and Evolutionists?

Question

Do you agree there is a serious crisis in America? I have seen on yahoo answers people asking evolutionists to explain why human footprints are inside dinosaur footprints, that this is proof that human walked with dinosaur, this disproves evolution and proves the Bible, this is their claim.

Is this a failure of Education in America,

Is this a cultural problem, that these people will go to Church's where they will be indoctrinated into this cult mentality?

Have we been dealing with this problem the wrong way, thinking a Simpsons episode where Homer goes back in time will do it?

Do you feel as I do, that its not believe in God that in these situations in what is wrong, but inability to critically reason . . . but to critically reason one would need to understand the facts.

This is not a genetic human thats 65 million years old, we can not determine the age of a footprint. How does a cult-church eliminte this capacity for reason?

Answer 1

For the most part, in comparison to other countries our school systems are underfunded because the federal government does not wish to help and the singular towns cannot keep up with what is needed without making property taxes skyrocket so they cut education.

Education needs a massive overhaul starting with the basics. Half the kids coming out of school don't know where half the states are on a map. However I suppose that is what you get when a country cares more about actors, singers, athletes making millions and teachers making peanuts. Kids are only as good as those that do the teaching.

Reasoning and logical thinking is not taught as the norm. That is usually left up to self development. When I was a Mechanical Engineering major in college I had to learn FORTRAN although it was a dead computer language no longer in use. Why? To teach logical thinking.

Without the ability for us to think logically theology comes along and says I have the answers I can fill the cracks all you have to do is believe this and it has all the answers; and unfortunately a lot of people buy that.

Answer 2

I agree with the crisis in America.

I am surprised that the Bible has not been rewritten to have another new testament that spells out how "God’s creation" of man killed off the unclean "Satan’s creation" Mesozoic man.

I will say to you though.
You can not disprove Gods existence for the good of all mankind. If for some reason, any or all godlike ideas, hopes, dreams, left this earth this world would be in a large hurt.
Just think of it; all the simple people that have put hopes in an afterlife and being with a creator ever get their dreams dashed what do you think will happen?

Chaos! Total chaos.

That is why all 10 of the commandments are written by man and not a god. If they where written by the god of the early testament that god would have said

“Do nothing bad against each other for any reason or I tell you or your dead. No hell. No anything. Just dead.”

Leaders wanted a great way to keep people inline and what better way then 1 god and his mortal enemy Satan.
God of the early testament would have had Satan stoned at the Heavenly gate for his actions, that is what he expects from his creations.
Why did he not do it himself?
Why did this god allow or even still allow Satan to continue? This Satan idea is more of a jailer then a foe.

Easy answer: Because he was made up to keep people in line. If not and all was written as it truly was there would be no interpretation / misinterpretation of the Bible.
All hell would break lose (Pun intended) when people learn to think for themselves and allowed things like stem cell research to happen so we could live a better life here on this planet until we became worm food.
People would want to have a better life for them selves and would possibly go to any great length to achieve it.
People would not understand the power of groups, people that want to achieve a goal can use the power of their own minds to move mountains. If they ever learned they could do that for themselves, the human population would gain in leaps and bounds.
Instead, they hold off sitting patently for a savior to take some to the promise land.

No rational thought process would believe in the afterlife, so we need to keep the charade going to keep the simpletons occupied as we try to make life better here on the earth.
The major problem is when the simpletons get into office and create laws that will subdue the process of evolution.

I have a great idea! Let’s tell the simpletons that the earth is proving grounds for people to become Vice-Gods for other planets and we need to show that we will allow the inhabitance to expand and grow as much as they can.
Do you think these simple-minded people will understand?

Answer 3

The church does not eliminate the capacity for reason. That capacity is not very high to begin with, and it takes years of focus to develop it.

Most people couldn't care less about doing this. They are working 8am to 7pm every day, caring for kids, dealing with the challenges of life: the typical citizen is not an intellectual: nor should they be.

The information is out there for anyone who wants it. For those who don't care, maybe they feel better with a pacifier? Why not? At least their "book" says to treat people well, that isn't too bad.

In the mean time, the scientists will keep inventing those things that allow them to live longer, healthier, more efficient and productive lives, and those same scientists (in various forms) will keep making the big bucks for doing this for them.

It all sort of works out so long as religious fanatics don't get any real power. Fortunately, the founders were smart enough not to give the president much power (compared with other systems), so even that doesn't matter much.

"In the end things must stand as they stand and as they have always stood: great things remain for the great, the abysses for the profound, the delicacies and shudders for the refined, and, to sum up all this in brief, everything rare for the rare."

--Nietzsche

Answer 4

The problem is that science provides more and more comfort as time goes on. Furthemore, the profession of 'Scientist' is among the most prestigeous in the country, they're even more respected than doctors. Compare that to doctors.

Recently there have been strong attacks on the respectability of religious profession. Accusations of child molestation are part of the problem but televangelists haven't helped improve the image of religious teachers. Furthermore, fundamentalist hate in the middle east has harmed all religion along with islam.

The reaction to all this has been to attack the heart of the philosophies that support scientific growth. Athiests are portrayed as anti-religious, even though many athiests would rather just live and let live.

The most important scientific development in the last hundred years, evolution, is under constant attack, the weapon of choice is misinformation, not on the subject of evolution, but on the subject of the Philosophy of Science. Many people have a basic understanding of science, but few understand the philosophies underlying science. Most people know a lot about dinosaurs and the solar system. Few can define 'instrumentalism.'

The key to fighting this is to put discussion of intelligent design into the classrooms, the correct classrooms. It doesn't belong in science class, but is approprate for discussion as a philosophy.

Answer 5

There aren't fossils of dinosaur prints with human footprints in them unless a) they were preserved in some way until humans came about to be in existence and found the tracks and walked through them thinking hardly anything of it. The funny thing is that the Earth could actually have held life and been hit by a huge meteor and reformed to what we know it as today. Whats also another thought is that the universe is so big that there could be an identical Earth that has evolved in the exact same way as this world with you and me looking at the computer screen on that Earth as well. Its pretty freaky to think about.

Answer 6

"At what factor did persons evolve past the factor of now not having to be in charge for his or her movements?" Never. If you advocate that an all-powerful deity actively intervenes in human affairs both regularly or every now and then, then folks can't undergo complete accountability for all their movements, due to the fact that a few of the ones movements need to were imposed on them through the penalties of the movement of the deity. If you take delivery of that this sort of deity both does now not exist, or does now not intrude, then and most effective then can a "traditional" character be most likely in charge. This of direction neglects circumstances wherein intellectual health problem or a few predisposing aspect does now not exist. There are commonly tons of the ones. There also are circumstances wherein a few human movements are imposed through external tips, both social or bodily and also you would argue approximately them case through case until the cows come dwelling. But this isn't the factor I'm looking to get throughout. There isn't any purpose to anticipate that the perspectives of any atheist on any subject must be the equal as the ones of some other atheist, aside from the seen one in every of atheism. You could now not anticipate a Methodist to always have the equal suggestions as a Baptist, so why must one atheist consistently suppose the equal as a further? Atheists don't seem to be an homogeneous organization, and neither are the so-known as "evolutionists". There are tons of well Christian folks who feel that evolution is the "how". "How" does now not have plenty to do with "why". There are commonly atheists in the market who do not take delivery of evolution both, and there are certainly many whose expertise of it's critically flawed. You most effective must appear at probably the most solutions on those pages to peer that. The notion of equating atheism with the reputation of the closely supported truth of evolution is an invention of in general American creationist leaders, a lot of whom are good identified for planned and protracted mendacity.

Answer 7

Some people just want to believe that a god exists, regardless of anything else, and the fact that we're the product of evolution makes it that much harder to believe in the existence of a god, so they naturally look for reasons to disbelieve evolution. Those ordinary believers don't bother me - they don't know enough about the subject to be able to determine the truth for themselves - It's the cynical religious figures who manipulate them who are really contemptible. I'm pretty sure that they must understand and accept the truth of evolution in order to so effectively find ways to deceive people into thinking that it's not true. Those people need to be thoroughly and publicly discredited, and we need to find people who have the scientific knowledge and the other skills which are necessary to show the charlatans for what they are.

Answer 8

First it's impractical to lump all Atheists and Evolutionists together, just as it's broad brushing to assume that all people of faith are not proponents of Evolution. I'm a Deist, and I accept Evolution wholly. In fact, Evolution never strove to pinpoint the first Monad - it simply showed how life grew and adapted over the aeons. So, religion and evolution need not be at odds.

As for the young earth theory, sadly there are historical revisionists of all types. People try to remake history so it gives them a sense of comfort in what they believe. This is certainly a travesty and a crime against humanity in the long-haul, but if scientists and historians remain dilligent, true history will remain intact (at least what we can manage to cobble together of all those thousands of years).

Interesting question for the morning. Thanks!

Answer 9

this may be a little off subject, but I see no reason why someone who believes in God cannot also believe in evolution. I believe in both... and I believe man has in fact, evolved over the years. I feel to think otherwise is just a little iggnorant considering the whole idea of adapt and survival.
Also, I whole heartedly believe that humans are animals. We are mamals... God created all animals... and the only reason humans are the "superior" species is because there is yet to be a species to be as down-right arrogant as we are.

Answer 10

Darwin's theory of natural selection has defects, and those defects are taught along with the theory in a good biology course. There are good points to the theory where a superior species survived by adaptation and those who did not adapt died. He did not know about sports or the existence of the unchanged. There seem no doubt from strict science that species of ancient man existed. Skull and skeletons have been found. Creationism is a myth as is all of Genesis.