What's more intelligent?: Atheism or Christianity?

Question

Is it more rational or intelligent to believe that we were descended from single celled organismic blobs, and monkeys, or that the God of heaven created us seeing the univereses intricate and structured design?

Answer 1

Preconception is the biggest barrior to enlightenment

Answer 2

Do you remember the furor a few years back about the Pentium chips that would occasionally miscalculate the very last few decimal places of certain division problems? Now, this didn't and never would affect the vast majority of the people that bought those chips, but the (not inaccurate) general perception was that if the chip couldn't calculate one type of problem correctly, it couldn't be relied upon to calculate anything correctly. Now, if a person puts forward an assertion as fact that is actually a combination of wishful thinking and an inability or unwillingness to accept that which can be proved or reasonably assumed based on what actually exists*, but claims to be otherwise reasonable or rational, how could one tell? While it may be that the origin of human life may never be adequately explained, I expect that the truly rational among us will not try to correct this gap by resorting to fearmongering and fairy tales.

* This combination is commonly referred to by those so affected as 'faith'.

Answer 3

It is more rational to NOT believe in god, for there is not a SINGLE SHRED OF PROOF....

EVERYTHING else aside, the belief in ANYTHING supernatural is IRRATIONAL AND ILLOGICAL, because there can NEVER be any cause, any reason to assume the existence of such things in the first place...

Furthermore, you CLEARLY were never taught well in school, because Evolution has NEVER proposed that MAN actually descended from MONKEYS...

What it ACTUALLY proposes, is that man, along with other primates, are descended from previous life forms...

And, also, the theory of Abiogenesis has a TON of repeatable and undeniable experiments to back it up... That is a trillion times more than ANY religion can say...

Answer 4

What is more intelligent: Believing a gaseous being who had a son that walked on water and changed water into wine created everything, but did it in such a way that every bit of evidence makes it seem like he (or she, or it) didn't

OR

Rational thought based on observable phenomenon?




AND (for the HUNDREDTH time you IDIOT): humans did not decend from monkeys: Humans and apes (and our more distant cousins, monkeys) had a common ancestor that was neither human nor ape.

Answer 5

"God did it" is not an explanation. Until you say HOW he did it, you have explained nothing.

Evolution does explain how we came to exist. It explains the mechanism for gradual change over millennia that brought us to our current point. It also fits the evidence, which is something the "intelligent design" hypothesis does not do. Until someone provides an alternate explanation that fits the evidence, evolution is the only option for rational people to believe in.

Answer 6

What's more intelligent? Intelligent people are. There are stupid people that are atheists and stupid people that are Christians. I don't think intellect plays a role in faith or lack of faith. Albert Einstein was intelligent but only in the field that he studied. Ghandi was intelligent but only with spirituality and humanity. I am intelligent but only with the topics that I study and make myself open to learning about. My Catholic faith doesn't help me be intelligent. I get mostly Cs in school. But I am very creative and artistic.

Answer 7

Hmmm, nothing like being told what is intelligent and what is not by some fool.

I tell you what, lets us all see your IQ results and we will see who is most intelligent. God has nothing to do with intelligence but if he did you certainly were not anywhere near the front of the queue judging by your ignoramus statement.

Answer 8

"have you stopped beating your wife?"

bias, bias, bias ....

how can you "know" that god exists?

Because gazillions of people say so?

I personally hold that agnosticism is more rational
than either Christianity or Atheism ... both claim
as true, things which cannot be "known".

If you have spiritual arrogance, and willingness to deceive yourself ... and know you're doing so ... that's
your choice, but please demonstrate a bit of humility in pep-rallying for 1 of 1000 "true" belief-systems.

and how big a red-herring do you want to throw out there as to tackle the creation/evolution controversy with such ham-fisted predjudice???

shame

ps, my moniker on this sector of yahoo should yield *some* insight if you look beyond "code-words" with cognitive filtering

Answer 9

Atheism is impossible to prove. You're trying to prove a universal negative. You're saying, 'I know for a fact there is no God anywhere in the universe'. How could you know that? You'd have to be able to search every little inch of the universe to prove that. Even that wouldn't prove anything because If you searched all of the universe I would just say that the reason you missed him is because when you were over here he was over there. You'd have to be in every inch of the universe at the same time. If you could do that you wouldn't prove that there wasn't a God you would prove just the opposite...namely, that there was a God because you would be God if you could be in every inch of the universe at the same time. Even if you could be in every inch of the universe at the same time I would just say that the reason you didn't find him was because you were looking in the universe and he is outside the universe. If God created the universe he would have to be outside of it since he existed before the universe even existed, having created it. Athiesm is utterly impossible to prove. It's not only impossible to prove , it's implausible to believe. The fact is, everywhere you look in the universe there is design. Where there's design there must be a designer. That's just common sense. You can call that designer whatever you want to call him. I call him God. Anyone who could design a universe would have to be a God. Life only comes from already existing life. It does not come from non-life. Louis Pasteur proved that back in 1800. They call it the Law of Bio-Genesis. That's is a scientific law. It says basically that life always comes from already existing life and that Like produces Like(dogs produce dogs, horses produce horses, humans produce humans, ape produce apes....).That law is not non-falsifiable. It could be disproven. All you would have to do is find one example to the contrary either today or any time in past history. Nobody has ever done that. What we see is that life always comes from already existing life. It never comes from dead chemicals. To quote Dr. Louis Bounoure, Director of the Zoological Museum and Director of Research at the National Center of Scientific Research in France,"evolution is a fairy tale for adults".

Answer 10

Atheism, hands down. If one follows the logic, it's pretty easy to follow the chain of evolution from pre-biotic earth to humans, in complete keeping with the laws of thermodynamics, laws of statistics, and the laws of biology.

Creationism though... there's no logic there. Just blind faith in one fell swoop.

I value reason over faith any day. Reason brought us cars, computers, refridgeration, pizza delivery, and beer. Faith brought us... wars, people claiming to have the truth, admittedly it gave morality to people who would otherwise have failed tofind another reason to be good people. But reason can do that much too.