...uses the same recycled logic that they have already twisted and misunderstood time after time?
Consider this poor analogy...
Person A: Look at this fossil!
Person B: It's a rock. I already told you I don't like rocks.
A: But this one is 20 million years old.
B: It's still a rock.
A: Okay how about THIS fossil?
B: That's a red rock.
A: How about THIS one?
B: That's a green rock. Stop showing me rocks.
A: I will find evidence you like. Hmmm..... this one??
B: Yellow rock.
Person C: Did you show him THIS DNA?
B: Yes, I have already seen CSI, it's just a TV show.
and on and on and ON!!!
Is it that hard to learn what evidence is and recognize it when you don't like it? Yes it is....
(This post has been straight-up cribbed from Criss Cross Christ
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20071002082700AAHu59i&r=w&pa=FZptHWf.BGRX3OFMiDVWU3Cyjx08B7K0pwFSs1bnaeMjAmclFw--&paid=answered#IbgoLGHJDWm5Q9JRkQ9V)
2007-10-02 06:13:53 · 15 answers · asked by primary_chem 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
That's hysterical. I think I love you.
It's about as funny as..."Look around you, the trees, rivers, sunsets, that is proof that god exists. You see him everywhere"
2007-10-02 06:18:49 · answer #1 · answered by Blue girl in a red state 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Person A: Hey, check out this book, it tells you how to live life and stuff.
Person B: That's cool. Ten Commandments, huh? Pretty righteous.
A: Yeah! Love each other and stuff! Well, except for the homos.
B: Why?
A: There's this verse that says it's sin to lie with another guy and stuff.
B: Does it specifically say that, under all circumstances, it's a sin?
A: Well no, but...
B: Does it say anything to the effect that Christians should hate such people and tell them they're going to hell?
A: No...
B: Why do you suppose that is? Aren't people told that they should just love one another, not hate?
A: Well yeah but some people are sinners and...
B: Ok, ok, nevermind. Who's the author?
A: God.
B: No no, I mean who transcribed and printed that bound book you hold in your hands?
A: I guess somebody at PraySmart, that's where I bought my copy.
B: Hmm... can you say for 100% certain that God wrote the book? That all of the stuff contained inside are truly the words of God and not with a little human corruption slipped in where it would be convenient?
A: Umm...
2007-10-02 13:22:32 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 0⤋
Where is proof of creationism?
Person A Do you believe in creation?
Person B No
Person A But the Bible says it is true?
Person B The Bible says stars were made at the end of a single day about 6000 years ago.
Person A So what's your point?
Person B How can we see light from stars millions of light years away already?
Person A God works in mysterious ways.
Person B So does santa claus.
2007-10-02 13:24:13 · answer #3 · answered by klover_dso 3 · 6⤊ 0⤋
Person A: I believe in evolution
Person B :why?
Person A: well the other alternative is to believe "GOD " made everything.
Person B: So what do you believe happened?
Person A: I believe in the "Big Bang' theory.
Person B : Really, Please explain....
Person A: Well, one thousand million, Quadrillion years ago, nothing exploded, and and through impossible sequences of random collision of atoms, here we are.
Person A: hummmm... ever hear of the second law of thermodynamics (Entropy)? It says everything tends toward chaos, disorder.
Do you believe that if You put aluminum chips, paint and a dark bubbly substance in a blender and ran it for a long time , you will eventually get a can of soda?
Person B: well....no, Listen, I DON'T KNOW how it happenned, MAYBE, SOMEHOW, life started by chemical reactions.
Person B: Why can't we create life If we know how it started?
Person A: Well...l we really DON"T KNOW how it started, we can only ASSUME.
Person B: So we can say that it isn't a Fact that evolution is true... it's just that you CHOOSE to believe in evolution. In fact that is your Faith, right? That though highly improbable and unprovable, this is what you believe happened?
Person A: correct
Person B : Well I believe we're on the same boat, except I believe God exist, and with one miracle....."In the beginning GOD created", everything makes sense...You on the other hand need tons of miracles for everything else to make sense...
2007-10-02 14:27:21 · answer #4 · answered by milko o 2 · 0⤊ 4⤋
You are correct that the arguements atheist give have all been around for thousands of years. Go read the ancient greek philosophers from 800-500 BC. They made all the same arguements. They even raised th issues of evolution (Darwin did not invent it - just popularied it), fossils, the destructiveness of nature, death, disease, evil, etc.
Every one of those arguements was answered then, and continued to be answered in the Bible (much of which was written after that time).
Christians do examine the evidence, and have been for 2000 of years. It has in the past, and continues today, to point to the existence of God.
2007-10-02 13:25:34 · answer #5 · answered by dewcoons 7 · 0⤊ 4⤋
They are so mired in their mythology that actual evidence such as fossils and DNA become thier versions of myths.
Sad when reality becomes fantasy and vice-versa huh?
2007-10-02 13:30:58 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Yep
2007-10-02 13:21:06 · answer #7 · answered by FridaY 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Yes.
2007-10-02 13:30:24 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Your beef is specifically with Creationists. And yes, the discussions go very much like that.
2007-10-02 13:17:31 · answer #9 · answered by Scott M 7 · 6⤊ 0⤋
What?
I always wonder what atheist groups talk about. Or do they just like to socialize with like-minded, normal people?
2007-10-02 13:22:23 · answer #10 · answered by Flatpaw 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋