God does not heal them?
I think it is only fair that you can ask why doesn't evolution provide a help to them as well..
The double standards of a certain group of people (who shall remain nameless) are gross to say the least about them....
2007-10-21 20:41:13 · 18 answers · asked by Adyghe Ha'Yapheh-Phiyah 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
i cannot believe that so few people seem to have a problem with a web site that mocks disabled people for not being physically perfect. they really think its funny. some people even put it in their source box as a permanent signature for every post they make here. its repulsive. what kind of a person do you have to be to actually be proud to display such an offensive web site? what kind of attitude do you have to have towards people who are disabled in order for you to think that their very existence means that there cannot possibly be a G-d? its so deeply cruel.
my little brother is severely disabled. his disability is developmental rather than physical, but this web site wouldn't care. to them, people who don't measure up to their idea of the "ideal" human are apparently fair game to insult. i can't imagine looking at any disabled person and thinking " if there was a G-d, this person would not be so imperfect." what is so wrong with them that they are proof that G-d cannot exist? they don't need miracles, and they don't need "fixing." every molecule inside them is perfection. those jerkoffs who think otherwise don't even come close to their level.
i think they would be making a much stronger point if they made a site whose premise was "there can't be a G-d, because otherwise sleazeballs like us wouldn't exist." at least then they would be insulting people who actually deserved it.
2007-10-21 22:19:42 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 5⤋
I am an atheist and I have never mocked an amputee. As a matter of fact, I have great respect for them. You should not generalize about all atheist, because it will get you in trouble.
You state, "I think it is only fair that you can ask why doesn't evolution provide a help to them as well?"
That is a fair question and I will answer it. First, evolution has provided help to them in the form or the most evolved brain of any animal on the planet. How many animals in nature have you seen with a prosthetic leg or arm? Exactly. Because evolution has provided us with intelligence, we are able to design artificial limbs for those that need them. We are intelligent and use tools to improvise in these situations where animals without our intelligence would have died. Therefore the loss of a limb isn't a threat to our survival as a species, so we have no need to develope the ability to regenerate lost limbs.
All this is besides the point, you are grossly misunderstanding the entire argument. Christians claim that god performs miracles of healing on humans. Atheist only question why God has not seen fit to perform these miracles on amputees, since many of them are devout Christians just as deserving of a miracle.
2007-10-21 22:08:09 · answer #2 · answered by Danny 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
"I think it is only fair that you can ask why doesn't evolution provide a help to them as well.."
Seriously - what? Evolution is the development of a species, how could it possibly help an individual? The only way I can think it could help them is by them being born with some sort of exceptionally special genes that carry some sort of regeneration effect but that's purely x-men style science fiction. People don't mutate like that.
2007-10-21 21:29:21 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't believe that all Atheists mock amputees. Nor do all religious followers refrain from mocking amputees. I think a question such as "Why doesn't God heal an amputee?" is a manifestation of a frustrated, logically-based mind . It seems as though a being with the ability to heal wounds, who is often referred to by His own followers as "benevolent," would indeed heal those who are injured. As for evolution, it doesn't deal with miracles and speed healing, it works by natural selection and survival of the fittest. Evolution is not the Atheist's form of God.
2007-10-21 20:48:55 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 8⤊ 2⤋
Actually I mainly just answer questions directed at us. Plus it is an open forum and if I have something to say on a matter I will. If the person actually asks politely that atheists stay out of the question, I will. If they put "Christians ONLY!!" I tend to respond. Also, believsr come into atheist questions with their stupid responses, too.
2016-05-24 03:15:14 · answer #5 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Evolution is not a God. No one claims evolution is a sentient, all powerful, all knowing being that answers prayers and heals people through faith. At least no one sane with an idea about evolution as a natural process.
2007-10-21 21:01:07 · answer #6 · answered by Zen Pirate 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Just for the avoidance of doubt:
An adult human arm takes 20 years to reach its size and functionality. Even if we had the ability to regrow them - called totipotency - they would have to go through decades of slow growth from buds to arms: that's the only way DNA knows how to make arms.
So if your arm was lost at age 20, you'd be 40 before it was fully working again. Such an ability would confer no special advantage on an amputee, even if it were possible.
So: the ability to regrow whole limbs only happens in critters who can grow them back in time to reap the advantage of them, like insects, amphibians and small reptiles.
CD
2007-10-21 20:58:13 · answer #7 · answered by Super Atheist 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
You are way out there buddy! Try coming back to Earth and ask a question that actually makes sense! I never mock amputees--at least not for being an amputee!
2007-10-21 21:03:08 · answer #8 · answered by starkneckid 4 · 2⤊ 2⤋
I was going to have this very same follow up question. They say "Why doesn't God heal amputees" and they giggle like school girls, but then you turn it around and say, "Why does evolution make their arms grow back" and they act like you insulted their mother. So they called me an idiot and other vulgarities. But why do they get so offended? My question is more valid then theirs. They do not believe God exists so of course an imaginary god wouldn't heal amputees. But if evolution is a real process then shouldn't there be some form of regrowth? At least my question makes more sense. If there is empirical evidence for evolution then I would like to see it in process. Just one arm. Evolution can turn a primal soup into an organism and eventually into a human being, but cannot figure out how to regrow one arm?
2007-10-21 20:50:09 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 5⤋
But we have good reason to expect evolution not to help them yet an all knowing, all powerful, all good god would not be able to not heal them.
2007-10-21 20:52:48 · answer #10 · answered by bestonnet_00 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋