The debate rages on and is quite funny IF you can stand back and look at the arguments objectively:
-both sides accuse the other of being ignorant, stupid and close-minded.
-both sides accuse the other of ignoring ‘evidence’ that doesn’t fit their case.
-both sides blast away believing their one point will win the other side over.
-both sides believe their position is 100% right and the other side 100% wrong.
-both sides accuse the other of ignoring huge holes in their position.
-both sides accuse the other of believing in something that can’t be proved.
-both sides believe winning their respective position will either prove or disprove the existence of God.
-both sides use an impressive amount of child-like name calling and mud slinging.
-neither side seems capable of leaving the other side alone.
Here is the real funny one: Both sides will believe the points above don’t belong to them, but belong to those on the other side!!! Hilarious!!
Neither side will understand that the purpose of my question is to get both sides to lighten up!!
Do you agree with me that his is funny?
2007-12-03 04:22:04 · 26 answers · asked by Richard F 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Funny = ironic, silly
2007-12-03 05:49:46 · update #1
I find the whole thing hysterical too.. Most of the time it sounds like two 5 year old kids fighting over a toy..
2007-12-03 04:27:38 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 3⤋
You can't say that neither side seems capable of leaving the other side alone. There are billions of people not arguing about evolution and creationism right now. The only reason it appears that each side refuses to leave the other alone is because it's only when they're overtly opposing each other that they're definable as sides.
And supporters of evolution, in my experience, don't usually make any attempt to disprove the existence of any gods in order to present the case for evolution. Indeed there are many millions of people who believe in both a god and evolution.
While some of your similarities are apt, the same could be said of pretty well any debate. And indeed the sides of the creation/evolution debate have less in common than in most debates. Typically the evolution side presents scientifically verifiable evidence, whereas the creationists usually present their case only in the form of questions about evolution.
2007-12-03 12:32:57 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Well, no I don't find it funny. I don't think its funny when people are really confused about something. I am not downing people who believe in evolution I'm just saying that the concept of evolution is not realistic. This earth and humans are way to complex to have just evolved one day. The earth is at just the right distance from the sun for human life, and it moves at just the right speed to be held in orbit, that points to creation. And we all know that the computers we are all on right now didn't just evolve one day, so if its reasonable to believe that are computers had an intelligent designer, how much more so is it to believe that we as humans had an intelligent designer?
2007-12-03 12:59:59 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
"Both sides believe winning their respective position will either prove or disprove the existence of God."
Not necessarily. I believe in both God and evolution, as do many other people.
2007-12-03 16:25:41 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I find it interesting to see the different perspectives more than anything. I don't think I've ever contributed to that particular discussion, but it does seem to get intense sometimes. It would be good for people to lighten up, but with the topic being something as personal as religion, I don't know if that's even possible.
2007-12-03 12:31:03 · answer #5 · answered by Persephone 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Neither side will understand that the purpose of my question is to get both sides to lighten up!!
As long as some try to teach our children that they came from nothing, that their entire existence is due to random chance and acts of nature alone, as long as kids live and die in the hopelessness that has taken over our schools, with the highest rate of teen suicides in the world, as longs as they teach that your life means nothing, no I don't find it funny, perhaps if one child who you care about decides that since "life is nothing, my death will be nothing and my future will be nothing so I will just end it here"<<<<< maybe when someone you care about reaches that point< then you might understand, and find it not so funny.
2007-12-03 12:36:23 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
Well, there is one point that you listed that does only belong to one side. Evolution supporters do not believe that evolution proves that god does not exist. After all, there is no reason why a god could not have set up evolution.
And, I note that you left off your list one other thing that only applies to one side. Only evolution supporters argue based on provable and proven scientific evidence.
The rest is pretty accurate and, yes, kind of amusing.
2007-12-03 12:29:38 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 2⤋
Funny - but I might define the term differently than you. There's so many strawmen thrown up around here we could feed all the livestock in the US for a good dozen years and still have a stockpile.
2007-12-03 12:26:36 · answer #8 · answered by Marji 4 · 3⤊ 2⤋
I know! Those stupid Christians do all of the above.
2007-12-03 12:26:39 · answer #9 · answered by Laughing all the way 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I try and avoid evolution questions. It is a no win situation for sure.
2007-12-03 12:29:45 · answer #10 · answered by Ruth 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋