Posted on 01/26/2006 1:47:10 PM PST by jennyp
Then you can't possibly believe in ID.
Well, it's been fun, but Shabbat is upon us, and I'm off for more relaxing activity. Since most of you are just repeating objections that I already answered earlier in the thread (many in my first post), I see no reason to go on repeating myself. You can have the last word on this thread. Have a pleasant evening.
Politics had nothing to do with that.
FRegards,
I said real meaning.
All atheists have is a localized, personal meaning that really makes no difference whatsoever. They might as well be Genghis Kahn or Jeffrey Dahmer. They're all ending up in the same place, anyway.
No meaning whatsoever.
Be good, be bad...no difference...you all die, melt, burn...and who gives a rat's as$...
Okay, I'll bite: Why not?
Your description is of abiogenesis, not evolution. Chemistry may do such a thing in the correct environment, but we don't know that. But evolution does use such chemistry, and is known from many different examples in the data to be true.
I'm sure you knew that. And I'm equally sure the lurkers could tell by your careful wording that you knew it as well.
Would you oppose the mere mention in class that evolution is not the only viable explanation of life?
If it's been removed from the curriculum, it's because mouth-breathing creatard parents are more worried about having to deal with supposed threats to their fantasies than they are in actually educating their children. They elect lying dopes, like the Dover IDiots to do their dirty work.
Applause ping
Scientists perhaps?
And in doing so again you impose your subjective definition of "meaning," as if it is somehow objective and self evident. To the atheist, religious folks, especially clergy, have no "real" meaning in their lives, because they waste it by their devotion to an irrational end. You might as well spend all your waking hours repeatedly reciting "Mary had a little lamb" for all the meaning prayer and religion have, and therefore all the meaning a clerical life has.
All atheists have is a localized, personal meaning that really makes no difference whatsoever. They might as well be Genghis Kahn or Jeffrey Dahmer. They're all ending up in the same place, anyway.
LOL! All anyone has is a localized, personal meaning. You may adopt someone else's thoughts as your own, but you, like everyone who's ever lived, is in every way an individual and the meaning you ascribe to life is likewise individual.
And there are many, many reasons for a human being not to want to be a Genghis Kahn or Jeffrey Dahmer other than the fear of a petulant god.
No meaning whatsoever.
Only a different meaning than that which you objectively believe to be worthy. Again, to someone who thinks that faith is an odd and wasteful peculiarity, devoting your life to what they might describe as "invisible friends" and ancient "fairy tales" is not only unworthy of a thinking being, but sadly wasteful, in light of all of the concrete things you might otherwise have done.
Be good, be bad...no difference...you all die, melt, burn...and who gives a rat's as$...
If you think that there is no difference between being good and being bad, absent faith in a religion, you have some serious misunderstanding about what it is to be a human being. (And it is only the theist (or at least several kids of theist) who would fear melting and burning after death. You attributing it to the thoughts of the atheist is rather odd.)
I'm responding to your post to me. I don't have the time, nor the inclination to read all you've posted. If you're responses to me are any indication, your other posts would likely be worthless.
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