[CarolinaGuitarman]

"There's a clock on my mantle that ticked itself into existence."

Sure there is.

"The "design" it exhibits is illusory. Why assume someboy put it together and wound it up?"

Because we know that people build clocks, how they build clocks, and where they build clocks? In other words, there are ways of testing the claim that it was designed.

"And don't ever become brain-dead or anything."

How do you propose one avoids that, in the long run I mean?

"There's no atheist nastier than a self-hating redneck."

?? Are you attacking the South along with your general attack on science?

There's certainly nobody nastier than a presumptuous, self-righteous anti-evo, that's for sure. :)

[Zionist Conspirator]

Because we know that people build clocks, how they build clocks, and where they build clocks? In other words, there are ways of testing the claim that it was designed.

Oh, so we know the universe could not have been created by G-d because there are no universe factories with "gxds" creating universes on an assembly line.

I note that evolutionism and theistic religion have one very strange thing in common: the conviction that mankind bears a unique moral obligation to acknowledge his creator. Why else would so many atheists act as if there was something "wicked" or "immoral" about denying evolution?

And as you are well aware, I am a southern redneck. I am well aware that self-hating Southerners have to go out of their way to attack Fundamentalist Protestantism to make up for it. But oddly, I am unaware of any burning compulsion to attack anyone else's religion.