Posted on 06/21/2006 8:33:46 AM PDT by PatrickHenry
I know this must be difficult for you to accept, but there are people willing to admit they don't know everything and probably never will. This is not a belief. It is humility.
Your last name isn't McToober is it?
You are right. Because if the only place children learned what they know was public school, more than 13% of the country would believe in a Godless creation of the universe (according to a recent survey in the Washington Times).
There are no other religions, just various mistaken beliefs
You have much to learn.
Here would be a good place to start:
"Your last name isn't McToober is it?"
Depends who's asking. You some kind of narc, or what?
Call me when you guys have faked another Piltdown man.
If you are asking me to demonstrate my intellect so that everyone may see that I am lacking, then it is as you say, I am not as smart as many here at FR or even on this thread. However, suffice it to say that evolution and creationism are both faiths. They are both incongruent and they are mutually exclusive.
And perhaps His appendages were Noodly!
Living things are designed, and we know a lot about the process of design. It is called natural selection.
If you wish to assert an alternative, you are free to do so, but asserting things were poofed into existence will not cut it in science. Certainly not after a century and a half of observing natural selection.
Dave's not here, man!
"And perhaps His appendages were Noodly!"
I have no knowledge of such things. I am a non-sectarian atheist, along with being non-evangelical. "Whatever entity blows your dress up." That's my motto.
"Dave's not here, man!"
Dave? Dave?
That's after my time, Dude.
Thank you for joining the discussion. What moves?
Like I said. You have much to learn.
Feel free to list all your observations.
On a slightly different note, the story of Piltdown Man is hilarious. Dropping a fake half-man, half-orangutan skull into the laps of Darwiniacs is kind of like dropping forged Texas Air National Guard documents into the middle of the CBS News World HQ. It just has to be true! It just has to be! Uhh, care to authenticate that? Why? Its gotta be true!
"That's after my time, Dude."
Yeah, right.
No one, and I mean NO ONE, knows how the first life occurred or how millions of different species of animal and plant life came into existence. The scientific mind relentlessly attempts to find out, and it's hard, hard work with meager results due to the nature of the extremely fragmentary evidence. The creationist mind doesn't seem to care much about investigating anything. After all, "(insert your deity here) did it, and that's that". P-r-e-t-t-y easy way to dispose of anything and everything one doesn't want to deal with or isn't interested in. Poof, it's here, poof, it's gone. No problems, no loose ends, no unanswered questions. Using that logic, there's no need to ever investigate murder or theft, because it's (insert your deity here)'s will.
I consider that the worst kind of intellectual bigotry and the worst waste of human intelligence. Heck, aeronautical engineers are still arguing about how airplane wings generate lift to keep the plane in the air. The subject is so technically difficult to work with that nobody yet has a rock solid answer that everyone agrees with. They keep trying to find out, though, and that's the definition of an open mind.
If I were to be condemned to death by stoning for heresy, I would much rather my heresy be agnosticism rather than fundamentalism.
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