Posted on 03/10/2009 10:32:03 AM PDT by GodGunsGuts
The journal New Scientist has recently run an article called Born Believers: How your brain creates God (especially in hard financial times)1… Towards the latter end of the article is a disclaimer that ‘All the researchers involved stress that none of this says anything about the existence or otherwise of gods.’ However, the tenor of the article, including the title, militates strongly that the author’s preferred reality is that, yes folks, “your brain creates God.”
The article initially suggests that “God” is created in our brains as a result of “an evolutionary adaptation that makes people more likely to survive”. However it then points out that this theory is not accepted by many in the evolutionary community. Blithely over-riding this hiccup, it then launches into an alternate, conflicting theory that “religion emerges as a natural by-product of the way the human mind works”...
(Excerpt) Read more at creation.com ...
Freepers rock....
Please read this and the link to the following thread and then you can let us know if you share a philosophy with JR.
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1732037/posts?page=84#84
And therein lies the rub. In order for you to prove the theory of evolution and to have it universally accepted by all people as true fact, you must first completely destroy the Holy Bible and all it teaches us.
There can be no Creator. No God. No miracles. God cannot possibly have created the Earth or the Heavens or Man and every Creature that walks swims or crawls. There was no Adam and Eve. No Garden of Eden. No original sin. There was no Noah. No Ark. No flood. No Moses. No burning bush. No Ten Commandments handed down from God. Jesus cannot possibly have been the Son of God, nor could he have died on the cross for our sins. The Resurrection could not possibly have happened. There is no Saviour and no Salvation. No life after death. No Heaven. No Hell. No God. No Satan. No good vs evil.
Therefore all of Christianity, in fact, all of all religions are simply mythical fairy tales based on lies and superstition.
The theory of evolution does not allow for the Holy Bible, or miracles including the miracle of Creation, the miracle of life, etc, or God our Creator, or Jesus Christ, or Christianity, Judaism, etc.
The Declaration of Independence is therefore also a lie. If there is no Creator, our rights cannot possibly have come from God. In other words, we have no unalienable rights. Our rights would only be what the government allows us.
The Declaration would be null and void and the founding would have been based on lies rather than “these truths we hold self-evident.”
The first amendment would simply be a cruel joke. The Bill of Rights would have no foundation on truth or unalienable rights from God and that would also make the entire Constitution of the United States null and void. All laws based on the Ten Commandments would be null and void. There would be no God to guide our judges and no reason not to bear false witness.
Our entire American history, in fact all of civilization would be based on nothing but lies. Our ancestors passed down lies to our grand parents and parents and they lied to us and we have taught our children nothing but lies.
This is exactly what the Marxists (leftists) would have us believe.
If you destroy belief in the Creator, you destroy belief in God, Christianity, Judaism, etc. You destroy our entire civilized society and reason for being. We would be left with nothing but chaos and anarchy. A Marxist dream come true.
Believers in the theory of evolution may not be Marxists, but they are pushing exactly what the Marxists want pushed. And that makes it political.
And I have absolutely no problem whatsoever with science. Along with everything else, God created all knowledge and that includes the modern miracle of science.
84 posted on Friday, November 10, 2006 4:49:33 AM by Jim Robinson
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1103363/posts
So, yeah, some folks have no com-link. Stuff happens.
That was fast!
Predestinarians?
Like I said, Freepers rock....
Doing these debates in Religion brings to play some doctrinal stuff that inhibits both.
Since our solar system may merely be the "special creation" of some other group of critters in our own galaxy, or galactic cluster, which would definitely be "news" under any standard, it's probably best left in "news" and out of "religion".
Thought you guys might be interested in reply #78 and #81. Amen? Amen!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2203455/posts?page=85#78
I have yet to see any such events on any website ~ it would, as it turns out, be quite "magical" ~ and none of us believe in magic anymore.
5.56mm
HEAR HEAR!!
God bless you and yours!!
Well, that ought to settle the matter once and for all. Remember xcamel, if it looks like chicken, and it tastes like chicken, but Jim Robinson says it’s beef, then it’s beef.
Nobody is forcing anyone to read anything they don't want to on FR.
You really need to relax some. You seem to get too bent out of shape about how others post on FR judging by your posting history.
In support of the statements you cited by JR, let me add something from another fellow who also has a rather high opinion of liberty and religion and how they support each other:
” Religion perceives that civil liberty affords a noble exercise to the faculties of man and that the political world is a field prepared by the Creator for the efforts of mind. Free and powerful in its own sphere, satisfied with the place reserved for it, religion never more surely establishes its empire than when it reigns in the hearts of men unsupported by aught beside its native strength."
"Liberty regards religion as its companion in all its battles and its triumphs, as the cradle of its infancy and the divine source of its claims. It considers religion as the safeguard of morality, and morality as the best security of law and the surest pledge of the duration of freedom.”
. . . . . Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, Vol I, Chapter II, page 44
” Every individual is always supposed to be as well informed, as virtuous, and as strong as any of his fellow citizens. He obeys society, not because he is inferior to those who conduct it or because he is less capable than any other of governing himself, but because he acknowledges the utility of an association with his fellow men and he knows that no such association can exist without a regulating force. He is a subject in all that concerns the duties of citizens to each other; he is free and responsible to God alone, for all that concerns himself. Hence arises the maxim, that everyone is the best and sole judge of his own private interest, and that society has no right to control a man's actions unless they are prejudicial to the common weal or unless the common weal demands his help. This doctrine is universally admitted in the United States.”
. . . . . Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, Vol I, Chapter V, page 64
It’s a funny thing. I’ve always thought of Tocqueville as French, to be sure, but, first and foremost, an American.
Indeed, thank you both so much for the pings!
My point exactly, Metmom. Why on earth does it cause these people to go into conniption fits to see a Creation or ID science link go buy every now and again? Nobody’s forcing them to click the link. Sheesh...
Excellent quotes, YHAOS. I was just thinking about re-reading de Tocqueville just the other day. All the best—GGG
Thanks, metmom - been very busy but do appreciate the pings and WILL read this one!
The person to whom I responded.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2203455/posts?page=14#14
“Good analogy. Another approach might be that God needs a com-link in your brain, and there it is ~ no surprise at all.
Then there the “other people” who have no com-link. Are they MORE or LESS evolved? “
To those who wish to kick God out of his creation we say-—
You crazy, insane, whacked out FOOOOOOOOOLs!
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