Sadly, an Honest Creationist

SecularHumanism.org ^ | Richard Dawkins

[cantfindagoodscreenname]

What do you think? This thread was posted earlier and deleted, but I have permission to post it again. I didn't see any of the discussion, but would love to see some back and forth on this. I'll just sit here quietly and watch. ;-)

[Roscoe]

Deja vu.

[cantfindagoodscreenname]

Your thoughts?

[keithtoo]

I am DICE the god of chance, all ye who are evolutionists fall down and worship me!!!!

[volchef]

The writer makes the assumption that there is overwhelming evidence supporting evolution, which there is NOT!!! I took a class at the University of Tennessee from a Dr. William Bass who is an esteemed forensic anthropologist and also a devout christian. He won international university professor of the year (he truly was an inspiration). He left the final two classes souly for the purpose of explaining why he believed in God and creationism and also in evolution. Wonderful man, I wish you all could have taken his class.

[ThinkDifferent]

Read up on quantum physics? It appears that God does in fact play dice with the universe. Makes sense to me, if I were an omnipotent deity, I'd be bored with a universe in which I knew everything that would happen; I'd want some randomness tossed in.

[Libertarianize the GOP]

bump

[cantfindagoodscreenname]

I'd want some randomness tossed in.

Is there really such a thing as randomness? Or is randomness in the eye of the measurer?

[Thinkin' Gal]

[Thinkin' Gal]

bttt

[HiTech RedNeck]

Such "dice" would have to be very smart indeed. Evolutionists dance and dance and dance around this point. In fact they are sometimes so brazen as to claim that the random-chance depiction of evolution is a strawman argument... then they pointedly ignore the implication of what they just said. Ah that's theism, and we don't care about that. We're SCIENTISTS.

[Roscoe]

[volchef]

Good question about randomness. I guess you could call it randomness everytime a new baby is created. Who knows what you'll get. No doubt, people and bodies do change. In fact many people are losing their incisors because we no longer have a need to rip and tear our meat as in the past. Thanks to a wonderful invention called the steak knife. People are also getting taller. However, this adaptation does not exclude a living and wonderful God who suits us exceptionally well for our environment so that we thrive and multiply.

[PatrickHenry]

Bump.

[PatrickHenry]

Bump.

[Thinkin' Gal]

[Roscoe]

You win.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Bump

[RadioAstronomer]

I keep hearing "dice". Organic molecules do not form via randomness! They follow a strict set of "rules" as they bond into complex hydrocarbons. So this randomness we keep hearing from the creation camp is totally bogus!

[colormebemused]

dawkins is one of the best. An interesting offhand comment concerning 'deep in bush country', though, does highlight a "problem" with the political party known as "REPUBLICAN"; namely -> the accepted wisdom that it is the party of old-time-religion... meaning unscientific type people. and that is a problem. sigh. sure would like to drop the 'bible-belt' label from the Repubs...and make 'conservative' stand for conservation of the ideals of this country, and not for the denial of a modern world, that is ruled by laws not 'discovered' by various 'chosen people' in a particular desert on a particular planet on a particular time... anyway. Dawkins is truly a good thinker, and mouth-piece for modern science...