[moneyrunner]

Exactly. Atheists are required by their faith to find naturalistic explanations for the existence and development of the universe. Of course they will deny it, and claim that their reasons preceded their faith, but their fierce defense of naturalism and ad-hominem attacks on people of faith belies their protestations.

[VadeRetro]

Of course they will deny it, and claim that their reasons preceded their faith, but their fierce defense of naturalism and ad-hominem attacks on people of faith belies their protestations.

EsotericLucidity, banned for being a troll shortly before Subliminal_Kid was, once pointed out that there's Naturalism, the Method, and Naturalism, the Philosophy. The first simply uses physical techniques to investigate the real world; it's the only effective way. The other is a doctrine which says that natural physical causes are all that exist and all that are needed to explain the world. Many scientists reject the second even as they employ the first. Luddites who despise science for contradicting their creation myth attack the first for being the second.

[AnnaZ]

...but their fierce defense of naturalism and ad-hominem attacks on people of faith belies their protestations.

It is the latter that makes these types of threads virtually unreadable. There is little as arrogantly vile as the attitude of an evo.

[JediGirl]

Exactly. Atheists are required by their faith to find naturalistic explanations for the existence and development of the universe. Of course they will deny it, and claim that their reasons preceded their faith, but their fierce defense of naturalism and ad-hominem attacks on people of faith belies their protestations.

Theists are 'required' by their faith to find idiotic religious dogmatic explanations for the existence and development of the universe. Of course they will deny evolution, but their fierce defense of some god and ad-homiem attacks on those who are thinking objectively because they aren't bound by a leather-bound book belies their protestations.