If there is a designer, then he missed more than a few design classes. But he included one of the marketing department’s favourites: planned obsolescence.
Choosing not to believe in evolution is akin to believing that sperm delivers a fully formed tiny human from the fathers testes to the mothers womb. Or believing the earth is stationary and everything revolves around it, or that the earth is flat for that matter. Evolution is a proven fact of nature, period. To deny it, is to deny fact; to deny fact is to be voluntarily ignorant. The end.
I think the mistake alot of us athiests make when argueing with believers is assuming that all believers are dumb or uneducated. We all have things we believe simply because of our environment. Some cultures eat dogs, bugs, all kinds of things, while believing it is normal. This is the way people grow up. I have met christians that are very intelligent, simply misguided because of what they grew up with. While mocking religion does have its place in the argument, it can’t be our only tool. Good luck.
The problem isn’t that the believers are stupid, or even just ignorant. What they are is deluded, and there’s no arguing with that. The smarter a believer is, the more elaborate the facade he can build for his delusion, but faith is utterly impervious to rational argument, extremely resistant to rhetoric, and even strongly resistant to physical counterevidence. True faith is implanted in early childhood, before the kid learns to think.
If there is a designer, then he missed more than a few design classes. But he included one of the marketing department’s favourites: planned obsolescence.
God did it for the halibut, because He was floundering.
god did it for the Damselflies, because he was bugging.
Choosing not to believe in evolution is akin to believing that sperm delivers a fully formed tiny human from the fathers testes to the mothers womb. Or believing the earth is stationary and everything revolves around it, or that the earth is flat for that matter. Evolution is a proven fact of nature, period. To deny it, is to deny fact; to deny fact is to be voluntarily ignorant. The end.
I think the mistake alot of us athiests make when argueing with believers is assuming that all believers are dumb or uneducated. We all have things we believe simply because of our environment. Some cultures eat dogs, bugs, all kinds of things, while believing it is normal. This is the way people grow up. I have met christians that are very intelligent, simply misguided because of what they grew up with. While mocking religion does have its place in the argument, it can’t be our only tool. Good luck.
The problem isn’t that the believers are stupid, or even just ignorant. What they are is deluded, and there’s no arguing with that. The smarter a believer is, the more elaborate the facade he can build for his delusion, but faith is utterly impervious to rational argument, extremely resistant to rhetoric, and even strongly resistant to physical counterevidence. True faith is implanted in early childhood, before the kid learns to think.
ID is short for IDiot
The falsity of “intelligent design” is established by the existence of those who believe it.
Dr. Tyson is a freaking genius