brianb #fundie

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I have this picture in my head of all the die hard Evo's out there on their knees worshiping a Darwinian statue. Come on you know you have bowed to the god of science, that is and will forever be changing. Don't you realize where it ends...?

Why not put your faith in something that has a proven track record of never changing, the Bible.

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I love it when faith heads call democracy and science 'religions'. Science and democracy are the polar opposites of organized religion. Organized religion is about putting your faith in superiors without questioning them, about resisting progressive thought for the sake of tradition and Scripture, and about closing your eyes to truth and new and/or foreign ideas (or even your own faction's history, see all the Christians discouraged from reading the Bible).

Democracy and science are about freedom, progress, and learning. It's about changing the way we treat each others and we view the world based on others' concerns and needs, and on new evidence telling us how best to form a good society.

When abortion laws are passed granting women rights to their own bodies, who are at the forefront of the resistance? Christian fundamentalists.

When we give homosexuals the right to marry, who cries foul? Again, organized religions.

When we develop fantastic new treatment methods, who stomp their feet? You guessed it - religious people.

you know you have bowed to the god of science, that is and will forever be changing. Don't you realize where it ends...? [...] Why not put your faith in something that has a proven track record of never changing

Yeah, really. Who needs universal suffrage and cancer vaccinations, anyway.

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Oh, and: Come on you know you have bowed to the god of science

Yeah, really, science in the USA has been one big fizzle. Who needs sixtants, bifocal glasses, spray guns, refrigerators, coffee pots, reaping machines, sewing machines, treshing machines, telegraphs, painkiller, cylinder printing presses, elevator safety systems, burglar alarms, oil wells, water towers, modern pin tumbler locks, barbed wire, motorcycles, toilet paper, electrical dental drills, jeans, telephones, light bulbs, cash registers, electric fans, fountain pens, skyscrapers, revolving doors, electric engines, escalators, ferris wheels, radios, volleyball, zippers, assembly lines, air conditioners, planes, crayons, tea bags, self-starters for cars, band-aids, masking tapes, bubble gum, frozen foods, bathyspheres, parking meters, chair lifts, nylon, defibrillators, microwave ovens, cell phones, polaroid cameras, video games, radiocarbon dating, heart-lung machines, nuclear submarines, polio vaccinations, integrated circuits, contraceptive pills, lasers, operating systems, optical fibers, calculators, space shuttles, artificial hearts, TCP-IP protocols, stem cell lines, or cancer vaccinations, anyway?

old comment by Rat of Steel

"Don't you realize where it ends...?"

Indeed, I do. It most likely ends with a world peopled with those who know how to live in it without seriously polluting it, how to avoid any more major wars, and also (this is what scares people like you shitless) how to improve our lives--physically, mentally, and emotionally--to the point where we'll no longer need to believe in an otherworldly place called Heaven; our future lives will, for the most part, be more than rewarding enough.

"Why not put your faith in something that has a proven track record of never changing, the Bible."

*screen full of 'HA-HAH-HA-HA-HA, hee-hee-hee, etc.' omitted for brevity...though it did happen in RL when I read this post*

Sorry to bruise your massive Christian ego, Raymond, but your anthology of so-called sacred stories has been changed literally hundreds of times. Isn't it even slightly odd to you that:

A) the choice of which stories to put into and leave out of the Bible was made by the concensus of a group of Church officials, several centuries after Jesus supposedly died. "Holiness by committee" doesn't sound very spiritually solid there, chief.

B) throughout the time up to and including the Dark Ages, only the clergy were able to read the Bible? If the Word of God is so important, why wouldn't God encourage everyone in Christendom to read and appreciate it, as opposed to keeping the masses ignorant of it so that the alterations I mentioned earlier, quite often made to squash some social trend the Church didn't like, go quietly unopposed?

Besides, if the Bible never changes, why have there been so many different versions of it, even in this day and age? Shouldn't the One True Faith be able to, y'know...have One True Version of its scriptures, as opposed to the hundreds of splinter sects each proclaiming their version of God's Word to be the right one?

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Ok, any website that uses the word "darwinists" or "evolutionists" should never be taken seriously. This is like leaving a chick tract and expecting people not to laugh at it. You see, we have these things called facts and evidence which add up perfectly fine. And then you have science, which corrects itself on a regular basis thanks to scientists making new discoveries all the time. Incorrect theories or theories that don't add up are thrown out- while theories with evidence are studied, leading us to far better conclusions.

What possible benefits could come from studying evolutionary biology besides insulin, vaccines, penicillin, modern taxonomy, etc. What have Young Earth Creationists have contributed to society, besides holding back societal progress and Mr. comfort's Handbanana argument. Don't say "saving souls" or whatever because that can't be proven.

“I have this picture in my head of all the die hard Evo's out there on their knees worshiping a Darwinian statue.”
What an unimaginative fantasy you have, there. Just your religion with the details changed, huh?
And what is a ‘darwinian statue’? A bust of Darwin or the March of Progress in Legos?

"Come on you know you have bowed to the god of science
Apollo? No, never bowed to him. Why would you think that?

“…that is and will forever be changing. Don't you realize where it ends...?”
What phone do you use, Brian? Still got the first one you ever owned? My first was a rotary dial phone. Science improves all the time.
Ever flown? Was it the Wright Brothers’ plane, or something that improved on their theory?
Ever had surgery? Did you get anesthetic or just bite down on a bullet?

Where it ends? It doesn’t.

“Why not put your faith in something that has a proven track record of never changing, the Bible.”
The bible where God gives the rules for slavery?
The bible where God says a lark’s tongue purifies a house of leprosy?
When the corrected version comes out, let me know.

brianb #fundie blogger.com

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