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Dawkins is a midwit in these discussions. I wouldn't disagree that we are genetically predisposed to religion, that doesn't disprove the idea that we were created by a superior power. It just shifts the question onto who coded our genes. You make me laugh i swear, nice try anyway. Nexxxxxxxt
nobody coded our genes, they developed that way due to natural selection, as it was beneficial at some point in our history (probably many points).
once again how can you not see that just pointing to your imaginary friend and saying that he did it is a very poor explanation of anything - it just raises the larger question - then who created this mystical powerful being? did they evolve? were they created by an even more powerful being? god 2.0?
I find the natural selection explanation a lot more satisfactory.
you would have us believe that this "god" created men with a genetic disposition towards religion, then allowed thousands of competing religions to flourish for thousands of years before one religion somehow discovers the "truth". All other religions before and afterwards are definitely wrong though.
We could argue about natural selection. But That's not the point i was making or the point you supposedly found *genuinely hillarious* sic
Now back to the metaphysics, There has never been a time when there was nothing, because if there were ever nothing, there could never be something. There has never been a time when there was nothing but chaos. Order cannot come from chaos, because that which is cannot come from that which is not. That's my logic and reason, you clearly and naively follow last decades midwit Richars Dawkins. So i can assume you believe the big bang came from nothing, was an accident and life is essentially meaningless? Is this your irrational argument?
was there a big bang - yes they have detected evidence of it
was it an "accident" - yes if you mean a spontaneous natural occurrence, of course. this is far more likely than being meticulously planned by some kind of massively powerful being that purposefully created it in order to create a specific life form on one specific planet so much later they could pay an unhealthy interest in whether that lifeform has still got a foreskin or eats fish on a Friday?
is life essentially meaningless? yes - in so far as there is no greater external framework giving it a preordained meaning . we are not in a computer game where we have to fulfill a set of requirements to reach level 2. Any meaning that you happen to find in your life, is cultivated by yourself alone not some greater power.
You live in Riverside then? I thought you lived in Canton?
I have been touchy with you because your approach generally, is to make sarky comments without contributing anything much. This is the first genuine post i've seen from you in a long time. Maybe i need to look harder.
I quoted the Dalai Lama not to support Catholicism but to demonstrate that men more reasonable than myself oppose mass immigration into Europe.
What's your opinion of the parable of the good Samaritan? Should you need a quick recap, it's about a traveller who gets robbed and beaten. Two people walked past and did nothing. A Samaritan (who the Jews hated) took pity on him, helped him with his injuries and took him to an inn. He paid for the man to stay there and informed the innkeeper that if the cost was greater than he had paid, he would reimburse the innkeeper when he returned.
If ever there was a parable that sums up how a Christian should live then this has to be it. Yet your version of Christianity seems to suggest you would have left that man for dead. You even support non-diluting of a supposedly white gene pool by immigrants (so non-white people).
And you've got the gall to lecture people on here about faith?
no, I never stated that.
there needs to have been some "thing" for there to have been a big bang - a massive concentration of energy.
once you have that I am very comfortable with the notion that increasing complexity can randomly form from this spontaneous release of energy, ultimately resulting in all matter, all life and even the ball point pen I am holding in my hand.
do I know what caused the big bang - of course not, possibly, an earlier universe collapsing in on itself, but that just kicks the can down the road, just not as far as you have to kick it to also invent a god powerful enough to create a whole universe yet petty enough to care about trivial details
Someone lend this racist a braincell.
I didn't say I believe in aliens (I don't). I expected some hypocrisy regarding your belief in aliens and you appear to be completely oblivious to the fact.
Your explanation of who or what God is could be taken straight from a poorly written sci-fi novel and makes God sound like an alien.
But the Samaritan didn't invite the injured man to permanently live in his house, ciphen off his wages, threaten him with terrorism and convert his family to Islam amongst other things.
No offence Eric but your version of Christianity is weak and definitely a self flagelating suicide cult. Which will lead to the death and destruction of a people and culture as we have previously discussed. Christianity wasn't always like this...
Knock out blow Sludge? You're definitely not right and prone to violent ideation. Always talking about people getting a "leathering" . In this thread alone you conjured up inages of hitting God with a hammer. If this were a boxing match, your hype men in the corner (jon and tito) would've thrown the towel in. You're a terrible advert for Atheism, but as we have discovered in this thread your real religion is multiculturalism along with anti white sentiment. You are a fundamentalist with some poorly thought out extreme views. You aren't the voice of common sense as you seem to think.
Maybe i'm being paranoid but you have SPECIFICALLY targeted Christianity for repeated strong criticism , stating that a right wing Christian is your idea of hell.. yet Christians are responsible for zero deaths in recent British history...Now do Islam...