you do know you are talking about little proto-mammals the size of a field mouse?
That is a very simplistic view of a rather complex issue:
Or maybe it’s a conspiracy to hide the true nature of Jesus?
Biblical references to “round” or “circular” are always made in reference to a two dimensional figure, not a sphere. Yet the Ptolemaic universe that was defended by the church presumed spheres in the heavens.
What “better evidence”? Galileo asserted that the tides proved his conjecture, a notion that was correctly dismissed by the philosophers and proto-scientists of his time.
Can you name any of them?
I knew a woman who believed that the serpent in the Garden of Eden was a dinosaur, and that snakes were created from dinosaurs when God removed their legs as punishment.
This doesn’t really match what’s believed about the evolution of snakes, of course, but that was of no concern to her.
Yeah well there’s wacky believers out there, to be sure. Just like there’s wacky agnostics and atheists out there. Christians haven’t cornered the market on wacky.
Some Christians refuse to believe the evidence for evolution. Others have sadly (over the centuries) fought wars with each other over religious differences.
What ‘wacky notions’ do agnostics and atheists believe?
Really? Do you really believe that all agnostics and all atheists are logical and have science-based thought processes and are rational beings, never deluded or stupid or nucking futs or any other possible description that non-believers attach to people of faith?
Also, I do believe the science of evolution. The more we learn, and the more we know, the more finely tuned my faith becomes.
And I definitely agree, sadly, I believe that more people have been killed, and more damage and destruction have been caused in the name of God or Allah or what have you, than just about any other cause. Very sad, very tragic.
That five-year plans are good for the country seems to be a big one.
How is that an atheist or agnostic notion, wacky or otherwise?
One take on man not evolving from the animals is that man was originally set over animals as a ‘god’ to take care of them and their habitat. They ‘fell’ in their godhood to the level of the animals, so though the mission is the same, to care for the animals and the earth, we have to do it from their level now even as one of them.
We just were not ‘god’ enough and had to experience life as one of them, including pain disease, etc to really have proper compassion for them.
This shift from ‘godhood’ to human could be expanded to a time frame difference of the orginal creation and the after fall creation.
As for dinosaurs and the time scale mixup, it is commonly attributed to the flood, but I would say it was during the time in the garden.
- What leads you to believe that dinosaurs were around during the time of The Garden of Eden and
- Approximately how long ago might this have been?
Really? It’s that bad? Clearly our educational system has failed us. Probably the same deluded 40% that will vote for Trump.
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“Believe in evolution” is a horrible combination of words. It implies acceptance of science is a matter of faith. Science does not rely on faith. The difference between science and faith is that any scientific hypothesis or, even a theory, can be proven incorrect. Biblical creation cannot be proved incorrect and is, therefor, not science.
It’s one that was very, very popular with atheists, very unpopular with believers. Part of a whole belief system which happens to be held most often by atheists.
Tell me more about this “belief system”. I am an atheist, but I don’t think I’ve heard about any belief system concerning atheism…other than the fact that we don’t buy this “god” stuff.
Stalinist USSR is widely considered a atheist nation, yet they persisted in wacky scientific ideas, Lysenkoism, Demikhov, Ivanov, and others:
http://www.interestingandweird.com/strange-and-disturbing-soviet-science.html
That’s funny-I don’t subscribe to any of that, nor do any atheists that I know of. Either we aren’t very good at being atheists, or you aren’t very good at this “correlation/causation” thing.
I personally think it’s the latter…but maybe that’s just my “belief system” at work. :rolleyes:
Whether or not you think so, some philosophers argue that a strong belief that there cannot be a Deity is indeed a form of Religion. Positive atheism is the explicit affirmation that gods do not exist. as opposed to “there is not sufficient evidence for me to show that Deities exist”.
Atheists proselytize. Even tho they cannot KNOW there are no Deities, some insist they indeed know that.