This is a great article on this exact subject, and says pretty much everything I want to say to you about it minus whatever insults I have for you.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/n...627-story.html
"When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny."
A lie doesn't become the truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesn't become good just because it is accepted by a majority.
Author: Booker T. Washington
This is a great article on this exact subject, and says pretty much everything I want to say to you about it minus whatever insults I have for you.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/n...627-story.html
domer76 (04-30-2018), Gotcha68 (05-02-2018), Stretch (04-30-2018), ThatOwlWoman (04-30-2018)
I read his book.
Very intelligent fellow—and pretty entertaining lol. Berlinski has all of credentials of the elitists in academia but he’s dismissed as a crank because only cranks disbelieve evolution and other dogmas.
Therefore, Berlinski is a crank lol. That actually passes for logic these days.
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Stretch (04-30-2018), Truth Detector (04-30-2018)
I have a difficult time discussing anything with insane people. To believe in magical beings, as you do, requires a level of insanity that I am not willing to recognize as a viable alternative to rational thought.
In short , if you believe ancient supernatural events really happened, you have to be insane.
We have the intellect to imagine the finality of our own demise but do not have the sophistication to overcome our survival instinct and accept it.
Solution? Magical thinking and childish promises of everlasting life.
Ergo, religion.
rac·ist
rāsəst/noun
a person who believes that a particular race is superior to another.
Ask yourself honestly if this describes what you believe to be true.
If the answer is yes, you are a racist.
Gotcha68 (05-02-2018)
IKR? He doesn't have the "snob factor". I loved what he said of his Hitchens debates. He tells Hitchens when it's over something along the lines of "How could you say that?" Hitchens just mumbled something like "Oh I have to say things like" LOL. It's like that's what the elites want to hear, so he just says it. Brilliant.
Abortion rights dogma can obscure human reason & harden the human heart so much that the same person who feels
empathy for animal suffering can lack compassion for unborn children who experience lethal violence and excruciating
pain in abortion.
Unborn animals are protected in their nesting places, humans are not. To abort something is to end something
which has begun. To abort life is to end it.
Truth Detector (04-30-2018)
That article is a laughably dumb assertion that somehow, just because we are "related" to apes, that doesn't mean we didn't "evolve" from them.
So I would again assert, without insults, how is it that only SOME apes evolved yet so many others had not if the THEORY of evolution is to hold true?
Thomas Henry Huxley applied Darwin's ideas to humans, using paleontology and comparative anatomy to provide strong evidence that humans and apes shared a common ancestry. Some were disturbed by this since it implied that humans did not have a special place in the universe.
"When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny."
A lie doesn't become the truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesn't become good just because it is accepted by a majority.
Author: Booker T. Washington
There is no reason to hold the idea of evolution as incompatable with religion.
If God can create life, there is no reason to think he could not have built in natural variation. It may in fact be required depending on where God intends for things to become.
I get why some evangelicals disagree but dont ascribe to it myself (and neither should they of they just thought about Noah).
"Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything." Joseph Stalin
The USA has lost WWIV to China with no other weapons but China Virus and some cash to buy democrats.
Nordberg (04-30-2018)
Truth Detector (04-30-2018)
Last edited by Stretch; 04-30-2018 at 11:28 AM.
Abortion rights dogma can obscure human reason & harden the human heart so much that the same person who feels
empathy for animal suffering can lack compassion for unborn children who experience lethal violence and excruciating
pain in abortion.
Unborn animals are protected in their nesting places, humans are not. To abort something is to end something
which has begun. To abort life is to end it.
Truth Detector (04-30-2018)
We have the intellect to imagine the finality of our own demise but do not have the sophistication to overcome our survival instinct and accept it.
Solution? Magical thinking and childish promises of everlasting life.
Ergo, religion.
rac·ist
rāsəst/noun
a person who believes that a particular race is superior to another.
Ask yourself honestly if this describes what you believe to be true.
If the answer is yes, you are a racist.
Truth Detector (04-30-2018)
Abortion rights dogma can obscure human reason & harden the human heart so much that the same person who feels
empathy for animal suffering can lack compassion for unborn children who experience lethal violence and excruciating
pain in abortion.
Unborn animals are protected in their nesting places, humans are not. To abort something is to end something
which has begun. To abort life is to end it.
Truth Detector (04-30-2018)
You obviously didn't read it. Apes DID evolve, into what you see now.
Becoming human isn't the ultimate goal for every species, if apes can survive and thrive in whatever environment they're in, they have no reason to develop traits other than what they already have.
Gotcha68 (05-02-2018), ThatOwlWoman (04-30-2018)
Abortion rights dogma can obscure human reason & harden the human heart so much that the same person who feels
empathy for animal suffering can lack compassion for unborn children who experience lethal violence and excruciating
pain in abortion.
Unborn animals are protected in their nesting places, humans are not. To abort something is to end something
which has begun. To abort life is to end it.
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