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Creationism Vs Evolution

By Dan8267   Follow   Sat, 9 Jun 2012, 10:54pm   2,211 views   18 comments
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Luckily science is not a popularity contest.

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1. HEY YOU Follow Befriend (4) 328 threads 913 comments

   1   12:36am Sun 10 Jun 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   What are you trying to do,turn this into a religious thread. ROFL!

2. Dan8267 Follow Befriend (16) 761 threads 7,674 comments Boca Raton, FL Premium

   2   8:13am Sun 10 Jun 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   Well, this video could have gone under either, but I thought it more of a science education issue.

3. TMAC54 Follow Befriend (9) 70 threads 930 comments San Leandro, CA

   3   8:33am Sun 10 Jun 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   Dan, will you please provide us statistics of people who know. While ur at it. Google what the big guy was up to prior to the singularity.

4. Dan8267 Follow Befriend (16) 761 threads 7,674 comments Boca Raton, FL Premium

   4   9:15am Sun 10 Jun 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like (1)   Dislike   TMAC54 says Dan, will you please provide us statistics of people who know. Know what? TMAC54 says While ur at it. Google what the big guy was up to prior to the singularity. According to ceiling cat, he was masturbating for all eternally before creation. And ceiling cat doesn't lie.

5. leo707 Follow Befriend (12) 10 threads 3,516 comments Oakland, CA leo707's website Premium

   5   10:02am Sun 10 Jun 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like (1)   Dislike   &feature=relmfu

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   6   10:13am Sun 10 Jun 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   Dan8267 says Well, this video could have gone under either, but I thought it more of a science education issue. Yeah I agree that it is a more science education issue. Clearly people can believe in god, and accept scientific discover at the same time. What is troubling is that almost half of Americans being so scientifically illiterate that they believe humans are less than 10k years old.

7. Dan8267 Follow Befriend (16) 761 threads 7,674 comments Boca Raton, FL Premium

   7   12:42pm Sun 10 Jun 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   leoj707 says Clearly people can believe in god, and accept scientific discover at the same time. Yes, people can hold two contradicting beliefs at the same time, but obviously two contradicting beliefs cannot be both true. Ultimately, the laws of physics leave no room for the supernatural. As soon as any supernatural being, say a god, interacts with anything natural, say a pencil by pushing it, then either the supernatural being has to violate the laws of physics (conservation of energy in this case), which is really easy to observe and would be grossly obvious, or the supernatural being has to conform to the laws of nature, in which case it's not supernatural but rather natural. So, if one accepts that the universe is intelligible and that the natural laws on which we base airplanes, nuclear reactors, and computers, then one has to accept that there is no supernatural god to avoid an obvious contradiction. Of course, that leaves us with the question of what a "natural god" would be. A natural god could not be all-powerful since he would be severely constrained by the same laws of nature that constrain us. Nor could natural god be all-knowing since that violates the Uncertainty Principle. So what exactly is the criteria for a god? A natural god at best would be a comic book hero like the polytheistic pantheon of ancient Greece. Green Lantern, Iron Man, and the Hulk would be gods by that standard. Would you worship the Hulk or look towards him for moral guidance? Clock Maker God would be a natural god, but as I shown before, he's just Sheldon Cooper in front of a particle accelerator. Hardly a source of meaning or moral guidance. The God of the Gaps in no way implies a sentient being, nonetheless one that cares about humans or is a moral authority. And if God of the Gaps is supernatural, we can discount him. If he is natural, he is no god. The bottom line is that the laws of nature, and even the laws of logic, simply don't allow for the kind of god that people want: a magic daddy who will make everything all right in the end. Life just isn't like that.

8. APOCALYPSEFUCK is Shostakovich Follow Befriend (28) 169 threads 4,153 comments Premium

   8   1:26pm Sun 10 Jun 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like (2)   Dislike   God fucked the great sky turtle in the ass, and the great sky turtle started shitting universes. One of them is ours. If you need to believe this, I want a dollar in royalties.

9. Dan8267 Follow Befriend (16) 761 threads 7,674 comments Boca Raton, FL Premium

   9   2:03pm Sun 10 Jun 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   And that is why Fiji has the turtle on it's two dollar coin! The coin clearly picks the turtle pooping out universes. And for some reason the Queen of England is also on the coin. I think she inspects the poo.

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    10   2:22pm Sun 10 Jun 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   Dan8267 says And that is why Fiji has the turtle on it's two dollar coin! The coin clearly picks the turtle pooping out universes. And for some reason the Queen of England is also on the coin. I think she inspects the poo. Fiji refuses to pay my genesis myth royalties. Sovereign blah, blah, blah. . .

11. TMAC54 Follow Befriend (9) 70 threads 930 comments San Leandro, CA

    11   6:08pm Sun 10 Jun 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   Dan8267 says TMAC54 says Dan, will you please provide us statistics of people who know. Know what? Your video states percentages of people who believe in ,,,, WHATEVER it is they believe in. I want to speak only to those who really know. You know, like Bernanke.

12. TMAC54 Follow Befriend (9) 70 threads 930 comments San Leandro, CA

    12   6:23pm Sun 10 Jun 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   Although we can find wheelbarrows full of logic against any supreme being concept, I find it amuzing the more we learn, the more the scientific community is really contemplating the W.T.F. concept. GOD may be a refrigerator MAGNET ! We can now see 13.7 billion light years in all directions. Is our purpose to save all the banks in the entire cosmos ?

13. HEY YOU Follow Befriend (4) 328 threads 913 comments

    13   7:45pm Sun 10 Jun 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   We can all believe as we choose. We also have the right to be wrong. Everyone can pick a God from the ~ 2800 that have existed in the history of man. Of course everyone knows the one they pick is the only true God. http://wiki.answers.com /Q/How_many_gods_and_goddesses_are_there TMAC54@ 6;23, Great last sentence!!

14. Dan8267 Follow Befriend (16) 761 threads 7,674 comments Boca Raton, FL Premium

    14   8:26pm Sun 10 Jun 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   TMAC54 says Your video states percentages of people who believe in The only thing I know about the video is what's in the video.

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    15   8:27pm Sun 10 Jun 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   Why does Bernanke look like a lolcat?

16. leo707 Follow Befriend (12) 10 threads 3,516 comments Oakland, CA leo707's website Premium

    16   12:34am Mon 11 Jun 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like (1)   Dislike   Dan8267 says Would you worship the Hulk or look towards him for moral guidance? Maybe the Credible Hulk.

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    17   6:28am Mon 11 Jun 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   Dan8267 says Ultimately, the laws of physics leave no room for the supernatural. I'm an atheist, but I need to point out that the word "SUPERnatural" indicates that an entity is outside of and above natural laws. The laws of physics would not apply.

18. Dan8267 Follow Befriend (16) 761 threads 7,674 comments Boca Raton, FL Premium

    18   9:06am Mon 11 Jun 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like (2)   Dislike   wbblair3 says I'm an atheist, but I need to point out that the word "SUPERnatural" indicates that an entity is outside of and above natural laws. The laws of physics would not apply. Which means that if a "supernatural" entity interacted with a natural entity, the result would been a clearly observable violation of natural laws such as the conservation of energy. See the god/pencil example. The only way to accept supernatural entities without violating all the laws of nature is to require that supernatural entities cannot interact with natural entities. In which case, you get no god. For the supernatural god cannot have created the universe or even send a message to mortal men as these would be interactions. Under such a dichotomy, not only is there no motivation to believe in the supernatural, but doing so gains you nothing. And, of course, anyone who claims an interaction with the supernatural would have to be mistaken or lying.