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brewens

(13,400 posts)
3. Well, show me a fish turn into a frog! HA! Gotcha ya godless heathens!
Mon Nov 27, 2017, 01:28 PM
Nov 2017

That's one of my favorite willfully ignorant oversimplifications. I hear something like that and I don't even bother to respond. Don't even think starting to explain mutations, natural selection or any of it even a simply as possible, will have a prayer of getting through to them.

defacto7

(13,485 posts)
6. Hmmm, maybe we would have a prayer of getting
Mon Nov 27, 2017, 02:30 PM
Nov 2017

through to them. So if we pray for them to understand they would have to understand, right? That's it. God will do it. Suck on that religionists.. your conclusion has been disproven. Theist logic is such a fun game... Let's see 0 ÷ 0 = 5.. anything ÷ anything = God, therefore God = 5... wow, I know everything.

brewens

(13,400 posts)
10. What's funny is that even some of what these people think were primative people, that
Mon Nov 27, 2017, 05:51 PM
Nov 2017

they are embarrassed to be descended from, probably had to understand natural selection fairly well. Or things real close to it. Their descendants figured out how to domesticate and selectively breed animals. Who knows how far back for some of them. That kind of thing keeps getting pushed back in time the more we learn.

They had the knowledge of their environment, and the plants and animals they relied on to survive, that would rival out surgeons in expertise. They saw when a new bull, or cow for some animals, took over a herd. They saw the things that happened, and the new offspring, good and bad. They probably knew right from the start to breed their livestock with wild stock when they needed new blood. We know the plains tribes would hobble their mares where the wild stallions could get to them. No telling how long ago people knew to do that.

Lint Head

(15,064 posts)
5. Well then how was a reptilian illuminati like me created?
Mon Nov 27, 2017, 02:00 PM
Nov 2017

Did the flat earth just evolve? Did God create Planet X?

defacto7

(13,485 posts)
15. OMG it's warped I say, warped!
Mon Nov 27, 2017, 11:25 PM
Nov 2017

It's like Harold and Maude only inside out... I'm gonna barf, thank you very much.

OriginalGeek

(12,132 posts)
17. My dumbass brother keeps trying to sell me
Tue Nov 28, 2017, 07:25 PM
Nov 2017

that Stanford researchers have disproven evolution. That it's too impossible but a god-creator is a given.

I often wonder about that boy.

(NB: Nope, not once has he linked me to a study or published article or even a footnote from Stanford researchers but he still believes it.)

DetlefK

(16,423 posts)
18. Oh, the two stupidest proofs for God's existence I have ever seen are:
Wed Nov 29, 2017, 05:27 AM
Nov 2017

1. Kurt Goedel's philosophical proof. It's a mathematical masterstroke, but it rests on ridiculous, unrealistic premises, like that we can clearly divide the world into good and evil and that good only begats good and that evil only begats evil.

2. The God-Particle. Yes. The Higgs-Boson has the nick-name "God-Particle" (because it was so hard to find), and some people took the name God-Particle as proof that scientists have discovered God.

OriginalGeek

(12,132 posts)
19. Oh lol, also
Wed Nov 29, 2017, 11:39 AM
Nov 2017

he's repeats often how it takes more faith to believe in evolution than in god. We heard that dumb shit all throughout our youth in baptist churches.

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