Are you an Atheist?
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- ********0
Even a stopped clock tells the right time twice a day.
- flagellum0
miko: that's probably true with many many people. In my case, I'm incorrigible when it comes to debating issues which interest me.
- ********0
yes
- FrdmOfSpch0
whatever you say.
- gramme0
it just depends how important truth is to you.
mikotondria2
(Apr 13 07, 09:46)That's why I believe what I believe. I care a great deal about truth, and about what happens now and in the hereafter.
In my case you would be mistaken to say I present an argument for my faith simply to test my own resolve. If I wanted to do that, I would interrupt a voodoo ritual in some hinter Haitian jungle, Bible, crucifix and holy water in hand. However that isn't my goal. Everyday life provides enough challenges without the need to seek them out.
I found out about Newstoday through the design community; that was my original reason for checking this place out, like almost everyone else here. I started paying attention to the PVN, and when threads about religion popped up, I decided to weigh in, especially since most people here lean toward a culturally 'liberal' and spiritually humanistic stance. I simply think the other side should be heard. Let's say someone came on here and criticized a friend or a family member, you would want to defend them, wouldn't you? It seems like the only honorable thing to do, as long as everyone is being civil...which is always a goal for me personally.
- FrdmOfSpch0
i dont think he's talking about you gramme. Most people seem to like you.
- Brookoioioi0
it is not *a* usenet it is *usenet*
Your silly idea here was:
"Here is a question so fundamental to biological life that it is a wonder
that evolution has yet to explain it: if the mechanism by which a trait is inhereted is that it conveys a survival advantage to the possessor, then why are we not all self-fertile hermaphrodites, like earthworms?"This is silly because:
Sex is one way to exchange genetic material, and that exchange provides a survival advantage by increasing variability.
It's not only silly but obvious and if you had been honestly interested in finding out it would not have been hard to do so.
- ********0
Certainly, gramme - I really think we do have healthy debates about the topic on here, especially, and probably because, its not the raison d'etre of the site itself - Fora dedicated to theology are always just drowned in noise from fanatics on either side and noone listens because they're just there to promote their 'side', but here we can discourse with people for months on all sorts of topics until this comes up, then we're more likely to actually listen to the 'other side'.
Thats the theory anyway - me, as soon as I see any theism I like to just jump on it with my secular size 12's, and spray it in the face with poison.
- gramme0
Fora: plural word of the week.
*slams down the poison, burps, asks for another round.
- gramme0
and then there are always the cool guys/girls who come on here after smoking copious amounts of ganja and toss out inflammatory derision like middle school kids in special ed programs, calling it a moral/theological/ethical stance. You know who you are.
- flagellum0
"Sex is one way to exchange genetic material, and that exchange provides a survival advantage by increasing variability."
My question, way back then, should have been "how" instead of "why". No one doubts, in principle, what would make sexual reproduction heritable. The real question is what biochemical steps took place and were they via Darwinian mechanisms, or was the information pre-programmed.
- Brookoioioi0
Dig up stupid.
- Ramanisky20
A young lady came home from a date, rather sad. She told her mother, "Anthony proposed to me an hour ago." "Then why are you so sad?" her mother asked. "Because he also told me he is an atheist. Mom, he doesnt even believe theres a Hell." Her mother replied, "Marry him anyway. Between the two of us, well show him how wrong he is."