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April 4th, 2007, 09:25 AM
#11
Inherent Contradiction
Observe:
Opinnion regarding the rationale of most "Believers":
 Originally Posted by Evil Moo
IMO, I breaks down to this: if you ask someone whom consider themselves a God fearing/believing individual to choose between the Bible and science, they will choose the Bible no matter what they truely think. This is for a number of reasons.
Some Christians try to make evolution co-inside with their faith, but more and more simply choose not to go the difficult route of actually objectively justifying their beliefs or running the risk of exposing themselves to contrary evidence. It's alot easier just to curl into the fetal position and chant "jesus loves me".
Religous person goes the tough route and tries to justify religion with science (coinsides with opinnion:
 Originally Posted by Moira
Just to pick up on a point made in another lengthy thread, scroll down to no 2 here, Horizons, which gives pause for thought. As the article points out, the visible universe is 28 million light years apart, yet has only been in existence for 14 million light years and heat couldn't have travelled at a faster speed than the speed of light to create the equilibrium we now have between the hot and cold spots created by any "big bang".
Surely this makes a case for a creator?
Summation of a long list of scientifc disprovals of religous person's theory:
 Originally Posted by Negative
The "reaction to [you] in this thread" is mainly due because of your trying to apply scientific concepts of which you have little to no knowledge (it's very obvious that you do not even understand the basic fundamental principles of evolution; the million/billion "typo" is another great example), rather than a reaction to your belief system.
Religous person fails to justify religons pretense objectively and becomes mildly beligerant. Goes on the immediate defensive while reverting to core faith regardless of evidence:
 Originally Posted by Moira
Rubbish! I think the opposite - it's becoming harder and harder to admit to being a christian or have belief and faith. Just look at the reaction to me in this thread. It takes a brave person to actually come out and say, "yes, I believe in the bible, the trinity and in God". Much more socially inclusive to go down the evolution route.
Evil Moo's opinnion supported in real time.
I was going to give my several reasons for having this opinnion, but I realize that I didn't need to go into them after all.
Moira:
The same is true if an athiestic person where in a chapel. AO consists of highly technical and scientifically minded people. Picking battles is important, but so is choosing your battleground.
\"Greatness only comes at great risk.\" ~ Personal/Generic
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