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re: Intelligent Design Vs. Evolution

Posted on 4/6/14 at 8:48 pm to
Posted by TeLeFaWx
Dallas, TX
Member since Aug 2011
29179 posts
Posted on 4/6/14 at 8:48 pm to
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I believe in God as a higher power. Who he really is and how he came to be, I don't know.


Cool.

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The odds of our world and life being spontaneously created through chance are so huge, that it's damn near impossible without some form of intelligent design.


Being spontaneously created isn't the point, the point is all life on earth evolved through random mutation and survival of the fittest, from its most basic elements.

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That said, I believe in microevolution. Macroevolution has very little proof to back the theory.


That is absolutely stupid. There is no difference in the two. They are one in the same. The amount of proof for evolution(if you want to apply macro or micro label to it, I don't give a shite) is overwhelming. Just because you pretend that there is zero proof, doesn't make that the case.

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Honestly, I think the answers to our creation are a long time away from coming to fruition. I think it's so advanced that right now our minds cannot understand nor conceive it. We have a tendency to form solutions based on what we can see or what makes sense, in order to have an explanation for that which we do not understand.


What does creation have to do with explaining random mutation and survival of the fittest? You don't need to know the source of gravity to understand that Newton's Laws aren't theories, they are the truth.

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At one time people were certain the Earth was flat, and those who claimed it round were treated as crazy. It is arrogant and narrow minded to label one person as wrong and you as right when in reality neither have a clue to the answer.


One side is wrong, the other is right. If you have more knowledge than someone, you can label them ignorant because by that very relationship they are.

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I'm a man of faith because I questioned God's legitimacy. IT is good to question things, it is right to question things. Blind faith based on nothing is dangerous and idiotic. This goes for both sides. I'm a man of faith because the questions I asked resulted in answers that solidified my faith.


Convenient scenario people often use to sound enlightened. This is a very generic sound bite.

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I actually question Jesus' legitimacy more than God's. My studying of the Old vs New Testament and it's inconsistencies in teaching is why.


There are inconsistencies in the Bible, the Koran, the Book of Mormon, and Tom Cruise's memoirs. They are all fairy tales.

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Consider this... what would Men like Muhammed and Jesus have to gain as political figures if they used the presence of God and blind faith of the common man to their advantage to gather a large contingent of people to follow in their certain set of ideologies?


Many good people and many bad people have used religion to cater to their needs. L Ron Hubbard spent his dying days writing Scientology crap when he had more money than he knew what to do with, and his legions of followers didn't need more to keep giving it to him. Not everything has to have a convenient and morally clear motive. Some people are just fricking crazy. Maybe Jesus/Mohamed/Bhudda/Joseph Smith/Tom Cruise knew/know they are/were full of shite. Maybe not. That's not the point.

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Not saying this is true, but any open minded person with questions can see that its possible a particular cult of personality in those times could have easily gathered support to further an ideological agenda.



It happens in modern times as well.

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There could be a God, and we could all still be wrong and following the wrong religions.


Most likely the case.
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