I wanted to share an email I was recently sent, just so you can see how some religious zealots form arguments in the name of a God.
I came to your site out of curiosity and was suprised to see that your arguments
are so weak and full of false statements touted as undisputable facts. I
expected it to be more of a honest appraisal instead of a mindless rant. Let
me cut to the chase for you. Both positions require faith. In my study and
investigation, the evidence for intelligent design so far outweighs evolutional
theory as to be laughable if it weren’t so sad. Sad becuase most won’t dig and
study for themselves. I read scientists who admit that evolution is wrong, but
that it’s the best thing we’ve got right now because there can’t be a God.
You’ve made your profession of faith in science and in the theory that all
animal, plant, bird and fish life forms came from an explosion of really
condensed dirt. So I believe in the beginning God and you believe in the
beginning dirt. One thing we both agree on is time will tell. Take good care,
my friend.
This gave me a right chuckle. In fact, I may have actually snorted. So, just to be clear lets look at what this (valued) visitor as to say.
Firstly, I’d like to be alerted to any false or untrue statements on this blog made by me. If something is touted as an undisputable fact, it is because to any sane and logical person, it is undisputable. i.e. beyond dispute, widely accepted. If you dispute the fact, you must not be a sane or logical person.
So, this whole intelligent design thing. Where’s the evidence? Please, someone show me this evidence. And remember, a book written thousands of years ago doesn’t count as evidence. If there really was enough evidence in favor of intelligent design to render evolution laughable, I’m sure we would have heard about it. Instead, there seems to be a move, even amongst Christians, away from creationism and intelligent design. Maybe it’s the overwhelming evidence in favor of evolution. Even where Christians try and cast doubt on scientific studies, the truth will always out. As a starting point for your enlightenment, I’d suggest the references section of the Wikipedia article on evolution. Considering the article doesn’t delve too deeply into the mechanics of evolution, there are still 170 references, which I’m sure makes it one of the more trustworthy and researched articles on Wikipedia.
Please, I’d like to see evidence and places on this blog where I haven’t been accurate. Just saying there is evidence and saying this blog is inaccurate doesn’t make it true. Unless you believe inaccurate statements with nothing to back them up, which, considering you are religious, you obviously do.
Be well, friend.
Thanks for your reply. I will never accept something from nothing, order from chaos, or intricate design from random flux. The very idea is unprecedented any where else. Design is evdent to me everywhere I look. I guess we all see what we want to see, and disregard what we dislike. I don\’t accept scientific theories at face value without question becuase the majority begin with the premise that there is no God. This is what our universities teach and not because it\’s a fact, but because that segment of society is by and large under the influence of secular humanism. My feeling is that it is they who can not handle the truth and that it is they who are most intolerant. I don\’t dicredit or devalue ALL science, I just don\’t worship it. It\’s human, it can be wrong, and it has its own varied agendas. It\’s \
Just so you know, people were mocked for believing that the world was round. The world being flat was an indisputable fact. Just as you say. But that’s just a side argument.
Disputable. Columbus set sail for the New World with navigational calculations based on the assumption of a spherical earth. Generally, a little research (google search on Snope’s forums) reveals a lot of evidence for either side: http://msgboard.snopes.com/message/ultimatebb.php?/ubb/get_topic/f/102/t/000444/p/1.html)
The fact is, however, that the shape of the earth was easily confirmed in 1961, and many times over, by humans in space seeing the planet.
My overlying point, though, would be that what was taken for an ‘undisputed fact’ in the 1500’s, when many people were barely aware of a world beyond the village gates; should not take the same prestige as what we hold as an ‘undisputed fact’ in the 21st century, when we know so much more about the world. Perhaps in 500 years people will laugh at our ignorance of, say, time travel, or string theory, or the nudist camps on Mars. But that’s a side argument
Oh, and a book written thousands of years ago would count as evidence to most people whose life work is testing the authenticity of age-old documents. It would take too long to put into this comment all that I would like to say, but it takes up an entire chapter in “The Case for Christ” by Lee Strobel. By the way, have you noticed how many books Lee Strobel has written? I think that sometime he should just have a compilation, instead of 20 books out on different arguments posed against Christian turned around and pointed back, after being answered satisfactorily, at Atheism. I’m not as good with words, though, as the 10 or 20 college professors he interrogates on the subject, so please don’t just read my comments, buy the book. Or better yet, I’ll send you a free copy of any of them if you email me at [email protected].
The Investigator – I don’t believe, and correct me if I’m wrong, that the authenticity of the information in the bible has ever been completely validated. The parting of the Red Sea, for example, I don’t recall ever seeing proof that event ever happened.
As for Lee Strobel, I’ve read some of his work. He’s the Christian apologetic’s apologetic, and his “arguments” and approach don’t hold up whatsoever under any amount of scrutiny. Much like Dawkins and “The God Delusion”, only those who want to be convinced will be convinced.
For centuries mans’ belief in god made him beast . Religion on the other hand made him ruthless blood-sucker and this fact is undoubtedly known to all. But the humanity proved to be the ultimate fact.
uh- where is ur proof? did u find it in the toilet?