I'm an atheist. I'll put that out in the open.
Christians do go to far. So do Muslims. So do a lot of atheists. So do most people that put belief before thought.
I think that in the US the Christians percieve a war raging against their faith. Most Christians dont want to beat your brains in for it. Personally, I'm not offended by people wanting to celebrate Christmas, since the majority of the country is christian(overwhelmingly). Also, I think they percieve evolution as some direct afront to their faith. But, Christians tend to take from the bible what they want. You dont see them stoning people (to often) or screaming that the sun goes around the earth(which it says it does in the bible). What they are scared of is losing their safety net. If evolution is fact then they dont need God.
A theory in science is not "just a theory." It is the best explanation for a body of evidence. It's a theory that the earth goes around the sun, proven to like 99.9999bar% accuracy, but a theory none the less. Recently I was at the North Carolina Museum of Natural History, which has the largest collection of whale skeletons on earth. When you see such massive animals, it is stunning, then to see they have hands and feet and hips, well, it's a religious experience in it's own right. Evolution has so many pieces of evidence in it's favor that it's, in my book, a fact. The ID(Creationists, because that is what they are) do not have a single shred of evidence. They attempt to punch holes in a theory, which is not how science is done. They demand intermediary species, which they can do until the cows come home, but we will never be able to give them all to them. They could do it until we had the fossil evidence of every creature that has ever lived, and still not be happy.
Sorry, I'm sort of putting it all out there. I'm an atheist, I have no problem with christians. The Ten Commandments doesn't bother me, they are a large part of what steered our laws, but I would also like to see a version of the Code of Hammurabi, The Magna Carta, a few others. And, ID isn't science. It's your faith. Leave it as your faith, teach it in your home, keep it out of our Government Schools. We have seperation of Church and State and I think it should stay that way. You have home, church and private schools for your teachings.
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What i think you are missing here is that the government, once again is telling you, rather intrusively this time what and how to use your private property.
It's just like you buying a computer and the government tells you that you can not run Linux on it, or closer to the article, overclock it. And on top of that GPS in your car and they can monitor where you are???
Why not just send you a ticket in the mail every time your car goes over the speed limit?
Why dont they just go ahead and say that they wont be happy until they have every animal that ever lived archived. In other words, what they are doing is saying "We have A and C, where's B?" and we find B and they say "Where's the link between B and C?" in a never ending cycle. It's truely sad that we live in this modern age of reasoning and so many people have to turn to poor explanations from people trapped by their technology and senses from thousands of years ago.
Really, given modern technology and the scientific method, like the Hubble Space Telescope and Computers and observational data, would you honestly trust a person from a few thousand years ago to interpret it? I wouldn't trust them to not call it evil and poke it with sticks!
When dealing with information, I always consider the source.
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I'm an atheist. I'll put that out in the open. Christians do go to far. So do Muslims. So do a lot of atheists. So do most people that put belief before thought. I think that in the US the Christians percieve a war raging against their faith. Most Christians dont want to beat your brains in for it. Personally, I'm not offended by people wanting to celebrate Christmas, since the majority of the country is christian(overwhelmingly). Also, I think they percieve evolution as some direct afront to their faith. But, Christians tend to take from the bible what they want. You dont see them stoning people (to often) or screaming that the sun goes around the earth(which it says it does in the bible). What they are scared of is losing their safety net. If evolution is fact then they dont need God. A theory in science is not "just a theory." It is the best explanation for a body of evidence. It's a theory that the earth goes around the sun, proven to like 99.9999bar% accuracy, but a theory none the less. Recently I was at the North Carolina Museum of Natural History, which has the largest collection of whale skeletons on earth. When you see such massive animals, it is stunning, then to see they have hands and feet and hips, well, it's a religious experience in it's own right. Evolution has so many pieces of evidence in it's favor that it's, in my book, a fact. The ID(Creationists, because that is what they are) do not have a single shred of evidence. They attempt to punch holes in a theory, which is not how science is done. They demand intermediary species, which they can do until the cows come home, but we will never be able to give them all to them. They could do it until we had the fossil evidence of every creature that has ever lived, and still not be happy. Sorry, I'm sort of putting it all out there. I'm an atheist, I have no problem with christians. The Ten Commandments doesn't bother me, they are a large part of what steered our laws, but I would also like to see a version of the Code of Hammurabi, The Magna Carta, a few others. And, ID isn't science. It's your faith. Leave it as your faith, teach it in your home, keep it out of our Government Schools. We have seperation of Church and State and I think it should stay that way. You have home, church and private schools for your teachings. Thanks
Would we have to change air plane battles to 'rat fights' now?
What i think you are missing here is that the government, once again is telling you, rather intrusively this time what and how to use your private property. It's just like you buying a computer and the government tells you that you can not run Linux on it, or closer to the article, overclock it. And on top of that GPS in your car and they can monitor where you are??? Why not just send you a ticket in the mail every time your car goes over the speed limit?
Why dont they just go ahead and say that they wont be happy until they have every animal that ever lived archived. In other words, what they are doing is saying "We have A and C, where's B?" and we find B and they say "Where's the link between B and C?" in a never ending cycle. It's truely sad that we live in this modern age of reasoning and so many people have to turn to poor explanations from people trapped by their technology and senses from thousands of years ago.
Really, given modern technology and the scientific method, like the Hubble Space Telescope and Computers and observational data, would you honestly trust a person from a few thousand years ago to interpret it? I wouldn't trust them to not call it evil and poke it with sticks!
When dealing with information, I always consider the source.