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- SheilaNoya, on 10/10/2007, -70/+289LOL. Maybe we should also be forced to teach our kids that the Earth is flat and has four corners (according to the bible), so they get "both" sides of the story. After all, the bible is not a pick & choose salad bar. Let's teach ALL of the absurd things in the bible and let the kids decide whether scientific facts or the bible is correct.
- mediablitz, on 10/10/2007, -21/+152Ah, but the bible IS pick and choose for those who follow it. That is why they can pick out the two times homosexuality is mentioned, and campaign vigorously against the "sin against God", but ignore the hundreds of mentions of caring, compassion, and inherent sin among men.
That is also why they can cherry pick going to hell, and the devil, despite the devil being barely a footnote in the bible. They need the fear and scare tactics for control.
That is also why they ignore the passages in the bible that say if your kids talk back to you, they should be killed. Or the part that says god said it was okay to take the women and female children to use as sex slaves, after killing everyone else.
Religion is quite a racket. - rarson, on 10/10/2007, -6/+133That little girl in the last panel will be in for a big surprise when she grows up, gets pregnant, and that stork comes flying out of her snatch.
- SheilaNoya, on 10/10/2007, -16/+134You didn't do too well in school, did you?
- nova912, on 10/10/2007, -25/+112God "created" dinosaurs for jesus Adam to ride on while he was high on cannabis (which he also "created"), prove me wrong! It's the only credible explanation!
- conceptkid, on 10/10/2007, -5/+87Xuvious, you have to understand how much time we are talking about here. The first life on earth is thought to be about 3.5 BILLION years ago. Life wants to be alive and it will do anything it can to stay alive, even if cells have to change themselves. If you look at a basic cell, it has a brain, protection, life fluids(chemical reactions), internal organs etc. Cells are pretty ***** smart for how small they are. They know how to work together and create bigger things which is what you are. You are thinking of things in terms of the eyeball, arteries as being a single organism, but really they are made up of MANY different cells that have different jobs working together to form that Organism. So basically, even though you and I and every other form of life is a large, walking organism who can think and speak for themself, you have to break it down and realize that each of us are Made up of TRILLIONS upon TRILLIONS of microscopic cells.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -8/+76"Anyone who truly believes that the eyeball, the inner ear, the chemical interactions, the fine details in our arteries and our internal organs are purely a product of change over time, like nature said "oopppss, I just made a brain!" are seriously deluded and are only wanting to cling to a dogma that rejects the big picture"
Wow this has got to be one of the most ignorant statements I have ever heard. Xuv thinks these complex organs just appeared one day. Did you ever think that they gradually developed oh I don't know, OVER HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF YEARS? For instance, the eyes probably originally started as cells that could detect light (kind of like how you can tell where light is coming from even if your eyes are closed) and than slowly got more complex over time. Likewise, the "brain" started off as aggregate collection of nerves and ganglia, which you can still see in organisms like worms.
Xuv is just another case of someone not intelligent enough to understand the theory of natural selection (he has clearly shown he doesn't know how it works), and like most simple minded people, sticks with the most simple explanation "GOD did it!!" - hallucinated, on 10/10/2007, -8/+69Sorry, but we're the products of billions of years of natural selection. It's really not a very hard idea to grasp after all. Go take a Biology course.
- projectstartrek, on 10/10/2007, -12/+72I believe that atoms are actually small fruits. I demand my belief be taught in schools!
- rarson, on 10/10/2007, -4/+55Who needs scientific observation when you've "got a feeling" that it "can't be just coincidence."
- FuZ3, on 10/10/2007, -16/+66Actually, In the Bible it shows that King Solomon(son of king David and the wisest man who ever lived) knew the earth was round.
- TheGuruStud, on 10/10/2007, -4/+51
"Anyone who is captured will be run through with a sword. Their little children will be dashed to death right before their eyes. Their homes will be sacked and their wives raped by the attacking hordes. For I will stir up the Medes against Babylon, and no amount of silver or gold will buy them off. The attacking armies will shoot down the young people with arrows. They will have no mercy on helpless babies and will show no compassion for the children." --Isaiah 13:15-18
"If a man lies with a man as one lies with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They must be put to death." --Leviticus 20:10
"When the Lord your God brings you into the land you are entering to possess and drives out before you many nations . . . then you must destroy them totally. Make no treaty with them, and show them no mercy."
--Deuteronomy 7:1-2
"When you march up to attack a city, make its people an offer of peace. If they accept and open their gates, all the people in it shall be subject to forced labor and shall work for you. If they refuse to make peace and they engage you in battle, lay siege to that city. When the Lord your God delivers it into your hand, put to the sword all the men in it. As for the women, the children, the livestock and everything else in the city, you may take these as plunder for yourselves. . . . This is how you are to treat all the cities that are at a distance from you and do not belong to the nations nearby.
However, in the cities of the nations the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance, do not leave alive anything that breathes. Completely destroy them—the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites—as the Lord your God has commanded you." --Deuteronomy 20:10-17
"If a man beats his male or female slave with a rod and the slave dies as a direct result, he must be punished, but he is not to be punished if the slave gets up after a day or two, since the slave is his property." --Exodus 21:20-21 - thirdman, on 10/10/2007, -1/+45There's your problem then - stop believing & start thinking. Examine the evidence, study the theories, question everything & don't accept overlly simplistic answers peddled by vested interests.
- feckineejit, on 10/10/2007, -13/+51Just because you are too lazy to figure out how it works doesn't mean god did it.
- ButterBuddha, on 10/10/2007, -1/+39Why are you so angry? Remember, Jesus loves you.
- qpn6ph9q, on 10/10/2007, -5/+42Please diggers, in the context of anything scientific (or even purportedly scientific) please use the word "theory" correctly. In the context of science, a theory refers to a logically self-consistent TESTABLE model or framework. A scientific theory must originate from experimental evidence. Therefore the word "theory" can not apply to the concept of Intelligent Design because it is untestable conjecture, and should be labeled a "hypothesis" at the very best.
- jorgepblank, on 10/10/2007, -25/+61"Maybe we should also be forced to teach our kids that the Earth is flat and has four corners (according to the bible)"
The bible never says that, in fact, it's one of the oldest records that said Earth was round. - thirdman, on 10/10/2007, -2/+37Nope - faith exists but having faith doesn't make something real.
- quaxon, on 10/10/2007, -2/+35so what your pretty much saying is "science is too hard to study so ill just submit to the most basic, uneducated answer that allows me to think the least about it"
- gernblansted, on 10/10/2007, -5/+37"...They need the fear and scare tactics for control."
And don't forget tithing. - archistudent, on 10/10/2007, -4/+34hahahahahaha!
You really don't think it's possible? Who's lacking faith now?
Can't you have just a little faith in possibility in the face of overwhelming odds? - karel747, on 10/13/2007, -1/+29That's one of the funniest things I've ever heard. Which makes moe sense and is derived from logic?
1. Survival of the fittest; organisms which, by mutation and sexual reproduction, are better suited for their environments are more likely to adapt, and thus they are more likely to spread their superior genes to the population. This trend for specializing will continue until the habitat becomes uninhabitable for the existing population, at which point the population will either a) go extinct, or b) a small number of organisms will adapt to the new changes. --- Evolution
2. A god who we can not detect in any way, who was never created, yet always exists, created all organisms in one day for the hell of it. --- Creationism.
Creationism is an insult to logic, humanity, and nature, all at once. - luxurychair, on 10/10/2007, -1/+29Is that the way jesus would talk to someone who didn't agree with him?
- rlh1, on 10/10/2007, -5/+32*****,
I work with Hindus, Mormons, Catholics, Atheists, Muslims, Buddhists. All are engineers with advanced degrees. They design computer chips. All seem to be equally intelligent. - rarson, on 10/10/2007, -1/+26That's because you don't want it to. You're just cherry-picking simple observations that "logically" support the idea that you're comfortable in believing, and ignoring all the scientific evidence. You think you're being smart by "thinking about these things" but you're not evaluating the information in an even remotely objective fashion, because you want your belief to be correct.
- gerran, on 10/10/2007, -4/+29> "If a man beats his male or female slave with a rod and the slave dies as a direct result, he must be punished, but he is not to be punished if the slave gets up after a day or two, since the slave is his property."
Please, put that quote in context where it makes any amount of moral sense.
Sorry, your precious Bible is nothing but a book of idiocy and mythology dreamed up by egotistical men to control others. The funny thing is, 2000+ years later, it still controls you. How does that make you feel?
The Bible, Quran, Torah, etc. are all the same. They are primitive humans' attempts to explain the universe and control others through fear and ignorance (you can't learn about the real world if you spend all your time learning, memorizing, and following a myth). - HerrEisenheim, on 10/10/2007, -7/+32So...then the Earth is a circle? So people thought it was a flat square, the Bible says it's a flat circle, and it turns out to be a sphere. How does that make the Bible right?
Then it gets conveniently translated from "circle" to "globe" and "round". Good argument. - onisamsha, on 10/10/2007, -4/+28http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/library/01/1/l_0 ...
hope this doesn't shatter your fragile worldview. Oh and if you have the mental fortitude to trudge ahead with truth and curiousity to explain scientifically the marvelous evolutionary adaptations (inner ear, cell chemistry, and organs) which you mindlessly classify as "magical," you can search for other similar videos on google.
But then simple people need simple answers i guess. - PhilMoskowitz, on 10/10/2007, -6/+30This was NEVER a problem for religious people until it became politically convenient to make it a "wedge issue." This does two things. It causes more parents to home school which creates a whole army of ignorant zealots. It also creates a bridgehead for religion to break the church state barrier. You should really get back to practicing Christianity and stop this vile blasphemy of corrupting a government. It's a disgusting to misuse religion this way.
- thirdman, on 10/10/2007, -1/+25A theory is a logically self-consistent model or framework for describing the behavior of a related set of natural or social phenomena. It originates from or is supported by experimental evidence. In this sense, a theory is a systematic and formalized expression of all previous observations which is predictive, logical and testable. In principle, scientific theories are always tentative, and subject to corrections or inclusion in a yet wider theory.
ID is a form of creationism & as a religious belief does match the stringent criteria required to be recognised as a theory. - noumuon, on 10/10/2007, -1/+24intelligent design is not a theory.
- Hayaemsay, on 10/10/2007, -1/+23Fine, 7 days then.
- cranium, on 10/10/2007, -5/+27No, evolution is a fact.
Evolution By Natural Selection is a theory. - rarson, on 10/10/2007, -1/+23It's hilarious how you complain about his unfriendliness while using phrases like "***** you" and "kiss my ass." It's also convenient how you completely ignored his logical argument.
That's the key to having faith, people: ignoring facts. - comedianX, on 10/10/2007, -8/+29To prove your neutrality you post an article from the Watchtower. Do you even know what that publication is?
- whataboutdave, on 10/10/2007, -2/+23Greek philosophers and scientists of the classical period knew the world to be a globe. What's your point?
- HerrEisenheim, on 10/10/2007, -4/+23Do we actually SEE it every day? When was the last time you saw a baby come out of a woman's vagina? When was the last time you saw a vagina?
When was the last time you watched bacteria evolve in a dish? - luxurychair, on 10/10/2007, -2/+21It's impossible to have "honest discourse" with you because your beliefs can not be proven or disprove in a way that is satisfactory to you. Regardless of the amount of evidence presented you can simply play the god card, the "testing our faith" card, the "mysterious purpose" card, or any of a number of other excuses to prevent yourself from having to think of a real counter to an opposing viewpoint.
- MrWally, on 10/10/2007, -4/+21Read Isaiah 40:22, it clearly states that the Earth is round.
The Bible itself never claims that the Earth is flat, that is a common misconception.
Go ahead, bury me for accuracy. - Ajjah, on 10/10/2007, -1/+18*cough* I see someone with a single bruised cheek...
- feckineejit, on 10/10/2007, -2/+18you sound retarded - are you religious too?
- dooglius, on 10/10/2007, -1/+17In order for a hypothesis to become a theory, it must have substantial evidence to back it up.
- rarson, on 10/10/2007, -0/+16Right. So when they discovered the atom, they should've just said "well this must be wrong, because we've never seen anything this small before, it can't be possible.
Damn, how can you even believe in protons and neutrons without "suspending your belief?" These basic principles of science would seem completely "illogical" to someone who has no understanding of them. - Totalchaos02, on 10/10/2007, -1/+17How so? A biology course will give you observable evidence of a process that you will learn through out the class. The bible is a collection of stories written over hundreds of years which present no observable evidence to the only explanation it gives to the origin of life, which is 'God did it'.
Hardly in the same league but I just presented the entire Creationist theory in 3 words, while it would take a biology class months to go over the finer points of natural selection and all it encompasses. - CatalystGhost, on 10/10/2007, -1/+16"Perfect"? I dunno, I think things like the appendix and such are pretty imperfect. Or is God just an *****?
- quisph, on 10/10/2007, -0/+15It wasn't a question, moron. Read your own comment again.
- noumuon, on 10/10/2007, -0/+15"But nothing has convinced me yet that order can come from chaos to the point to what we have today." and what has convinced you otherwise? it sounds like you already had an opinion on the matter and then used your experience in an attempt to reaffirm your initial bias. if nothing has demonstrated that "order can come from chaos" then why do you default to the opposite? shouldn't you be saying "i don't know" as opposed to making a definite stance? you have an initial bias which automatically skews things towards your baseless opinion. unless, of course, you can provide good reason why order can't come from chaos (hint: "because i feel it to be" is not a good reason; it may be why you do believe what you do, but it is incredibly illogical and unintelligent to use as a valid reason).
- feckineejit, on 10/10/2007, -2/+16Just because you don't understand it, or couldn't be bothered to figure it out using scientific fact doesn't prove that god did it.
- LittleDas, on 10/10/2007, -1/+15There's nothing special about the earth, as you would expect life to develop only on planets hospitable to life.
Simply, earth is not hospitable so life could develop, earth was hospitable to life first, and because it was hospitable, life developed. - ArntorFTL, on 10/10/2007, -4/+18Troll
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