your views

[wheresmylicense]

Originally posted by GT40FIED
But the blame for war where you want, but take away religion and you don't have anything to be radical about. And Christianity is responsible for some of the better ones. Remember the Crusades? Hunders of thousands of people fighting and dying trying to spread Christianity. And hey...what a great idea for a CHILDREN'S crusade. Let's send thousands of children off to die all in the name of god...simply brilliant. Although I suppose that religion is a hard target to blame. Every religion revolves around the same premise...they just can't seem to agree on which diety to worship. Perhaps people have just gotten tired of Christianity's view of god as not a loving and caring god but one that will strike you down and damn you for eternity if you don't believe.

The earth is 12,000 years old....right. That's why there's fossils and things like that. I once put that question to a creationist and he told me that god put those there to trick us. WTF? Is that the kind of god you want? A ****in prankster god? So I suppose if I buy into that it's his fault anyway. In Job the description of what you mentioned is so incredibly vague (like everything else in the bible) that, while it could be a reference to dinosaurs, it could also just be another fairy tale. As for evolution, what doesn't make sense? Is the progression of beings over eons and eons too difficult for you to wrap your mind around? Or is it just coincidence that other animals think and act like us on a base level. All animals have the basic instincts...eat, sleep, deficate, procreate. Humans are the only ones who pretend there's something more to it. We're the only ones pompous and vain enough to believe that we'll live forever. We have religion to blame for that.

Lastly, you have to be an incredibly shallow individual to say that the "correct" way of thinking is to find religion. That's one thing I love about religion...no one will ever consider the possibility that they might be wrong. As for me, I'm agnostic...I won't say one way or another if there is a god because I can't possibly know. So, until the day that god himself appears before me and tells me something only he would know I'll continue to think for myself and not read too much into a book of fables written by man centuries before my time. Ever wonder why there isn't a gospel written by Jesus in the bible? You'd think that the most influential member of a religion might consider that his words were important enough to scribble down. That's what I mean by thinking for myself. By your logic I could read Dianetics by L. Ron Hubbard, believe every word, and still be "correct". With all the thousands of religions in the world they can't all be right and I hope your not arrogant enough to say Christianity is the right one. Remember, Christianity is infinitely divided into it's own little groups that don't even agree with each other. And damnit Mt. Biker...I thought you knew better than that.

fossils... doesn't take much to explain... the fossils are from the animals that either died because the climate was so drastically changed that they couldn't handle it (such as the dinosaurs that are "vaguely" described... wanna know why it's vague? cuz it's irrelevant!) or other animals that died just cuz that's the natural cycle of things. the animals that died before the flood's bones were covered up extremely quickly cuz of the flood and the ones that died afterward died soon enough that the ground was soft and free eunf that the bones sunk/were covered up. fossils aren't just a "trick." whoever told you that isn't really helping.

i'll just give you one example disproving evolution. blood clotting! that's right! that little process that keeps you from DYING every time you cut yourself. it is impossible for a process of so many minute steps to have started off simple, and gotten more complex over the years. it's like a clock. you can't take a gear or a spring out and expect it to run, still. you can't start out with one step of the process, and then work you're way up. it's impossible. the chemical reaction occurs, 35 enzymes must react IMMEDIATELY in cascading order in the correct order. if you enzyme isn't there, it won't work.

lastly, i'm not trying to be "shallow" or "arrogant," im just saying that there are infinite phenomenons that can't be explained by evolution or any other scientific theory, and therefor lead to the idea of a higher being that created everything. i mean, science came up with the idea that the earth is flat... science came up with the idea that that the earth is the center of the universe... for all you know, evolution is some theory (man-made, nevertheless, meaning it's REALLY not perfect) that could be disproved tomorrow.