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Showing Original Post only (View all)If you are a creationist, you are a fucking idiot [View all]
video proof at link...
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/08/21/creationists-respond-to-lawrence-krauss-teach-evolution-in-religion-class/
...Calvin Smith said Creation Ministries International agreed that teaching lies to children was a form of abuse. Atheists, however, embraced a way of thinking that cant define truth because they dont believe in God. Without God, there could be no absolute moral truth, Smith alleged.
If you say societies as a whole determine morality, then I guess we could say Hitler was right, couldnt we?
Smith also said that logic and materialism were incompatible.
Atheists like Lawrence believe our existence is totally materialistic and want to use logic to show how creationism doesnt make sense, he explained. But logic isnt made of matter. You cant buy a pound of logic down at the store, Lawrence. Where does an unchanging, universal, non-materialistic entity like logic come from in an evolutionary, constantly-changing, materialist universe? Without God, Krauss had no way to explain morality, logic or science itself, Smith said. The theory of evolution was merely the basis of atheism, irrationality, and nihilism.
If you are a creationist, you need to find a religion that doesn't require you to be a dumbass in order to believe in god.
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Yes. Our evolutionary history includes many millenia spent in small groups.
Jackpine Radical
Aug 2013
#79
Sure, I think anyone who believes, in the face of scientific evidence to the contrary,
Bake
Aug 2013
#92
If your argument is that the Bible is a collection of Bronze Age stories, that's fine.
Marr
Aug 2013
#66
I would go so far as to say that God gave people brains/minds because he/she expects us to USE THEM.
Bake
Aug 2013
#40
Debate Krauss. Debate Dawkins. Debate Dennett, or Harris, or any other prominent "new atheists"
RadiationTherapy
Aug 2013
#15
You're not sorry, and if that's supposed to be an apology, it's a totally "Republican" apology
Bake
Aug 2013
#41
Even if there was a god, there still wouldn't be an "absolute moral truth." nt
ZombieHorde
Aug 2013
#51
So essentially, the guy is arguing against using rational thought for, basically, anything.
Warren DeMontague
Aug 2013
#56
I don't think that it has to do with being taugh narratives at an early age but rather
grantcart
Aug 2013
#74
My definition of an idiot is someone who either can't or won't think.
Warren DeMontague
Aug 2013
#107
Yet we must not denigrate people's deeply held beliefs or risk being labeled a bigot.
cleanhippie
Aug 2013
#85
That's true. We can point out that the beliefs of Republicans are ridiculous and harmful
Arugula Latte
Aug 2013
#86
So true. What I find most amazing is that the Republican POV is grounded closer to reality
cleanhippie
Aug 2013
#87