The Belief That Life Was the Result of an Accident Is Unscientific

[K9Buck]

Scientists are the first to admit that they don't have The Answer to the origin of our existence. Yet. Such egotistical beliefs have the exclusive domain of the various religions of the world for thousands of years.
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How is it "egotistical" to believe that a higher power created the universe?

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

Scientists are the first to admit that they don't have The Answer to the origin of our existence. Yet. Such egotistical beliefs have the exclusive domain of the various religions of the world for thousands of years.
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How is it "egotistical" to believe that a higher power created the universe?

He obviously meant it's egotistical to think he did it just to create you.

 

[K9Buck]

Scientists are the first to admit that they don't have The Answer to the origin of our existence. Yet. Such egotistical beliefs have the exclusive domain of the various religions of the world for thousands of years.
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How is it "egotistical" to believe that a higher power created the universe?

He obviously meant it's egotistical to think he did it just to create you.

If you say so.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

Scientists are the first to admit that they don't have The Answer to the origin of our existence. Yet. Such egotistical beliefs have the exclusive domain of the various religions of the world for thousands of years.
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How is it "egotistical" to believe that a higher power created the universe?

He obviously meant it's egotistical to think he did it just to create you.

If you say so.

I do think that is what is meant. It is pretty egotistical to think you're that special, and to think that you deserve to live forever. It's natural, too. But then again, so is pooping in the nearest shallow hole.

 

[JimBowie1958]

God outside the flow of time

Your God is trapped within the flow of time which is why it can't change the past.

Who are you to tell me who my God is?

God.

Lol, you are the 'god' of the absurd perhaps, but little more than that.

 

[K9Buck]

Your God...

He's your creator too, whether you like it or not.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

Your God...

He's your creator too, whether you like it or not.

No, infidel, that would be Zoroaster. Get your goofy voodoo out of here, this is a place of truth.

 

[Mac1958]

Scientists are the first to admit that they don't have The Answer to the origin of our existence. Yet. Such egotistical beliefs have the exclusive domain of the various religions of the world for thousands of years..

How is it "egotistical" to believe that a higher power created the universe?

It's egotistical to believe that you and your personal religion have The Answer to The Question, and that everyone else -- including every other religion -- is wrong, when the fact is that no one can know.

Faith is fine - but it isn't fact, it's faith. Let's not confuse the two.
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[Old Rocks]

1. Liberals, Democrats, Progressives share the very same aims and desires as Bolsheviks.

a. The Democrat Party stands for the very same things as the Communist Party.
Challenge me on that.

b. As an example...
Government control of private sector activity...is aptly described as Bolshevik- or Marxist, socialist, collectivist, statist, or, for that matter, fascist, too. Indeed, nationalized health care was one of the first programs enacted by the Bolsheviks after they seized power in 1917 (Banks, insurance companies and means of communications were also taken over by Soviet authorities immediately.)
Dziewanowski, "A History of Soviet Russia," p. 107.

They didn't call it 'ObamaCare.'

We Liberals/Democrats/Progressives are a diverse lot so I'm sure you can always fine one individual who shares the very same aims and desires as Bolsheviks but I for one don't and neither does the party so far as I know. I challenge you to find communism in the Democratic Party platforms from any of the past presidential election.

Just don't try to use ObamaCare as an example since it uses private insurance companies, hospitals, & doctors.

"We Liberals/Democrats/Progressives are a diverse lot so I'm sure you can always fine one individual who shares the very same aims and desires as Bolsheviks but I for one don't and neither does the party so far as I know. I challenge you to find communism in the Democratic Party platforms from any of the past presidential election."


Let's check.


How about you take a look at the aims of the Communist Party, USA, and the aims of the modern Democrat Party.


Watch, and note the consubstantial basis of both the aims of the Communist Party and the Democrat Party:

......it is ...extraordinary.....the correspondence between the aims of the communist party and the aims of the Democrats.....

1. Develop the illusion that total disarmament [by] the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.

2. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces.

3. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.

4. . Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers' associations. Put the party line in textbooks.


5. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policy-making positions.

6. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.

7. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and free press.

8. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural, healthy."

9. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with "social" religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity, which does not need a "religious crutch."

10. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.


11. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the "common man."

12. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture--education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.

13. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce



Now....wouldn't an honest appraisal agree that all or almost all are clearly the aims and direction of Democrats/Liberals/Progressive leaders?

I got 'em from a website of declared communist goals...

The Communist Takeover Of America - 45 Declared Goals
The Communist Takeover Of America - 45 Declared Goals



You might take a look at this one, too.
10 planks of Communist manifesto
Communist Manifesto 10 Planks

1. Abolition of private property and the application of all rents of land to public purposes.

2. A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.

3. Abolition of all rights of inheritance.



"Obama Set To Propose Taxes On Capital Gains, Inheritance, And Wall Street"
Obama Set To Propose Taxes On Capital Gains, Inheritance, And Wall Street - Shadowproof

And this:

"Government control of private sector activity...is aptly described as Bolshevik- or Marxist, socialist, collectivist, statist, or, for that matter, fascist, too.Indeed, nationalized health care was one of the first programs enacted by the Bolsheviks after they seized power in 1917(Banks, insurance companies and means of communications were also taken over by Soviet authorities immediately."
Dziewanowski, "A History of Soviet Russia," p. 107.


They didn't call it ObamaCare....or 'single payer'....but it was.




....we are now free of that inordinate fear of communism.... Jimmy Carter Jimmy Carter: UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME - Address at Commencement Exercises at the University


President Barack Obama downplayed the differences between capitalism and communism, claiming that they are just “intellectual arguments.” He urged those at a town hall eventin Buenos Aires, Argentina on Wednesday to “just choose from what works.”
Obama Downplays Difference Between Capitalism, Communism [VIDEO]






Ready to admit that you've been euchred into supporting communism?

Fucking dumb bitch, get back on topic. What an asshole you are.

 

[alang1216]

"His theory that life evolved from a common ancestor is considered to be proven fact beyond any reasonable doubt. "

Only by buffoons.
Raise your paw.

Not only is there no evidence that supports Darwinian theory, but there is evidence that it is false.

Really....stop being afraid to actually pick up a book, or to question Liberal orthodoxy.

Except evolution is accepted by the vast majority of scientists as proven true:
Many scientific theories are so well-established that no new evidence is likely to alter them substantially. For example, no new evidence will demonstrate that the Earth does not orbit around the sun (heliocentric theory), or that living things are not made of cells (cell theory), that matter is not composed of atoms, or that the surface of the Earth is not divided into solid plates that have moved over geological timescales (the theory of plate tectonics). Like these other foundational scientific theories, the theory of evolution is supported by so many observations and confirming experiments that scientists are confident that the basic components of the theory will not be overturned by new evidence. However, like all scientific theories, the theory of evolution is subject to continuing refinement as new areas of science emerge or as new technologies enable observations and experiments that were not possible previously.

You are being disingenuous, ignorant, or just plain lying to talk about Darwin's other theories in the context of my quote above. I'll let you decide why you bear false witness. Also, people like you are destroying this country by making every issue a matter of left or right.

 

[alang1216]

I've noticed that when buffoons are stumped and recognize that they have no way to dispute what I've posted, they pretend that 'cut and paste' is some sort of pejorative.

It isn't.

If I wanted to converse with Google I'd just cut out the middle man and go there. Providing links to supporting info is fine but if you can't put an idea into your own words you probably don't understand it.

 

[alang1216]

Morals are established by society. Before 160 years ago slavery was the norm in America. People changed the norm.

Now we have abolished slavery, decriminalized abortion (under certain conditions), legalized gay marriage, prohibited gender and other discrimination. I think we're making progress.

So you support the new bill banning abortion after 20 weeks?

That’s 14 weeks after normal brain activity starts.

I do support a ban on abortions after a certain number of weeks, I'm just not sure what that number should be.

 

[alang1216]

Nor is your brain pattern the same as when you were 10. Doesn’t mean we can kill you at ten.

At 3 weeks the babies heart is beating. So your stopping a heart beating.

The same can be said of almost any animal and we can kill any animal (we own) at any stage in their lives Why should human beings be granted special rights? How are humans different from other animals?

 

[alang1216]

Fret not------the IRON MAIDENS have been retired

Not on the USMB

 

[WheelieAddict]

Ever notice that when Propagandachick posts it's just mindless propoganda? We all have.

Anyways we live in the Milky Way galaxy which is amazing in itself, and at the heart of our galaxy is likely: Massive black hole discovered near heart of the Milky Way

 

[alang1216]

Not quite correct. OT is about the establishment of a people so that all mankind may be redeemed. The NT is the fulfillment of that plan.

The OT God had no issues killing the innocent to punish the guilty. The NT God, not so much.

 

[alang1216]

The OT God was a god of the Jews, the NT God is a god of individuals. Just one example but the difference is striking that Gnostics believed they could not be the same god

I dont think God changed so much as humanity matured a bit more to be capable of grasping the changes in what would be revealed about God and morality.

And certainly nothing has changed about God's relationship with the sons of Israel.

I don't believe the OT had a heaven or hell, they are an invention of the NT God and a major change in man's relationship with God.

 

[fncceo]

Why should human beings be granted special rights? How are humans different from other animals?

From a legal point of view, it's not a capital crime to kill an animal, and it is a human.

From a moral point of view, the unlawful killing of a person is universally regarded much more heinous than the unlawful killing of an animal.

If you're really making a case that the killing of a human and an animal are morally equal then you could make a very strong case for cannibalism.

 

[JimBowie1958]

I don't believe the OT had a heaven or hell, they are an invention of the NT God and a major change in man's relationship with God.

The OT is silent, mostly on the after life. David mentions Sheol and some other mentions occur, but not much description. Job describes Satan petitioning God in Heaven in the midst of the Angels to put Job into a series of trials.

Heaven and hell did not spring into being with the NT, they just got more air time because humanity was more able to handle the ideas.

 

[JimBowie1958]

Not quite correct. OT is about the establishment of a people so that all mankind may be redeemed. The NT is the fulfillment of that plan.

The OT God had no issues killing the innocent to punish the guilty. The NT God, not so much.

God did not Himself kill anyone, hardly. It was always the criminal acts of other people or natural disasters.

At most one could claim that God removed blocking cause, but that is not theologically feasible as not every bad thing is blocked by God.