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The downsides of organized religion are the same as the downsides of every other organized groups. It's susceptible to corruption, manipulation and abuse, the more so the more powerful the cause in question is. The part I dislike the most is the indoctrination of youth before they are old enough to actually reason by themselves. Yes there is a chance they will adopt a different viewpoint, but in my opinion they have the right to make that choice and I think we owe it to them to let them chose their own life. Is it bad to believe in religion just in case? I'd say no, but then again you don't have to accept the religious aspect of religion to believe and live with the moral aspect of it. Over here kids who didn't have classes on religion instead had classes on morals, which basically taught most of the same values but without the gospel. About your father and your church elder; some people would say they already made their choice and choose religion over science long ago. Nothing wrong with it obviously and it's certainly far from being so simple, but that isn't the kind of persons whose opinion a hardcore atheist would take seriously. They're members of the opposite camp after all.
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09-08-2008, 08:14 AM | #102 |
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Re: Remember that Dutch comic about Mohamad?
Give me an example.
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Evolution is small steps over time. An organism belonging to a new specie doesn't just appear boom-crash-bang, without anyone to breed with. If it did, it would be the last of its specie. Quote:
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I'm not trying to deride you or anything, bro, but you simply don't understand the ToE.
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09-08-2008, 08:24 AM | #104 |
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Hehehe, sorry. :p The thing is, I didn't read the whoe thread before posting. It had doubled in size since my last visit.
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09-08-2008, 08:26 AM | #105 |
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Re: Remember that Dutch comic about Mohamad?
I thought it was common knowledge that the internal anatomy of a rat is closer to our own than anything else. That's why they use lab rats.
Where does that put the ape theory?
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09-08-2008, 08:27 AM | #106 |
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Re: Remember that Dutch comic about Mohamad?
Well since I don't currently have any of the books readily available and it has been years since I read either of them (out of curiosity) I don't have an easily available example, but a pretty striking example would be that many Christian groups use the Bible as their holy book, yet they have different ideas (homosexuality for example). Or some people interpreting the Qu'ran as needing to blow themselves and a couple dozen people up and others living their lives in peace.
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09-08-2008, 08:30 AM | #107 |
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Re: Remember that Dutch comic about Mohamad?
Variol: rats are cheaper and much more readily available in large numbers for testing purposes.
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In any case, that we fallable humans doens't have the know-how or time to do it does not mean in itself that it didn't happen. After all, life have been in existence for 3.5 billion years, and there have probably been billions upon billions upon billions of lifeforms linving during all those years. That is alot of potential for evolution.
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09-08-2008, 08:35 AM | #109 |
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Re: Remember that Dutch comic about Mohamad?
I entered "contradictions in the bible" in google and this website with the dramatic name came up. I don't know how serious it can be taken but it does site sources.
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