Religious vs Not Religious

Religious Intellect: Why do we die, if we were perfect we wouldnt die. god made us mortal Intellectual Honesty: Exactly, life isnt perfect. Wow, what an intellect, you figured out life isnt perfect. Nature is indifferent. Nature is not evil. Birth defects and death are the result of either, natural errors, or the result of an impotent, evil, lazy or fake designer that monitors your sex life:) Religous intellect: Nothing can just pop out of nothing! Intellectual Honesty: Did you get a flu shot? Why? There is nothing new out there as something cannot evolve or just pop up out of nowhere, you should already be immune to every bad bug your imaginary god created :) Religious Intellect: Evolution is too unlikely to happen by chance! Intellectual Honesty: Lets see if an anology of how natural selction works, hopefully this dumbs it down enough. Imagine you could hold 20 dice, these dice represent particles, each side has a number 1-6 which represent different mutations. If you throw them, the chance of you getting all 6's is 1 in 3,656,158,440,062,976. If you threw a hand every second, it would take you more than a million years, to get all 6's. So getting all 6's, is extremely unlikely, but out of those 20 dice(particles), you'd probably get a few sixes(favorable mutations), right? So if those mutations, I mean 6's, we're put aside, what would happen if you continued to throw the remaining particles around to bounce off each other? In just a few throws, you would have reached your goal of getting all sixes. Evolution is NOT random, its a process of selecting that takes place over Billions of years :) Religious Intellect: Some of the world's leading geneticists and evolutionists are christians Intellectual Honesty: The emphasis in that statement belongs on the word "some". And a small some that really is: Its not an exact number, but the consensus is only between 1-5% based on research. The vast majority of the scientific community and academia supports evolutionary theory as the only explanation that can fully account for observations in the fields of biology, paleontology, molecular biology, genetics, anthropology, and others. One 1987 estimate found that "ONLY 700 scientists out of a total of 480,000 U.S. earth and life scientists give credence to creation-science". Thats less than 1% An expert in the evolution-creationism controversy, professor and author Brian Alters, states that "99.9 percent of scientists accept evolution". A 1991 Gallup poll of Americans found that about 5% of scientists (including those with training outside biology) identified themselves as creationists. Additionally, the scientific community considers intelligent design, a neo-creationist offshoot, to be unscientific,pseudoscience, or junk science. The U.S. National Academy of Sciences has stated that intelligent design "and other claims of supernatural intervention in the origin of life" are not science because they cannot be tested by experiment, do not generate any predictions, and propose no new hypotheses of their own. In September 2005, 38 Nobel laureates issued a statement saying "Intelligent design is fundamentally unscientific; it cannot be tested as scientific theory because its central conclusion is based on belief in the intervention of a supernatural agent." In October 2005, a coalition representing more than 70,000 Australian scientists and science teachers issued a statement saying "intelligent design is not science" and calling on "all schools not to teach Intelligent Design (ID) as science, because it fails to qualify on every count as a scientific theory". Paul Hanle of the Biotechnology Institute warned that the United States risks falling behind in the biotechnology race with other nations if it does not do a better job of teaching evolution. James McCarter of Divergence Incorporated states that the work of 2001 Nobel Prize winner Leland Hartwell which has substantial implications for combating cancer relied heavily on the use of our evolutionary knowledge and predictions. McCarter points out that 47 of the last 50 Nobel Prizes in medicine or physiology also depended on the use of our understanding evolutionary theory :) So again, Its not an exact number, but the consensus is only between 1-5% based on research. However, at the end of the day, when all the dust settles, its poison, its just a matter of splitting hairs, semantics, and a few interpretations of lunacy, then put it together, call it a religion of some sort, and a human can be poisoned by religious dogma, regardless of genius level intellect, to also be a creationist. Now thats some powerful poison :) Religious Intellect: Well what do you have faith in you dont believe in a god? Intellectual Honesty: An Atheist, besides being a pointless word, is not someone who is completely devoid of beliefs, just devoid of beliefs in a god. I believe in doing good because you want to Not because you will get a reward after death. I believe in teaching children the truth instead of fairy tales. I believe in monogomy. I believe in the shot clock and three point line in basketball. I believe religion is the single most destructive thing mankind has created. I believe in democracy. I believe in foreplay. I believe that scientific advances in medicine save more lives than prayers. I believe in philanthropy. I believe in sticking up for the underdog and those who cant for themselves. I believe actions speak louder than words. I believe that you are surprised by the size of this response. I believe that nature is indifferent and Not evil. I believe in a playoff system in college football. I believe religion is divisive and dangerous. I believe that everybodys friend is really nobodys. I believe in myself. I believe that when mankind embraces the truth based on evidence and Not faith, mankind will prosper. I believe in being an organ donor. I believe Pete Rose deserves to be in the Hall of Fame. I believe if you have to lie to your children and motivate them to be good for fear of eternal punishment is a weak and insecure way to raise children. I believe there is more virtue in doing good for mankind because you want to make life better, instead of doing godd for mankind to earn a scooby snack when you die. I believe the universe is too magnificant and mysterious to be created by a being who uses human sacrifice to show love and forgiveness. I believe in loyalty. I believe that these comment sections are not big enough to fit everything I believe in:) Religious Intellect: "You can still change your eternal destiny, through jesus christ, because without him, the destiny you're headed towards will be torment" Intellectual Honesty: Listen to how arrogant and self seeking that is, I have to listen to a being who has a circumcison covenent with men but no covenent of any kind with women, or I am going to get a spanking? However, if I do get on my knees, I get a scooby snack, wow, thats cute. Now take your holy binky and go night night, its that type of delusional thinking that is retarding the growth of human conciousness :) Religious Intellect: I believe in science. Science is in the bible. Intellectual Honesty: You say you believe in science, yet everytime I tell you something about science, you say it is somehow wrong because it doesnt fit your story, or you find a way to say 'god did it for a reason we just dont know what that reason is' That way, by using that statement right there, gives god full reign to do whatever he wants and stone whoever he wants in the old testament, and tell whoever he wants to cover their head when they pray in 1 Corinthians in your precious new testament. Violent sexists, dont make beautiful, magical and inspirational universes :) BigKids 8:9--Just be the best parent possible, be patient and THINK, and when you get the urge to convince your children that the reason for gravity was tortured and killed on a cross in the middle east, slap yourself