"Intelligent Design"
"With a vote last month, the school board in a rural south-central Pennsylvania community is believed to have become the first in the nation to mandate the teaching of 'intelligent design,' which holds that the universe is so complex that it must have been created by an unspecified higher power."
Now what kind of bullshit is that? The whole idea of "intelligent design" is fundamentally flawed. "The universe is too complex to have happened by chance." First and foremost, complex according to whom? What do we have to compare against to say, "yes, the universe is complex while X is not." Second of all, the universe was a one shot deal. Boom! A bang, and here we are. Maybe this sort of thing has occurred billions of times and a few times out of those many, life was created. We can't look around and say "WOW things are so well put together compared to the other universes!"
Obviously, one of the most common questions against evolution is, "where did it all start? The speck of mass that resulted in the big bang had to come from somewhere!" Of course, when you make the same argument against God, the common response is, "God has always existed." Real solid argument, real solid.
I have no problem with people believing in God, but don't try to rationalize it. Faith requires blind trust. Is that a bad thing? That's for you to decide. It's not the right belief for me. I need logic behind my beliefs. I need to be able to support them to myself. If you want to believe in God, go for it, but realize that you are giving up the ability to argue your belief with logic.
And if any of you Bible-crazed maniacs wants to argue with me, that's what the comments section is for. Don't forget, attack the topic, not the person.
Here's a well written, easy-to-read article (surprising, it's on Rotten.com, but no bad pictures or anything):
Creationism
On that note, all the articles on Religion on rotten.com are well written. Read them when you have a chance.
PS: Please don't argue that these articles have no merit because of the site they are on. I can find you the same exact literature on Harvard websites from professors (just not as easy-to-read, since they have to prove their PhD means something).
Now what kind of bullshit is that? The whole idea of "intelligent design" is fundamentally flawed. "The universe is too complex to have happened by chance." First and foremost, complex according to whom? What do we have to compare against to say, "yes, the universe is complex while X is not." Second of all, the universe was a one shot deal. Boom! A bang, and here we are. Maybe this sort of thing has occurred billions of times and a few times out of those many, life was created. We can't look around and say "WOW things are so well put together compared to the other universes!"
Obviously, one of the most common questions against evolution is, "where did it all start? The speck of mass that resulted in the big bang had to come from somewhere!" Of course, when you make the same argument against God, the common response is, "God has always existed." Real solid argument, real solid.
I have no problem with people believing in God, but don't try to rationalize it. Faith requires blind trust. Is that a bad thing? That's for you to decide. It's not the right belief for me. I need logic behind my beliefs. I need to be able to support them to myself. If you want to believe in God, go for it, but realize that you are giving up the ability to argue your belief with logic.
And if any of you Bible-crazed maniacs wants to argue with me, that's what the comments section is for. Don't forget, attack the topic, not the person.
Here's a well written, easy-to-read article (surprising, it's on Rotten.com, but no bad pictures or anything):
Creationism
On that note, all the articles on Religion on rotten.com are well written. Read them when you have a chance.
PS: Please don't argue that these articles have no merit because of the site they are on. I can find you the same exact literature on Harvard websites from professors (just not as easy-to-read, since they have to prove their PhD means something).
1 Comments:
I think if we've got billions of years of random events and the effects of those events, it doesn't take intelligence to create the world. If there was an intelligence behind it, it surely would have happened a lot sooner.
Or maybe we are God's Sims? :-)
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