ValsalvaYourHeartOut
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Originally posted by: Caveman2001
... then maybe you'll re-evaluate your position on Atheism. I take it you believe you came from a rock. Now that's a crazy religion.
It's clear from what you wrote that you do not understand evolution and natural selection at all. Maybe if you took the time to research and understand the theories yourself, rather than accept ideas that have been spoonfed to you buy your religious teachers, you might have a more open-minded perspective.
Consider, the Bible's explanation for where women came from -- well, apparently Eve was derived from one of Adam's ribs. Okay, that sounds okay if it's 235 A.D., and you believe you can turn straw to gold. ...but it's 2002, people. Let me ask you this:
1) If Eve grew from Adam's rib, then she would have exactly the same DNA!!! This would mean that she would look almost exactly like Adam, just like identical twins. Clearly, something is not right here.
2) If Eve had the same DNA as Adam, then her sex chromosomes would be XY. Clearly, she would NOT be a woman if she had an XY genotype -- she would be a male. Where did that second X chromosome come from to make her female????
Wait, never mind. I guess when God made Eve, he took his Holy DNA Randomizer and mixed up the alleles a little to give Eve some genetic diversity. Then he got rid of her Y chromosome and replaced it with another X chromosome. And since God is omnipotent, he painstakingly did this for each and every one of her millions of cells. Now if God is so omnipotent that he can manipulate all that DNA, tell me -- how come he "inspired" a book so full of errors, contradictions, intolerance, injustice, and ambiguity (The Bible) that people who weren't born brainwashed couldn't possibly believe its validity?? And if he's so omnipotent, how come half the world's population (e.g. Uganda, Madagascar, etc.) living in 3rd world countries have never heard of Jesus Christ and the other 2/3 of the Trinity?? -- if He can do so much, why the hell can't he find some way for all those people to learn about him??? I mean, if he went through all the trouble of creating these people, wouldn't He want them to know about him???
All of this can be answered by the standard cop-out Christian response: "God works in mysterious ways." ... or "If we could answer those questions, we'd be God!!!" I guess, if these responses are rigorous enough for Sunday school, the ought to be good enough for us.
Valsalva