tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6301096656497422535.post1379704834061596628..comments2023-12-17T13:05:30.543-08:00Comments on Brane Space: Who Are the (Un-) Educated Idiots?Copernicushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16699554476216140859noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6301096656497422535.post-3627266469895935402010-05-04T05:59:09.697-07:002010-05-04T05:59:09.697-07:00You have to look at his original comment again:
&...You have to look at his original comment again:<br /><br />"Brothers and sisters ; although I'm obviously being factitious with the above pic's and the captions , but our atheist friends actually believe we evolved from apes ."<br /><br /><br />He doesn't even know there' no such word as "facttious" - the words if FACETIOUS!<br /><br />THAT'S why it's a waste of time arguing with him. The thing about claiming WE say "humans evolved from apes" is really HIM unable to grasp the genetic relationship of humans and apes (through their cytrochome-c) to a common ancestor of BOTH. It is just too difficult a concept for him, like it is most fundies, so he reduces it to saying "humans evolved from apes" because that's how HE conceives it! Then he projects that idiocy on us. <br /><br />It's as comical as when he says we "blame God" for evil when in fact we are taking to task HIS arguments about his God, claimed to be both all powerful and all good while it does nothing to help anyone. <br /><br />The philosopher Lactantius summarized the problem of God and evil in 4 hypotheses, none of which your brothere probably heard of:<br /><br />1) Either God wanted to eliminate evil and could not - he is impotent.<br /><br />2) Or, he could eliminate it but did not want to, in which case he is evil <br /><br />3) Or he neither could nor wanted to, in which case he is both impotent and evil (the demiurgos according to the Gnostics)<br /><br />4) Or he wants to eliminate evil and *could* so why does he refuse to?<br /><br />Lactantius also pointed out, as anyone with eyes can see, the world holds an EXCESS of evil - way more than could be produced ordinarily. The very least God oculd do is eliminate some of the worst of it, and we might then deal with the rest.<br /><br />The only conclusion for the realist and rationalist to make is that NO God created the world or governs it, either: a) because there is no God, period, or b) It is not a personal God but emerges as a partially conscious energy that has no remote concern for us, nor are we on its radar...unless perhaps we can focus our consciousness and channel it (the basis for Haisch's God theory)<br /><br />In any case, all of this is way too advanced for Pastor Mike, so I suggest letting him just stew in his own ignorant juices. He seems to enjoy them more than serious debate anyway.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11864292327259837089noreply@blogger.com