Author Topic: Why worship god, when...  (Read 25124 times)

A star-lover. We don't like your kind around here.
yes we do, what are you talking about? are you the only one who hasn't had a loveual relation with the sun :O

Hmm...

I must be a demon in the eyes of sun... solar... solara... solaranity (right? :D) because the sun loving burns.

I can't tan. If I wear sunscreen, one or two small freckles on each limb absorb the 'tan' I would otherwise get. If I don't wear sunscreen, I burn within 15 minutes of exposure.

IMADEMON.

A reason why to worship john Lennon?
Because he is listening to the world


You puny infidels who worship the false gods!

All praise to he, who has touched as all with is noodle appendage!
Praise he!
Or Suffer!


Why worship anything?
Why has something always be above you?


There you have it, Jesus was a rock computer.

The actual possibility of One strand of DNA being created is 1 to 10 to the 86th power that is: 1/100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000


And, That is for only one strand.

Imagine a human that would be like 1 to 10 to the 34625683456827346587346531465 8163487561875461834568176345


Thus beliving science takes a lot more faith.


Another example is if you smash, Lets say a clock, or pocket-watch, and then shake it around in a bag for about 1000 billion years, Will you end up with a clock?
I think not.
Do you even know anything about genetics? Did you bother to look anything up or did you just pull a random number out of your gullible ass?

Genetic material is made up out of nucleotides, these molecules are represented by the letters A, T, C/U and G and those letters are the alphabet of genes. These molecules are somewhat more complex than the other molecules floating around in the universe, so your first question probably is where they came from.
Answer: These molecules are formed in early-earth conditions. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller-Urey_experiment)

The first notable thing about nucleotides is that they can link together to form a long chain, which is what you'd get when you tear a stereotype DNA molecule in half. Another notable thing about nucleotides is that they come in pairs: A attracts T and C or U attracts G, which means that next to your chain of nucleotides another chain forms, which is exactly opposite to the first chain. These chains can be separated and a new chain will form next to the second chain, thus the third chain will be a copy of the original chain. Result: these molecules replicate on their own.

A chain isn't always copied correctly, because of UV-rays, radiation, heath, god, ... This means that we get different kinds of chains, some are longer, some are shorter, some are folded up, some aren't, this means that some chains are easier to replicate than others, which means that they'll replicate more and become more abundant. The fittest chains survive and reproduce.

Next up: proteins. Proteins consist of a chain of building blocks which are called amino-acids. These amino-acids have 2 spots to link to other amino-acids and one spot which has a specific part of a molecule, which performs a certain function. Some of these amino-acids bind with small nucleotide chains, the nucleotide part of this molecule is attracted to a longer chain and binds to a specific spot (an amino acid bound to ATA would be attracted to the TAT-part of a longer molecule), the same happens for other amino-acids. The result: a chain of amino-acids is formed next to a chain of genetic material. Genetic material has created a protein.

Now that amino-acids and nucleotides are working together they can begin to form bigger structures: a cell. Genetic material which creates a protein-shield around itself is better protected against UV-rays and other nasty stuff, and has more chance of survival, thus there will be more genetic material with a shield around it. Cells evolve other structures similarly.

Some of these cells mutate in such a way that they stick to one-another, which means that blobs of cells emerge. These blobs are bigger than smaller cells and can't be eaten by small cells, thus they have more chance of survival and reproduction. Some of these cells specialize: some make energy, some move, ...
As these blobs get bigger and bigger, complex organisms begin to emerge.

This is where macro-evolution begins: There's a large group of organisms of the same species with slight variations in genetic material. These slight variations make them different, they have different abilities and disabilities. Suppose a new toxic substance is released into their environment, some of the organisms will die instantly, and some are a bit resistant to the toxin. The resistant organisms survive and have more chance of reproduction. They reproduce and their offspring is more resistant to the toxin. This happens for several generations until the organism is completely immune to the toxin. The organism has evolved immunity. This happens for other properties too: Some of them evolve organs that are sensitive to light and so they can see their predators, thus they're able to avoid them, thus they reproduce and more organisms grow eyes because it gives them an advantage over organisms without eyes.

Do this again and again and again for countless generations and you end up with the animals we have today. Genetic material wasn't randomly smashed together just once to form an animal, it happened in stages, with the randomness providing both good and bad properties and the environment filtering out the bad properties.

There's lots of proof of evolution too (as opposed to all the mumbo jumbo in the bible):
  • Homology: all animals share common features: 4 limbs, 2 eyes, a nose, a stomach, a digestive track, lungs, etc.
  • Embryology: embryos go through their evolutionary background as they develop. For example: human embryos have gills at a certain point.
  • Observation: both micro- and macro-evolution have been observed.
  • Fossils: fossils of extinct species show the steps between different types of animals, for example, reptiles growing feathers and becoming birds or fish growing legs.
  • ...

TL;DR: Don't bother to reply if you didn't read it all.

TL;DR: Don't bother to reply if you didn't read it all.
Kk


I do find it easier to believe that something was always here than to believe that we went from nothing to something.

Pretty much everyone has heard of God, and pretty much everyone has heard of evolution. But I'm not sure how many of you actually know enough about both to wisely come to a complete conclusion. Condemnation without investigation is the height of all ignorance.

And on a final note, I find the common double standard of outward beliefs ridiculous. Religious people are hassled or prevented from sharing their beliefs, but it seems to be perfectly OK to tell everybody how and why you are an atheist.

What if everything was already here, just in a different state? A cyclic universe.

You only perceive this double standard because you are too conceited to realize the difference between sharing one's belief and actively mocking, condescending and trying to convert the beliefs of others. Whenever the subject arises, it always seems to be the religious amongst the group that are so intolerant of the others. Want to know why atheists tell people about their belief? ...because they get hounded by questions from those whom have hardly considered anything more than what a book, a preacher or a parent has told them.


So you humans wish to begin worshiping me again, I see? Well this time, I'll make sure that you won't overthrow me and fling a nuke into my ship leaving me with a rather nasty rash. I think I'll be a bit nicer though this time around. I'll kill only on SUNday and Wednesday.

Deal?



WORSHIP HIM GOD DAMNIT

He is listening to the world(did Jesus do that?)

Why do we have to worship anything? I agree with your statement about God, but why the sun? It just sits there, and we orbit it. The sun's not going to leave if we don't worship it.

I do find it easier to believe that something was always here than to believe that we went from nothing to something.

Pretty much everyone has heard of God, and pretty much everyone has heard of evolution. But I'm not sure how many of you actually know enough about both to wisely come to a complete conclusion. Condemnation without investigation is the height of all ignorance.

And on a final note, I find the common double standard of outward beliefs ridiculous. Religious people are hassled or prevented from sharing their beliefs, but it seems to be perfectly OK to tell everybody how and why you are an atheist.

Some people actually completely forget about evolution. Because of their strong religion, when they see that they found a huge fossil of a tyrannosaurus's head on TV, they think "It's all a bunch of models, actors, and bogus."

Who in the right mind...