NintendoPie said:
dsgrue3 said:
Just for the record, you're okay with people spreading bullshit?
Say for instance, 2 billion people on Earth told you the Sun revolves around the Earth even in light of the evidence. You want these people to continue teaching this to their kids? You want these people in leadership positions? Have political sway? Have legal sway?
Come on, it is easy to see it is a problem to do this type of thing where you say "okay every opinion is fine, everybody gets a participation trophy, etc".
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You are acting as if these things are mutual. They aren't. We can clearly see that the sun does not revolve around the earth. Can we clearly see that there is no god/God? (Whichever.) Even if the Christian God is proven absolutely "fake" in some time, then what about the others?
You can not flat out say that there is no god, or Christian God to be specific. There are even documents/historical evidence to support things that had happened in the Bible. Science is all about evidence and proof, correct? Then why not take this religious proof seriously?
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I'm not sure why people think evolution is about debunking god. It isn't, nor would I ever make the claim that there is no god. I simply say, until there is sufficient evidence for the theistic claim then I remain a skeptic. Which means the claim remains in limbo. But how do we address existence? We move from a position of non-belief to belief based upon evidence. So being a skeptic means I don't believe in god.
We can clearly see evolution in this same way. If you haven't read anything about phylogeny, I highly recommend it. It orders the entire hierarchy of common ancestry of the animal and plant life based upon DNA. I realize DNA is much more complex than fossils, but DNA is where the bulk of the evidence is. Fossils are nice for layman, like us, but unnecessary really. If you want fossils in particular, look at all of the hominid fossils.
Ah, the bible is a collection of many books. Simply because a few passages in a couple books are historically accurate does not make the collection as a whole accurate; nor does it lend credence to things we can't confirm.