The Puzzle Of Life - Science vs Creationism

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Science has done a remarkable job at describing what we see around us yet some religious types want to deny it.

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Science always wins. Sadly, some people actually believe the world is less than 10,000 years old. These are creationists.

Wouldn't a worldview of reason and evidence over superstition and dogma be better? We want to make sense of observations that don't rely on religious texts and the myriad interpretations they engender. This video shows how science, once allowed to prosper, bears a fruit of understanding with incredible power to explain and understand our surroundings.

In America, over half of the population is ignorant to an incredible array of evidence supporting evolution and other scientific facts. Denying it is just as ridiculous as denying the holocaust or other well-recorded historical facts.

Such denial is a travesty, robbing society of truth. Religion dupes its blind-faith followers into accepting dogma for which there is no evidence. If only such believers would require the same standard of evidence they do for most other parts of their lives.

All we ask is that people look at their faith and ask "does it add up?" Does prayer work as advertised? Do verifiable miracles happen? What really is the evidence for evolution and an old earth? Why does a loving God sentence the vast majority of humanity to eternal hell while being so coy about his very existence? And many other questions. If it doesn't add up, you should be asking yourself why.

We might only be able to be agnostic about God, but we can be atheists regarding God as described by most modern religions which make quite falsifiable claims.

Use your brain and ask yourself "does it add up?" If you find, under any amount of evidenciary scrutiny, that it does not add up, you must look around: you'll be amazed at what you find.

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[FreeSilio]

@Killedkennyagain Agreed, but that's irrelevant to the purpose of this video, which is to show how religion was born from a pre-scientific mindset and it's been working (and still is) for centuries against the progress of human knowledge.

The fact that Aristarcus discovery has been covered up for that many centuries only reinforces the argument.

[FreeSilio]

@Killedkennyagain Yes, but Aristarcus (that's the right spelling) theory was not taken in serious consideration until the modern era, although based on good evidence.

His writings, anyway, did not arrive to us because they contraddicted the christian superstition, which was for all the middle age the source of our culture (or better: the base of our ignorance!).

Christians didn't burn only people, but ideas too (E.g.: the destruction of Alexandria Library in 3rd century made by "saint" Cyril).

[0debug]

As an outsider (non-American), it's both scary and hilarious that there needs to be a YouTube video like this in 2011. The science in this video is grade-school knowledge over here... but maybe not in America? The only reason why there would have to be "debates" or discussions about creationism vs a science-based world view seems to be that the influence of religious groups is still very severe. Hopefully it will reduce naturally over time. Good luck (from Europe).

[SpinyStarCraft]

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[AdoptReality]

"atheism is a pessimistic philosophy"

The sun burning us all up in a few billion years is kind of pessimistic, too, but wouldn't you rather base your life on reality?

[FreeSilio]

@romney27 "atheism is a pessimistic philosophy"

Once more a "definition" from your santa's dictionary? :D

Should I prefer the delusion of religious wishful thinking?

[romney27]

or in other words FreeSillo...."keep fucking that chicken". if I can say that without bruising your tender wit, I do.

[romney27]

@Free unsurprisingly predictable as I suspected. your prowess is a little peter barely if at all.

I guess that would explain your fondness for assumption & invoking projection.... atheism is a pessimistic philosophy at best which runs contrary to the inherent nature of the human condition and mans need to make emotional connections by telling stories in order to create meaningful memories. Asking a behavioral biologist would verify that fact, but instead you witlessly wallow in adjectives. next

[FreeSilio]

@romney27 The only fallacy I've seen is your strawman argument, when you said "atheism is pure intolerance", despite I explained you the correct meaning of the term.

If that is the definition you find on your dictionary I can guess you really got it from Santa! :D

[romney27]

@FreeSilio that is laughable.... atheism is pure intolerance. I know you atheist don't go around respecting any one else beliefs. I think you should ask santa for a dictionary for Christmas.

I think ignorance is an adjective only rebuttal with no meat. You'd have to have the gumption to back up any of that with merit, but clearly you have none. I bet you cite fallacy names as fallacy...lo

[FreeSilio]

@romney27 NO. atheism is simply the rejection of unsupported claims about gods, so it is exactly the opposite of bigotry and ignorance.

I know you "believers" like to project on other people your own defects, but doing this makes you much more irrational and silly than you still are for your baseless "faith".

[romney27]

@FreeSilio and atheism is just a form of bigotry, also ignorant.