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Posted by: Neophile 2 years, 7 months agoA look at top ten myths relating to intelligent design (creationism). [via Digg]
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Neophile
May 28, 2007, 3:44 p.m.I can't believe they left out Pastafarianism.
"The Flying Spaghetti Monster created the universe, Earth and its creatures after drinking heavily from heaven's beer volcano."
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Daylight
May 28, 2007, 3:50 p.m.This is my unfavorite subject and I will return later to deal with it.
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tehranchik
May 28, 2007, 4:07 p.m.I like this post. Gives you an idea of the rest of what the world thinks--we are not the only ones here,,,, and we need to be respectful of the worlds beliefs. Til the time that someone dies----comes back with the proof, we only have faith.
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kedirian
May 28, 2007, 6:06 p.m.When a creed is faltering under the weight of its own "miracles" and lies, its high priests will stop at nothing, including nuclear war, to try and convince mankind that they have a hotline to the Creator....
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Natureboy
May 28, 2007, 10:33 p.m.Must reading for any fundamentalist.
Yeah, like fundamentalists read. LOL!
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slate
May 28, 2007, 11:14 p.m.People of faith believe in something larger than they are and hope for something better when they die,, Atheists believe that the universe revolves around them they are the ultimate narcissists. I believe in something larger than I am but I don't claim any organized religion has the ultimate answer,,,,,, but to me hope in that larger power has much greater value than placing all our hope in the individual ego of lowly men with no hope beyond a handful of decades of life.
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Daylight
May 28, 2007, 11:36 p.m.BarneyGoogle
If nonbelievers look for truth without wasting their time on foot ball matches and pubs, they would realize their folly of being nonbelievers. It is a myth, invented by the same nonbelievers that believers are all out to eliminate them. Believers will always try to convince the nonbelievers that the whole world evolves around them as the nonbelievers believe the whole world evolves around them too. No amount of signs and evidences will convince the nonbelievers, because they are described as rebellious transgressors. So as believers we leave you to choose what you like.
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DeltaX
May 28, 2007, 6:57 p.m."Genesis, the first book of the Jewish Torah and the Christian Bible, contains two origin stories, both of which are accepted as the creation of the world by today's Jewish, Christian and Islamic faiths."
Since those three faiths account for the majority of Earth's population, by Nutscape standards it must be right.
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SlapALib
May 28, 2007, 9:38 p.m.We could be saved a lot of trouble if someone would just prove that this life is it.
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NoWayMan
May 28, 2007, 9:51 p.m.what about scientology's creation myth in which an evil, intergalactic warlord named Xenu kidnaps billions of alien life forms, chains them near Earth's volcanoes, and blows them up with nuclear weapons?
can't believe this didn't make the top ten.
tom cruise is gonna be pi$sed.
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RandyK
May 28, 2007, 10:06 p.m.The posting was probably from a scientologist which would explain the lack of it making the list.
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Natureboy
May 28, 2007, 11:29 p.m.OK, the creation myths are fairly violent and invariably irrational, which probably sums up the human race, inventors of the myths.
That being said, I don't have a problem with "intelligent design" as long as nobody is dumb enough to propose it as a scientific theory. It is not. It is not falsifiable, therefore not a scientific theory.
After all, when Einstein said "God does not play dice with the universe," he was on some level arguing intelligent design. Einstein was himself intelligent enough not to confuse this sentiment with scientific theory.
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braveone
May 28, 2007, 11:33 p.m.it's Bush's fault. all of it,
if he did'nt steal the election,
and ruin the whole planet,
we would.nt need intelligence...
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ETproductions
May 29, 2007, 12:17 a.m.There is even a creation museum now. http://www.creationmuseum.org/ It stresses that the earth is about 6000 years old and that the dinosaurs got on Noah's ark with the humans and other current life forms.
The funny thing to me is that this all is PROVED by Genesis, which talks of God creating the heavens and the earth and all that is therein in 6 days. Fundamentalists INSIST that if the bible says 6 days, that is EXACTLY what it means. IN GENESIS.
Now fast forward to the book of Daniel. We have a prophecy of the coming of the Messiah. Daniel 9:24-26 gives a VERY specific time when the Messiah will arrive. Now, if you interpret Daniel literally, as the fundamentalist insist Genesis must be read, Jesus was born about 420 years too late to be the Messiah.
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ETproductions
May 29, 2007, 12:13 a.m.Further to the above:
1. The "7 sevens" in Daniel 9:25.
2. The "62 sevens" in Daniel 9:25.
3. And the 70th "seven" in Daniel 9:27.
They combine the first two periods for a total of 69 "sevens." They combined the first two periods because it is at after the completion of those two periods that the anointed one appears, and that's what we are trying to calculate - when the anointed one was supposed to appear.
Next, they interpret the "sevens" as "seven years" or periods of seven years, rather than a period of seven days or seven weeks or seven months.
So it seems the Christian Right has the right to interpret days, weeks and months any way they want so long as their interpretation results in their preconceived result.
I'm not anti Christian. I'm just against the requirement of so many churches that you leave your brain along with your coat in the Narthex.
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nahual
May 29, 2007, 12:38 a.m.Anyone that reads mythology,soon realizes that Christianity is a myth,one of many, perhaps one of the newest,in a long line of myths.
Today some hold the Christian God to be the one and only real God, they cite the Bible as proof, yet when one points out the evidence left behind by,say the Egyptians,evidence written all over walls in temples and tombs and in papyrus documents regarding their religion and their Gods,Christians dismiss them as a mere pagan myth.
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Nowalive
May 29, 2007, 12:48 a.m.Let's see. Can we call Von Danikkenism a religion? Intelligent design discussion need not be constrained to religion only, though many religions could be explained by Von Danikkenism.
Perhaps there is a designer. Perhaps the human race is nothing more than a genetic experiment undertaken by an extra-terrestrial lifeform.
Perhaps, just perhaps, we are an ongoing experiment to observe progressive adaptation.
Perhaps, just perhaps, the gods of the world's religions are other-worldly observers of the experiment that is the human race. That these observers seemed to ancient cultures to be supernatural beings, with miraculous powers and abilities.
Think about it and stop pushing your "no religion under any circumstances" drivel. I choose to believe in a greater intellect, a higher power if you will, and I don't try to force atheists or agnostics to believe, and I don't enjoy being denegrated for not, not believing.
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droid3913
May 29, 2007, 1:05 a.m.My question is: Where did God come from? An don't say he was always there. That is impossible, against the laws of physic's. "You can not create energy and matter. Buy you can change it's state"
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