Religion is no longer relevant… Move on with your life!
Posted by AngryHuman | Posted in Religion | Posted on 28-05-2009
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I discovered this gem of a website. It’s a Christian website, funded by the Templeton Foundation, an organization that is desperately trying to reconcile Science and Religion, which, as any sane individual knows, are irreconcilable.
What really caught my eye on this site was this little tidbit:
Descent from Common Species
A cardinal principle of biological evolution is that all living things descended from earlier, less advanced ancestral species. These first free-living organisms are believed to have appeared on Earth about 3.85 billion years ago, making some of the early details of evolution a mystery. As a result , the actual origin of life remains unexplained, and evolutionary theorists do not attempt to explain it. (See Question 24 about The Origin of Life). These original organisms, however, carried information and were capable of self replication. Over very long periods of time, nature’s selection for beneficial mutations — as well as nature’s selection against detrimental mutations — has led to the vast diversity of living things that exists today.(See Question 26 about The Complexity of Life.)
I love how they just took a jab at science by stating that evolutionary theorists don’t attempt to explain the origin of life. What a shitty fucking tactic! They’re attempting to cast doubt onto Science by making this statement, in the hopes that people will be more swayed toward belief in god, rather than Science. I would just like to take the time to point out the flaw in that statement. Evolutionary Biologists do not study the origin of life. They study evolution, as the title suggests. The origin of life has nothing to do with evolution. Evolution comes after the origin of life. Nice try, assholes.
The authors of the website also claim that they acknowledge the validity of evolution, but rather than applying Occam’s Razor and attributing it to a series of naturalistic events, they instead give their magical sky-fairy all the credit. That, to me, is like a child who saunters into a store, steals the most expensive item in that store, and shouts, “Mine! ALL MINE!” Pathetic.
Religion is no longer relevant. It provides more questions than answers, and Science has contradicted pretty much everything in that bible of theirs. Religion is only alive because people are morons. If this country were to spend more money on education, religion would disappear entirely, at least, in the good ol’ U.S. of A.
Would you believe something from a book that was written over 2000 years ago by primitive cavemen who knew nothing, or would you believe something from Science, which uses rigorous testing to verify the theories it puts forward to explain our Universe? I know which I’d believe, but then again, I’m a rational human being, and you are not.





