The Athiest Thread

[Norik]

"when religion ruled, they called it the Dark Ages".

That's eurocentrism. If it weren't for Islam the world as we know it wouldn't exist, the renaissance would have never happened, and we (western civilization) probably would have never found America. Not to mention that India and the middle east created very complex algebra around the year 900 and paved the way for calculus. The Church sucking as a ruling institution doesn't mean that all religions are bad for us.

Christianity is a religion, but not all religions are like Christianity. Why is that so hard for people to grasp?

 

[damn-I-Suck]

"and Islamic Africa was already making heart surgery by the 1200's"

I laughed when I saw this. Heart Surgery in the 1200's? Your kidding right?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_surgery

Read the section titled "history". Seems like your off about 650 years!

 

[TerminatorCortez]

Well evolution is great damn-I-suck but still to this day, we can't explain how organized species with over millions of genes evolved from a simple structured bacteria with an average of 20 genes. Mutation explains how genes can change but not how to add some:). Evolution looks great from the outside but when you study it in college, you find it fascinating that such excellence in biological life, cannot be a coincidence. And I also find it offending that you call believers "sick" in the head. The bible was misinterpretted during the dark ages. If you read the story of Job, God did tell him that the earth was floating in nothingness.

Religion might have its bad side but science is no better.

 

[damn-I-Suck]

I suddenly like you considerably more.

Don't believe what "they" tell you about me. Make your own judgement.

Well evolution is great damn-I-suck but still to this day, we can't explain how organized species with over millions of genes evolved from a simple structured bacteria with an average of 20 genes. Mutation explains how genes can change but not how to add some:). Evolution looks great from the outside but when you study it in college, you find it fascinating that such excellence in biological life cannot be a coincidence.

While I do agree with you in the sense that life is utterly amazing and completely unlikely, evolution, without it's "proofs" still makes 10x more sense than any religion whatsoever.

Yess unfortunately, there is no explanation for how a species loses or gains pairs of chromosomes.

Humans have 46, Chimpanzees have 48. People with down-syndrome have 47, which is why they can't have kids (thank god for that!)

BTW, when I say "thank god", it's only an expression. I don't actually believe in god, but I love the irony:)

PS: I think cats have around 64 chromosomes or so.

 

[TerminatorCortez]

Also Damn-I-suck science is no better than religion. They both have their fair share of craziness. Both destroying societies and taking lifes. The culprit will always be the human mind.