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agent_509 Junior Member (Idle past 4469 days) Posts: 16 Joined:
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over a year ago I registered on this forum, a fundamentalist christian young-earth creationist. I started participating in a topic all ready to "prove to some evil evolutionists that creationism was right!" and got utterly destroyed. I was so embarrassed I left the forum and didn't come back. Some time later, thanks in part to seeing what an idiot I was, I am now actually an atheist who accepts the theory of evolution. Should be interesting debating from this new perspective.
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agent_509 Junior Member (Idle past 4469 days) Posts: 16 Joined:
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A number of things. It pretty much started with one of my whacko extreme fundamentalist christian teachers spouting absolute nonsense. In the process of sorting through all the crap she was spouting, i ended up questioning my own beliefs, and actually reading the bible for myself. I found pretty surprising things. After seeing that I had absolutely no reason to believe what I believed I opened my mind to all possibilities looking at facts. That made me look at evolution without a bias and I realized how much sense it made and how many facts backed it up. Here i am today. I'm currently a physics major hoping to one day obtain a doctorate in theoretical physics. Seeing everything with an open mind cosmology and theoretical physics are just so fascinating.
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agent_509 Junior Member (Idle past 4469 days) Posts: 16 Joined: |
haha thanks yeah I've done a lot of reading and research over the last year so I've had a lot of different takes. You have a merry Christmas too. Christmas, holidays, whatever we're all talking about the same time of the year, different names don't really matter.
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agent_509 Junior Member (Idle past 4469 days) Posts: 16 Joined: |
definitely legit, and yes there was lots of thinking and studying done
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agent_509 Junior Member (Idle past 4469 days) Posts: 16 Joined:
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Yes I might have to respond to my original messages at some point, although crashfrog is right, this isn't really the thread for it.
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agent_509 Junior Member (Idle past 4469 days) Posts: 16 Joined:
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Since creationism is an evaluation of the real world concerning its origin and derives all its conclusions in a scientific manner, it follows that your above request is an absurdity ROFL, are you thinking of the same definition of creationism everyone else is? If so, creationism conclusions are derived from the bible, and then creationists try and find facts to support it. This wouldn't be a problem, if facts supporting it actually existed.
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agent_509 Junior Member (Idle past 4469 days) Posts: 16 Joined: |
creationists are the scientific rational ones, and evolutionists are the religious, dogmatic zealots who have blind faith. Interesting projection.
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agent_509 Junior Member (Idle past 4469 days) Posts: 16 Joined: |
I'm well aware that there are other Christianities out there, and I've looked at many different ones, as well as different other religions, but none stand up. As I believe I mentioned before examining the facts and coming to accept ToE was a result of becoming an atheist, not the reason I became an atheist.
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agent_509 Junior Member (Idle past 4469 days) Posts: 16 Joined:
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I'm probably about a 6. I feel there is probably no god/gods, but I accept that there very well could be, and am completely open to the idea if evidence is presented.
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agent_509 Junior Member (Idle past 4469 days) Posts: 16 Joined: |
I see I'll keep that in mind
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agent_509 Junior Member (Idle past 4469 days) Posts: 16 Joined:
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I don't "hate" my former self, I'm just pissed that my formal self didn't see things sooner.
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agent_509 Junior Member (Idle past 4469 days) Posts: 16 Joined: |
that is basically what happened to me when I had finished my high school biology class and came on here to debate. I definitely agree that the YECs do create a false dichotomy of the issue.
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