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How about "Evolution v. Sore Losers"?

But there are plenty of biologists like Francis Collins and Ken Miller and Simon Conway Morris who are willing to explain that biology and God are the best of pals. They have no problems reconciling biology and God, but what they can't reconcile is biology and creationist loonies, who, despite their pretensions, are not God. The wind does not transcend science, observation, and empiricism. This is why I don't just "know" it's there in scare quotes, I really do know that it's there.

You need to replace the batteries in your humor detector.

No, but I've seen its effects. You know, things blowing about. Perhaps you don't find it funny. But it was fatuous to reply to it as though it was intended seriously.

No. This is why educated people are more likely to look at your beliefs and laugh and laugh and laugh. Because they are not closed-minded religious zealots who have to bow down and worship your opinions. Instead, they have open minds, and they can look at every idea on its merits, and so they laugh and laugh and laugh at your pathetic futile nonsense. Well put. But the reason that there is a debate is that the creationists want to pretend that their views are scientific. If they just came out with it and said: "I don't believe in evolution because, although all the facts prove me wrong, my imaginary friend told me not to", then those of us who live in the real world would have nothing left to do but feel sorry for them. But it's not like that, is it? Instead they talk retarded gibberish about science and then pat themselves on the back and tell everyone how their imaginary friend is right and how the stupid nonsense that their imaginary friend believes in should be taught in science class. This would be a case in point. You are discussing the fantasy world in your head. And you are doing so in all seriousness.Now, sure, if it makes you happy to believe that crap, then go ahead and believe it. Evidently it makes you feel better, and no-one will get hurt if you indulge yourself in this way. It's like masturbation in that respect. But you want to get up on your little soapbox in public and preach this crap. And at that point I think you've gone too far.Edited by Dr Adequate, : No reason given.

Yeah, you're pretty much screwed there, aren't you? In short, you just have to learn to live with the fact that your religion makes no sense. Only actually you don't. You could believe something, that does make sense. True. Every other god said that he was a god --- Jesus is the one person to be worshiped as a god by his followers without having claimed divinity.What's that about? Yeah. It says: "Here's a collection of fiction and poetry which is so grossly inconsistent with itself that it was definitely not written by the same author, and so grossly inconsistent with reality that you'd have to be nuts to believe it." No they didn't. Here's the thread. Would you please try to make your statements more congruent with reality? Thanks. Er ... no it isn't.That's basically where you're going wrong. You think it is, but it's not. The mere fact that you believe an absurdity is not a reason to believe that absurdity.Here's faith. It's evidence that people can be idiots, but that's hardly a "thing unseen".Edited by Dr Adequate, : No reason given.

Or "right" as we call it for short.

I'm not following you ... it isn't recorded in the Gospels that Jesus' followers gave him divine honors. Certainly they thought he was a great guy, but none of them worshiped him in the strict sense of the word.And yet today his followers tell me that that's what I must do to be saved. According to them, it's essential to my spiritual well-being to worship Jesus as God ... and yet he never mentioned this crucial fact, nor did the apostles so worship him.What's up with that?I ought to add this to slevesque's apologetics thread, it's a good question.