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Motivation for Denying God and Accepting Evolution

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Percy
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09-17-2012 5:16 PM 		Reply to: Message 2 by Admin
09-17-2012 5:01 PM

Genologist writes:
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Do evolutionists posses a religious zeal in their defence of the theory of evolution, and if so why?
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How does one recognize religious zeal? Do you think religious zeal indicates a religious rather than factual basis for one's position? Is it your position that the more vehemence displayed the less factual must be the basis?
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--Percy
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09-19-2012 2:59 PM 		Reply to: Message 13 by Genologist
09-19-2012 12:31 PM

Re: Evolution is a FACT.
Hi Genologist,
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Inevitably responses to your messages will address issues that aren't really the topic of this thread. If avoidance of consequences for immoral behavior as a motivation for accepting evolution is what you really want to discuss then you need to avoid getting sidetracked into other issues. In this case you've gotten sidetracked onto the distinction between abiogenesis and evolution, and onto the teaching of evolution as fact versus theory.
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If people reject God because they want release from moral constraints, then this should be evident in their behavior. Do you have any evidence that rejection of God correlates with greater immoral behavior?
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--Percy
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09-20-2012 1:38 PM 		Reply to: Message 21 by Blue Jay
09-20-2012 12:03 PM

Re: Evolution is a FACT.
Blue Jay writes:
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Personally, I want to chime in with NoNukes: that first question, about how the omission of evolutionary education might impact society, is much more interesting. Can we discuss that here? Or has it been deemed off-topic?
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If someone proposes it over at Proposed New Topics I'll review it as quickly as I can, which might possibly not be today since the rest of my day is kind of full.
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--Percy
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Message 30 of 39 (673640)
09-20-2012 7:41 PM 		Reply to: Message 24 by Genologist
09-20-2012 6:08 PM

What Atheists Really Believe
Genologist writes:
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What other general reason has there ever been for rejecting any authority?
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You think only one "general reason" can exist for rejecting authority? Really?
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It's the "Don't tell me what to do, and how to live my life" syndrome.
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Yes, this is one reason for rejecting authority. Do you have any evidence that it's the atheists' reason for believing God does not exist? Have you compared and contrasted this reason with the reason atheists believe Allah and Zeus do not exist? Have you considered the possibility that maybe atheists reject God's authority for the same reason they reject Allah and Zeus, namely that none of these gods exist?
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Sadly in the case of the Creator God many have misunderstood what type of authority He is.
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I believe atheists think the Creator God is of the non-existent type.
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However denying that He exists does not change His status, only ours.
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How does the evidence for your God exceed the evidence for Allah or Zeus?
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By the way, could somebody please explain how the simple common ancestor life form, traditionally taught as being the "humble" amoeba could have 290 billion units of DNA- some one hundred times that of the human being when evolution clearly teaches a progression in complexity (and a gaining of genetic information) from simple life forms to the most complex such as yours truly! Perhaps this simple thing will confound the wise, and the "Fact" of evolution will once more "need" to be "in evolution".
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In a saner world you would have added the smiley as an indication that you were only kidding when you stuffed that paragraph full or errors and misconceptions, but sadly I think that's not the case.
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--Percy
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Edited by Percy, : Fix title.
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09-21-2012 11:40 AM 		Reply to: Message 34 by ICANT
09-21-2012 11:20 AM

Re: Science is a cult? Projection at its finest.
Could you post something about the topic next time?
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--Percy
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