Scott Dikkers is the Editor of the Onion newspaper and as most of you are probably aware it is a satirical magazine. As funny as his newspaper is, I expected more humor from his speech. I guess it's hard for atheists to be humorous when it comes to knocking creationists (their hatred and intolerance seems to override their humor):
So I thought, we should, as a society, bar anyone who doesn't accept evolution from partaking of any technological advance derived from the science that makes evolution true. No access to modern medicine, no access to basic biological, chemical products or knowledge. You want to heat up your food before you eat it? Sorry. You're eating your meat raw because you don't believe in germs. And forget antibiotics. You're on your own. You're welcome to pray for a better life, but you can't use science. That's cheating because you don't believe in science. If people want to live in the 17th century, let them.Typical. Limiting the freedom of others seems to be the first response of some on the left. Why not just throw the creationists in jail for re-education. Nothing like group think, huh? And of course scientist have never been wrong, why not put our complete trust in their theories even though they have yet to determine with certainty how our world was created from nothing. No one has even come close.
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Of course prayer doesn't work. The proof of this is the fact that every night for the last 150 years millions of Christians have gone to their knees and prayed very hard to their boogyman to bring and end to the theory of evolution. But evolution is here to stay forever and will be the only explanation there ever w will be for the diversity of life on Earth. What more proof does one need that there is no God who answers prayers?
Oh, Boris, Darwin would be quite annoyed with that last statement. Even the theory of evolution evolves--punctuated equilibrium, for example.
A lot of what you call superstition I would call metaphor. I think the original story was probably lost--and it may have been helped along at various points by the "Christian" establishment. But I think there may be a great deal more to faith than religion will ever offer. I just see no reason to help God by hitting non-believers over the head with Holy Books.
Robert,
You are correct that the Theory of Evolution has evolved far away and is a thousand times better than Darwin's first ideas. But that just shows how well established it is as a part of science now after 150 years or so. The Theory of Evolution can be used to explain and predict much more than it could in Darwin's day. Creationist propagandists make the absurd claim that if any of Darwin's ideas are incorrect then the whole theory fails. Of course the opposite is true but creationists are creationists because they are the most scientifically ignorant cult on the planet and always have been
As far as God and holy books like the Bible, if there is a God the Bible is most blasphemous book there is - accusing God of all sorts of ignorance, cruelty and atrocities. If there actually was a cosmic judgment I certainly wouldn't want to be a Christian Bible believer.
"If there actually was a cosmic judgment I certainly wouldn't want to be a Christian Bible believer."
Ironically, the Bible records that Jesus said the same thing about the Fundamentalists of his time.
Robert the Bible doesn't "record" anything. No one sat down and wrote any of the books of the Bible like say Steven Spielberg writes a novel. These stories were oral traditions that evolved over centuries and are captured frozen on parchment. Had they not been written down at that time but a few hundred years later or say a few hundred years earlier we would not recognize the stories. Adam had a wife named Lillith in one of the Jewish creation stories for example. The myth of the dying and resurrecting savior-king or god-man is as old as stories come in the ancient Near East. There's no more reason to believe the stories about Jesus then there is the stories about Horus, Dionysus, Mithras, Attis, Demeter, Adonis or any other dying and rising demigod. They are equally lacking in objective evidence.
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