And when an earthquake or a tsunami wrecks it all – I am not even talking about man made disasters here – that’s also god’s doing, right? Right? When cities full of people are smashed to ruin and buried under millions of tons of water?
Fiendly Neighbourhood TerroristAbsolutely. And we take all that time, money, and intellect and instead of developing technology for surviving those events, we spend it all on developing more efficient ways of killing each other, to add our bit to human suffering and extinction of other species.
Schistosomiasis, river blindness, trypanosomes, trichinosis, etc. Indeed, the fact that about half of all species are parasitic (read Carl Zimmer’s Parasite Rex). Eagle and vole, lion and gazelle, “red in tooth and claw.” Cancer. Leprosy. Rats. Mold.And yet you make yourself a cozy little retreat, at great expense of time and effort, keep the riff-raff out, and pontificate to yourself about “how wonderful nature is.” I’ll bet you regularly pull “weeds” from your garden.Even the beautiful parts of nature abjectly fail to support your thesis. Natural selection explains where every feature of the living world came from. Male peacocks have extravagant tail feathers because the more extravagant they are, the more female peacocks desire to mate with them. Flowers are prettily colored and/or smell sweetly because those characteristics attract insects who will carry away the pollen to fertilize others of the same species. The hawk’s wing, the octopus’s tentacle, the oak’s size—all of these permit the living organism to survive and to reproduce, and those that reproduce in greater numbers have their genes represented in greater proportion in subsequent generations. Elementary science for those who have eyes to see, and who are unwilling to take pre-scientific myths literally.
I have a life, thank you kindly. An important part of it is doing my little part to support rationality, and to keep people from the moral and intellectual abyss of religion.
King_Shark over 8 years ago
And when an earthquake or a tsunami wrecks it all – I am not even talking about man made disasters here – that’s also god’s doing, right? Right? When cities full of people are smashed to ruin and buried under millions of tons of water?
hippogriff over 8 years ago
Fiendly Neighbourhood TerroristAbsolutely. And we take all that time, money, and intellect and instead of developing technology for surviving those events, we spend it all on developing more efficient ways of killing each other, to add our bit to human suffering and extinction of other species.
markjoseph125 over 8 years ago
Dear Reverend Doofus:
Schistosomiasis, river blindness, trypanosomes, trichinosis, etc. Indeed, the fact that about half of all species are parasitic (read Carl Zimmer’s Parasite Rex). Eagle and vole, lion and gazelle, “red in tooth and claw.” Cancer. Leprosy. Rats. Mold.And yet you make yourself a cozy little retreat, at great expense of time and effort, keep the riff-raff out, and pontificate to yourself about “how wonderful nature is.” I’ll bet you regularly pull “weeds” from your garden.Even the beautiful parts of nature abjectly fail to support your thesis. Natural selection explains where every feature of the living world came from. Male peacocks have extravagant tail feathers because the more extravagant they are, the more female peacocks desire to mate with them. Flowers are prettily colored and/or smell sweetly because those characteristics attract insects who will carry away the pollen to fertilize others of the same species. The hawk’s wing, the octopus’s tentacle, the oak’s size—all of these permit the living organism to survive and to reproduce, and those that reproduce in greater numbers have their genes represented in greater proportion in subsequent generations. Elementary science for those who have eyes to see, and who are unwilling to take pre-scientific myths literally.
markjoseph125 over 8 years ago
There is no evidence for your next-to-last statement, and plenty of good reasons to think that he does not exist.
markjoseph125 over 8 years ago
I have a life, thank you kindly. An important part of it is doing my little part to support rationality, and to keep people from the moral and intellectual abyss of religion.
Elvanion over 8 years ago
The “rev” is sort of right..but which god? Man has made thousands of them in his own image.