Topic: "Creationism lost its best argument when the Catholic church
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Mon 04/25/11 12:25 PM
Saw this somewhere, of unknown origin. Liked it:

"Creationism lost its best argument when the Catholic church stopped burning people at the stake"

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Sun 05/15/11 08:17 PM
Then creationism regained its advantage with the advent of the big bang theory. I am surprised why religious people don't rely more heavily on that. I suspect they don't understand the concepts involved in that theory, that's why.

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Mon 05/16/11 10:40 AM

Then creationism regained its advantage with the advent of the big bang theory. I am surprised why religious people don't rely more heavily on that. I suspect they don't understand the concepts involved in that theory, that's why.


I agree that the big bang theory can be seen as a 'pro creationist' (in the sense of a deity creating the universe, not in the sense of a deity directly crafting humans) scientific theory. The theistic scientists I have known will laugh at the idea of a young earth, and also believe that their God created the universe via the big bang, billions of years ago.

As for why non-scientist creationists don't embrace the big bang theory... they are usually fundamentalist, young-earth creationists.

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Mon 05/16/11 04:30 PM
Edited by wux on Mon 05/16/11 04:38 PM


Then creationism regained its advantage with the advent of the big bang theory. I am surprised why religious people don't rely more heavily on that. I suspect they don't understand the concepts involved in that theory, that's why.


I agree that the big bang theory can be seen as a 'pro creationist' (in the sense of a deity creating the universe, not in the sense of a deity directly crafting humans) scientific theory. The theistic scientists I have known will laugh at the idea of a young earth, and also believe that their God created the universe via the big bang, billions of years ago.

As for why non-scientist creationists don't embrace the big bang theory... they are usually fundamentalist, young-earth creationists.


Most evangelist leaders, like in all other religions, are men. So it goes to show that they would rather embrace a young-earth Gaia then a very old and wizened one that was banged a very long time ago.

Guess what. The virgin birth myth may have been created by the same mentality. I think a virgin birth by a woman like Mother Theresa in the last year of her life, or by Golda Meir, would be more spectacular in a theistic sense, but a 13-year-old virgin whom her old Paczek could not impregnate getting rounded down... by the horn of god... is more to the fancy of geezers, both old and young alike.

We, men are so... predictable. And by george, so is our testosterone-laden God, and so be God my witness.

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Thu 05/19/11 12:29 PM
That is if we believe in such crap in the first place.


When someone asks do you believe in Christianity.

I always say: Yes for entertainment purposes only though!

You should watch the face turn from a smile to a frown afterwords. lol


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Thu 05/19/11 08:42 PM

Saw this somewhere, of unknown origin. Liked it:

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"Creationism lost its best argument when the Catholic church stopped burning people at the stake"


Well, maybe the Catholic church thinks there is nothing that is at stake for them any more no more any longer more.