Battletard wrote:
What is God?
A man-made concept that evolved from the curiosities of sub-Saharan African nomads prior to the advent of civilization. Curiosities spurred elemental polytheism, which gradually morphed over millennia into modern monotheistic (and primarily Abrahamic) beliefs.
Anyway, I'm a strong proponent of no-nonsense science. Creationism and intelligent design have no place in modern scientific studies, especially when the Bible Belt half-brains want to have them taught in schools as an "option."
How are two ridiculous theories with literally no evidence to support them considerable options? To teach them to impressionable kids is to promote ignorance and a legacy of religious wrongdoing that should have been kicked to the curb in the 1950s with the drastic improvements in science and technology brought upon the world (and especially the United States) by the end of WWII.
One can (and damn well should) shoot down religious, especially Christian, arguments in favor of creationism and/or intelligent design. While it may be their personal belief that an all-seeing, all-knowing micromanager (he's a Sims player?) created the entire universe a few thousand years ago while only putting life on Earth (and, according to some, only allowing true salvation in America), they're most likely going to push it on others. That needs to be stopped through logic and reason.
One argument that I'd like to disprove is the creationist argument that "God had to have created all of the beauty around us." But what, then, is beauty? As humans, we categorize objects based on their relativity to our own schemata. If our schema for a beautiful island paradise is some beach in the Caribbean, then we'll see a beach in the Caribbean as beautiful. But what exactly would have made it beautiful? The moon, in my opinion, is beautiful. But its surface is the result of thousands, if not millions, of accidents during its lifetime. So how would an earthly accident be any different?
Beauty is, after all, in the eyes of the beholder.
