Artist in trainig
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Joined: Feb. 2006
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Ok. A week of reading books (finished Pandas, read the God Gene, visiting my biologist-in-training relative and reading every post and comment at UD. I appear here now to offer my humble apologies to those I might have slighted, no matter how drunk.
I am and remain a christian, whether that suits you or not. My faith in God has never, to my knowledge, done me harm, and it has done me so much good.
That said, ID is a hoax perpetrated on those of us who look to experts for information by those who see Christians as marks for scams. I don't know where they are doing it but somewhere there has to be money being bilked out of believers.
I give to my church because I know what we do with the money. We pay the guy who marries and buries us and who helps us when we need comfort. We provide a great deal of help to our city's homeless. We help members of our Church who fall on hard times. We, as far as I can remember, only promote Christianity through our public deeds.
This ID nonsense has to be promoted through our government. No one else is that corrupt with as many resources. If this is a nod to the uneducated Christians who follow the "Fundementalist" paths, it is sickening. I am signing off at this point, probably for good (this is not my lifes work) but for God's sake, follow reason, logic and truth and you will not lose God if you already have him.
THere is a value in God that is hard for an atheist (I don't know a better word but I suspect that one is inadequate) to understand. You may feel that it is our way to lie to ourselves but I assure you it is not that simple and for the most part, that is not the case. Truth and evidence must trump dogma and superstition or else we hand the reigns over to those who would use our fear to control us. Sounds a little preachy, I know but, hey, I'm a Christian.
Thought I'd throw this little nugget to you from
http://www.uncommondescent.com/index.php/archives/809
| Quote | | There is, in evolutionary psychology, no account of the emotions beyond the trivial, or of the sentiments,no account of action or intention, no account of the human ability to acquire mathematical or scientific knowledge, no very direct exploration of the mind’s power to act at a distance by investing things with meaning—no account, that is, of any of the features of the mind whose existence prompts a question about its origins. In its great hope as in so many other respects, evolutionary psychology has reposed its confidence on the bet that in time these things will be explained. If that is so, all that we on the outside can say is that time will tell. |
And to that last statement, I would have to concur.
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