Richard Dawkins Explains Why He Doesn't Debate Young Earth Creationists

[bhsmte]

You claim to KNOW that God cannot be found and ye he has been found by millions of people. What does that say about what you "know?"

It means that psychology knows that people can perceive whatever their mind wants them to perceive, if they want to bad enough.

 

[keith99]

I agree the supernatural can not be measured or tested by science. The supernatural in my opinion is purely within ones imagination. However discounting the existence of penguins in the desert is well within the realms of Science.

Technically speaking most of the places Penguins are seen on land are deserts. Cold icy ones, but deserts.

 

[keith99]

It means that psychology knows that people can perceive whatever their mind wants them to perceive, if they want to bad enough.

More that people will say what they think the tribe wants to hear. And the more of the tribe that is there to hear them speak the more careful they are to at least not say anything that contradicts the expectation.

 

[Belk]

It was once said that the North Pole couldn't be found, but men with determination found it.

The Lord is much easier to find than the North Pole, and millions have already found Him. The problem, then, is that your compass is way out of wack. Like many people you want physical proof of God. This is foolishness. You are living on something physical that only God could make, and yet you pretend that somehow it came about all by itself. You're a living, breathing entity which only God could create, and yet you pretend that somehow in some primordial soup in a world devoid of oxygen a magic Frankencell formed itself and from that cell all life forms, plant and animal evolved. This is what YOU call science. I call it foolishness.

Any REAL scientist would admit that there is no known answer for the problem of first cause; that there is no process by which abiogenesis could have happened; that the formation of everything from nothing had to involved forces outside of that formation. Any REAL scientist would admit that there is no possible way to date a rock that was created by God. Science can only study the natural world. It can only find answers that are rooted in natural law.

The problem with debating evolutionists is that they simply don't understand the limits of science. They seem to think that what science can't test must not exist. They simply refuse to believe that Idaho exists because they've never been to Idaho and they don't see the testimony of those who have been to Idaho as valid evidence of its existence. They proclaim that potatoes need not come from Idaho. Though the majority of the people of the world may know differently, the evolutionist can only see within the narrow confines of what he believes to be his existence.

You seem to keep making this mistake. Accepting in evolution is not the same as being an atheist. The vast majority of theists accept evolution.

 

[Sectio Aurea]

The thing is, God can do the impossible.

For a God with the capabilities of doing the impossible, he certainly went to an extraordinary amount of effort to create man and woman with original sin only to murder most of them for sinning, then to impregnate a woman with himself so he could be born to kill himself as a sacrifice to himself to save us from the sin he gave us in the first place.

 

[KWCrazy]

The vast majority of theists accept evolution.

Amazingly, I've never seen a single one of them ever support their positions with actual passages from Scriptures, so how can we tell them from the non-believers?

 

[Rudolph Hucker]

Amazingly, I've never seen a single one of them ever support their positions with actual passages from Scriptures, so how can we tell them from the non-believers?

Wow!!

 

[bhsmte]

Amazingly, I've never seen a single one of them ever support their positions with actual passages from Scriptures, so how can we tell them from the non-believers?

Scripture does not mention many things that we know are true. Does that mean they aren't true?

 

[Belk]

Amazingly, I've never seen a single one of them ever support their positions with actual passages from Scriptures, so how can we tell them from the non-believers?

By asking them if they believe in gods? I believe that is the normal way one distinguishes a theist from a non theist.

 

[KWCrazy]

Scripture does not mention many things that we know are true. Does that mean they aren't true?

It's not the things the Scriptures DON'T tell us that they disagree with, but those things which it does state. When asked for Scriptural support of their belief in long ages, we get phrases taken out of context not passages which affirm their position. It leads me to believe they don't understand enough about the Scriptures and evolution to see the irreconcilable differences.

 

[Belk]

It's not the things the Scriptures DON'T tell us that they disagree with, but those things which it does state. When asked for Scriptural support of their belief in long ages, we get phrases taken out of context not passages which affirm their position. It leads me to believe they don't understand enough about the Scriptures and evolution to see the irreconcilable differences.

I see. It always amazes me how many Christians are willing to intimate to others that their religion is incorrect. For what it is worth I agree with you.

(Shaking my head in amazement)