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Atheist gets rebuked

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Many Atheist like to play word games trying to equate Scientist with Darwinist or Scientist with Evolutionist. This was a rebuke to such semantic game playing. I call on all believers to support my work by simply watching and giving me spiritual support.




Atheist on youtube gets rebuked by Bodhitharta http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsIjggdGwEg
 
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Many Atheist like to play word games trying to equate Scientist with Darwinist or Scientist with Evolutionist. This was a rebuke to such semantic game playing. I call on all believers to support my work by simply watching and giving me spiritual support.




Atheist on youtube gets rebuked by Bodhitharta http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsIjggdGwEg
Darwinist and Evolutionist are not terms used by the people they are used to define to define themselves.

It is only you people who attempt to use them.
 
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Many Atheist like to play word games trying to equate Scientist with Darwinist or Scientist with Evolutionist. This was a rebuke to such semantic game playing. I call on all believers to support my work by simply watching and giving me spiritual support.




Atheist on youtube gets rebuked by Bodhitharta http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsIjggdGwEg
Evolution is the best theory we have to explain the development of life on earth. And you should stop pointing fingers at atheists. I am glad there are atheists in the world. We need more of them, to counter the claims of religious extremists.

Watch out or someone will rebuke YOU.
 
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Near the end, you said that Desertphile is saying things that are "just plain wrong," including his claim that speciation is an observed fact. If that claim is incorrect as you assert, how do you explain the following?

Observed instances of speciation.

There's a collection of scientific observations of speciation, both in nature and in the lab. If speciation has not been observed, then how do you explain the findings?
 
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Many Christians like to play word games trying to equate Christian with Believer or Christian with Faithful. I call on all Atheists to support my work by simply giving me fiancial support.

Now when you look at this statement from this perspective, it seems pretty silly, doesn't it?
 
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Many Atheist like to play word games trying to equate Scientist with Darwinist or Scientist with Evolutionist. This was a rebuke to such semantic game playing. I call on all believers to support my work by simply watching and giving me spiritual support.




Atheist on youtube gets rebuked by Bodhitharta http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsIjggdGwEg

AMEN!!
 
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I am glad there are atheists in the world. We need more of them, to counter the claims of religious extremists.

70 million of them are running China as members of the Chinese Communist Party. Lots more run Vietnam. Really think we need more? Didn't work out so great when atheists ran every government from Warsaw to Phnom Penh. I'm delighted most of those officially atheist regimes and their atheist cadres are gone. Aren't you?
 
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70 million of them are running China as members of the Chinese Communist Party. Lots more run Vietnam. Really think we need more? Didn't work out so great when atheists ran every government from Warsaw to Phnom Penh. I'm delighted most of those officially atheist regimes and their atheist cadres are gone. Aren't you?

There's a saying that comes to mind here.. "Paranoia will destroy ya."
 
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70 million of them are running China as members of the Chinese Communist Party. Lots more run Vietnam. Really think we need more? Didn't work out so great when atheists ran every government from Warsaw to Phnom Penh. I'm delighted most of those officially atheist regimes and their atheist cadres are gone. Aren't you?

Could it be the communism that's the problem there?
 
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I liked the part in the video where Bodhitharta states, "Stop saying things are facts, like observed speciation".

(Where's Luscaspa's list of 100 separate instances of speciation observed in nature and in the lab as published in scientific liturature when you need it?)

I supposed next he'll start saying things like "Stop saying things are facts, like the earth orbits the sun!...Everyone can look up in the sky and clearly tell the sun goes around the earth. Duh!"

Ohhhhh, boy.
 
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I think that once the Pope came out in favor of evolution, it made the creationists all the more ridiculous. Here we have the leader of the oldest, most traditional, immovable church in history that clings to every ceremony and rule as if it were life itself. The same church that jailed Galileo for saying that the earth was not the center of the universe. And you now have the head of this organization agreeing with evolution. How anachronistic are these creationists when they've lagged behind the RCC?
 
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