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My favorite argument for the existence of God

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Arius

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You haven't "proved" anything. All you have done is present and demand proof for a grotesque misrepresentation of the theory of evolution. I don't see what your point is at all.

So asking: "What species was the famous mysterious creature Evolutionists call 'Common Ancestor"? is a grotesque misrepresentation of the theory of evolution??

I'm sorry, .. did I push the wrong button with that question?
 
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I have no idea what you're trying to say.

But here's something useful in the meantime.


"tooth" .. 4.4 million years ago, are you serious? We have 8 million living species that have been evolving for the past, .. not 4 million, but 4.2 BILLION years, and you can't show me ONE, .. just ONE transitioning living species? Why are you not looking at science, you know, where we living scientists observe the world around us, .. not rob graves of skull & bones!? Let the Satanists do that, we are scientists, .. are we not?
I will be glad to donate the hundreds of x-ray, MRI films of my bones to see if I'm ready to speciate into another species or not? Now THAT would be science! They could ask me questions too, like: Do you have dreams of evolving into another species?" to help determine just how far I am in my evolution?
And when it happens, hey, we got cameras now, no need to bother the dead, .. let them rest in their graves.

OK, tell me this, what species was "Lucy" (third partial scull on top)?
 
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If I were to tell you what species our common ancestor was would that even matter? Would you believe me or would you just dismiss it like you do with every piece of evidence we show you?
 
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So you basically think Evolution is this:



Sorry to disappoint you, but that's not how it really works.
 
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So what's the percentage of human beings living on Earth today who agree that Thor is an expert on the topic of God? How does that figure compare to Jesus?

Oh, you're not going by argument from popularity, are you?

In any case, the percentage of human beings living on Earth today who think that Jesus is NOT an expert on the topic of God is much higher than the percentage of human beings living on Earth today who think he is.
 
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Oh, you're not going by argument from popularity, are you?

Why not? I works for "scientists" too.

In any case, the percentage of human beings living on Earth today who think that Jesus is NOT an expert on the topic of God is much higher than the percentage of human beings living on Earth today who think he is.

Citation please. Keep in mind that Islam reveres him too.
 
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Wow, .. what arrogance, just because you couldn't see loving anyone you don't know (especially someone who believes in God, since you're an atheist) you want to stop everyone else from loving too?

Loving someone REQUIRES you know them.


That's not love, that's simple human decency.


Helping someone is not the same thing as love!

You can get me kicked off the Forum, but that will not stop me being me, and loving everyone just as my Teacher Jesus Christ taught me to do.

Geez, dude, calm down. What makes you think I'm trying to get you kicked off?

I KNOW what you're doing, and I don't take kindly to be labeled a stalker so I ask you kindly to STOP IT. If you don't agree with my views on love, and God, and Evolution, there are different ways to approach it than what you're doing.

When did I say you were a stalker? I said you are behaving the way a stalker does, and it is making me uncomfortable. I have made that very clear that you have been making me uncomfortable. I would have thought that if what you felt for me really was love, you would have stopped.


What in the world are you talking about?


So lemme get this straight...

A guy goes to a woman he doesn't know at all, declares he loves her, and then when she points out that he is making her feel uncomfortable, SHE is the bad guy?

.. unless this is the "atheist in you talking", following the famous Atheist of atheists of all time:


What in the world are you going on about?

Hey, .. I'm a companionate guy, all you have to do is apologize?

Apologize for what? YOU are the one who has been harassing me. I told you I felt uncomfortable when you said you loved me, yet you continued. I asked you to stop, you continued. You say you love me but you don't even respect me enough to accept my wishes. You don't care about how I feel, you only care about convincing me that you are right and I am wrong.


Because if you don't know such basic facts about me, how can you decide that you love me?


Of course, the teacher knows the children, has formed relationships with them.

You know nothing about me. And you certainly don't respect me.
 
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Why not? I works for "scientists" too.

There's this little thing called evidence which has a whole lot more influence than numbers.

I mean, if they went by popularity, then we would have any ideas about plate tectonics now, would we?

Citation please. Keep in mind that Islam reveres him too.

World population - 7.6 billion.
Christians - 2.2 billion.
Muslims - 1.8 billion.

But of course, Islam doesn't consider him the son of God. I mean, if we are to let anyone who is a prophet be classified as an expert on God, then all these people must also be experts on God... Prophets of Christianity - Wikipedia
 
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There's this little thing called evidence which has a whole lot more influence than numbers.

Such so called "evidence" often tends to be highly subjective.

I mean, if they went by popularity, then we would have any ideas about plate tectonics now, would we?

Scientific ideas do change over time, as do religious beliefs. Popularity however does tend to have it's advantages.

World population - 7.6 billion.
Christians - 2.2 billion.
Muslims - 1.8 billion.

Citation please? I suspect that your world population figures are up to date, but your religious figures are not.

But of course, Islam doesn't consider him the son of God.

I was talking about Islam considering him an "expert" on the topic of God, not their overall opinions about religion in general.

I mean, if we are to let anyone who is a prophet be classified as an expert on God, then all these people must also be experts on God... Prophets of Christianity - Wikipedia

I don't really have a problem with your list, but I suspect that the overall numbers will end up being far less for most of the folks on that list than for Jesus.
 
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I have no idea what you're trying to say.

But here's something useful in the meantime.



As far as I can tell from reading each of these skull fossils is that they are all human. What does this have anything to do with gorillas? Even killing the poor Aborigines to try to prove some delusional Satanic idea that man evolved from gorillas proved this is just a bad idea, and now this "up to date" poster is what you present me with to prove we evolved from gorillas?? 15 poor examples of human skull fragments, .. they are all humans, ..

Again, are you guys serious? Look at these pieces of bones, like "#1, .. tooth, .. and whether it walked upright is unknown"?? By looking at some decayed teeth of a human found in some cave or whatever? Hmm, sure looks like those teeth walked upright to me??

You might as well show me the dog breeds as proof of evolution, at least that would be science, as in "observing the world around us", not dried up bone fragments of skulls, or teeth.

It doesn't matter anyways, even if the first 3 fossils were of gorillas in transition, and the fourth one was a human, .. I would ask you "How did that #3 gorilla turn into that #4 human?"
 
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You’re not paying attention.

We didn’t evolve from gorillas.
 
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If I were to tell you what species our common ancestor was would that even matter? Would you believe me or would you just dismiss it like you do with every piece of evidence we show you?

Sure it would, .. but not for me, but for you. I would use it to show you what you are missing, and if you were honest with yourself, this revelation could help you start your new life going out into this world with open eyes.

You know what, .. let's just keep the Common Ancestor as a species, and lets make it look just like Peleoartist rendering of those half ape looking humans, the thing is that it still had to be either human or ape. Evolution rule, not mine.

You guys, .. no, I will stick with Dawkins, .. Dawkins is the one saying; "There are no Crocaduc's, that is what dumb Christians ask! A croc stays a croc, and a duck always stays a duck in evolution!"

So I ask you guys to show me from Dawkins own ideology how this "Population of Common Ancestor species" turn into the human species?

* Did the entire population wake up one morning, and were now such a completely different species that if they ran over to their previous population, they would no longer be able to reproduce?

In other words, no matter what that species looked like, (I gave a lot of examples of hairy man, to a family that walks on all fours, to Ota Benga) by the admittance of the great Evolutionist Dawkins by the rules of Evolution, it remains that same species throughout its lifetime.

So how, by what means does he prove that evolution theory works when he admits it "never happens"!?

Thank you.
 
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You’re not paying attention.

We didn’t evolve from gorillas.

Then name the species that you did evolve from, .. Please?

If you don't have a name, by all means you may use "Common Ancestor" as a 'transitional species' you evolved from!? Is this the species you believe you evolved from; "Common Ancestor"?
 
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So what's worse, .. an idiot like me, or an entire Forum that claims to know what Evolution is, what it does, .. how it works and don't have any evidence or proof to correct him?
There's plenty of evidence. There's the core principle, which is simply algorithmic - in a population with heritable variation of traits, the traits that lead to the greatest reproductive success will inevitably spread through the population over successive generations (because individuals with those traits will have more offspring - that also have those traits), resulting in gradual change of the population in favour of those traits. There are also independent lines of evidence from five fields of knowledge that support it, each of which is consistent with the theory, and each of which has satisfied the predictions of the theory in that field.

Repeating that: "evolution happens over a very long period of time effecting an entire generation that is, from what you guys tell me, is without individuals" is not an answer.
No-one here has said that. Evolution is a gradual change in populations over many generations, by the effect outlined above.
 
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Such so called "evidence" often tends to be highly subjective.

lol

Scientific ideas do change over time, as do religious beliefs. Popularity however does tend to have it's advantages.

I think you assume that an idea is popular just because large numbers of scientists accept it. They are accepting it because it has supporting evidence, not because everyone else is doing it.

Citation please? I suspect that your world population figures are up to date, but your religious figures are not.

I got the figure for population of the world by doing a google search for "population of the world."

I got the figure for number of Christians in the world by doing a google search for "Number of Christians."

Can you guess how I got the figure for the number of Muslims?

I was talking about Islam considering him an "expert" on the topic of God, not their overall opinions about religion in general.

So they consider him an expert, except for the bits where he claimed he was the son of God. He wasn't an expert then. Gotcha.

I don't really have a problem with your list, but I suspect that the overall numbers will end up being far less for most of the folks on that list than for Jesus.

So someone can be a prophet and not be an expert on God?
 
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Well, idiots can be dangerous.

Yes I know already, they can be accused of stalking, robbing, raping, whatever you feel to get off your chest. But the most dangerous idiot, .. is the one who asks questions, .. like me, right?
I know, I watched a lot of Richard Dawkins and Lawrence Krauss seminars, and how they throw people asking the right questions out of the room.

The evidence is there for all to see, and is fact, whether we all claim it or we all don't.

So why are you guys ignoring all the evidence, and keep going back to human skull and bones to prove "evolution"? Do you actually expect me to accept the whole Evolution story by showing me a bunch of human sculls?
"Look, human skulls going back millions and billions of years, what more evidence do you need for Evolution?"

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and don't have any evidence or proof to correct him?

"We" aren't responsible for your ignorance. That's on you.

I see, so "asking for evidence" is considered 'ignorance' in Evolution, ..


Again, we're not responsible for comprehension. If you have questions, you should ask.

Ask questions so you could call me 'ignorant', .. I must say, really?

There are many on here who have tried to explain ToE, in simple terms for someone unacquainted with evolutionary theory,

I didn't realize you were unaquanted with evolution? The first correction for you would be that:
it's not a theory until they admit evolution/speciation actually happens, which no Evolutionist admits. Remember your Pastor Dawkins said: "It NEVER happens".

or the scientific method,

Yes, I keep asking for the scientific method, like evidence of any creature speciating from one species into another? Your answer; "Never. If that happened, that would actually prove Evolution wrong."

but you won't pipe down long enough to really digest the information. ToE is not easy, nor can and adequate understanding be gained in a matter of several posts.

I didn't realize you just started reading up on Evolution a few posts ago? Don't bother with the thousands of books of bs, just ask what I ask: "Please provide evidence that evolution, that is speciation from one species into another happens?"
Their answer will be the end of your study of this Religion: "It never happens!"
After that, you can go on in your search of God.

How long do you think it takes to become a skilled heart surgeon?

Well I sure hope it's not millions and billions of years, and never actually arrive at achieving it?

Well, ToE has a tremendous body of work behind it - 159 years worth - so for those of us who have studied ToE to have grasped an understanding of it, consider your creationists PRATTS a thing of humor.

Hmm, so after 159 years of work behind realizing that "Evolution/speciation never happens" makes Gods creation a humor? I don't know, I would say the Evolution story is much more funnier than that, .. like slapstick comedy, or like the three stooges.


I was going to suggest the same for you, but you already admitted that "evolution never happened".
 
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lol

Believe what you need to.

Speciation - Wikipedia

 
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