How Did Life on Earth Get Started?

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It is true that religion has caused grief for humanity. However, atheists have not helped any. Stalin and other communist leaders have brutalized and killed more people than the Crusaders in Palestine. Also if atheism is right, who's to say what is morally right or wrong?

Dr. Shade of NC @ Jul 17, 2009 19:04:10 PM

You can't prove the unproveable

Comparing religion and science are like comparing apples and imaginary apples. Why bother? If you believe in God and this improves your quality of life, then I'm all for it. If I believe in science and that makes me feel like I understand how the world works, then bully for me. It's when you try to join the two that tempers rise.

But with all the great quotes the the Christians are writing here, let me add an athiest one that I like:

With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion. – Steven Weinberg

Dan of MS @ Jul 14, 2009 18:12:37 PM

Dumbing people down...who's doing it now?

In response to "auradawnveirs"...thank you for saying that Empress Eugenie was "dumbed down by religion" instead of: "dumbed down by a belief in a Creator". There is a very big difference between belief in God and "religion". During the Dark Ages, people who read the Bible, looking for "truth", were burned at the stake by the Church who wanted to keep them ignorant of the fact that the Church did not at all follow the Bible. Today, evolutionists do not want anyone to do a scientific search to expose that their theory does not follow science. You mentioned several atheists who were "scientists", but there are also many scientists who believe in a Creator, in the pattern of Newton and Einstein. These men, in spite of their accomplihments are labeled as "unscientific"because they believe in a Creator. The problem today is that evolutionists,like the Church in the Dark Ages, will not tolerate any scientists who do not blindly and ignorantly follow them. Let's face it, evolution is only a theory, and a bad one,too...there have not been any facts found to support any part of it, only suppositions that evolutionists themselves argue over. Why is it so necessary for evolutionists (who have absolutely nothing)to pressure intelligent scientists to agree with an unscientific theory. They are suppressing modern day Galileos by calling them heretics because of fear that they might have evidence of their beliefs. Meanwhile,the "Church of Evolution" depends upon peer pressure,and methods used by religious leaders throughout history: "Do any of us, your educated leaders, believe in this?"

David of NY @ Jul 05, 2009 08:06:48 AM

auradawnveirs, read what is written

I never said atheism dumbs all people down, are that atheists are responsible for the ignorance of mankind. But in response to another commentator I pointed out that religion is not completely to blame for this and that atheists can also take part of the blame. An example of this is denying students the chance to learn about Creationism in school because it's not "science" while the hypothesis of evolution is paraded around like a theory or scientific fact.

Dryfire of IL @ Jul 03, 2009 14:50:12 PM

No to Dryfire--dumbing people down

Dryfire says atheists are "dumbing people down." The Smithsonian exists to aid the advance of knowledge. Atheist Smithson gave us the Smithsonian. The Web we're working with uses electricity--Edison the atheist had a lot to do with this. So did atheist telegraph inventor Samuel B. Morse. Atheist Burbank was a plant geneticist. There's a "Lincoln Bible." But he wrote a book called "Infidelity," meaning atheism. He was advised to destroy it. He became literate partly by reading Scripture because other books were scarce in his poverty-stricken childhood home. He used Bible-style prose as did many of his generation. French Empress Eugenie, a Catholic who was forbidden to read Darwin, was dumbed down by religion She said there was no need to look for a Missing Link when "there was Lincoln, come out of the wilderness."

auradawnveirs of CA @ Jul 02, 2009 23:21:20 PM

Repeating the 'miracle' of genesis

In all the experiments to replicate "genesis" it is necessary to have "scientists" assemble the ingredients to be used, and as in the 1953 experiment, create the spark. An outside force is needed. A simple law of inertia says that "an object at rest will remain at rest unless affected by an outside force". Unless carpenters take the materials out of a Home Depot, read an architect's blue print, and go through the complicated process of building a house, it will not spontaneously happen. What are the odds for all the materials sitting in a Home Depot gradually, on their own, assemble into homes, with everything in place including the appliances, the landscaping, etc? A simple cell from our skin is far more complex than the contents of a Home Depot. It is fashionable to say that the "Emporer is wearing clothes", and anyone not going along with the fact that he is naked is considered an idiot. And yet, as in USA Todays' video "Evolution hits the beach" we hear the following: "probably"..."somehow"...."nobody's sure". A new religion in the style of the church in the Dark Ages has emerged that requires blind faith: It is called "Evolution".

David of NY @ Jun 26, 2009 07:58:05 AM

Where's the proof?

Honestly, no human being can stand up and say, "The universe and all life was created by..." Why? Because no one was there to see it happen. However, we can look around and make educated guesses.

Darwin, while in the Galapagos islands, noticed some remarkable similarities and differences of among the species of finches that were inhabited there. He thought that originally there was one species of finch and that over time certain traits began to show more than others thus creating the diversity we see today. He started to use the same theory on a larger scale with all of life on earth. Problem was that he didn't any real substantial evidence to back up his claims. Well he shrugged it off thinking that in time fossils and a deeper understanding of biology and the like would prove him to be correct. Its been about two hundred years now, give or take a decade, and we still don't have enough fossils or "scientific" evidence to show that everything on earth was created by chance.

Yet, if someone like me said, "The reason there is so much diversity within the different life forms is because God decided to create them that way." People get all worked up and cry bloody-murder.

People, neither theory can be proven and both need faith. Warwick, religion doesn't have to take all the blame for dumbing people down or being arrogantly rude. There are several atheists out there who are guilty of the same crime.

Dryfire of IL @ May 11, 2009 19:17:11 PM

not sure

we always get the shadow of truth, but not the truth utself.

Jim Nelson of KY @ May 06, 2009 13:01:32 PM