When talking to theists, the theist will eventually say something to the effect like "It's part of
gODs plan".
Hmmmm......To me, when I make a plan I'm not sure of the outcome though I hope for a
positive outcome.
Example;
Lets say I want to go from Florida to Arizona. So...I get out my maps, calculator, pencil
and paper and make a list of what I need to do. THIS IS MY PLAN
Will my plan have a positive outcome? It's unknown till I reach Arizona. There WILL be
MANY variables between Florida and Arizona. Like....car trouble, weather, other drivers,
detours and etc.
Now lets look at gODs plan.
gOD has a plan for the world and all the creatures on it. Now here's the problem.
Supposedly gOD is omnipotent, omnipresent and omniscient. Omniscient is the most
important when thinking about gODs plan. Omniscient means gOD knows ALL. Past,
Present and Future.
By being omniscient, gOD already knows the outcome of hIS plan. A plan has to have
vatiables in it. gODs plan has no variables in it.
To me, this makes hIM a vile, disgusting, sadistic, cruel and inhuman deity that knows what
is going to happen and does NOTHING about it. hE just watches all the pain, sorrow and
misery, all the while, knowing all about it in advance. And to quote George Carlin
"But hE Loves You".
Peace
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Wednesday, June 27, 2012
Friday, September 23, 2011
See Evolution Today
One of the most respected evolutionary biologists has defined biological evolution as
follows:
"In the broadest sense, evolution is merely change, and so is all-pervasive; galaxies,
languages, and political systems all evolve. Biological evolution ... is change in the
properties of populations of organisms that transcend the lifetime of a single individual.
The ontogeny of an individual is not considered evolution; individual organisms do not
evolve. The changes in populations that are considered evolutionary are those that are
inheritable via the genetic material from one generation to the next. Biological evolution
may be slight or substantial; it embraces everything from slight changes in the proportion
of different alleles within a population (such as those determining blood types) to the
successive alterations that led from the earliest protoorganism to snails, bees, giraffes
and dandelions."
Douglas J. Futuyma in Evolutionary Biology, Sinauer Associates 1986
If you have the ability to understand the above, then you will be able to understand what
I'm about to say.
See Evolution Today
My ear lobe dangles from my ear similar to the Uvula that dangles at the back of your
mouth. Yet, I've seen people with the ear lobe attached to the side of their head and
others that seem to have no ear lobe at all.
Is this small change beneficial, harmful or indifferent?
When I stiffen my thumb up, it looks similar to this....." l ". But when other people do
the same thing, their thumb looks similar to an upside down letter " J ".
Is this small change beneficial, harmful or indifferent?
This is how Evolution works. Also these are called Genetic Traits ( I'm pretty sure ).
But to me, it's signs of Evolution. There are other things that show me signs of Evolution,
like the tonsils, adnoids and appendix, plus maybe a couple others, that don't appear to
have any use any more. Though I disagree about the tonsils an adnoids. But thats another
story.
Hypothetical Example.......A race of beings that are similar to us and having the same
differences we do. ( Curved thumb vs Straight thumb - Attached
ear lobe vs Detached ear lobe ). I have to say here that there can
be different combinations of thumb and ear lobe but including
that into this example would make it VERY long and
complicated.
So to keep it simple and basically have a similar outcome, I will
say that there are only 2 types of beings. Ones with curved
thumbs and attached ear lobes and the ones with straight
thumbs and detached ear lobes.
The way this race of beings get their food is to slide down,
through, an elastic tube of vines 100 feet tall.
The desent rate is controlled by the hands.
The ones with the curved thumb and attached ear lobe
have very little problem sliding through the tube and controlling
their desent rate because the vines just slide by. Nothing
for the vines to get caught on. Whereas, the ones with the
straight thumb and detached ear lobe have the problems
of getting a thumb caught in the vines and broken and/or
getting an ear lobe caught and tearing the ear off. So...The
desent rate would have to be more controlled thus making
it slower. And as everyone knows..................................
THE EARLY BIRD GETS THE WORM.
You may say that these are just mutations and you would be wrong yet in a way right.
Very basically speaking, evolution is mutation except the mutation is passed on to the
offspring. This is Genetic Mutation.
A mutation, that is not Genetic, will not be passed on to the offspring and I can give an
example.
Years ago, I met a man with 2 thumbs on his right hand. Not 2 whole individual thumbs.
What he had was 2 thumbs, from the tip of the nail back to the first joint, attached side
by side.
None of his family had this condition and it wasn't passed on to his offspring.
A Small Note.....I may have to disagree with Mr. Futuyma when he said that an indvidual
organisms can't Evolve. If he means an individual organism can't Evolve
a third arm during its liftime, then, Yes I agree.
The way I see it, though, is that Evolution depends on the individual
organism. Look at it like this; 1 individual organism is born with
slightly mutated Genes. It passes those Genes to 2 offspring. Those 2
pass those Genes to 4 offspring. Those 4 to 8 and so on. After a time
you will have a population with slightly different Genes than the rest of the
population. Ta - Da..............................Evolution
Whoa....wait a minute, I just had a thought of some fun, if you like this kind of fun.
You can check this on the InterNet. There are quite a few babies born with TAILS.
Now take this little known fact to a theist or, if you really like to argue, to a Baptist.
I made the mistake of telling an exfriend of mine, who is a Baptist, about babies
born with tails. Holy Shit......He came unglued. I came to a quick understanding.
Watch what you say around a Baptist. Also this arguement is not the reason he's an
exfriend.
In closing, A theist says "Open Your Heart To goD and hE Will Reveal himselF.". An
Atheist says "Go Into The World, Open Your Eyes, Read, Observe and Experiment and
Evolution will come up and smack you right in the face".
Peace
follows:
"In the broadest sense, evolution is merely change, and so is all-pervasive; galaxies,
languages, and political systems all evolve. Biological evolution ... is change in the
properties of populations of organisms that transcend the lifetime of a single individual.
The ontogeny of an individual is not considered evolution; individual organisms do not
evolve. The changes in populations that are considered evolutionary are those that are
inheritable via the genetic material from one generation to the next. Biological evolution
may be slight or substantial; it embraces everything from slight changes in the proportion
of different alleles within a population (such as those determining blood types) to the
successive alterations that led from the earliest protoorganism to snails, bees, giraffes
and dandelions."
Douglas J. Futuyma in Evolutionary Biology, Sinauer Associates 1986
If you have the ability to understand the above, then you will be able to understand what
I'm about to say.
See Evolution Today
My ear lobe dangles from my ear similar to the Uvula that dangles at the back of your
mouth. Yet, I've seen people with the ear lobe attached to the side of their head and
others that seem to have no ear lobe at all.
Is this small change beneficial, harmful or indifferent?
When I stiffen my thumb up, it looks similar to this....." l ". But when other people do
the same thing, their thumb looks similar to an upside down letter " J ".
Is this small change beneficial, harmful or indifferent?
This is how Evolution works. Also these are called Genetic Traits ( I'm pretty sure ).
But to me, it's signs of Evolution. There are other things that show me signs of Evolution,
like the tonsils, adnoids and appendix, plus maybe a couple others, that don't appear to
have any use any more. Though I disagree about the tonsils an adnoids. But thats another
story.
Hypothetical Example.......A race of beings that are similar to us and having the same
differences we do. ( Curved thumb vs Straight thumb - Attached
ear lobe vs Detached ear lobe ). I have to say here that there can
be different combinations of thumb and ear lobe but including
that into this example would make it VERY long and
complicated.
So to keep it simple and basically have a similar outcome, I will
say that there are only 2 types of beings. Ones with curved
thumbs and attached ear lobes and the ones with straight
thumbs and detached ear lobes.
The way this race of beings get their food is to slide down,
through, an elastic tube of vines 100 feet tall.
The desent rate is controlled by the hands.
The ones with the curved thumb and attached ear lobe
have very little problem sliding through the tube and controlling
their desent rate because the vines just slide by. Nothing
for the vines to get caught on. Whereas, the ones with the
straight thumb and detached ear lobe have the problems
of getting a thumb caught in the vines and broken and/or
getting an ear lobe caught and tearing the ear off. So...The
desent rate would have to be more controlled thus making
it slower. And as everyone knows..................................
THE EARLY BIRD GETS THE WORM.
You may say that these are just mutations and you would be wrong yet in a way right.
Very basically speaking, evolution is mutation except the mutation is passed on to the
offspring. This is Genetic Mutation.
A mutation, that is not Genetic, will not be passed on to the offspring and I can give an
example.
Years ago, I met a man with 2 thumbs on his right hand. Not 2 whole individual thumbs.
What he had was 2 thumbs, from the tip of the nail back to the first joint, attached side
by side.
None of his family had this condition and it wasn't passed on to his offspring.
A Small Note.....I may have to disagree with Mr. Futuyma when he said that an indvidual
organisms can't Evolve. If he means an individual organism can't Evolve
a third arm during its liftime, then, Yes I agree.
The way I see it, though, is that Evolution depends on the individual
organism. Look at it like this; 1 individual organism is born with
slightly mutated Genes. It passes those Genes to 2 offspring. Those 2
pass those Genes to 4 offspring. Those 4 to 8 and so on. After a time
you will have a population with slightly different Genes than the rest of the
population. Ta - Da..............................Evolution
Whoa....wait a minute, I just had a thought of some fun, if you like this kind of fun.
You can check this on the InterNet. There are quite a few babies born with TAILS.
Now take this little known fact to a theist or, if you really like to argue, to a Baptist.
I made the mistake of telling an exfriend of mine, who is a Baptist, about babies
born with tails. Holy Shit......He came unglued. I came to a quick understanding.
Watch what you say around a Baptist. Also this arguement is not the reason he's an
exfriend.
In closing, A theist says "Open Your Heart To goD and hE Will Reveal himselF.". An
Atheist says "Go Into The World, Open Your Eyes, Read, Observe and Experiment and
Evolution will come up and smack you right in the face".
Peace
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Believers and NonBelievers
I know I'm behind the times but, I just saw the Debate(?) between Matt Slick and
Matt Dillahunty. I have to admit that Matt is Slick. I don't know about other people but,
their debate, to me, was weird. Slick appeared to try, exceptionally hard, to win the
debate through confusion and get Dillahunty to admit something. See I'm confused.
But, true to form, Dillahunty slammed Slick at every point. But Slick seemed unable
to absorb the Logical, Rational and Common Sense questions and answers that
Dillahunty was giving him. I got the impression that Slick only wanted to win the debate,
no matter if he was right or wrong.
Well, to move on. I heard, on The Atheist Experience, that some theist wants all,
proclaimed, Atheists to be registered. Even though it wasn't meant to be, there's some
good in that. The only bad in it is if Reverend Hitler used that list to kill 6,000,000 of us.
Check out German history, about 1939 - end of WWII and don't just read the headlines.
I guess we could use that list also. Anyone not on the list would be our............Hmmmm.
Not a good thing for Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.
I, as an Atheist, would never kill someone just because that person believed in a goD.
But, on the same note, if that persons belief motivated actions threatens me with bodily
harm and/or death, you better believe I'll pop a cap in his ass so fast you won't even
hear the shot.
Anyway back to registering Atheists. If we have to register so do the theists. Only fair.
But, I want to go 1 better. Atheists and theists must carry a coin. The Atheist coin has
a heads on 1 side and tails on the other. We would use this coin to help us with life.
HEADS=YUP - TAILS=NOPE. We call this the Logic coin. The theists will have a
coin they call the Bible coin. It's very simular to the Atheist coin except it has a head
on both sides.
Now here's something that, in a way, makes me sad. I've had conversations with your
common everyday believer and when asked a question like "Do you know what goDs plan
is?". They will invariably say "ONLY goD KNOWS THAT. Welllll DUH! I wasn't asking
them what goD knows I was asking what they know. Are they so insecure in their faith
that they can't say those 3 little words.......I..........DON'T..........KNOW?
An Atheist says those 3 little words quite a bit. Because we don't know everything,
but we are learning something new every day.
Well I've been reading and rereading what I've typed and I think I might have figured
out why theists seem afraid of those 3 little words. If people asked me questions about
Astronomy, Evolution and all the other sciences and ALL I could say was
I..........DON'T...........KNOW, I wouldn't like it either.
Well enough of my ramblings.
Peace
Matt Dillahunty. I have to admit that Matt is Slick. I don't know about other people but,
their debate, to me, was weird. Slick appeared to try, exceptionally hard, to win the
debate through confusion and get Dillahunty to admit something. See I'm confused.
But, true to form, Dillahunty slammed Slick at every point. But Slick seemed unable
to absorb the Logical, Rational and Common Sense questions and answers that
Dillahunty was giving him. I got the impression that Slick only wanted to win the debate,
no matter if he was right or wrong.
Well, to move on. I heard, on The Atheist Experience, that some theist wants all,
proclaimed, Atheists to be registered. Even though it wasn't meant to be, there's some
good in that. The only bad in it is if Reverend Hitler used that list to kill 6,000,000 of us.
Check out German history, about 1939 - end of WWII and don't just read the headlines.
I guess we could use that list also. Anyone not on the list would be our............Hmmmm.
Not a good thing for Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.
I, as an Atheist, would never kill someone just because that person believed in a goD.
But, on the same note, if that persons belief motivated actions threatens me with bodily
harm and/or death, you better believe I'll pop a cap in his ass so fast you won't even
hear the shot.
Anyway back to registering Atheists. If we have to register so do the theists. Only fair.
But, I want to go 1 better. Atheists and theists must carry a coin. The Atheist coin has
a heads on 1 side and tails on the other. We would use this coin to help us with life.
HEADS=YUP - TAILS=NOPE. We call this the Logic coin. The theists will have a
coin they call the Bible coin. It's very simular to the Atheist coin except it has a head
on both sides.
Now here's something that, in a way, makes me sad. I've had conversations with your
common everyday believer and when asked a question like "Do you know what goDs plan
is?". They will invariably say "ONLY goD KNOWS THAT. Welllll DUH! I wasn't asking
them what goD knows I was asking what they know. Are they so insecure in their faith
that they can't say those 3 little words.......I..........DON'T..........KNOW?
An Atheist says those 3 little words quite a bit. Because we don't know everything,
but we are learning something new every day.
Well I've been reading and rereading what I've typed and I think I might have figured
out why theists seem afraid of those 3 little words. If people asked me questions about
Astronomy, Evolution and all the other sciences and ALL I could say was
I..........DON'T...........KNOW, I wouldn't like it either.
Well enough of my ramblings.
Peace
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
The Reasons I'm An Atheist
First off, I'd like to say that if anyone could give me hard evidence of the existence of
a goD and this evidence could be tested by Scientists and proven to be true then I
would crawl through 100 miles of razor sharp glass just to kiss goDs feet. Simply
put, I am open minded to a certain point. The bIBLE can not be used as hard
evidence because it is a book of stories written 2000+ years ago, by humans that
were very ignorant of the reality around them. Plus, many of the stories were by word
of mouth before being written down. Do you remember the game played in elementary
school? Even today, with our modern technology, the News Story can get messed up.
I've been an Atheist, almost, as far back as I can remember. I never could understand
why goD would create a world like this. A world in which you hope things will get
better as the years go by. But, in reality, things are getting worse at an exponential rate
with a facade of better.
Once in my early 20s, I was able to be in a spot that was isolated (20+ miles to another
person) and I performed an experiment to see if there was a goD. Since I was told by
theists that if I called for goD to appear before me, hE wouldn't because hE doesn't
work that way. Ok...so I'll call someone who is supposedly chomping at the bit to
get souls. I didn't do any rites or rituals, I just spoke normally and did all the necessary
promises and such. But, to my dismay(lol), sataN never showed up. I would think that
an Atheist would be a prime target for sataN. Hmmmm
Conclusion to my experiment.......No sataN - No goD.
I just thought of something that will save me alot of keystrokes.
Almost every Sunday there is a program that streams out of Austin, Texas called "The
Atheist Experience". The host, Matt Dillahunty, is fantastic. To find out all my reasons
for being an Atheist just listen to Matt. When he speaks its like he is using my mind
and his voice. I agree with him 99.9999999999%.
Peace
a goD and this evidence could be tested by Scientists and proven to be true then I
would crawl through 100 miles of razor sharp glass just to kiss goDs feet. Simply
put, I am open minded to a certain point. The bIBLE can not be used as hard
evidence because it is a book of stories written 2000+ years ago, by humans that
were very ignorant of the reality around them. Plus, many of the stories were by word
of mouth before being written down. Do you remember the game played in elementary
school? Even today, with our modern technology, the News Story can get messed up.
I've been an Atheist, almost, as far back as I can remember. I never could understand
why goD would create a world like this. A world in which you hope things will get
better as the years go by. But, in reality, things are getting worse at an exponential rate
with a facade of better.
Once in my early 20s, I was able to be in a spot that was isolated (20+ miles to another
person) and I performed an experiment to see if there was a goD. Since I was told by
theists that if I called for goD to appear before me, hE wouldn't because hE doesn't
work that way. Ok...so I'll call someone who is supposedly chomping at the bit to
get souls. I didn't do any rites or rituals, I just spoke normally and did all the necessary
promises and such. But, to my dismay(lol), sataN never showed up. I would think that
an Atheist would be a prime target for sataN. Hmmmm
Conclusion to my experiment.......No sataN - No goD.
I just thought of something that will save me alot of keystrokes.
Almost every Sunday there is a program that streams out of Austin, Texas called "The
Atheist Experience". The host, Matt Dillahunty, is fantastic. To find out all my reasons
for being an Atheist just listen to Matt. When he speaks its like he is using my mind
and his voice. I agree with him 99.9999999999%.
Peace
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