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So today I want to talk about a little clip from the HBO documentary series "Questioning
Darwin". Now I've only seen the clip, I haven't watched the whole thing, but I just want to,
I want to, reply to some of the things that's being said. Respond to what's being said.
So the trailer for the series seems to suggest that there might be some evolutionists or
biologists in it too. So it's not just a documentary about creationists saying crazy things. It's
also a documentary about questioning...it's, no, it's about watching, from what I can make,
it's to watch creationists talk about what they believe, and I think that's the best
thing to do, is to hear them talk about their beliefs.
"If somewhere within the bible I would've find a passage that said 2+2=5, I wouldn't
question what I'm reading in the bible." If somewhere in the bible it said that your
first born child you should feed them to a goat, if somewhere in the bible it said that,
I wouldn't question it.
"I would believe it, except it as true, and then do my best to work it out and understand
it" so you're going to work through it. You're
going to say "okay, well if I have my first born child, now I have to feed this child
to a goat so I have to find a goat, but really isn't society going to frown upon me if I
give my first born child to a goat? Well, not if everybody is doing it. what am I going
to do? What am I going to do? I can't be questioning this. Here goat, have child."
"I can't even fathom coming from this little thing that crawled on the ground to apesto
being human." You can't fathom it because you probably don't
know how, what the reason is for that happening. What the best theory we have is for that happening.
You probably never done biology, or genetics, or evolution, you've done none of that so
you don't know. Where's the information? Of course you can't fathom it because you have
no information, you need to know how to get from A to Z because if you don't know what's
in between how the hell did you get to Z all the way from A without the B C D all of those.
That's why you can't fathom it.
"It just doesn't, it sounds crazy to me" and you sound crazy to everybody.
"When you have generations" BAH! Ken Ham...The King!
"When you have generations of people being taught that evolution is fact"
What generations are being taught? I've never, as fas as I remember from school, evolution
never came up. Evolution not once came up I think, in primary school, or even secondary
school. Not once were we taught evolution as fact, ever! We might not have even been
taught evolution. So, where are these generations of people you're talking about? Maybe in places
where you actually get taught. You get taught things and not old people's beliefs,. Maybe
that's what you ment. Maybe in those places, and I'd love to be in one of those places
wheer you get taught and there's generations of people who are taught this 'cause I haven't
experienced that.
"and therefore genesis is not true, and you have to reinterpret the bible. Why shouldn't
we do what we want to do? There's no absolutes, therefore we determine what is right and what
is wrong" Just because we're human doesn't mean we're
completely miserable craps. That's not what that means. Just because maybe some of us
do bad things some of the time doesn't mean that the rest of us will go to *** if we
don't have some sort of biblical code to tell us "yeah, you know what? You shouldn't ***
your neighbor. You shouldn't do that because maybe he doesn't want to be ***! So, you
know, if you wouldn't want to be *** then don't *** your neighbor. It's a *** thing
to do so don't do it." and then we can make our own code of "not to be a *** person"
we can do that. We have the means. But what you're saying is "no faith in humanity. We'll
just end up raping our neighbors. That's what's going to happen. We're going to *** our neighbors
and we're going to marry our dogs. That's what we'll do! It's inevitable that we will
*** our neighbor and marry our dogs that's the next step. If we get rid of seeing genesis
as truth...raping neighbors, marrying dogs. It's terrible! It's really bad."
"To put man down as just an animal, that we're no different than a dog, a horse, an elephant,
or a cat, or anything else is totally poop" But we are differenet. Nobody is saying that
a human is the same as a frog. Nobody is saying that. Nobody is saying that a human is the
same as a cat, as a horse, as a dog. Nobody is sayign that. Who's sayign that we're exactly
like them? You don't have humans eating from a trough. Maybe you do have some humans doing
that. But most of us we're not eating from a trough, or licking our fur to clean ourselves.
We don't do that. There's also an awful lot of other things we don't do. We're very consciously
aware that we're going to die. I don't think it's been shown that animals are very aware
of that they're going to die. We create these societies, these structures. I know animals
do it to but we have very refined societies even though it doesn't really seem that way.
We do. Us humans are very sophisticated compared to any other animal. We're very sophisticated.
Even the most stupid of us are fairly sophisticated...in comparison.
"God made us in his image, and so to say that man is an animal and God created man in his
own image, so does one *crazy eyes* come back and say God is nothing more that an animal?"
NO! One is not saying that! One is not saying anything about God being an animal. One is
saying that there is no God. That God isn't there. He's not an animal. He's not anything.
There's nothing there. It doesn't matter. One is not saying this. That's not what's
happening. One is saying that you need to maybe look after yourself a little bit better
because that amount of weight isn't going to be good for you. It's not going to be good
for you. I didn't want to make this an ad hominem attack, but it's happened and it's
happened. It's happened. He's fat. I'm a bit fat. I'm not as fat as him. It's a fatty calling
another fatty a little bit more of a fatty. It's what's happened.
"and here's another issue we need to think about. What's more basic to Christianity than
prayer?" Sponges! Lovely sponges that can just soak
up everything. That's what's more basic to christianity than prayer. If you've a spongy
brain and you can absorb these things and not wring it out every so often, that's the
basic. That's what you need.
"Why bother pursuing a relationship with God if he's closed the door on us? and doesn't
care about us anymore?" We kick in that door and we say "God! Here
we are. We want a relationship! We've been outside looking in the window but now we're
coming in the door, and you will listen to us. Don't make us remove your tattoo that's
been on our flesh. Don't make us do that. Don't make us remove our own flesh and then
mail it to you like a woman did recently. Don't make us do that God!"
"To think that I had no communication with God would be so devastating I can't even imagine
adopting such a view just to make peace with Darwin *stank*"
You don't have to make peace with Darwin. Why would you make peace with Darwin? Darwin's
dead. He doesn't care if you make peace with him anymore. What is making peace? That you'll
be friends with Darwin? That you'll shake hands. Darwin let's go to the cinema together.
I'll buy you some popcorn. We'll have great fun. 12 years a slave, it's a good movie.
Let's go and see it together. But the idea to this man that it's so terrifying that he
wouldn't have any sort of connection with God, way to reach God with prayer is because
he's gone so far in life without thinking of the alternative. That it's gotten so far
now that if he was to have that cut away it would destroy him. Because he would see that
earlier in life he didn't bother to think a little bit and that for him to believe that
there is no way to connect with this being that he sees as real, it's terrifying.
"I would love to encourage Mr. Darwin, and others that feel just like him, to try God.
And see the transformation for themselves" You know he's dead? You can't encourage a
dead person to do anything. He's gone love.
"If I were asked what is the primary reason I believe evolution is incompatable with biblical
christianity, I could some it up in one word for you. DEATH!"
DEATH! DEATH! DEATH! "if you want, add pain, suffering, and death"
If you want add a little bit of pain, and suffering in there.
And you can see a smile on his face like "mmm, I love me some pain and suffering. Mix that
all in with some death. Mmmm! Oh, that's mine. That is my meal. If I was to die tomorrow,
I would dine on death, pain, and suffering for my last meal ***** SO GOOD!"
"I know a little about this. I lost my first wife to cancer. Now my second wife has cancer,
and so do I. Whether we're young or old, death is inevitable."
Well what a *** tragedy! That is, that's terrible. He lost somebody he loves from cancer,
now somebody else he loves has cancer, and he has cancer. But that doesn't mean that
what he said previously about pain, and suffering, and death being the main reason that evolution
is incompatible with christianity. That terrible, but I mean that's just a plea to our emotions
and it's terrible, but what he said previously doesn't make sense.
"and how do we deal with that? How does evolution deal with that?"
Evolution isn't a person. People deal with death not ideas or beliefs. People have to
deal with death, not a theory, not a cup of tea. How does tea deal with death? How does
this scissors deal with death? How does it deal with it? Why would you say evolution?
Evolution isn't a living thing. It can't deal with death because it's not alive, so it doesn't
need to deal with death.
"From just reading genesis you get the idea of a perfect world. No death. No disease.
Animals, man, the dinosaurs we all vegatarian" I get the same feeling. I got the same feeling
when I was a child when I was watching episodes of Pokemon. It was this magical place. Everything
was just right. It was just wonderful. Why couldn't that exist in reality, because that's
not reality. That's not real. If you had giant firebreathing dragons...that's horrifying.
That would result in a lot of death. That's what would happen.
"The fossil record. It's a record of death. It's a record of animals eating each other.
It's a record of disease because there are dinosaur bones with brain tumors. But you
can't have dinosaurs with brain tumors and dinosaurs eating each other until after sin."
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"I was raised and I believe that the bible is fact so if something's going to collide
with it then it's obviously incorrect, and false."
But you're just saying that you were raised and you believe, they seem to be joined together.
You were raised to believe that the bible is true and that if somebody says something
else well that's false, that's ridiculous. Because it's an easy form of thinking. If
you believe these things and somebody says something else you can just say "it doesn't
conform with what I believe therefore it's not true and I'm not even going to think about
it, because it doesn't warrant my thinking. I'm just going to have my beliefs and you
can go off with your beliefs and die in a hole somewhere, please.
"I think sometimes our culture has like an overly heavy reliance on science."
You know what, I do think we have an overly heavy reliance on science. People who get
forms of cancer and then get cured from it, science helping with that. It's just a terrible
thing to have that available to us. To be able to cured of things that a couple hundred
years ago, and around the time the bible was written, wouldn't have been possible if not
for science. But we do, we rely too heavily on science. It's not a great thing to be relying
on...science and sense. Bit too heavy.
"Have you guys ever been in a situation where you've been articulating your faith and it
was met with mockery?" and then the man touched me in my sense region,
and he told me I was silly because what I believe was just based on what Mammy and daddy
told me, and I didn't like it.
"It never surprise us that we're mocked or hated by the world. I mean, Christ said that
this would happen, and it's happening." IT'S HAPPENING!!!
"I have to say, and I'm willing to say, that the first 11 chapters of Genesis are true
and correct because it's God's word." The bible is true. because the bible is true.
Now if you can't deal with that well I'm sorry. End of discussion. Because the bible is true,
because the bible is true.
That's it for this breakdown, my breakdown of this video. Talking about my discussion.
My saying things that maybe might be mean and aren't mean and truthful and what not.
In the meantime I have watched the full documentary so I now have a better idea of it. It's an
hour long. It's worth a watch if only to go "ah now come on. No, you don't, no you're
having a laugh that's what you're doing. You're having an aul laugh".
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Should creationists be listened to as reasonable beings? What's your view on creationism? What's
your view on atheism? What's your view on beliefs in general? If you have anything to
comment you can leave it below and we can have a discussion about it. Until then, until
we have that discussion I'm gone. I'm gone now. *stick falls*
*sniff*