Quote:Then I would have to say that you have a fundamental inability to understand any of the science involved. Rev Dark knows far more about it than I do but suffice it to say this:
(Mind you, as someone who doesn't feel evolution and creationism fundamentally contradict each other, I tend to be biased towards both sides...)
Unless you believe god either a) created the universe 13.7 billion years ago and hasn't actually done anything since or b) that god has been systemically falsifying all the scientific experiments and data we have been collecting over the last two hundred years than creationism and evolution are fundamentally incompatible.
One states that life is the result of natural laws and heriditrary mechanics without any purposeful design or forethought aside from adaptation, the other says that god did it. The two are, at their very essence, incompatible.
Quote:And further on that: If we are going to give reilgion credit for morality, we must also give it credit for all the other things: rape, murder, war, hatred, intolerance, tribalism, genocide, slavery and on and on.
This gave me an interesting thought, but I don't have time to properly write it out tonight, so I'm putting this here to remind me of it tomorrow.
Quote:I have a biological urge to eat. This does not mean that the choices of "I will eat a hamburger" and "I will kill my neighbour and feast on the sweet, savory goo in his skull" are the same choice or should ever be compared.
3. Therefore, humans must be better at controlling their biological urges than is being suggested here, and ought to be able to handle not having sex at all.
Yes, rape is a choice on the part of the rapist. But comparing consensual sex and rape on any level is abhorrent. Please never do so again.
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