Let's take a look at this Intelligent Design (ID) theory, is it just bullocks? To think that the universe and human beings were created via an intelligent design seems a bit far fetched. Let's take a look at just a few examples of why that appears to not be true.
- Most orbits are unstable
- Almost all places in the universe will kill life
- Most of the matter in the universe is made up of mostly Black Holes
- The Milky Way will collide with the Andromeda Galaxy
- Our galaxy's orbit will pass near a Supernova
- Volcanoes, Hurricanes, tsunami's, a fragile atmosphere etc...
- 99% of life that ever existed is extinct
- Can't live on 2/3 of it's surface
- Our inner solar system is a shooting galary
- It took 3.5 billion years to make multi-cellular life
- Birth Defects, Leukemia, hemophilia, MS, sickle cell anemia, Parkinson's, ALS etc...
- Our eyes (always touted to be so incredible) really only see a small narrow view of the electromagnetic spectrum
- We exhale most Oxygen we inhale
- We have to eat constantly to stay alive, Crocodiles eat once a week.
- We must sleep 8 hours a day spending 1/3 of our lives comatosed.
- We eat and breathe out of one hole in our bodies thus ensuring that some will die every year of choking. Dolphins have two different holes to perform these two functions.
And the number one reason why ID is bullocks....
Who puts a playground (human genitalia) right next to a sewage system ?
Thanks to Neil DeGrasse Tyson.
Cross Posted at Rocketstar's Thoughts On Life
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Hey Rocket, you might like this article. It's an oldie, but a goodie.
Does God Have Back Problems too.
Duh, God has a plan for the universe and if it doesn't make sense to us, it's because we're mere mortals who can't know God's plan or intent, only that we should have faith that it is, overall, all for the best. (Never mind that many who suggest such things have no trouble asserting other aspects of God's plan and nature, perhaps—coincidentally, I'm sure—to validate their own beliefs.)
My simple question—and I fully admit that I lifted this from Richard Dawkins—for those who assert intelligent design whenever something in nature seems too complex to have evolved is this: who or what created God? That is, if it's suggested that a high level of complexity requires a deliberate act of creation, then what created the most infinitely complex thing/being/essence in the universe? And what created that creator and so on and so on?
dodos, nice article man, thanks.
cletus,
"who or what created God? "
--- Richard is our "time's" Carl Sagan. I just pray to God ;o) that enough people listen to what he has to say in order to chnage our collective thinking regarding the possibility of a creator of the universe, if one exists.
In the end it will need to be the "West" that must lead that World change, if it ever happens. So how much longer will it take for "Christians" to give up on their hopes and dreams and really look at reality so we can lead that change?
My main problem with Dawkins is that whether out of sincerity or for rhetotical purposes, he equates all who believe in a supernatural to be radicals or fundamentalists. It's a gross distortion on the same level as radical evangelicals who slap some kind of Satanic label on anyone who deviates even one degree from their interpretation of the moral life. I shake my head at Bible literalists, those who regard it as a wholly accurate account of ancient times and must be followed at risk of eternal damnation. But as a collection of allegories, esp. the New Testament, for living a good life, it has considerable value. Dawkins' excessive language in this area ignores the genuine value of the Bible just because of his (understandable) hostility to the literalists.
" But as a collection of allegories, esp. the New Testament, for living a good life, it has considerable value."
-- I would agree that in general, it does provide for those that need it a "guide" to living a "good" life.
The probalme is in the severity in which a lot of people believe that it is literal and that it is the word of "God" and not just a book written by humans to provide a "guide" for living.
I'd have to come down on the side of Cletus here. I'm the farthest thing from a bible-thumper there is, but I am *also* a fair ways from Dawkins' militant atheism. The only thing that bothers me about people and their gods is that you often can't tell one from the other. Christians claim their god has all the best qualities of humankind but from where I sit, it has most of the worst.
But I'd never throw out the bible with the bathwater. Nor any sacred text, for that matter. Doing so just hands the fascist fundycostals ammunition. (And I don't use that word fascist lightly...a recent edition of Harper's magazine had within it a rather stunning and VERY disquieting article about the political ambitions of a large subset of evangelicals in America. Think a Christian Taliban, and you'd be close.)
The biggest thing that puzzles me with respect to this breed of Christianity is its unwavering obsession with gay sex. (And I'm straight.) You have to wonder, though. Invaribly, the first group up for exile or worse in their power fantasies are the sodomites. Surely there are worse "sins" out there than beshitting your dick.
I'd say it's not just gay sex, but sex all around, homo or hetero. Don't masturbate, don't have pre-marital sex, don't have oral sex, no condoms or birth control, not even sex education. The loudest on the Christian right, like the fanatical Muslims, have a serious obsession with controlling our genitals and limiting pleasure.
Sex columnist Dan Savage, in his 21 March 06 column:
Earlier this month Republicans in South Dakota successfully banned abortion in that state. Last week the GOP-controlled state house of representatives in Missouri voted to ban state-funded family-planning clinics from dispensing birth control. "If you hand out contraception to single women," one Republican state rep told The Kansas City Star, "we're saying promiscuity is OK." On the federal level, Republicans are blocking the over-the-counter sale of emergency contraception and keeping a 100 percent effective HPV vaccine—a vaccine that will save the lives of thousands of women every year—from being made available.
The GOP's message to straight Americans: If you have sex, we want it to fuck up your lives as much as possible. No birth control, no emergency contraception, no abortion services, no life-saving vaccines. If you get pregnant, tough shit. You're having those babies, ladies, and you're making those child-support payments, gentlemen. If you get HPV and it leads to cervical cancer, well, that's too bad. Have a nice funeral, slut.
What's it going to take to get a straight rights movement off the ground? The GOP in Kansas wants to criminalize hetero heavy petting, for God's sake! Wake up and smell the freaking holy war, breeders! The religious right hates heterosexuality just as much as it hates homosexuality. Fight back!
For the hardcore Christian right—not all Christians, not even a majority—it's not just about sodomites and the unborn, but Taliban-like control over people's bodies. There's good reason why some Libertarians are questioning whether the GOP shares their values anymore.
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