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Why I Believe In The Bible And Not Evolution

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Children are idiots. This is a fact. Everyone knows this. You don't give a knife to a child and say: "Have fun!" Because they're idiots. So, okay, why are children idiots? Because we teach them to be idiots. Things like the sky is blue, grass is green, cows say "Moo," cats say "Meow." Santa Claus, the Easter bunny, and tooth fairy. If they see some "adult" truth we hide it from them. "Mommy and Daddy were just wrestling. The stork may bring you a baby brother in 9 months." How do you expect them not to be idiots? You want them to be idiots, that's why you teach them to be. That, and you are an idiot having been taught yourself as a child to be one.

Some people teach their children mathematics, music, science or something like that and we are amazed! "The kid is a genius!" we say. Because we're idiots. Spend some time with the kid with "the special gift" and you will quickly see that he/she is an idiot really good at math.

Other kids pick up on things of an unidiotic nature themselves. I once had a 5 year old neighbor kid who could tell you, more thoroughly and accurately than a sports writer, all of the baseball players and all of their stats. A friend of mine had a kid at that age who could tell you more things about space than you would learn at university. I assume he was accurate, I don't know, I'm an idiot. Space is amazing but boring. At least to me.

But even I was able to teach myself to read before I started school. I was also, at a very young age, able to pick up on some things most people never do. My dad, who was very poor growing up, had told me that rich people are evil and poor people are good. Democrats are for the poor and Republicans for the rich. Nonsense. I could clearly see that the ol' man was a poor person who got rich. He would justify his philosophy with more nonsense: the rich get rich by stealing from the poor and the poor were stupid and lazy. He hated the rich and the poor. Anyone with more or less money than he had. The truth was he just saw himself as poor when he wasn't. He wanted to be richer. More evil?

So, growing up I hated Christianity. I could say religion in general but I lived in the Bible belt and the only religion I knew was Christianity. I saw it as being moronic, myopic - hypocritical, ignorant self righteousness. And I was right. I was also taught evolution in school. My parents taught me to be an irreligious atheist. And I was. But I thought evolution was stupid. Didn't buy it. To me, it was presented much like a religion but made even less sense.

Today, I often say the only thing evolving is evolution itself, which is sort of a stupid thing to say because everything changes and the thing that repulsed me the most about evolution in school was that it was obviously not evolving, it had been designed. Built. It's built upon ridiculous assumptions contrary to observable nature. If an evolutionist sees a bump on a frogs ass he will make up some nonsense about how that bump evolved and why. Why? Yes why. Random why. That's evolution. By evolution I mean things changing into other things.

As I grew older the evolution I was taught changed but remained the same. Just different nonsense. And my suspicions about Christianity were, over and over, confirmed. I didn't need to confirm what was readily apparent. Observable. Christianity had a source though, and, I thought, if I could get to that I could really confirm it. Debunk Christianity. So, this atheist started to study the Bible.

That led me to examine the history of Christianity and how it had been grossly distorted and was misrepresenting the Bible. The immortal soul, came, not from the Bible but from Greek philosophy that had originated in Babylon. Old myths and legends. The same sort of thing with the trinity, hell, cross, rapture, Christmas and Easter. The immortal soul from Socrates, trinity from Plato, hell from Milton and Dante, the cross from Tammuz and Constantine, rapture from Darby, Christmas from Saturnalia and Dickens, Easter from Astarte/Ishtar etc.

The Greeks and Romans had a remarkable influence, not only on the Jews beginning in 332 BCE with Alexander the Great and the Christians in 325 CE with Constantine the Great, but all throughout occidental culture. Even with the Evolutionists of the industrial Revolution through ancient Greek philosophers like Empedocles, Aristotle, Anaxagoras and Anaximander. Just look around you where you are right now and you will see things named from Greek mythology and philosophy. Damn near everything in space, the calendar - days and months - medicine, terminology, product naming, religion and science.

Pretty much everything about Christianity is nonsense made up by idiots who either adopted pagan nonsense to spread "the truth" - to pony up some cash - or is some whitewashed, watered down, moronic false attempt to see everything through rose colored glasses, "convert" other lunatics though love and happiness while policing the world they are supposed to be no part of with a big, dumb, fake smile.

That is modern day apostate Christianity. It isn't the Christianity of Christ or his apostles. Not of Paul, who said, the Christians would "turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths." (2 Timothy 4:3-4) He used the Greek word mythos (myth) which was later translated to the Latin fabulas (fables).

I believe the Bible because it is, once examined without the rose colored glasses and ancient pagan mythology, very practical and observable. Modern day Christianity and Evolution, not so much.
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@ImperialAerosolKidFromEP Or scientists from his race would think it evolved.
@AkioTsukino and they'd be right! I doubt there'd be many graduated candles around, but I'll bet they could get their hands on a sundial
@ImperialAerosolKidFromEP No, because by then it would have evolved from an armadillo or perhaps a honey badger.
The Bible is silent on evolution. You can believe in it and evolution, same as you can believe in rocketry or bicycles or other things the Bible doesn’t mention.
@LeopoldBloom I don't believe in it (the Bible) and evolution. Just the Bible. I can, however, believe in rocketry and bicycles and other things that the Bible doesn't mention because those things . . . . came later.
@AkioTsukino The theory of evolution by natural selection was first proposed by the Roman poet Lucretius. All Darwin did was make the scientific observations to support it. The reason it's not mentioned in the Bible is because the Bible isn't a science book, since it was written by Bronze Age goatherds who didn't know where the sun went at night.
Do you believe in these calculations of the age of the Earth as 6000 years? Or do you accept the geological and astronomical evidence?

@AkioTsukino So you accept approx 4.5 billion years for the age of the Earth and a Hubble expansion starting approx 13.8 billion years ago?

And you accept fossil remains of microbes from 3.7 billion years ago, multi-cellular organisms dating back 3 billion years, plants on land 500 million years ago, etc?
@ElwoodBlues Well. Sort of. I accept that those are the current scientific estimates which are more than likely going to change as they should and have always changed. The difference, you see, is that I can demonstrate the Bible doesn't imply 6,000 years and I can demonstrate science does imply 4.5 billion or 3.7 billion. So I trust the Bible more than science because although I can't demonstrate either of them with complete certainty, themselves or their interpretation, but much of the Bible I can demonstrate as being accurate whereas science is, rightly so, a method of investigation rather than a belief system.
@AkioTsukino Yeah, the estimates change, but the changes are smaller and smaller as the estimates zero in on fairly precise numbers. Sure, science responds to new data and from time to time adopts new explanations, but the new explanations are demonstrably better.

Agreed, science is the process, not a particular result.
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Most people I run into who deny evolution, seem to be under the impression that it only applies to the relationship between apes and humans. And their reasons are very impractical and irrational.
There are far too many examples of evolution both in the fossil record and out in the field today to deny. Evolution is not a thing of the past, it’s a constant. Conditions make some of it a little less noticeable, but if you understand it. And go looking at other species, you see it right in front of you. And when you realize that an intelligent creator could have done a much better job, it makes so much sense.
You can believe in both. This is mostly an American thing.
@AkioTsukino There are many books on the subject- the author S. Joshua Swamidass being one.

So will you not accept that Christ's blood was shed for Christians who believe in evolution?
@BritishFailedAesthetic What are the requirements for being a Christian, according to the Bible and what are the requirements for having an accurate knowledge of evolution. Like I said - if Adam wasn't a real person who was created by Jehovah God and sinned, what need would you have for Christ's blood?
@AkioTsukino The author I had says it all- a complex theory but I believe it- snd it involves Adam and Eve.
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I don’t believe in Bible. I believe the Quran
@SW-User Okay. I've published a few versions of the English Quran, and even translated one from archaic English into modern, with notes explaining Islamic terms - so - what specifically about the Quran do you believe to be true? What truth does it reveal? It rejects the trinity. It got that right. What else?
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@Emosaur Oh, yes you do.

 
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