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Thread #155384   Message #3663090
Posted By: Jack Blandiver
23-Sep-14 - 02:55 PM
Thread Name: BS: Special thread on Evolution & religion
Subject: RE: BS: Special thread on Evolution & religion
in the same way, evolutionists extrapolate beyond the data...

Even an old duffer like me can see the morphological evidences for Evolution throughout the animal kingdom and fossil record. All you have to do is do a skeletal comparison between whale flippers, bat wings and human hands to see how the same basic patterns morph through BILLIONS of years of incremental environmental adaptation into very different, though entirely related, things.

Life on Earth is a lot more wondrous and diverse than can ever be accounted for by the facile storytelling of Genesis, which is based on far earlier myths and imaginings which reflect the bounty of imaginary & metaphorical responses to nature, but don't tell us anything about how it all came about, much less our place in it.

The Bible is one thing we can examine the evolution of in great detail; we can point to a time when there was NO BIBLE: the Pre-Bible Earth of a mere 3000 years ago. No God. No Genesis. Just a bunch of proto-myth types getting kicked around by way of mystic riffing on the part of would be priests and storytellers that served the general purpose of answering & inspiring wonder in nature whilst in the UK so-called Primitive communities were building their myths in STONE at Avebury and Stonehenge just so they could make something bigger than both themselves and nature. They had NO GOD either; they were part of the process that links Göbekli Tepe of 10,000 BCE with the Large Hadron Collider of today. All of it utterly GODLESS but all of it wonderfully HUMAN.

The Bible was pieced together over time; God is Created in a good deal more than 6 days, but he remains a work of palpable fiction nevertheless because WHERE THE FUCK WAS HE BEFORE? And, more the point, WHERE THE FUCK IS HE NOW?   

As I might have said several post ago, we really do both the myths and ourselves a grave and serious disservice by taking this shit literally.