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Christianity EtcRe: Is Pornography Ideal In Christian Marriages?? by cloudgoddess(f): 3:34am On Apr 06, 2016
damocool:
Not surprised getting this from you though...
It was a serious question, and nowhere within it did I state my personal opinion, so the snideness isn't necessary.

Asking again: What in particular makes pornography inherently evil, not simply potentially habit-forming or distracting, but evil as in deserving of punishment or hatred, if it is merely a depiction of other humans engaging in sex? Explain as if you were speaking to an objective individual with no opinion on the matter.
Christianity EtcRe: Reasons Why Atheist Are Confused People by cloudgoddess(f): 3:13am On Apr 06, 2016
UyiIredia:
True. That's why I stopped answering him. I let him rot in his ignorance.
So the definition of ignorance has now changed to "refusal to accept unproven invisible beings"?

Because to me, the word would more accurately describe people who tend to believe in highly questionable supernatural ideas based on circular arguments and logical fallacies, and then insist others are in the wrong for not buying it.
Christianity EtcRe: Finally, Life Is Synthesized In A Lab. by cloudgoddess(f): 2:45am On Apr 06, 2016
Fadman4real:
Who do you think created the life and gave it the ability to grow or whats the genome created in the lab done by natural forces. The world is extremely complex and to think that such a complex creation was done by luck and without an external force is follishness of the highest order.

It took scientists a cummulative of billions of hours to create a genome and then we are to use that as an evidence that life was created by nothing and just a random movement of electrons and protons. Check out how complex the DNA structure is, Antony Flew a prominent atheist converted after reading about the DNA and how complex the structure is. We are still far from discovering the full complexity of the DNA and would probably take us anoother billions of hours of researchers time to discover it. Yet you would still choose to believe a lie that all this was created by a random body.

That is why the book of Romans says that "For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse." - Rom 1:20
The world is extremely complex and to think that such a complex creation was done by luck and without an external force is follishness of the highest order.
How are natural laws of physics & chemistry "luck"? Surely in the relatively short time humans have been doing science, we've seen that things like the formation of planets and other celestial bodies, the growth of planets and animals, and the molding of mountains and earth, all follow rather predictably from natural laws. We don't know everything, of course, but we know enough to conclude that virtually all of what we see around us happens naturally - NOT with magic. No one ever waves a wand and creates a tree, or prays to someone's stomach and POOF a baby. It would not be surprising, then, if the "original cause", the beginning of the universe, or whatever one would like to call it, was also of natural causes. Perhaps natural causes we do not yet fully understand, but natural causes nontheless.

Why would the external force have to be an emotional Jewish God and not the infinite number of other possible external forces that could have possibly lead to the universe? How is it not a huge misstep to jump to the conclusion that the answer must be a human-like supernatural entity of middle-eastern origin who was introduced to Africans by white missionaries?

Check out how complex the DNA structure is, Antony Flew a prominent atheist converted after reading about the DNA and how complex the structure is.
This is silly. Hundreds of thousands of scientists work on DNA every day and are not religious, party because they know how DNA works. It does not defy any laws of chemistry or physics. Just because it's mindblowing, complex, and difficult to understand, doesn't mean it's magic.

Yet you would still choose to believe a lie that all this was created by a random body.
This is creating a false dichotomy. The only two options are not either "Jewish humanoid supernatural entity called Yahweh" or "a completely random jumbling of chemicals (which btw is not even what the big bang claims, if that's what you were referring to)". There is an entire spectrum of possible answers for that question (in no particular order):
- any of the 4,000+ gods that have been created and worshipped throughout human history (including but by no means limited to yahweh)
- a different god which no human has named yet
- natural laws that have always been in existence in some form, changing gradually as eons pass (most of what we know scientifically points to this answer)
- unicorns
- goblins
- aliens

The list goes on. The amount of possible answers is vast, and the only reason you particularly accept Yahweh is because it's what you were raised to accept, or at the very least, it's one of the very few options your society has lead you to accept (Yahweh or Allah, in terms of most of Nigeria).
Christianity EtcRe: Nigerians, What Is God Doing About Our Current Problems by cloudgoddess(f): 12:47am On Apr 06, 2016
Joeblis:
you can't blame God for the hardship we are facing, God provided everything we'll need to prosper and blossom as a nation but everything has been thrown to shambles.
And god could not prevent these shambles because....?
Christianity EtcRe: There Is God And He Answers Prayer by cloudgoddess(f): 12:41am On Apr 06, 2016
Serenity008:
Romans 9:15 For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.

You ain't dictate for him. He consult no one
So then in that case prayer doesn't work. If this bible verse reflects your position then you just admitted that Jesus/Yahweh will do what he wants regardless of what anyone prays to him.

Which is what we've been saying all along. If Jesus/God is real, he is as useless as having no God at all.
Christianity EtcRe: We Just Had Sex by cloudgoddess(f): 8:55pm On Apr 04, 2016
frank317:
Useless and wicked God. So becasue she had sex ur God is going to make her burn forever. Why did he block her hole with flesh so that she wouldn't have sex. Rubbish
Christianity EtcRe: Dialectics Of Violence And Morality by cloudgoddess(f): 8:49pm On Apr 04, 2016
Joshthefirst:
LoL.

I strongly suggest you run along back to your fairly land in the clouds and revise your homework so that you won't run back there with your cloudy tail between your legs when someone takes you up as usual. Mtchew.
What does this even mean?
Christianity EtcRe: If Evolution Was Untrue. by cloudgoddess(op): 4:04pm On Apr 04, 2016
asalimpo:
I dont need to tell "fallen" man that. They're atheist professors who turned to christ.
What convinced them? the Cold logical facts of course.
They're atheists scientists who did the math and weight the logic and it didnt add up and by that ditched
your evo poo for the obviously plausible truth - Life is the result of intelligent design -

the secular governments of today are clearly light years ahead of that and if you can't see that then you must be truly blind and ignorant
The secular governments of today, had their starts from judeo-christian principles.
It is what formed their philosophies.
The founding fathers of America, Great Britain were all christians.
The humanitarian laws of the world that have made it a more tolerant place were all shaped by judeo-christian principles.
All thanks to the spread of christianity.
Yes, they were lots of errors , but overall the world has gained by having the gospel.
All those nations that were without the gospel, wallowed in darkness and inhumanity.
Infact, look at nations that dont have strong christian presence and you'll see this.
Degradation of women, contempt for human life, evil dictatorial ruling systems, social structures that entrench slavery (e.g caste systems in india , pakistan etc), large scale poverty.

Also, what makes homosexuality wrong? You realize that all homosexuality involves, is two human beings of the same sex being engaged in romantic relations. I want to know how that harms anyone. And "the bible says it's wrong" does not count for anything.


if your parents were homosxuals would you born to say this poo!
why dont you use your head as a hammer , since that's what it was designed for.
This is what perversion does, it blinds you to the truth so much that you can't distinguish good from evil.

Homosxuality is wrong bcause it is a misuse of the human body and goes against the pattern God created for expression of human sxuality.
God want's man and woman joined together in body not man and man.
Homo is a perversion.

By the same argument:
What makes zoophilia wrong?
What makes pedophilia wrong?
What makes corprophilia wrong?

The bible says it's wrong- the bible is the WRITTEN WORD OF GOD and it doesnt get out of date.
What should be the right standard-science?! Think again.

What you believe in affects how you view right and wrong-
You believe in evolution/atheism and you standard of morality becomes perverse.
Why should murder,cheating,lying be wrong?
When according to evo/no-theo , you are simply struggling to survive. It's a survival of the fittest
in a meaningless chaotic world.

Madam, sit tight, God's judgement is coming on the world. Then we shall know who was right or wrong.
Zoophilia and pedophilia are wrong because one party did not consent to the sexual act. This is also why rape is wrong. The two individuals involved in a mutually consenting homosexual relationship are not violating the rights of anyone.

Secular governments arising from Christian principles is a load of bull. Why do you think the United States declared seperation of church and state in the constitution? Because even the writers of the constitution knew that biblical laws were insufficient for the type of society they wanted to create - one in which every person would have individual freedoms and no religion would be able to invoke their notions over other unwilling participants. The writers themselves were deists according to most historical accounts and their writings. They did not even believe in a biblical, intervening God.

Also, Japan, China and South Korea are examples of countries who were not even touched by Christianity for the most part until very recently in their history. Why are they doing better than us in Nigeria? Why are their crime rates, child mortality rates & poverty rates so low in comparison to ours?

Your threats of judgment mean absolutely nothing. They are the equivalent of me telling you, "listen to what I say otherwise a large spaghetti noodle will wrap you up and teleport you to a dimension of endless suffering". Yahweh is your noodle. I am not threatened by these ridiculous notions.

A life without supernatural deities does not make life meaningless. If that's what you think then that just shows how abusive and manipulative religion is, to make people believe that their existence does not have value if they are not worshipping some imaginary being.

Personally I HIGHLY value my existence. Given everything that had to happen for me to exist, cosmologically and evolutionarily, I am filled with wonder and awe. This knowledge also makes me inclined to make the absolute most of the life I live now. To pursue endeavors I find fulfilling, to make friendships and relationships with other incredible human beings, and to experience my humanhood as deeply as I can before my time comes. I can't imagine wasting another minute of this precious life whispering to imaginary friends instead of living to my fullest. Religion is a psychological trap which I am ecstatic to be free from.
Christianity EtcRe: Dialectics Of Violence And Morality by cloudgoddess(f): 3:40pm On Apr 04, 2016
plaetton:
That's the problem with these guys.
They seek to define everything only on their own preconceived terms, including your own words.
Christianity EtcRe: There Is God And He Answers Prayer by cloudgoddess(f): 3:39pm On Apr 04, 2016
Serenity008:
One thing u must know is, there is no neutral person in this world.

If they ain't praying to God, they are praying to something else
1. Where is your proof of this assertion? As an atheist I personally stopped praying years ago and my life has only gotten better ever since, despite some setbacks which everyone experiences. When things get bad I might cry for a while, then gather myself and figure out how to help my situation. When my situation improves, I pat myself on the back and thank everyone who helped me in the process (this thanks is always extended to my fellow humans, never deities).

2. If nonreligious people do indeed pray to "something else", and according to you that is the reason for their success, then doesn't that discredit the notion that your God is the only source of answered prayers? Surely if people can pray to anything and get results then Yahweh is not required?
Christianity EtcRe: How Do One Stay Closer To God And Remain Stedfast In This Endtime? by cloudgoddess(f): 11:17am On Apr 04, 2016
iamexcelblog:
My dear, I don't know the advice I will give you now and I will be tagged a carnal man. There was a time I was like you and had serious moral crises. I saw every woman as evil especially those that dress lustfully. I had no internal peace.

But at a time, I came to understand the very fact that at the end of it all, we are all humans..... There are those who have serious sexual urge more than the others. My brother, its only natural to seek "company" when such arises inasmuch as you are not committing a crime like rape... Sex is only natural because man is an animal. I have met a girl whose sexual urge is triple more than the normal girl. The average African or hypocritical Nigerian will call her a demon but am sure that its just natural....

But let me remind you, there is nothing like end times and there will never be.... All you people prophesying end times are limited in knowledge and have no clue whatsoever on how the universe works....

By the way if I may ask you, where the early men wearing clothes? You people are yet to come to terms with the fact that society is evolving with time. You should be grateful that you are seeing people even wearing clothes in your time. Take a time traveling machine a travel back to a million years ago on earth. You will be surprised on how naked people were going around and it was very normal. You may see how people were having sex daily like the animals they were and it was very normal. A million years later, has there been an end time on earth? Or you think it is every body that believes in the Bible? The grand deception? Lest I forget, the world has been for billions of years.... Scientifically proven!

Will you have the mind to believe what you will see should be taken to a billion years back in time?

Free yourself from mental slavery and accept who you are..... Thats if you want internal peace.
Fantastic and insightful post.
Christianity EtcRe: Is Pornography Ideal In Christian Marriages?? by cloudgoddess(f): 11:13am On Apr 04, 2016
damocool:
I believe generations before ours enjoyed healthy sêx life without watching this evil film called porn...
What makes porn evil? Is it not just a video depicting people having sex?

If you can have sex and be okay, what is the huge wrongdoing in watching other people do it?
Christianity EtcRe: Is Pornography Ideal In Christian Marriages?? by cloudgoddess(f): 11:11am On Apr 04, 2016
thesicilian:
Learn? Experience?
Those are very lame excuses I must say. Does a child learn how to cry? Does he learn how to crawl? Those are very innate traits that will reveal themselves when the time comes

I doubt if there was anybody on ground to teach Adam and Eve how to have intercourse when they were created in the garden.

I guess when people talk about experience, what they actually mean is 'doing it the way that it is generally accepted by the public' The main ingredient in love making, as the term implies, is love. Once a couple loves and understands each other, and know how to communicate their feelings and desires to each other, what else is there to 'learn' from demonic books and videos?
What makes books & videos about sex demonic? Isn't it just watching other people do what you yourself already do?
Christianity EtcRe: Dialectics Of Violence And Morality by cloudgoddess(f): 11:08am On Apr 04, 2016
PastorAIO:
Your depravity is beyond anything that I've seen on nairaland yet.
I genuinely don't think he's capable of processing ideas that deviate from his preconceived notions - which he's set on defending regardless of how ridiculous he makes himself out to be in the process. I've personally given up on engaging him, it's a dead end.
Christianity EtcRe: Dialectics Of Violence And Morality by cloudgoddess(f): 10:58am On Apr 04, 2016
PastorAIO:
The proof that this moral instinct comes to expression subjectively can be found throughout human history and also in the bible where we see an evolution of morality. In fact I think the bible is the best document to support the subjectivity of morality.

God does not confer morality otherwise atheists would not be moral. However God does buttress whatever moral stance you've already taken and if that moral stance allows rape then God might even encourage you to rape.
I enjoyed your entire post but especially this part.

We already exist as morally-inclined beings innately; if some semblance of "rightness", cooperation, & concern for the collective wellbeing of our groups was not indeed inherent, our species would have died out long ago. We as humans are, and have always been dependent on eachother to survive. Thus it is clear that some form of morality would need to exist biologically. And of course, we do see this played out in light of the brain. Individuals with a damaged pre-frontal cortex in the areas known to contribute to self-restraint and compassion, display a markedly decreased capacity for sympathy or regret in harming others.

Invoking any deity in the question of morality is superfluous and not useful. It is clear just by reading the bible (which indeed justifies slavery and murder among other atrocities) that Yahweh did not grant us anything close to a perfect understanding of good and evil, if there were one. We can already see that the secular governments of today are light years ahead of the laws that were followed in biblical times (like paying the equivalent of a few bucks to the father of the girl you raped, or stoning a women that was found not to be a virgin on her wedding night). The onus is, and has always been on humans & their societies to determine what is morally ideal for their collective wellbeing - with our innate moral compasses as a starting point.

Not to mention, the writers of the bible did not come up with anything revolutionary by any stretch. If there WERE some ideal objective moral code, I would quicker look to Buddhist texts which promote unconditional compassion and liberation from anger, impulsivity, and wrath (and ironically preceded the bible by over 1,000 years). Yahweh could probably learn a little something from the Buddha. But I digress, lol.
Christianity EtcRe: There Is God And He Answers Prayer by cloudgoddess(f): 10:13am On Apr 04, 2016
Purerealist:
If you have a dictionary there I would inquire you to look up the meaning of coincidence and when you are at it ask yourself why all the other prayers you prayed never come to pass, because according to ur post you only mentioned the prayers that come to pass. If prayers is for real, please ask yourself why does it have a limit? Why is it that some prayers can never be answered? Some prayers like healing an amputee, healing a person without eyes, raising people from the dead, flying to save someone from a burning building, turning back the hands of time, changing your sex and so on. When you realize that all these cannot be solved by prayers but by scientific researches your common sense should tell you prayer is just wishful thinking that sometimes happen as a coincidence. PLEASE educate yourself.
I second everything here.

OP it's a great thing that your life improved. But for every story like yours, there are 100 more of people who's prayers did NOT get answered - people with much more trying situations than yours. People die by the droves daily from various unfair causes, but God specifically chose to help your financial issues and not them?

Also there are many nonbelievers, past & present, who are living fantastic, prosperous, peaceful lives and do not rely on prayer to do so.
Christianity EtcRe: Is Jesus Really God? by cloudgoddess(f): 10:09am On Apr 04, 2016
Nope. As far as we know he was at most a normal man, deified by his followers - if he even existed at all.
Christianity EtcRe: If Evolution Was Untrue. by cloudgoddess(op): 1:37pm On Apr 03, 2016
Joshthefirst:
lol. No, your understanding of the very theory you're arguing for, as well as your understanding of cellular genetics is poor. It is obvious you have only ever listened to one side of the story and have never bothered to look at it from another angle, as any true scientist would do.

This is a load of false assumptions based on false assumptions. You sound like an indoctrinated militant. There is no indoctrination in science. What evidence do you have that life arose in harsh environments or that life even arose by itself in a random accident? The probability of the random formation of an enzyme from amino acids on the earth's surface is calculated to be one in 10^20 (essentially zero).


This is a statement borne of ignorance of genetics. Look at processes like oxidative phosphorylation. There are so many complex enzymes and processes that make up important biochemical reactions in complex organisms. These enzymes and processes could not have evolved over time, because natural selection and the given course of said evolution would not favor their development. Non-functional DNA is ready for deletion, the formation of proteins and enzymes that have no use without their various pathways is a waste of cellular resources, and said enzymes being non-functional, would be weeded out and deleted by natural selection.

"The most basic processes upon which all life depends cannot be co-opted from pre-existing systems. For evolution to work, they have to come up from scratch, they have to be carefully balanced and regulated with respect to other processes, and they have to work before they will be kept."

Robert Carter.

There is no feasible link between micro and macro. Micro is adaptive and readily seen in our environment and based on already basic genetic information and processes. Macro is an imaginative story. Radical changes in the genome that you point out cannot and have not been demonstrated. (you could give me one non-circular example to prove your stance, or remain silent and dogmatic)

"An organism had to learn to convert sunlight to sugar. Another had to learn to convert sugars to energy. These amazingly complex processes involve multiple steps and functions that will be selected away before they have a chance to develop into a working system"

-Robert Carter


In the end the very enemy of macroevolution is microevolution.


Yes. species will speciate. They will not gain relevant complexity to substantiate macroevolution though; this has never been shown to be true. All I hear is closeminded dogmatic irrational faith on your part.
Wow. You truly do not know what you are talking about. Every single point of yours is a strange perversion of what's actually true in science, and I can't tell if you're doing it intentionally or if you were truly this miseducated. Your ideas are simply incorrect, I don't know what else to tell you on that. You don't understand what microevolution entails, you don't truly understand genetics because if you did, none of what you just posted would make any sense to you. I genuinely pity you, because from the looks of it, you have been incredibly misled and miseducated.

Not only that, but you are projecting the strangest religious qualities onto evolution where there are none. You know that evolution and the means by which it was discovered & is still being researched, are the direct opposite of faith and dogma, yet you try to project it as that because you know that faith and dogma are weak means of knowing things. Yet ironically, those are the PRECISE MEANS by which religion thrives! Religion would not exist without faith OR forcefully imposed dogma. You are literally discrediting the basis for your own beliefs.

And let's be clear, EVEN IF evolution was wrong, THERE WOULD STILL BE NO PROOF FOR YAHWEH, let alone ANY humanoid magician creating planets & life forms by "speaking them into existence". Your standpoint would still be void of any support whatsoever other than the bronze-age myths from which it originated.

I'll just leave this here from an earlier post in this thread.

Wikipedia:
"An overwhelming majority of the scientific community accepts evolution as the dominant scientific theory of biological diversity.[1][2] Nearly every scientific society, representing hundreds of thousands of scientists, has issued statements rejecting intelligent design[2] and a petition supporting the teaching of evolutionary biology was endorsed by 72 US Nobel Prize winners.[3] Additionally, US courts have ruled in favor of teaching evolution in science classrooms, and against teaching creationism, in numerous cases such as Edwards v. Aguillard, Hendren v. Campbell, McLean v. Arkansas and Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District."

And here's a list of just some of the organizations that oppose the teaching of ID & creationism as truth, and completely support evolution.
https://www.aclu.org/what-scientific-community-says-about-evolution-and-intelligent-design

"National Academy of Sciences
Those who oppose the teaching of evolution in public schools sometimes ask that teachers present evidence against evolution. However, there is no debate within the scientific community over whether evolution occurred, and there is no evidence that evolution has not occurred. Some of the details of how evolution occurs are still being investigated. But scientists continue to debate only the particular mechanisms that result in evolution, not the overall accuracy of evolution as the explanation of life's history.

The American Chemical Society
Evolution cannot be dismissed or diminished by characterizing it as mere conjecture or speculation.The inclusion of non-scientific explanations in science curricula misrepresents the nature and processes of science and compromises a central purpose of public educationthe preparation of a scientifically literate workforce.

American Association of University Professors
"The theory of evolution is all but universally accepted in the community of scholars and has contributed immeasurably to our understanding of the natural world. [...] The American Association of University Professors deplores efforts in local communities and by some state legislators to require teachers in public schools to treat evolution as merely a hypothesis or speculation, untested and unsubstantiated by the methods of science, and to require them to make students aware of an "intelligent-design hypothesis" to account for the origins of life. These initiatives not only violate the academic freedom of public school teachers, but can deny students an understanding of the overwhelming scientific consensus regarding evolution."

American Astronomical Society
Science is not based on faith, nor does it preclude faith. Whatever personal beliefs teachers, students, parents or administrators may hold, the teaching of important scientific concepts, such as the formation and aging of planets, stars, galaxies and the Universe, should not be altered or constrained in response to demands external to the scientific disciplines."
You are simply wrong. Whether you choose to accept it or not is no longer my issue since you seem intent on sticking to your own religiously-motivated perversions of "science".
Christianity EtcRe: If Evolution Was Untrue. by cloudgoddess(op): 5:00am On Apr 03, 2016
asalimpo:
The so called reputable universities and developed countries you mentioned are researching under a false premise. And none of them is the custodian of truth.
Countries that condone homosexuality, and similar perversions, all because they are "developed"
are those the yard stick for correctness. With all their so called "education" they are clueless and blind as
primitive cave men on many issues. Their science , so called, only fuelling their perversion and delusion.

As for you, you have a slave mentallity, a white man comes up with a degrading incoherent theory of how
a mistake created life and so on and because he's white and has some credentials, you swallow without thinking!

Besides, many qualified scientists have contested the so called evolution theory - evolution is a shardy belief with the scientific community being marketed as science - objective fact.
The so called reputable universities and developed countries you mentioned are researching under a false premise. And none of them is the custodian of truth.
Go tell them that then. Bring your evidence and show them that their ideas are all wrong and their billions of dollars spent on evolutionary biology are a waste. If you don't have any (which is obvious), then sit down.

Countries that condone homosexuality, and similar perversions, all because they are "developed"
are those the yard stick for correctness. With all their so called "education" they are clueless and blind as
primitive cave men on many issues.

What such issues? Please name a few of these "primitive cave men ideas" that the developed world promotes (its very disturbing that you can say this, when the bible literally condones stoning of non-virgin women, killing of disobedient children, chopping off peoples' hands for stealing, and owning & raising slaves. the secular governments of today are clearly light years ahead of that and if you can't see that then you must be truly blind and ignorant).

Also, what makes homosexuality wrong? You realize that all homosexuality involves, is two human beings of the same sex being engaged in romantic relations. I want to know how that harms anyone. And "the bible says it's wrong" does not count for anything.

The reason developed countries are accepting it is because they don't base their morals on 2,000 year old barbaric BS that claims snakes can talk and that wearing clothes of different fabrics is offensive. They value human happiness over the happiness of made up deities.

As for you, you have a slave mentallity, a white man comes up with a degrading incoherent theory of how
a mistake created life and so on and because he's white and has some credentials, you swallow without thinking!

Why do you keep projecting confused falsehoods? Slavery is precisely the means by which white men brought Christianity to Africa, and robbed us of our native beliefs. Whereas evolution was proposed long after the abolition of slavery, and mostly amongst white scientists who had almost no involvement with blacks or Africans, let alone the slave trade. You literally just made that up.

Besides, many qualified scientists have contested the so called evolution theory - evolution is a shardy belief with the scientific community being marketed as science - objective fact.
No, not objective fact. Just more BS you just pulled out of your butt.
Wikipedia:
"An overwhelming majority of the scientific community accepts evolution as the dominant scientific theory of biological diversity.[1][2] Nearly every scientific society, representing hundreds of thousands of scientists, has issued statements rejecting intelligent design[2] and a petition supporting the teaching of evolutionary biology was endorsed by 72 US Nobel Prize winners.[3] Additionally, US courts have ruled in favor of teaching evolution in science classrooms, and against teaching creationism, in numerous cases such as Edwards v. Aguillard, Hendren v. Campbell, McLean v. Arkansas and Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District."

And here's a list of just some of the organizations that oppose the teaching of ID & creationism as truth, and completely support evolution.
https://www.aclu.org/what-scientific-community-says-about-evolution-and-intelligent-design

"National Academy of Sciences
Those who oppose the teaching of evolution in public schools sometimes ask that teachers present evidence against evolution. However, there is no debate within the scientific community over whether evolution occurred, and there is no evidence that evolution has not occurred. Some of the details of how evolution occurs are still being investigated. But scientists continue to debate only the particular mechanisms that result in evolution, not the overall accuracy of evolution as the explanation of life's history.

The American Chemical Society
Evolution cannot be dismissed or diminished by characterizing it as mere conjecture or speculation.The inclusion of non-scientific explanations in science curricula misrepresents the nature and processes of science and compromises a central purpose of public educationthe preparation of a scientifically literate workforce.

American Association of University Professors
"The theory of evolution is all but universally accepted in the community of scholars and has contributed immeasurably to our understanding of the natural world. [...] The American Association of University Professors deplores efforts in local communities and by some state legislators to require teachers in public schools to treat evolution as merely a hypothesis or speculation, untested and unsubstantiated by the methods of science, and to require them to make students aware of an "intelligent-design hypothesis" to account for the origins of life. These initiatives not only violate the academic freedom of public school teachers, but can deny students an understanding of the overwhelming scientific consensus regarding evolution."

American Astronomical Society
Science is not based on faith, nor does it preclude faith. Whatever personal beliefs teachers, students, parents or administrators may hold, the teaching of important scientific concepts, such as the formation and aging of planets, stars, galaxies and the Universe, should not be altered or constrained in response to demands external to the scientific disciplines."
Christianity EtcRe: What Is Nature Exactly? by cloudgoddess(f):
UyiIredia:
Google Douglas Axe and Ann Gauger. They both released ID research in peer-reviewed journals. Then again, I should say peer review doesn't make a theory true. Darwin's work wasn't peer reviewed was it.
I looked them up; they don't seem much different from the folks at the Creation Museum. Their goal is to pick some select scientific truths, and then twist them to fit the ID framework, all while providing nothing new or useful, and misleading people who are scientifically illiterate & highly invested in ID/creationism for religious reasons. Where is their research now? What discoveries did they make that are changing the world & advancing our understanding of biology? Where are the NON-religiously motivated papers backing their "findings"? I couldn't find any.

Peer review is a bullsh** detector. If a biologist publishes a paper, his ideas are under intense scrutiny by thousands of other researchers across the globe. This is even more true now in the age of the internet. The peer-review process invites corrections, criticisms, and further research. This is how we get closer to truth. Not by believing in supernatural ideas because we want them to be true, and then trying to prove them by manipulating already-established science.

And you are incorrect, Darwin's theory was peer-reviewed. Not only was his work rigorously tested for over 150 years after the publishing of his book (& still is today), but before he even released Origin of Species, ANOTHER biologist Alfred Wallace had made precisely the same discoveries as he did (natural selection as the means of evolution). Darwin is the one who gets the credit because he had more funding and resources and thus was able to popularize his discoveries with more success.

Through peer-review, the Theory of Evolution as we know it now has been greatly refined. Darwin's main premises were kept, but many improvements were made as we learned more. For example, Darwin had no idea what the mechanisms of inheritence were - DNA wasn't yet discovered, so like most scientists of his age, he thought organisms inherited traits by a "blending" of their parents' traits. When mendelian inheritence came along and DNA was discovered, it was clear that he was wrong in this aspect. But he was still right about natural selection & common descent. Science isn't like religion, it doesn't operate via authority bias or dogmatic belief. Any idea can be revised for the better. Science keeps what works, and trashes what doesn't. This is how progress happens. Religion clings to what it wants to be true, and ignores/denies all else (unless it can find a way to manipulate the "else" to fit what it wants to be true; aka how ID was born).

Also, just for your information, Darwin did not come up with the first theory of evolution. A French biologist named Jean Lamarck proposed the first cohesive version of the theory in the late 1700's, and prior to that several biologists had already advocated the idea of common ancestry & speciation. The only difference is that Darwin was the first to discover the true mechanism behind it - natural selection. Lamarck thought species evolved via acquired traits (ie. a giraffe would stretch it's neck to reach higher plants, and that extended neck would pass on to progeny) and he was wrong in that respect.
Christianity EtcRe: Atheism: One Of The Many Perversions Being Pushed Around by cloudgoddess(f): 3:32am On Apr 02, 2016
Hagm0nd summed it up.

Your post displays a jumbled, confused, and highly bereft understanding of history, psychology & human nature, biology, the societal & biological basis for morality, and most of all, what atheism actually means. The definition is as simple as the poster above put it: Lack of belief in any of the thousands of supernatural entities that have been fabricated, discussed, & written down throughout history.

All of the odd (and clearly fear-inspired) attributions you make to atheists in this post are only a reflection of your own ignorant, bigoted, & fear-fueled hatred towards us. Which by the way is completely baseless, since nonreligious-majority countries across the board are doing better by far in terms of crime, economy, and overall health compared to religious-majority countries, and the exceeding majority of convicted criminals in the US, for example, self-report as Christian.
Christianity EtcRe: If Evolution Was Untrue. by cloudgoddess(op): 3:05am On Apr 02, 2016
UyiIredia:
You are the one arguing for a failed theory.

This is not evidence. Microbial fossils are just that, they do not show that organisms evolved from simpler precursors.

There is no known natural process by which one adds genetic information to a species genetic code.

Empty talk bereft of evidence.

Again, empty talk without evidence.
You are the one arguing for a failed theory.
Failed... according to whom?

If evolution is a failed theory then you need to quickly contact the thousands of evolutionary biology labs across the developed world (New Zealand and Japan have been doing some great research in the field lately), the pharmaceutical companies that are using their understanding of evolution to creat new medicines, the evolutionary biology departments at Harvard, Cambridge, Duke (ad infinitum for virtually every reputable university that exists), every natural science museum with an evolution exhibit, all the publishers of peer-reviewed evolutionary research journals and the researchers that publish to them, etc., etc.

If you are serious, contact them now and alert them that what they're studying is actually bunk and you have the answers instead.

This is not evidence. Microbial fossils are just that, they do not show that organisms evolved from simpler precursors.
Sigh. If there is sufficient evidence that at one very ancient point in earth's history, the ONLY living things in existence were microbes, then at what point following that history, and by what means, could multicellular organisms have originated? I probably shouldn't get my hopes up here. You're going to hit me with, "ID doesn't tell us the mechanisms but I still know its right and evolution is wrong", correct?

There is no known natural process by which one adds genetic information to a species genetic code.
Um... what? That is one of the most common types of mutations that happen.

"Gene duplication occurs when an error in DNA replication leads to the duplication of a region of DNA containing a (generally functional) gene. [http://www.bio-medicine.org/biology-definition/...]"

This kind of comment is precisely what makes it clear that you have no idea about the subject you are trying to refute. You don't know how DNA works, you don't know what genetic inheritence even entails, you likely don't know the basic premises behind evolution (I would not be surprised at all if you think it claims that humans came from monkeys, and that non-monophyletic species like birds and insects can give birth to one another).

You don't know about mutations -- what they actually are or the different ways they can happen (and that they are NOT all bad -- that is only what biology illiterate people think because the public is so used to hearing the word "mutation" solely used in a pathological context).

And this explains perfectly why you continue to hold such unsupported and superstitious notions. It's because you're not actually aware of what the alternative contains. You are ignorant. And I genuinely mean this in the least intentionally insulting way possible.

It is completely understandable why someone with near zero understanding of a topic, yet YEARS of powerful religious indoctrination, would fight to support the only thing they do have experience with, as well as a great amount of emotional investment in.

Empty talk bereft of evidence.
https://s9.postimg.org/zawxtlnwf/macro_vs_micro.png

Again, basic biological principles here.

Again, empty talk without evidence.
No, just more concepts that you do not understand because you have been robbed of rudimentary biology education as a 21st century adult human being, and have instead been indoctrinated with slightly modified bronze-age superstition which is unfortunately still ruling your worldview (and in addition, strongly discouraging you from seeking out said education).

https://tle.westone.wa.gov.au/content/file/ea6e15c5-fe5e-78a3-fd79-83474fe5d808/1/hum_bio_Science_3a.zip/content/007_evidence_evolution/images/pic004.jpg
Christianity EtcRe: If Evolution Was Untrue. by cloudgoddess(op): 2:23am On Apr 02, 2016
asalimpo:
Look at the post i responded to get my context.

If you dont still get it , this is my point:
the poster said, organisms have been forming out of reactions since 0bc.
in support of the bigi banga.
An inorganic process started organic life.

He used a canned food analogy to buttress his point, and i picked it up from there
to show that even with canned foods, biotic processes , only occured because to
organic matter were interacting. Actually, dynamic organisms - animals (bacteria etc)
were acting on non living organic matter (rice) in this case . Causing the reactions .

Making the argument he was proposing invalid - inorganic reactions jump starting organic life.
Do you know what the difference between inorganic and organic is? As in, do you know the scientific definition for each of those words?
Christianity EtcRe: If Evolution Was Untrue. by cloudgoddess(op): 8:31am On Mar 31, 2016
ElCount:
the earth's crust is not arranged according to age, go back to your geography, funny you call me ignorant and end up making this statement
Yes it is.
Christianity EtcRe: Signs Of Inner Peace by cloudgoddess(f): 8:20am On Mar 31, 2016
Buddhist meditation acheives all those things.
Christianity EtcRe: What Is Nature Exactly? by cloudgoddess(f): 8:12am On Mar 31, 2016
UyiIredia:
Your opinion doesn't count as fact and rightly so. Just because intelligent design can't give specifics of design doesn't make it useless and doesn't eliminate the fact that intelligent agency is a mechanism for effecting design. There simply isn't enough data for us to know how design was done. And we are not evolutionists, we don't paint up fanciful imaginary scenarios. Sometimes one must satisfy oneself with the fact that some things may never be known.
This reply sucks so much.

ID is very useless. It doesn't tell us anything about anything. Everything we know about genetics, reproduction, biological mechanisms, fits neatly into an evolutionary model. We DO know how reproduction works, how genetic codes are altered and read, what gives rise to certain phenotypic features, what types of mutations are possible, and which ones can lead to disease. The ID hypothesis, to even grant it that, has not played any role in discovering any of this, and it doesn't even help explain some of the simplest established biological theories (like the germ theory of disease & cell theory) talk less of the unifying theory of all biology.

It's a very sad case of projection when you can sit there and say this: "we are not evolutionists, we don't paint up fanciful imaginary scenarios" when ID and all forms of creationism are nothing but human imagination, inspired by equally useless religious ideas - no evidence or effort necessary. While evolution has nearly 200 years worth of exponentially growing evidence backing it up (which does indeed exist, whether or not you choose to ignore it).

At least evolution gets us something. Like medicines, and better food. At least it gives us something tangible, applicable, and useful. At the very least, evolution has something to show for, whether or not you accept all of it's premises. Intelligent design, however, is absolutely devoid of any productive impact. It does nothing at all, except give the religious something to cling to that doesn't look as foolish as regular old creationism, but still comes pretty close. Classifying ID as science would be like classifying bushmeat as a gourmet dish.
Christianity EtcRe: What Is Nature Exactly? by cloudgoddess(f): 7:58am On Mar 31, 2016
UyiIredia:
ID is a well-established fact given the evidence available. In fact it's the best game in town.
Declaring your beliefs as true does not make them true. Show me the peer-reviewed journal. Hell, show me a single peer-reviewed research paper. Show me a science textbook still in use that even mentions ID as anything other than a fancy creation myth.
Christianity EtcRe: If Evolution Was Untrue. by cloudgoddess(op): 7:51am On Mar 31, 2016
ElCount:
please fossil record is a load of crap, finding a bone in the sand tells you nothing more than that animal existed and died, it doesn't tell you any other thing. Recently they now find a skull and complete it themselves to deceive people
You are exceedingly ignorant, and your ignorance is a huge insult to paleontologists across the globe.

Fossils are not bones, they are rock. Mineral that settled into the bones of dead organisms, and then hardened, preserving the shape of the original bone, which, since it is living tissue, would have perished long before the fossil was formed.

The fossil record tells us extremely valuable information about not only WHAT existed, but WHEN. See, the earth's crust was formed in a way such that older rocks are found in lower strata, and more recently formed rock is found in higher strata. This means that the lower we go, the older the rock we're coming in contact with, and thus, the older the fossils we find will be.

All fossils that have yet been found, support the exact type of organization predicted by evolution. Ancestral species are found in lower strata, newly evolved species are found in higher strata. Despite the fact that fossils for every single species that has ever existed have not been found (which is impossible anyway because not every organism fossilizes, in fact most do not given the specific conditions necessary for it to occur), all the ones that HAVE (hundreds of thousands) were found in the expected strata, and on the expected continents (confirming the expected genetic isolation of certain species & their past lineages as well).
Christianity EtcRe: If Evolution Was Untrue. by cloudgoddess(op): 7:36am On Mar 31, 2016
ElCount:
just listen to yourself, you opened the bible and that's all the info you could get about God the part that seem to discredit Him, how it happened, why it happened, what truly happened you don't know and you think that's normal. You can say what you want or think what you want but on the last day the devil will be there to point an accusing finger at you and you will realize that you are on your own.
Keep waiting for someone to show you a soul b4 you believe; goodluck with that. But I think that's the point of it being a soul, it can't be seen with the physical eye
Or with a microscope, or with scientific tools, or with any means that we use to detect what exists in reality.

So my question for you is, how do you personally know that a soul exists?
Christianity EtcRe: If Evolution Was Untrue. by cloudgoddess(op): 7:34am On Mar 31, 2016
Joshthefirst:
Unfortunately your post is a brilliant rebuttal of itself.

According to the evolution theory after long periods of time radical changes to the genome bring about development of more complex species. There is no evidence for this, and your very own statement in the bolded proves this is not true. So you can only mean the adaptive microevolution when you say 'evolution' in the bolded.

Pre-existing genetic information cannot lead to the massive systemic macro-changes defined by Darwinian macro-evolution.

Insects will still be insects after millions of years. Reptiles will not become aves, and reptiles will not become mammals.
Unfortunately your post is a brilliant rebuttal of itself.
Not even remotely. Your understanding of what you're trying to argue against is so poor though, that it's easy to see why you'd be confused.

According to the evolution theory after long periods of time radical changes to the genome bring about development of more complex species. There is no evidence for this
YES there is. See the graded fossil record and geological information on early earth - the vast majority of present day organisms, especially the more complex ones, WOULD NOT be able to survive in the environment in which life first arose. Only microbes could exist in such harsh environments, and as the fossil record shows us, ONLY microbial fossils are found in rock dated ~4 billion years old. This is exactly what we would expect to see if the common ancestor prediction were correct.

And if more complex species are essentially species with more genetic material, and more specialized features as a result of that genetic material, then simpler genetic codes, subject to processes like gene duplication, mutation, and other means of alteration, can certainly give rise to more complex DNA, & thus more complex species. This is not a difficult concept to grasp.

Pre-existing genetic information cannot lead to the massive systemic macro-changes defined by Darwinian macro-evolution.
YES it can when given sufficient time. Macro-evolution is literally just microevolution, on much larger time scales. Between year 1 and 1,000 you might not see more than a few handfuls of changes made to the genome. This is microevolution. But between year 1 and 1 million, you will see massive changes. That is macroevolution.

Insects will still be insects after millions of years. Reptiles will not become aves, and reptiles will not become mammals.
No, not necessarily. Under the correct conditions, species will speciate, PERIOD. Your uninformed and close-minded view of what an animal can and cannot become after millions of years of genetic modification is irrelevant to the facts. Labels like "horse" and "dog" are arbitrary, these names do not create boundaries for within which evolution must operate. There is no mechanism that halts evolution past a certain point. If the pre-existing genetic information and the environments under which this information is selected allows it, and sufficient time is allowed, a species will speciate. Traits will be gained and lost, morphologies will change, reproductive methods may be altered. That is all speciation is.
Christianity EtcRe: If Evolution Was Untrue. by cloudgoddess(op): 7:10am On Mar 31, 2016
asalimpo:
But those organism's didnt come out of nowhere and from nothing.
Besides, putting rice in an aneorobic, sterilized container will see no organism forming,except those that can thrive anaerobically.
isnt that how canned food is marketed .
But those organism's didnt come out of nowhere and from nothing.
No one is claiming it did.

Mold spores are present in the air we breath, just like bacteria. When a spore meets a food source, it physically lands on the food source, begins to break it down chemically, and the raw materials are used to fuel the spore's growth into mature mold. How is that anything other than chemical reactions?

Besides, putting rice in an aneorobic, sterilized container will see no organism forming,except those that can thrive anaerobically.
isnt that how canned food is marketed .

Yes, most science literate people are aware of this and why it is so. If the container is sterilized and blocked, no spores or bacteria can enter and carry out the chemical reactions necessary for their reproduction. I don't see how this bit supported your point in any way.
Christianity EtcRe: Ince$t In The Qur’an ??? by cloudgoddess(f): 7:00am On Mar 31, 2016
truthman2012:
Yes, it is the Hausas that are the true muslims, no wonder they don't pray behind a Yoruba leading prayer.

It is the Hausas that are actually following the words of allahh and his sole prophet, Muhammad. One of my wife's friends once lived in Zaria, Kaduna state. She said she had witnessed many Hausa muslims exchanging their wives. Allahh talks about exchange of wives in the quran. But ask a Yoruba muslim, he will say no.

Temporary wives (another name for adultery) as stated in the quran is also commonly practiced among the Hausas. Yet the quran condemns adultery. Which should muslims believe? Confusion.

One thing I have noticed about allahh, quran and muslims is that they are never consistent. Allahh would say something is bad today and say the same thing is good tomorrow. How do you follow that type of spirit? Is that not a clear deception? So, if allahh says no to marriage between father and daughter especially the one born outside wedlock, I wouldn't be surprised if he says yes in another verse of the quran.

Muslims' way of defending islam is using a contradictory verse to defend another contradictory verse. A verse says you can marry your daughter, another verse says no and when you say islam permits marriage with ones daughter and you quote the verse, muslims will jump out and say no, quoting a verse that doesn't support such an act as if both are not from the same quran.

Can you marry a non-muslim? Yes and no. See many of such contradictions here:

www.nairaland.com/2511448/contradictions-quran

This allahh self tire me o !!!
You're talking as if the bible is not just as chock-full of contradictions. You and OP need to carefully read your own book before you start criticizing the Qu'ran, they are both far more similar than they are different.

Exodus 21:20
If he take him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish. If he will not do these three things for her, then she shall go out for nothing, without payment of money.

Deuteronomy 21:15
"If a man has two wives, the one loved and the other unloved, and both the loved and the unloved have borne him sons, if the firstborn son belongs to the unloved,"

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