Comments on: Devout Darwinist

By: Aeger

Aeger — Sun, 14 Aug 2005 23:10:48 +0000

You shouldn’t make fun. It’s hard trying to start out a new religion. I am quite certain that nobody hear besides Seth know’s what Etherism is. (http://quailitude.blogspot.com/2005/07/etherism-tis-my-religioun.html)

By: mountmccabe

mountmccabe — Sun, 14 Aug 2005 19:05:42 +0000

“Any organism, even the creationist, can change for the better. It’s not too late. Evolve.”

Organisms can change but they cannot evolve. Populations evolve, not individuals.

(Yes, yes, I know this is one big joke - even though it has a point - but somebody had to correct this.)

Which reminds me, concerning the motivation for the post: Some anti-evolution religious folks are starting to realize how dumb it is to call evolution a religion… and are taking a step back and trying to attack naturalism/materialism as a religious belief. This is a better tactic but it’s more pernicious as it attacks the very heart of science.

Then again if you were backed in a corner trying to defend such ridiculousness what else could you do?

/there are religious folks that accept the scientific fact of evolution
//there are religious folks that aren’t concerned with such things
///but there are also religious folks who think that the scientific advances of the past 400 or so years have come about because of god-belief. Sheesh.

By: Seth

Seth — Sun, 14 Aug 2005 17:36:21 +0000

…if I didn’t know better, I would think that you are taking I Am seriously.

By: JoshP

JoshP — Sun, 14 Aug 2005 16:54:57 +0000

This is so interesting!

I will pray to Gregor Mendel, seated at the right hand of the father Darwin!

I have never ever heard anyone say that!

Also, at the top of your page it says “Helping Mankind Overcome Religion.”

So why are you making Evolution a religion, it’s a philosophy, something you believe to be true.

It just wouldn’t be right to deify Darwin, he himself was atheist.

By: Mookie

Mookie — Sun, 14 Aug 2005 08:33:12 +0000

“A walk never offended anyone, and you can spend the time thinking about how silly they are.”

Time well spent!

“Take, for example, the brain of the supporter of evolution and the large knot of nerve tissue at the top of the spinal chord of the creationist. The former is used for reasoning and making sense of the world through observation and deduction. The latter is used for making up silly stories and devising new ways to force them upon others.”

Reason and logic are found in the neocortex. Fear, anger, greed - all these things which religions feed upon - are found in the reptile brain. Atheists tend to use their neocortices, the very part of the brain that makes our global civilization possible, the very part of the brain we evolved specifically to use the way we do. Whereas theists are played like fiddles by their own disorienting emotions and superstitions, reacting to the world without understanding it, operating like a lizard. To each their own, I suppose, but I would certainly rather be an intelligent monkey than an ignorant iguana.