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Originally posted by MrXYZ
Do yourself a favor and open a biology book, it's hard to take you seriously
Shall I go read survival of the fittest?
Originally posted by borntowatch
Originally posted by MrXYZ
Do yourself a favor and open a biology book, it's hard to take you seriously
Shall I go read survival of the fittest?
"On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life"
Sounds like you wouldnt be a favoured race, sounds like your pacifism would be worth squat. According to Darwin you would be no more a thought in nature with that attitude
You are a parody of all nonsense's played out in one argument.
Science, biology teaches right is might. You are weak and irrelevant with that cuddly nonsense.
Ahh your joking of course, this is sarcasm. I see it now.
Originally posted by MrXYZ
I didn't say you should read a biology book from 150 years ago. You might not know this, but scientists found toooooooooons of evidence for evolution since then. Hell, they are actively applying the theory in modern medicine for crying out loud. If the theory was wrong we wouldn't even have those meds.
Stop living in the 19th century and join us in the 21st
Originally posted by AfterInfinity
But that's the point, isn't it? It's no longer about survival. If we're surviving anything, it's ourselves. Survival is no longer relevant - now, the game is COEXISTENCE. But considering our proficiency at getting along with each other, I can't say I'm too optimistic about our coexisting with the rest of what the world has to offer...how many species go extinct every day? How many species are added to the endangered list every week? How many forests and habitats cease to exist with every month that passes?
Survival isn't our game anymore. Coexistence is. And pretty soon, it'll just be dominance. Not fighting to live, not fighting to get along...fighting to rule, period. Fighting to be king. Survivalism without compassion. Coexistence without humility. Soon, we'll be fighting to stand at the top, hands propped on hips with our brother's severed head beneath our boot. And what for?
So we feel we have finally triumphed. And that's all it is. What form does our victory take? Our vanity and greed constantly gives victory a new face, so we're forever fighting to win. And it will only stop when we look in a mirror and realize the only enemy or friend we have left is ourself. And at that point, dying becomes easier than living. And you wonder why I don't like this world? Because I know that if we continue to worship gold, if we continue to pray to a deity that we invented as an insurance policy because we're afraid of what we might do, if we continue to judge our fellow men more than we help them, we will eventually find ourselves dying because it's easier than living.
Death already comes to us just as easily as life - and we've accepted that. We've accepted the inevitability of death so completely, that we no longer question how it happens. We've decided that some forms of death are even DESIRABLE. I keep pointing out the sickness, our sickness, our disease...and no one listens. Everyone is chugging blue pills faster than they can think, because they are desperate to cling to the simplicity of tradition. They fear the uncertainty of change. That's how much confidence we have in our abilities - we're terrified of what the future might hold, of what we've done to the world that is to be. "The demon you know is better than the devil you don't."
If all of these things aren't symptoms of the road we're on, of the waterfall just around the bend, then I don't know what is.
Darwin book is still considered the pinnacle of evolutionist thought
They are not applying evolution to modern medicine, they genetically alter DNA. Thats man made evolution, thats intelligent design
Medicine is a strawman
Toooooons of evidence, what like, transitional fossils
See, I can argue with stupid laughing faces as well
Outdated science, go tell evolutionists Darwin is outdated
Originally posted by AfterInfinity
I love how the arguments between theists and atheists have brought out behavioral patterns that they are vehemently declaring each other to be guilty of. Can the irony be any thicker in this section of the ATS forum?
Now, if I were to be asked, I would say that the BIGGEST irony is that it's taking place in a thread on hypocrisy...can you taste the 'Fe' in the air?edit on 22-10-2012 by AfterInfinity because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by borntowatch
Still the laughing faces and not a drop of substance
I expected no more than opinion.
Thats not good enough here.
Thanks anyway
Goodluck at school today
Originally posted by AfterInfinity
I love how the arguments between theists and atheists have brought out behavioral patterns that they are vehemently declaring each other to be guilty of. Can the irony be any thicker in this section of the ATS forum?
Now, if I were to be asked, I would say that the BIGGEST irony is that it's taking place in a thread on hypocrisy...can you taste the 'Fe' in the air?edit on 22-10-2012 by AfterInfinity because: (no reason given)
Can I ask which camp you fall into?
Originally posted by AfterInfinity
reply to post by borntowatch
I'm not aiming it at any camp in particular, I'm pointing out how both sides are being vicious, immature, rhetorical, and generally all kinds of silly in the midst of pointing out how immature, rhetorical, and silly the other side is.
It doesn't matter how or why. It still is. And I find it highly amusing - you're more concerned with fingering culprits and laying blame, than you are concerned with finding a common cause with which to fight for the world.
Neither of you is doing much good here. Two soldiers arguing over who has the better army, oblivious to the nuclear bomb falling toward them. If you don't shut up and find a way to work together, you'll both die - metaphorically, of course. Is that clear enough?
Originally posted by AfterInfinity
reply to post by Prezbo369
Can I ask which camp you fall into?
You may ask, although my answer probably won't give you too much to work with. My views aren't partial enough to place me in either camp.
When asked the question "do you believe in god?" do you answer:
Yes
or
No
It's that simple...
Originally posted by Prezbo369
Originally posted by AfterInfinity
reply to post by Prezbo369
Can I ask which camp you fall into?
You may ask, although my answer probably won't give you too much to work with. My views aren't partial enough to place me in either camp.
When asked the question "do you believe in god?" do you answer:
Yes
or
No
It's that simple...
edit on 24-10-2012 by Prezbo369 because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by AfterInfinity
Do I believe in your god? No. Do I believe in any god? No.