Hi Russ

Of course, if you don't believe this, you would be compelled to let people die (look at your own logic)

There are other alternatives to all that suffering of course though I notice that most christian churches speak strongly against them; contraception and education could also alleviate these problems. There is more than enough food produced today to feed everyone on this planet. This can’t be sustained if our population continues to grow but we can control that as I have said. Why would we choose to rush towards a population level that would condemn so many to suffering and death on the hope that an ancient book, which is full of really obvious flaws, is right in predicting that ‘christ will return to save us’. Why would we choose to race full steam ahead towards a roadblock that would kill so many, when we have the brake in our hand, on the vague hope that an ancient belief system that has no concept of the limits of this planet and no conception of what we would be capable of might be true. Why should we limit ourselves to such irrational ideas when we can solve these problems ourselves if we only put our minds and our efforts to it? If we solve these problems and Christ does return what have we lost? If we don’t solve these problems and Christ does not return what have we lost? Which is the more rational approach Russ? It’s really scary to realize that some of the most powerful people on this planet actually believe this sort of thing. That they are happy to send us down such an obvious path to destruction, suffering and death on the vague hope that the bible is right when we have alternatives that we know can work.

If jesus does not return to save us it is you who would be condemning these people to suffering and death when we had the power to avert or at least minimize this disaster.

Have you taken the time to investigate God's Son (Christ) for the sake of the eternal salvation of your friends and family?

LOL I was a christian by my own choice once then I investigated it and realized my error.

What quote are you speaking about?

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"The over-riding supremacy of the myth [of evolution] has created a widespread illusion that the theory of evolution was all but proved one hundred years ago and that all subsequent biological research—paleontological, zoological and in the newer branches of genetics and molecular biology—has provided ever-increasing evidence for Darwinian ideas. Nothing could be further from the truth."

—Charles Darwin, quoted in *N.C. Gillespie, Charles Darwin and the Problem of Creation (1979), p. 2 [University of Chicago book].

That one! I called you on it when I first saw you use it some time ago but you did not respond and even reposted it in a later discussion. Like a few of your quote mined items this is a false quote. One quick read should make that clear. How much could Darwin have known of Molecular biology for instance as this field was not invented till after his death. I looked the quote up and found that it was a direct citation from Gillespie’s book but with Darwin’s words removed and only his attribution left. Darwin never said these words yet you keep posting them as if he did. N.C. Gillespie said these words. Darwin never believed this or anything like it and it is very dishonest to repeatedly claim that he did.

In Reason

Russell