Originally Posted by Russ T
I reposted this because it makes a fundamental point about evolution that deserves not to be buried deep in a thread.

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if it makes you feel good to believe in god then you should have the freedom to do so.


In an above post, an evolutionist admonishes someone to believe in God if it makes them feel "good".

There is no irony here because evolution (all definitions) is nothing more than an emotional appeal to a religion, therefore, it should not be surprising that a evolutionist would justify a belief-system based on emotion alone.

This value system is contrary to science, logic and reason.

A belief in anything should be based on evidence, just as my belief in the accuracy of the Bible is based on years of study and analysis.

It is better to hurt someone's feeling with the truth than to encourage them into fantasy for the sake of comfort. The former is a process of love. The latter is seduction.

Sure, your reasoning sounds good on its face, especially when associated with freedom, but does it sound so good when the freedom empowers one class of people to spray another with poison in order to kill them for the purpose of quickening the evolutionary process?

(See "Chemtrails" and search for the justification used by Rockefeller for the reduction of global population by 90% (to 500 million).)

Ironically, millions of evolutionists sit in the gun-sights of their own most notorious mascot.


The known universe is a system based on rules. Useful science is the process of discovery of these rules.


"I had motives for not wanting the world to have meaning, consequently assumed it had none, and was able without any difficulty to find satisfying reasons for this assumption . . The philosopher who finds no meaning in the world is not concerned exclusively with a problem in pure metaphysics; he is also concerned to prove there is no valid reason why he personally should not do as he wants to do . . For myself, as no doubt for most of my contemporaries, the philosophy of meaninglessness (read evolution) was essentially an instrument of liberation. The liberation we desired was simultaneously liberation from a certain political and economic system and liberation from a certain system of morality. We objected to the morality because it interfered with our sexual freedom."

—Aldous Huxley, "Confessions of a Professed Atheist," Report: Perspective on the News, Vol. 3, June 1966, p. 19 [grandson of evolutionist Thomas Huxley, Darwin's closest friend and promoter, and brother of evolutionist Julian Huxley. Aldous Huxley was one of the most influential liberal writers of the 20th century].

(emphasis mine)
Good eye, Russ T. And this is confirmed by the urgency with which some are seeking to change the subject.

I don't anticipate a lot of discussion on the topic of the thread. I will say that when people conclude God exists, it doesn't necessarily make them feel good.

Dark Matter + Dark Energy = Dark Truth

"We find that such evidence demonstrates that the ID argument is dependent upon setting a scientifically unreasonable burden of proof for the theory of evolution." - Judge Jones Kitzmiller case
http://www.talkreason.org/articles/Falsify.cfm

"To Compel A Man To Furnish Funds For The Propagation Of Ideas He Disbelieves And Abhors Is Sinful And Tyrannical." - Thomas Jefferson

"And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with his wrath?" - Thomas Jefferson