Guest Guest Posted March 11, 2009 Report Share Posted March 11, 2009 Most people aren't aware of these facts. http://www.videosift.com/video/Neil-deGras...n-Stupid-Design Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Paul Posted March 12, 2009 Report Share Posted March 12, 2009 Most people aren't aware of these facts. http://www.videosift.com/video/Neil-deGras...n-Stupid-Design I'm impressed only to a point by Tyson's argument that taking 3.5 billion years to create the first multi-cellular organism seems quite inefficient. It doesn't look like the work of a purposeful being, but on the other hand, who is to say what time might mean to such a being? What does impress me are the observation and the graphic depictions of all the gratuitous suffering in the world. Theists have been trying to explain this for millennia. They satisfy themselves that it just must be God's plan and we shouldn't try to understand it --- but then why bother to believe in a God if you have to retreat to incomprehensibility to excuse it? The explanations are not persuasive. Theism is a belief system based on a wish. That's all it ever was. I think we would be better off, and probably would last longer as a species, if we left it behind. That doesn't mean that there couldn't be a god, but (1) there's no good reason to think there is and (2) it can't be the god described in the Judeo-Christian Bible. That version paints God as a psychopath. I'm sorry, but it's a destructive and harmful story. It's time for people who see these problems to speak out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Guest Posted March 12, 2009 Report Share Posted March 12, 2009 Most people aren't aware of these facts. http://www.videosift.com/video/Neil-deGras...n-Stupid-Design He was talking about democrats and atheists. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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