Comments on: More Creationist lies - Biblically Correct Tours

By: Ray Russ

Ray Russ — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 22:46:05 +0000

A. Xavier writes:

“Only after attaining certain level of maturity and understanding of the world, the children, now the adults, matured by age and experience, may draw their own conclusions about the life.”

The vicious cycle here is that religion provides the solace for the very turmoil that it creates.

I’d argue that part of the maturity that comes with age and experience comes not from a willingness to believe but in a willingness to doubt.

By: ecoli

ecoli — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 15:13:40 +0000

Morality and purpose are not dependent on religious teachings, A.Xavier… you’re wrong about that.

By: A.Xavier

A.Xavier — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 14:49:31 +0000

Children cannot understand abstract philosophy. If they are grown in a Godless environment, without morals based on religious teachings, as they grow, they will tend to behave in a manner to satisfy their natural feelings with all sorts of means available to them, the basis for ’sinful activities’. They will fear Law not God, the form of Nature. But, the fear of the Law will be in force only so far as the law enforcing authority is powerful.Only after attaining ceratin level of maturity and understanding of the world, the children, now the adults, matured by age and experience, may draw their own conclusions about the life. By abstract thinking and logic on the premises of natural laws as perceived by men with his senses, man gets confused, sometimes feels the emptiness of this world, leading him to nowhere. Life, without God, will seem a waste, uninteresting. Hence, theory of creation may be born out of the imagination of a man but it was required to set an aim and purpose for life. So long as our power of perception is limited by the power of our sensory organs, we cannot rely upon human logic to repudiate the story of Creation, the basis for regulating human activities.

By: A.Xavier

A.Xavier — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 14:26:16 +0000

Creation may be a story or imagination of a man, who wanted to tell something about the origin of the earth, the central point mankind, but why the story was told. The basic human nature is selfish, in Darwin’s opinion the struggle for the survival, the struggle went to too far that there was no harmony, a state of anarchy, men were selfish, brute, peevish according to Hobbes. There arose a need to regualte and control the human activities, feelings to establish an order. May be men wanted a super power, not man but God. May be gods are imaginery. But, majority of the men are in capable of self control on mere abstract philosophy. God might have been introduced to instill fear in men so that he does not act against his fellow men to satisfy his base desires. This may be story behind the creation.

By: antimatter

antimatter — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 03:09:47 +0000

Ah radiometric dating…

ugh

By: ecoli

ecoli — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 03:07:42 +0000

agreed, iNow.

By: iNow

iNow — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 02:43:33 +0000

It’s stories like this which are beginning to make me question womewhat the whole freedom of religion and speech concept in our first amendment… It makes me simultaneously angry and disheartened, and I wonder when it will stop…