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Wizards did it (imgur.com)
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[–]shadowofdeth 56 points57 points58 points 10 months ago
Atheists know this happened over millions of years actually.
[–]bananakins 19 points20 points21 points 10 months ago
*Geologists
[–]Chthonos 19 points20 points21 points 10 months ago
General atheists usually believe based on the expertise and knowledge of geologists.
[–]Gtyyler -21 points-20 points-19 points 10 months ago
Atheism has nothing to do with Science. Atheism is a religious belief, as is Christianity and every other religion.
[–]Dr_Adopted 9 points10 points11 points 10 months ago
It's actually the opposite of religious belief, friend! It's the lack of any religious belief.
And, actually, it has a lot to do with science! That's how a lot of atheists explain their viewpoints, but still, theists don't listen.
[–]Gtyyler -7 points-6 points-5 points 10 months ago
Atheism is a belief; it's what you think. Beliefs are not something you can quantify or qualify.
As well, to say that Science is restrictive to Atheism is ignorance to other religions. The Quran actually has passages about Science. You must acknowledge that Science is explaining how the world works. Religion is explaining the significance.
[–]DiscoDonkey 6 points7 points8 points 10 months ago
Actually atheism is lack of faith and belief. It is knowledge and seeking out of truth. What most Christians and other religious nuts don't understand is that if there was conclusive proof of a God we would believe in him. If you prove that their is a God and it meets the standards of proof I will gladly carve "fancy that" on my cock.
[–]Gtyyler -4 points-3 points-2 points 10 months ago
Religion is NOT something you can prove, it's something you think. Atheism is your stance upon religion; it's something you think.
Oh, and I came here to talk about religion, not your smelly, moldy-rotten cock. Give yourself one hell of circumcision in some other reddit.
[–]DiscoDonkey 2 points3 points4 points 10 months ago
Unfortunately I need proof, I refuse to just blindly accept anything. Also, mouldy, now stop being an immature prick
[–]Dr_Adopted 1 point2 points3 points 10 months ago
Actually, the word can be spelled either way.
Just saying.
I find your lack of faith disturbing.
[–]OmegaVesko 1 point2 points3 points 10 months ago
have you actually read the Bible and the Quran? Every single passage conflicts with out current scientific knowledge.
[–]Gtyyler -6 points-5 points-4 points 10 months ago
The passages I'm refering to in the Quran is talking about how the Earth is round and about reproduction.
I have read the Bible, but not the Quran. For one, I can't read Arabic and there three translations. Two, I mostly don't care.
Identify a Bible passage that conflicts with Science.
[–]luksy 1 point2 points3 points 10 months ago
How to cleanse a Leper.
Current science.
[–]Gtyyler -1 points0 points1 point 10 months ago
To be fair, consider the context. The Old Testament is made of a bunch of books put together by Prophets. Some are relevant today, some are not.
Tell me something more moral-filled, than Post Hoc determined "science."
[–]ToInfinity_MinusOne 0 points1 point2 points 10 months ago
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeDzyikCXL8
Yes... The Quran has many passages about science...
[–]Gtyyler 1 point2 points3 points 10 months ago
In the 600's saying that the Earth is round and providing an explanation for conception was revolutionary. However, this is the same book that promotes wife-beating and polygamy.
[–]Little_Mouse 1 point2 points3 points 10 months ago
Atheism is a religious belief the same way 'bald' is a hair colour, the same way 'off' is a TV channel and the same way 'doesn't read' is a genre of books.
The word 'theism' means belief, 'a-theism' means no belief. Religion requires belief, otherwise it's just a philosophy.
[–]Gloinson 0 points1 point2 points 10 months ago
Either fix your typo about "Atheism being a belief" or get swallowed by a narwhal.
[–]Gtyyler -11 points-10 points-9 points 10 months ago
Atheism is a belief that you disbelieve. Therefore, it is a belief.
[–]Gloinson 2 points3 points4 points 10 months ago
You could have googled it but the absence of something is not the part of something:
You add unnecessarily another "belief". I do not believe that I do not believe, I know that I do know believe.
Meh. Ok, I'll try to see it from your christian trollspective: Christianism is the belief that you belief in believing in a belief.
[–]Gtyyler -3 points-2 points-1 points 10 months ago
Religion at it's very definition is a set of beliefs concerning the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe. As else is what you think. If you think that the world was created without a first mover, that is your belief. Don't overcomplicate things for yourself.
[–]Gloinson 3 points4 points5 points 10 months ago
Atheism at it's very definition is the absence of belief. Don't overcomplicate things for yourself.
Syllogism:
A belief is what someone thinks to be true
Atheists think that there is no God
Therefore, Atheism is a belief.
Question:
What do you believe? Just curious
[–]Infamous_El_Guapo 1 point2 points3 points 10 months ago
Saying that atheism is a belief is an attempt to put it at the same standing as religion. It's something many religious people do because they do not understand the basis for atheism, which is science.
Atheism and religion do not have equal standing in the scientific community. If you ask a scientist for an answer they don't have, they don't make up a fantastical one and pawn it off as the truth they say "I don't know".
Atheism is looking objectively at all religions and realising that none of them of have any factual evidence to support their historical accuracy. That science is providing answers to how life and the universe works in ways that can be demonstrated in experiments which can be replicated, many of which go against religious claims about the universe.
In other words, atheists choose to science over fantasy.
[–]Gtyyler -2 points-1 points0 points 10 months ago
Science does not need Religion to explain the universe. Nor does it need Atheism.
Science assumes god does not exist until evidence supports his/her/its existence (just like until proven otherwise science assumes unicorns, leprechauns, bigfoot, and the Loch Ness Monster don't exist).
Therefore until proven otherwise, science's default position on god(s) is atheism.
Do you need a God to prove that ice melts at 0'C? Do you need there to be no God to prove that the acceleration of gravity is 9.8 m/s/s? Can you explain why this is how it is? That's why religion exists.
[–]Twad_feu 2 points3 points4 points 10 months ago
This. You ninja.
[–]MaxChaplin 2 points3 points4 points 10 months ago
And that it was inevitable.
[–]Cerpicio 0 points1 point2 points 10 months ago
hundreds of millions, if we are talking about the mountains.
[–]LonelySpongePillow 43 points44 points45 points 10 months ago
But the irony is that this lake was man-made!
[–]beefofages 15 points16 points17 points 10 months ago
Yeah, this is Mirror Lake in Yosemite, created by a man-made dam.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_Lake_(California)
[–]OmegaVesko 2 points3 points4 points 10 months ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_Lake_\(California\)
FTFY
[–]bogan 0 points1 point2 points 10 months ago
When dealing with Wikipedia links that have "(" and ")" in the URL, such as one sometimes finds in Wikipedia links, you need to use an escape character when you post the link on Reddit, because Reddit uses those same characters to mark the beginning and end of a URL in a posting. The escape character to use is the backslash character, i.e., "\", so before both the "(" and the ")" in the URL you are posting put a "\" (don't acually include the quotes). The Reddit software will then know it should not interpret the "(" and ")" in the URL as signifying the beginning and end of the URL you are posting.
[–]drewbellflower 15 points16 points17 points 10 months ago
Chance. I really hate that word.
[–]BlazeOrangeDeer 3 points4 points5 points 10 months ago
heh, oops, eons of geologic processes produce a landscape like many others. What are the chances?
[–]soadogs 10 points11 points12 points 10 months ago
http://www.google.com/imgres?um=1&hl=en&biw=1680&bih=925&tbm=isch&tbnid=jW9JgeZRZ8VEeM:&imgrefurl=http://verydemotivational.memebase.com/2011/01/27/demotivational-posters-lake-louise/&docid=7n1Jlj0YutkhKM&imgurl=http://verydemotivational.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/demotivational-posters-lake-louise.jpg&w=500&h=414&ei=b8y0TueAEqzQiALhuOU-&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=631&vpy=401&dur=284&hovh=204&hovw=247&tx=138&ty=132&sig=111647569217733885722&page=1&tbnh=161&tbnw=196&start=0&ndsp=29&ved=1t:429,r:10,s:0
[–]Teqqy 11 points12 points13 points 10 months ago
"man made lake in Canada."
Now we're all retarded.
[–]EvOllj 2 points3 points4 points 10 months ago
yeah this meme image has 4 frames in frames by now.
and it has been wrongly identified a few times, dont be too sure it this photo was even taken in canada.
[–]Teqqy 1 point2 points3 points 10 months ago
Regardless of the origins of this lake, I stand by my statement.
[–]obliviious 3 points4 points5 points 10 months ago
sigh
Link
[–]pohjasakka 2 points3 points4 points 10 months ago
I've seen one that said Lake Havasu, Man made lake. Will we ever know the truth?
[–]Silent_Guardian 1 point2 points3 points 10 months ago
Might wanna fix your link there buddy
[–]Quazz 7 points8 points9 points 10 months ago
It's actually christians that think it just happened by chance one day.
The chance being that God exists and decided to get off his lazy ass and do something.
[–]Vibster 6 points7 points8 points 10 months ago
Douglas Adams fans, know the Magretheans did it.
[–]caramelpolice 5 points6 points7 points 10 months ago
Creationists always talk about how such beauty must have been created, but beauty is an abstract concept. Nothing is inherently beautiful, it's all in your head. Nature just happened to turn out a certain way and you happen to like it. There's plenty of stuff in nature that isn't so pretty, too, but you'll never see a Creationist showing animals ripping each other open and devouring one another as proof of God.
[–]Babydoll911 5 points6 points7 points 10 months ago
"You're a Wizard Harry" (you gotta say it in your head like Hagrid)
[–]SoulShaker 6 points7 points8 points 10 months ago
"You're a Wizard 'arry"
[–]BlazeOrangeDeer 8 points9 points10 points 10 months ago
Yer a Wizerd 'arry
FTFTFY
[–]Imawizardpickle 2 points3 points4 points 10 months ago
No, i believe i am the wizard. Edit: also a pickle
[–]Yui714 2 points3 points4 points 10 months ago*
Fuck that, I am very certain all that didn't happened by chance in a single day. I am not fucking retarded. That is the result of billions of years of many different forces at work. In fact, only a Christian believes that it actually did happen in a single day AND by a wizard.
That religion thrived because it provided easy answers for difficult questions. Now we actually have real answers and the people are just being stubborn. I can't blame the first Christians, the world was a different place and information wasn't so widely available. But people believing this shit still now? That really is something else.
[–]Zuigen 4 points5 points6 points 10 months ago
This bugs the crap out of me. It seems like the premise of their objection is that it would somehow cheapen the beauty if it didn't have a creator (I might be wrong about this, but its what I always hear in my head). As far as I'm concerned there is greater majesty in a series of brutal processes, covering millions of years, culminating in something gorgeous.
[–]saskanarchist 4 points5 points6 points 10 months ago
christians are the ones that believe that it all happened in 1 day, or 7, whatever
[–]Findaro 1 point2 points3 points 10 months ago
We all know who really did it. http://tinyurl.com/3wtp767
[–]arabidopsis 1 point2 points3 points 10 months ago
Well its more probable than a wizard.
[–]LycaonMoon 1 point2 points3 points 10 months ago
But in Episode BF12, you were fighting barbarians atop a winged Appaloosa yet in the next scene, you're clearly atop a winged Arabian! Please do explain it!
[–]Alex-the-3217th 1 point2 points3 points 10 months ago
I don't think that billions of years of gradual change counts as a day...
[–]PoorDepthPerception 1 point2 points3 points 10 months ago
The idea that the only alternative to things being magicked instantaneously into being is...another version of things being magicked instantaneously into being. I don't know why gradual natural processes are so hard to comprehend.
[–]Atheris 0 points1 point2 points 10 months ago
It's the gradual part, short attention spans.
[–][deleted] 1 point2 points3 points 10 months ago
ATHEIST THINK
I think they're starting to get it.
[–]Rizuken 0 points1 point2 points 10 months ago
I think christians don't seem to understand the difference between chance of an event before and after... how those change rather dramatically.
[–][deleted] 0 points1 point2 points 10 months ago
Let's answer ignorance with ignorance! That's sure to work!
I like the other one that makes fun of both groups. Christians think god did it, atheists think nature did it. Bottom of page: man-made lake. LMAO
OMG it was meant to be funny, you "one upper" moonlighting scientists need to calm the fuck down and laugh once and a while.
[–]MeloJelo -2 points-1 points0 points 10 months ago
Not just a wizard, The Wizard . . . of Oz!
[–]upsmack 0 points1 point2 points 10 months ago
Never doubt the miracle story of Harry Potter. Dumbledore, Gandalf?
[–]NoctGent -4 points-3 points-2 points 10 months ago
Atheists know this post happened over millions of years ago.
[–]dudearinos -9 points-8 points-7 points 10 months ago
Wish some atheists could stop steriotypeing.
[–]Htown_ent728 3 points4 points5 points 10 months ago
This is not a stereotype. If you are Christian you accept that an all-powerful magical being created all this in 7 days. If you don't, then you are not a Christian, am I right?
[–]drewbellflower 1 point2 points3 points 10 months ago
Quite a few Christians accept evolution. I, personally, don't know if/how that interferes with their faith, but some do, regardless.
[–]supasta8301 1 point2 points3 points 10 months ago
This would really baffle me if a christian could believe in evolution and the "first six days". The first six days in so ingrained in Sunday School indoctrination, I would equate a christian who believes in evolution to a christian who rejects the ten commandments.
[–]BlazeOrangeDeer 1 point2 points3 points 10 months ago
Ah, but the things that have been directly falsified are now metaphors! CHECKMATE ATHIESTS!!1!!
[–]drewbellflower 0 points1 point2 points 10 months ago
The ones I know say they don't know what it means for their faith, but they don't want to be completely ignorant to the abundant knowledge of evolution, so they accept it. They may also say that since the bible was written many years ago, when there wasn't an explanation to how we got here, it has since been outdated...the Old Testament, that is.
[–]supasta8301 0 points1 point2 points 10 months ago
This sounds like the first steps towards atheism to me. Rejecting evolution, rejecting the Old Testament.... That is pretty much the core of christianity.
Core of fundamentalist Christianity. Progressive Christianity usually doesn't like the Old Testament. They see their faith as a way to live their lives.
IMHO, if you don't agree with the core teachings of your religion, it is simply a values statement and not much different from atheism.
I agree. But ITHO, they still see themselves as followers of their religion.
Again, another reason why christianity baffles me.
[–]yaruki_zero 0 points1 point2 points 10 months ago
Not all Christians are Biblical literalists/fundamentalists. In fact that's a relatively modern movement, and their claims of getting back to the original intent of the Bible are nonsense.
[–][deleted] 2 points3 points4 points 10 months ago
Just going by what the sacred text says... You chose to pick and choose which parts of your religion and texts apply to you.
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