Now I do believe in God because it makes just as much cense to believe that an all powerful being has been around forever opposed to energy that had to think and evolve forever, also if you base your decision on Pascal's wager alone your better bet is to believe in God.
To start off, compose a proper sentence, and learn to spell. Don't talk down to people when you yourself can't get the basics of the language down in it's written form.
Second, Creationism and it's advocates, who love to call themselves Scientists and have yet to actually prove anything, love to utilize the principle of the excluded middle while verbalizing their daydreams of a religious reality. No one with the ability to apply critical thinking can stomach the belief's behind Creationism without forgoing basic logic.
A nice quote from the ever so brilliant writer, Mr. Ebert:
"Imagine flipping a coin over and over. For each toss, the odds are fifty-fifty that it will come up heads (a one-in-two chance). The odds of getting two heads in a row is a one-in-two-to-the-power-of-two chance, or one-in-four. Five heads in a row is 1:2^5, or one-in-thirty-two. A hundred heads? 1:2^100, or roughly one in 1.3 trillion trillion trillion (thank Gates for the little calculator program on my computer). A creationist would claim that all the lucky chances that evolution requires is like getting not one, not five, but millions upon millions of heads in a row.
"But the creationists are forgetting something. Evolution ISN'T random, as they often claim. It's selected. You can't really blame creationists for missing this fact...Darwin cleverly concealed it from view by calling his theory 'natural selection.' Let's return to our coin-tossing example, this time including the principle of selection. What if, after every toss, we had the option of not counting it? What if we were allowed to simply discard every toss that came up tails? Now, given the ability to select, how long would it take to rack up a hundred heads in a row? About two hundred throws.
"Once you understand the concept of selection, and how it applies to evolution, you realize that what was thought to be vanishingly unlikely actually becomes virtually inevitable."
Hmmm maybe you should stop sleeping in science class where they slowly are teaching CREATIONISM.
I'm afraid not Michael. You're belief system has a long LONG uphill battle ahead, if you consider it a battle. The school system, as a whole, will never teach Creationism as a science. Never.
Also, I wouldn't be so bold as to claim, with no evidence or logic, that Steerpike isn't liked. I quite like him, and agree with him. Consequently, I see his presence on this forum and E's as quite beneficial to a lot of members. Among other posters that are well informed and intelligent, he is one of the best.
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