Subject:	What does death mean to an atheist?
Author:	Sheath
Comment:	Believing that all forms of life evolved from a common anscestor is not a belief system. That is a belief. A belief system, is the process in which you arrived at your belief. Evolution does not make you believe in evolution. You're implying that without evolution you were unable to be an atheist. I don't see how me saying "As if there could not be an infinite number of possibilities as unlikely as God", proved evolution was a belief system. All it proves is that is a belief, like God, and the many other possibilities, like you state after quoting me. I understand that the tape proved that evolution (to you) was lies. That doesn't answer my question. "How is "disproving" the theories of evolution a default status to believe in God?" Disproving evolution wouldn't make you start believing in God. And by your post it seems that even the mere existitence of evolution wouldn't disprove God, so naturally you could have believed in God while still believing in evolution, or not believed in either. You give no clarification. Its clear that you have a biased opinion about evolution and have already denounced it. And when you say something like this "bananas and humans are related", it convinces me even more that you are easily presuaded. If that's the proof that evolution doesn't exist, I have pity for you. I agree with you. If students are understanding evolution the way you have, it shouldn't be taught to them. In fact, those students should just drop out of school all together. If creationism is based on historical written evidence, then why did you ever doubt it? And who's evidence? The ones written centuries ago by primitive civilizations? I hate to break the news to you, but the world isn't flat and the Earth is not the center of the universe. And why are there so many different accounts of creationism? You would think something as important as the creation of the Earth and mankind would have be quite similar among all religions. Why is Christianity fact, as opposed to Buddhism? They both have historical written evidence. You say that the evidence of God is all around us, yet if evolution were true wouldn't the world around us also be evidence? Substitute any word for God and it becomes true. Your argument is arbitrary, old, and flawed. You should really think about reading article Complexity, Probability, and God on this website. You assume because a heart valve is complex it demands a creator. Lets assume that then, the hear valves creator is God. Is God complex? Does he need a creator? If he's complex he sure does, so then who creates God? Another God? Who creates the God, who creates God? Surely a God who creates a God is more complex. And so on and so forth. And if God does not demand a creator, then why would a heart valve? God should be far more complex a being than anything on this Earth. So why would it be necessary for a heart valve to need a creator and not God? And if God is not complex, then why would any other non-complex explanation for the creation of a heart valve be absurd? Not to mention that because human beings see complexity in objects does not mean it has a creator.
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