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Well...I knew this would be a long discussion on religion in general once I saw the title and the page count...I was right, lol.
Assumptions for believing in Evolution:
1. The law that all things go from a state of organization to disorganization if left on their own was broken when "nothingness" exploded (Big Bang Theory) - forming perfectly aligned planets around a star.
2. Gases came together in a "soup" and used the power of lightning from constant storms to become amino acids...perfect building blocks to make life, which came together and formed a living organism..
3. This organism decided it wasn't happy like that, and evolved repeatedly. At one point it kinda said "self replication is too hard...I think I'll cut my neccesary sexual organs in half...give one to each new "sex" and in order to reproduce we have to get together!"
4. This organism and its offspring continued to grow and reproduce without ever being wiped out over a course of millions of years, finally forming everything from birds to monkeys.
5. The monkeys kept going, eventually becoming primative humans...to the more modern humans we have today.
....if someone can honestly believe that without so much as questioning it, they are a bit odd, I don't care if you're Christian or not, the Theory of Evolution is hard to swallow.
Next: Why do Christians bother athiests so much? If you're an athiest, and you strongly believe in your lack of belief (ha), then just go off an be athiest by yourself! Stop trying to convert everybody! Example: I'm vegetarian, and as such, I see my non-meat eating beliefs as superior to everyone else. Therefore, when someone eats meat, I think "what an idiot..." - I don't try to convert them or tell them they are an idiot, or go into some philsophy of why they are wrong, I just realize (in my mind) that my vegetarianism makes me superior.
Lastly: In a Christian vs. Athiest debate, you have two ideas of what the afterlife will be like: Heaven vs. Nothingness. Now let's assume one of them HAS to be right, and each one has an equal chance of being correct. That means there is a 50% chance for Heaven to exist, and a 50% chance for there to be only nothingness. Yes? Everyone can agree with that. No one can say it's 100% sure either way without having died and come back to tell us. Let's also assume that if Heaven does exist, Hell does too, and that not believing in God is a ticket to Hell. So what does this mean? Simple:
Christian:
50% chance of a happy eternal life - Happy afterlife
50% chance of nothing after death - Unhappy afterlife
Athiest:
50% chance of burning in Hell for all eternity - Unhappy afterlife
50% chance of nothing after death - Unahppy afterlife
Conclusions:
1. It's mathmatically safer to believe in God. Think of it as an insurance policy.
2. Athiests have a 0% chance of a happy afterlife - no wonder they are always so cranky and arguementative.
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