I just laugh when I read threads like this, most creationists fail to recognize that most atheists and other non believers were once creationists so we know what you believe already, you can't change our minds, we know your side of the story. You almost never see a creationist that used to be an atheist arguing over who's right.
Actually this is a VERY interesting point. As I've quite poorly said in yet another (now locked) thread, religious people are ignorant to logic.
I used to be... half-Christian, I didn't necessarily beleive in him, but I was idling from that and the Scientific side, I am blatantly atheist now though. Don't get me wrong - if I truly die and I really do see "God" or an Angel, I may believe in it, but it rules by fear, believe it or not, you be good because if not you will burn in eternal hell, or you do it on a more... "greedy" side, looking for heaven, you can't wait to get there. Or simply you became a convert after something bad happened to you and the so-called "
ower" of God / Allah / Christ etc helped "enlighten" you.
But in the end, there is little to no evidence (no proof at all) to help confirm this, now, if you look at say... The Big Bang, it all adds up much easier and more firmly.
I am rather sketchy on the this-and-that on the Big Bang, but that is not the case given this argument (since I have researched it and have an interest in astronomy).
You, have not decided just once, to throw it all away for a few minutes and think "What if", not once. Why? Because that's how it was intended to be, these stories, they're meant to be planted into you as a young person so as you grow up it will become a way of life, which is actually VERY cruel, because you're essentially brain washing them.
Now I know what you could be thinking, "it's vice versa". Wrong. I was raised to never believe what people said unless given proper proof or sufficient evidence to support their, theories, decisions, thoughts, etc. Now while I was raised to believe the scientific side, let's put forth the term "fear" in Science, where is fear, in Science?
2012 - This is simply sudo science, whilst the media may put this in proper science channels is very simply stupid. The Mayans, whilst possessing an advanced calender, could not tell the future, could not see a Supermassive Black Hole in the center of the galaxy, Neburu (or however you spell it) has never been seen, you can take a picture of the sun and the cheaper the phone, the more it'll appear, LOL
Not true, I don't have to say more really do I?
2012 Is Sudo Science, and that creates fear, it's not Science so that's out of the park. If you wanna know more about 2012, ask me or research it more indepth from a proper science channel / podcast (Pamela Gay is one of many).
Now, any other fear stricken movements? Let's say a meteor is going to hit the planet - who cares honestly? I am not trying to drive fear away, ultimately it will cause fear, but in the end it could give us preparation to do something about it, if we didn't, the world would end and done with. Essentially, why people are so afraid of things like this is beyond me, it won't be painful if you die, I doubt the nuke in Hiroshima was painful.. okay, let me rephrase that. The people who were in the blast, weren't in pain, I could imagine, it would be very quickly done.
Not only that, but it's often the mass hysteria caused by people which is what makes it seem so bad in the first place.
Other than this, I cannot think of any more fear-striking situations in which people can get fear from, it's about exploration, discovering, researching, cool stuff to see (TV's, PS3's, Xboxes, Games, all made by what most people will call "nerds", actually they don't call them nerds, but if they knew how smart they are, they probably would).
Now look at religion. Well, actually look at this link at Dave Allen on Religion, you mays well really:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxo81Ok9Urk
He's funny. But it also shows one of the points - fear. It scares children the way they put it, not just that, but it confuses them. I don't know about you but when I tell people to trust me in my school, they trust me, simply because I am more intelligent than them (I am not exaggerating), if I explain it to them, they'd just interrupt and say "Oh-oh-alright okay okay. Bloody hell just do it.", lol. It's probably that they see me with it all figured out and simply want to leave me to it, I don't know. But that really could be why they believe it.
Anyway, if you want to know about Big Bang or 2012 or whatnot, you should research it, and not just Wikipedia since that is open to everyone to edit, so it could be some ignorant person who thinks the world is going to end.
Sorry for the speech. And I hope I helped prove mine and others points.
In the end: Why would God want you to be blind to anything else? That doesn't seem very right now does it? If say he was real, then he should see that are smart and he shouldn't be such a cryptic douchebag, to put it straight. Give a flat out message, a frequency like the Bloop (go on, research it on Wikipedia
) but "translated" says he is there, lightning bolts spelling out the same thing. If he's creative enough to make 600,000 strands of human DNA per human, he should be able to easily do this.
Goodbye, and may your god go with you.
- H
