Which Is More Absurd

[nailit]

1 )Accepting (for the time been) that we dont yet fully understand how the universe came about and how life came to be. Or
2) Believing one ancient creation myth out of scores of other ancient creation myths
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_creation_myths)
and believing the others to be bunkum but yours to be right without a shred of evidence?

[nailit]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_creation_myths

[Neveracrossword]

I would definitely plump for no 1. Many of those who'll choose option 2 will no doubt say that they have much more than a 'shred' of evidence, they believe that they have loads of it!

[douglas9401]

There are at least as many creation stories as there are ways to say 'I don't believe in God' on Answerbank.

Apparently. ;-)

[Theland]

There must be a God because He has just given me the wisdom to not get involved in your threads.

[Old_Geezer]

Are you sure ?

[nailit]

//There must be a God because He has just given me the wisdom to not get involved in your threads//
Coward!

Cant remember 1 Peter 3:15 then?
Probably never read it anyway.

[Theland]

Be prepared ....... ?
Yes, but all you want to do is argue for the sake of arguing, a waste of my time, and yours.

[nailit]

//Be prepared ....... ?
Yes, but all you want to do is argue for the sake of arguing, a waste of my time, and yours//
You're psychic now are you?
This is the same old sheet that I have time after time with the likes of you...evangelical christians!

Theres been many times in my life that I have asked questions, and wanting an honest answer, from my teenage years onwards. Never had one from a Bible believer. All you do is shift the goalposts to ''you just want an arguement''

Nut job.

[Theland]

If you have such a problem with evangelical Christians, drink somewhere else?

[nailit]

Its almost as if you havnt got an answer?

[Theland]

Really?

[nailit]

Theland,
Once again, if you want to believe that all mankind's modern ills are caused by a dirt man, been deceived by a rib woman into taking a magical piece of fruit from a talking snake in an enchanted garden go ahead.
And redemption comes when God sacrifices himself, (To himself, apparently) To save us from a hell that he made himself.

I'd rather be agnostic re: these matters

[Theland]

How come you bump into so many evangelical Christians?
And then they annoy you so much that you take it out on me?
I really don't get it.
Why pursue something that brings out the worst in you?

[nailit]

//Why pursue something that brings out the worst in you?/
If pursuing something that brings out the *worst* in me is asking you a question, I dread what is really inside of me??

I must be really evil !!


On the other hand, I may be questionative.

[woofgang]

does it matter?

[andy-hughes]

Theland - // Why pursue something that brings out the worst in you? //

I give up - why do you?

[Mamyalynne]

Can I add an extra option...

3) Mithering about it.

[andy-hughes]

The simple answer - and it is the same answer to each and every thread of this type started by the usual suspects - is -

Christians will believe that God is the creator, because that is their faith.

Atheists will believe that physics is the creator because there is no God.

Really - anything else is still the two proverbial bald men fighting over the proverbial comb.

[bednobs]

my daughter (8) goes to a c of e school. They have been learning about Vikings. She came home and told me that Vikings were silly because they believe the first people came out of a giant's armpit. Cue much laughing from her and he class. How is thT materially different from what the school teaches her - that man was made from god's rib? I asked her and she didn't have an answer

[nailit]

//How come you bump into so many evangelical Christians?//
I work with a lot of them...The Trussell Trust is a Christian Organisation.
Though not all employees (or volunteers for that matter) are Christians. And not all employees are evangelical. Some are liberal, some are Catholic etc.