@WiseAli2 Religious people killing evolutionists and vice versa is bad both ways,its an heinous crime to kill people based on there beliefs whatever there beleifs may be,George Bernard Shaw even said you can be on the truth,you can be right and still be an extremist. No one especially me is denying the crimes committed in the name of religion but what gets to me are atheists who think they’re whiter than white and the irony is theyre just as bad as the pople they accuse probably worse!
Meh, why can’t we all get along. AJ is doing nothing to aid cohesion right now, he demonises scientists as if we are all somehow part of a global conspiracy. Well scientists have families to care for like everyone else, a lot of them are religious in fact, so go figure. People are happy to thrive off of the products of science – electronics and medicine, so why not give the scientific community a break. Labeling everyone as sheep or whatever isnt going to win you any support.
Anyone else notice how selective AJ is in who he deems to be a good scientist? It’s always someone who supports his view, heaven forbid he ever be wrong about anything. Always attacking the man instead of the argument. Also, at 2:45 he says he’s ‘studied all of this’. Oh really? You mean you’ve dedicated about 3 years to every subject to bring yourself up to degree level? Who are you to doubt the credentials of a biology graduate? Its a hard subject to do well, so these people arent dumb.
@Stepper11 I’ve already refuted that position. It’s been around for about 25 years and has been shot down over and over again. That Cambrian explosion fits in fine with Evolution; go to CC300 on talkorigins; it demonstrates how your argument (Really Henry Morris’ argument from 1985) doesn’t work. The refutation is backed by about 25 citations from professional peer-reviewed science articles. We don’t have to resort to name-calling.
@Stepper11 I am still very curious. I am also open to the idea that Evolution could be overturned tomorrow. (Not likely to happen) I honestly think your comment represents a kind of bizarre type of projection. In other words, you are taking the characteristics that more accurately reflects your religious zeal and trying to project in on to me…and then attacking it because it’s something that you don’t like in yourself.
@9mmparadox Morality is based on a rational consideration of the consequences of our behavior, not from a Bronze Age war god. Some cultures may have different moral values and for good reason. Other cultures may hold on to either silly or deliberately harmful practices. The latter are usually strongly religious cultures.
That’s why religion is so harmful; it interferes with our ability to rationally analyze the impact that our behavior has on others.
@9mmparadox Oh man…you went “Mere Christianity” on me. Christianity is based on might makes right. Since god created me and can kick my ass, he can do whatever….Right? We are the final authority, and thousands of years of human civilization and well thought out philosophy has shown us that if we all run around raping, stealing and murdering…life sucks for everyone. And nihilism and atheism are totally different. As an atheist, you can believe in practically anything…just not a god.
@WiseAli2 100 million native Americans were killed by Catholics. Stalin was raised in the Russian orthodox church. Mao was an atheist. But was that the motivation behind his atrocities? Hitler and Stalin both had mustaches too? Is that what made them kill? In the case of the genocide in the Americas, religion was definitely a driving force behind the slaughter. You may want to read “The Requirement” in order to gain some perspective.
@Thethreshingfloor814 You really do have a hard time with logic don’t you. “..We are the final authority..” Which human? The President? The hobo on the sidewalk? Should space aliens be the final authority?How do you distinguish?You still have no basis for “ought” “Since god created me and can kick my ass, he can do whatever..”No because anyone who kicks your ass could then be your god. A Creator God can do whatever it desires with its creation.If I create something I can do with it, what I will
@Thethreshingfloor814 You really make me laugh on one hand we have to re evaluate atheistic atrocities but oh no relgious atrocities “definitely a driving force behind the slaughter” can you here yourself think? Mao, Stalin and Hitler even the colonialits were directly influenced by evolution maybe you should read Harun Yahya’s book “Fascism:The Bloody Ideology of darwinism? this facism effected every continent, every people.
@WiseAli2 If I take “The Requirement” at it’s word, the justification behind the killing, rape and enslavement of the people of New World was Catholicism. It would seem that atheism doesn’t have the same logical pathway to violence. Hitler banned Darwin’s writing in the Reich. Harun Yahya? You mean Adnan Oktar? The guy who was arrested for blackmail and accused of coercing minors into having sex with him? At least he bribed his way out of a prison sentence. That’s where you get your info? Man!
@9mmparadox So, if you have a child, do our laws allow you to beat and torture him or her? The answer is…no. So, it doesn’t make it moral if your god does it either. A mafia boss can break your arms for not paying the Vig, does that make his actions moral? Well, there is both individual and collective morality. Sometimes, we shun certain behavior (wearing while after labor day or picking your nose at the table) but in the case of a serial killer, we put him in jail. None of this comes fr god
@Thethreshingfloor814 You really have a hard time grasping this. Why is it morally wrong to beat and torture children? You appeal to the state for moral authority. OK say a state encourages child beating as morally correct. If for years they beat their children and no other society does differently. The children accept it as the societal norm, they know no different Now by what authority does your state’s morality (that doesn’t beat children) trump the mortality of said state (that does beat)?
@WiseAli2 You called atheism a cancer. How can you say that when it’s obviouse by your own words that religion is as much a cancer as anything. I only read 1 of your posts so I was not informed on the extent of the debate that I interrupted.
The only point I was trying to make was not to leave out the terrible shit religion as done and you apparently have not. As far as mentally challenged goes, one really must be challenged to be blindly lead by religion to ignore the real truths.
@Gnostic279 Following blindly to anything is not good as Ahmad Thompson said “in the land of the blind the one eyed is king”. My argument is this if religion is totally abhorrent as evolutionists/darwinists regurgitate then they must have a better alternative but they dont. There hypocricy is that 100 of millions have died by those directly influenced by Evolution…I rest my case. Its very difficult to debate with these people and I agree with Dr Tarpley theyre “Quackademics”
@Thethreshingfloor814 lol so you’ve been on wikipedia, bravo your intellectual vigour is very broad, and he bribed his way out of it? so you were there when that happened? He along WITH 17 OTHER PEOPLE were released without charge and even a Turkish member of parliament said we owe an apology to Harun Yahya. We know that for years he was hounded and arrested on trumped up charges for his beleifs so go figure! so atleast we know who the mentally challenged one is? MAN!
@msugda Humans require a balance of emotion and intellect to live most appropriatly. It is true that most of us are ignoring intellect to follow emotional whims due to cultural influence teaching us to go after physical gratifications but too much emotion is not a problem for most of us.
As far as evidence of animals thinking, these tests are taken by humans who have not yet understood the difference between emotion and intellect. How could they devise a proper testing parameter.
@bammbamm12 I’m glade to hear someone else mention that. I have noticed most times when Alex starts talking it sounds like the guest’s volume was turned down but I wasn’t sure. It seems suspect to me.
@Gnostic279 Well you’re a human are you not? So what makes you think you’re in any better position to set the goalposts? Meh. It doesnt matter if you think it’s emotion or intellect, it appears to mimic human intellect and thats good enough for most people. I’ll admit I dont know enough about it, but humans ARE animals, I know that much.
@WiseAli2 The problem with this video is that AJ is attacking Darwin instead of the argument. I doubt the ‘100s of millions of deaths’ you speak of, but even if they happened, it doesnt make evolution any more or less true.
Evolution/darwinism doesnt have to replace religion, because they do not have the same aims. In fact I would say that morality is explained by evolution. You don’t need an accompanying belief system, you just have to empathise with others and live a good life.
@WiseAli2 I’ve known about that guy for years. It wouldn’t matter if Yahya had a clean reputation either. The arguments linking Evolution to Fascism are pretty specious. And isn’t he a Muslim? Not that it matters to me, but why all the sudden are you, a Christian, trying to cite a charlatan from the Islamic world? Am I missing something.
@spudpeel And that’s PRECISELY the kind of thinking the NWO is counting on to follow through with their agenda. You should be most careful not to fall into a pattern of buying into the commom hype and then regurgitating it. To say humans are animals and that’s good enough for me, that’s just willful ignorance. Should keep things that are not certain open for debate. Keep the file open in case more evidence is obtained. The elites want u to think we are all animals. They want you to believe
@spudpeel They want you to believe our emotions are evil. They need to dehumanize us to kill us off. They need to dehumanize us in our own minds to keep us from fighting for our freedoms. I am afraid you seem to be falling for it hook, line and sinker.
@Thethreshingfloor814 your last comment, i dont know where to begin, firstly im not a christian never said i was shows your shallow thinking putting everyone in boxes and whats wrong with muslims and what is a charlatan from the islamic world??? you sure are missing something, your missing a lot!!!
@WiseAli2 Religious people killing evolutionists and vice versa is bad both ways,its an heinous crime to kill people based on there beliefs whatever there beleifs may be,George Bernard Shaw even said you can be on the truth,you can be right and still be an extremist. No one especially me is denying the crimes committed in the name of religion but what gets to me are atheists who think they’re whiter than white and the irony is theyre just as bad as the pople they accuse probably worse!
Meh, why can’t we all get along. AJ is doing nothing to aid cohesion right now, he demonises scientists as if we are all somehow part of a global conspiracy. Well scientists have families to care for like everyone else, a lot of them are religious in fact, so go figure. People are happy to thrive off of the products of science – electronics and medicine, so why not give the scientific community a break. Labeling everyone as sheep or whatever isnt going to win you any support.
Anyone else notice how selective AJ is in who he deems to be a good scientist? It’s always someone who supports his view, heaven forbid he ever be wrong about anything. Always attacking the man instead of the argument. Also, at 2:45 he says he’s ‘studied all of this’. Oh really? You mean you’ve dedicated about 3 years to every subject to bring yourself up to degree level? Who are you to doubt the credentials of a biology graduate? Its a hard subject to do well, so these people arent dumb.
@Stepper11 I’ve already refuted that position. It’s been around for about 25 years and has been shot down over and over again. That Cambrian explosion fits in fine with Evolution; go to CC300 on talkorigins; it demonstrates how your argument (Really Henry Morris’ argument from 1985) doesn’t work. The refutation is backed by about 25 citations from professional peer-reviewed science articles. We don’t have to resort to name-calling.
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@Stepper11 I am still very curious. I am also open to the idea that Evolution could be overturned tomorrow. (Not likely to happen) I honestly think your comment represents a kind of bizarre type of projection. In other words, you are taking the characteristics that more accurately reflects your religious zeal and trying to project in on to me…and then attacking it because it’s something that you don’t like in yourself.
@9mmparadox Morality is based on a rational consideration of the consequences of our behavior, not from a Bronze Age war god. Some cultures may have different moral values and for good reason. Other cultures may hold on to either silly or deliberately harmful practices. The latter are usually strongly religious cultures.
That’s why religion is so harmful; it interferes with our ability to rationally analyze the impact that our behavior has on others.
@9mmparadox Oh man…you went “Mere Christianity” on me. Christianity is based on might makes right. Since god created me and can kick my ass, he can do whatever….Right? We are the final authority, and thousands of years of human civilization and well thought out philosophy has shown us that if we all run around raping, stealing and murdering…life sucks for everyone. And nihilism and atheism are totally different. As an atheist, you can believe in practically anything…just not a god.
@WiseAli2 100 million native Americans were killed by Catholics. Stalin was raised in the Russian orthodox church. Mao was an atheist. But was that the motivation behind his atrocities? Hitler and Stalin both had mustaches too? Is that what made them kill? In the case of the genocide in the Americas, religion was definitely a driving force behind the slaughter. You may want to read “The Requirement” in order to gain some perspective.
@Thethreshingfloor814 You really do have a hard time with logic don’t you. “..We are the final authority..” Which human? The President? The hobo on the sidewalk? Should space aliens be the final authority?How do you distinguish?You still have no basis for “ought” “Since god created me and can kick my ass, he can do whatever..”No because anyone who kicks your ass could then be your god. A Creator God can do whatever it desires with its creation.If I create something I can do with it, what I will
@Thethreshingfloor814 You really make me laugh on one hand we have to re evaluate atheistic atrocities but oh no relgious atrocities “definitely a driving force behind the slaughter” can you here yourself think? Mao, Stalin and Hitler even the colonialits were directly influenced by evolution maybe you should read Harun Yahya’s book “Fascism:The Bloody Ideology of darwinism? this facism effected every continent, every people.
@WiseAli2 If I take “The Requirement” at it’s word, the justification behind the killing, rape and enslavement of the people of New World was Catholicism. It would seem that atheism doesn’t have the same logical pathway to violence. Hitler banned Darwin’s writing in the Reich. Harun Yahya? You mean Adnan Oktar? The guy who was arrested for blackmail and accused of coercing minors into having sex with him? At least he bribed his way out of a prison sentence. That’s where you get your info? Man!
@9mmparadox So, if you have a child, do our laws allow you to beat and torture him or her? The answer is…no. So, it doesn’t make it moral if your god does it either. A mafia boss can break your arms for not paying the Vig, does that make his actions moral? Well, there is both individual and collective morality. Sometimes, we shun certain behavior (wearing while after labor day or picking your nose at the table) but in the case of a serial killer, we put him in jail. None of this comes fr god
@Thethreshingfloor814 You really have a hard time grasping this. Why is it morally wrong to beat and torture children? You appeal to the state for moral authority. OK say a state encourages child beating as morally correct. If for years they beat their children and no other society does differently. The children accept it as the societal norm, they know no different Now by what authority does your state’s morality (that doesn’t beat children) trump the mortality of said state (that does beat)?
@WiseAli2 You called atheism a cancer. How can you say that when it’s obviouse by your own words that religion is as much a cancer as anything. I only read 1 of your posts so I was not informed on the extent of the debate that I interrupted.
The only point I was trying to make was not to leave out the terrible shit religion as done and you apparently have not. As far as mentally challenged goes, one really must be challenged to be blindly lead by religion to ignore the real truths.
@Gnostic279 Following blindly to anything is not good as Ahmad Thompson said “in the land of the blind the one eyed is king”. My argument is this if religion is totally abhorrent as evolutionists/darwinists regurgitate then they must have a better alternative but they dont. There hypocricy is that 100 of millions have died by those directly influenced by Evolution…I rest my case. Its very difficult to debate with these people and I agree with Dr Tarpley theyre “Quackademics”
@Thethreshingfloor814 lol so you’ve been on wikipedia, bravo your intellectual vigour is very broad, and he bribed his way out of it? so you were there when that happened? He along WITH 17 OTHER PEOPLE were released without charge and even a Turkish member of parliament said we owe an apology to Harun Yahya. We know that for years he was hounded and arrested on trumped up charges for his beleifs so go figure! so atleast we know who the mentally challenged one is? MAN!
@msugda Humans require a balance of emotion and intellect to live most appropriatly. It is true that most of us are ignoring intellect to follow emotional whims due to cultural influence teaching us to go after physical gratifications but too much emotion is not a problem for most of us.
As far as evidence of animals thinking, these tests are taken by humans who have not yet understood the difference between emotion and intellect. How could they devise a proper testing parameter.
@bammbamm12 I’m glade to hear someone else mention that. I have noticed most times when Alex starts talking it sounds like the guest’s volume was turned down but I wasn’t sure. It seems suspect to me.
@Gnostic279 Well you’re a human are you not? So what makes you think you’re in any better position to set the goalposts? Meh. It doesnt matter if you think it’s emotion or intellect, it appears to mimic human intellect and thats good enough for most people. I’ll admit I dont know enough about it, but humans ARE animals, I know that much.
@WiseAli2 The problem with this video is that AJ is attacking Darwin instead of the argument. I doubt the ‘100s of millions of deaths’ you speak of, but even if they happened, it doesnt make evolution any more or less true.
Evolution/darwinism doesnt have to replace religion, because they do not have the same aims. In fact I would say that morality is explained by evolution. You don’t need an accompanying belief system, you just have to empathise with others and live a good life.
@WiseAli2 I’ve known about that guy for years. It wouldn’t matter if Yahya had a clean reputation either. The arguments linking Evolution to Fascism are pretty specious. And isn’t he a Muslim? Not that it matters to me, but why all the sudden are you, a Christian, trying to cite a charlatan from the Islamic world? Am I missing something.
@Thethreshingfloor814 I’m sorry…you are Muslim. My bad.
@spudpeel And that’s PRECISELY the kind of thinking the NWO is counting on to follow through with their agenda. You should be most careful not to fall into a pattern of buying into the commom hype and then regurgitating it. To say humans are animals and that’s good enough for me, that’s just willful ignorance. Should keep things that are not certain open for debate. Keep the file open in case more evidence is obtained. The elites want u to think we are all animals. They want you to believe
@spudpeel They want you to believe our emotions are evil. They need to dehumanize us to kill us off. They need to dehumanize us in our own minds to keep us from fighting for our freedoms. I am afraid you seem to be falling for it hook, line and sinker.
@Thethreshingfloor814 your last comment, i dont know where to begin, firstly im not a christian never said i was shows your shallow thinking putting everyone in boxes and whats wrong with muslims and what is a charlatan from the islamic world??? you sure are missing something, your missing a lot!!!