Proff

OK........I borrowed this from my other thread but I thought it fits into this Forum nicely too..........So....................

I maintain that evolution based atheism is a religion...
....…a belief system based on theory, mixed some very debatable answers and assumptions, that requires a significant amount of faith.
Its easy to follow this religion…..it asks nothing of you…no commitment….no consequences, no promises….easy come-easy go.
A great belief system…….if its indeed true………..
Some people are doing some “soul searching�? on this exact topic these days.
Take for example ,Anthony Flew, a fairly well-known atheist philosopher.
This 81-year-old British professor of philosophy chose to become an atheist at the age of 15. He made a name for himself in the academic field with a paper published in 1950.
In the 54 years that followed, he defended atheism as a teacher at the universities of Oxford, Aberdeen, Keele and Reading, and at many American and Canadian universities he visited, in debates, books, lecture halls and articles.
In recent days, however, Flew has announced that he has abandoned his “faith�? and now accepts that the universe was….(gasp)….CREATED!
In recent times Flew participated in debates with scientists and philosophers who were proponents of creation, and exchanged ideas with them.
A turning point in that process was a discussion organized by the Institute for Metascientific Research in Texas in May, 2003.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Moderator {{{This post was edited to conform to copyright restrictions. The redacted material was cut and pasted from a Harun Yahya site.}}} http://www.harunyahya.net/V2/Lang/en

So.........
Evolutionary atheism = Intelligence from non-intelligence??
As Flew stated..."I have been persuaded that it is simply out of the question that the first living matter evolved out of dead matter and then developed into an extraordinarily complicated creature."

Makes sence to reason.
Final Note:...I find it interisting that people these days are so willing to accept the idea of other intelligent life somewhere in the universe, but when you suggest that that life is so intelligent as to be our creator, they accuse you of religious fundamentalism.

Cherrie O' for now.......... :thumbs:

Proff.

Javaman

You should have read my response and the link to the Anthony Flew thread before rehashing this and making yourself look bad in the process.

Integra96

Oh no, not the Flew thing. :banghead:

And what in god's (one of them) name is "evolution based atheism"? Evolution is not normative, not a religion, nor does it say anything about the existence or non-existence of a god. Atheism (not a religion, either) is the lack of theism and has no necessary connection to evolution. "Evolution based atheism" is a bit like saying "anti-evolution based Buddhism" - it just doesn't any sense.

Daggah

"...Anthony Flew, a fairly well-known atheist philosopher..."

Except many of us never heard of him before he became a deist...

Demigawd

Don't mind Proff. He's our new resident plagiarist. His thread in EvC is locked because he keeps changing mod edits of his posts so he can preserve the illusion he is using his own work.

ObiKenobi

I know this has nothing to do with this thread but I desperately need to respond to this. Collage is not the British spelling of college. Here's a link to the cambridge dictionary on this:

collage [Show phonetics]
noun [C or U]
(the art of making) a picture in which various materials or objects, for example paper, cloth or photographs, are stuck onto a larger surface:

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/def...14878&dict=CALD

Notice there is not a single mention of college in the definition.

But then lets look up the word "college":

college (EDUCATION) [Show phonetics]
noun
1 [C or U] any place for specialized education after the age of 16 where people study or train to get knowledge and/or skills:
a teacher training college
a secretarial college
a Naval college
UK a sixth form college
She's at art college.

2 [C or U] US university:
You have to go to (= study at) college for a lot of years if you want to be a doctor.

3 [C] one of the separate and named parts into which some universities are divided:
King's College, Cambridge
I attended the College of Arts and Sciences at New York University.
Cambridge has some very fine old colleges (= college buildings).

4 [C] in Britain and Australia, used in the names of some schools for children, especially those where education is paid for:
Cheltenham Ladies' College

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/def...14934&dict=CALD

Sorry, but you lose.

Proff

:devil3: : :

Integra96

So that's what having no reply looks like.

ObiKenobi

Proff, what is the purpose of this thread? And for a complete change, can you actually use proper grammatical structure for your sentences rather then long incomplete sentences connected by "....."?

ObiKenobi

Well funny thing is, that response has no less content to it then most of his other replies.