Weltall

So what about the Christians who accept evolution? Oh wait, I'll bet they're not real Christians...
As insults go, I've seen many both more subtle and more cutting. Maybe you'd like to try again after you get that broad brush back from the shop?

Phishfood

i wholeheartedly agree, except you got it backwards. see, god made this world and then bombed out, man. he's gone. but before he left, he dropped this massive turd called the bible, to weed out the buffoons.

so you're right, its all just a test. unfortunately, you picked up a bag of shit.

-Pf

ArchAngel

I bet Jesus is dissapointed in you for saying that.

Vorkosigan

Wow! What slanted, crappy scholarship. I think that one needs to be tossed to the regulars in E/C. I gotta blog this one later this week.

Ceverante

In a way, that somehow makes sense. In order to self-fulfill one's disbelieve of evolution, one HAS to sort of act 'under-evolved', doesn't it?

I find the conduct of non-thesist much better, considering that I've not seen then bear false-witness.

Delerium

Does your conduct qualify for this comparison?

jonesg

Maybe you only talk to strange Christians.

zaitzeff

well, why would God who cannot lie go to the trouble to create the evidences that the earth is old and why would He try to deceive us about the age of the earth if the earth is in fact "young," in the area of 6000 years old?

CX

Let me back up what Diogenes already said. Contentless ad hom posts violate IIDB policy. Let's please stick to the arguments and refrain from sweeping generalizations about categories of posters.

CX - BCH Moderator

PoodleLovinPessimist

It's not really subject to rational discussion, then. All the evidence in the world couldn't, in principle, sway you from this view.

Naturally, you're perfectly free to hold such a view. But without someone holding such a statement of faith a priori, there doesn't seem any rational way of convincing them to the contrary, and thus not much use discussing it.

The social nature of this comment having already been discussed, I'll merely add that this comment is, logically speaking, a nonsequitur. TBT makes no attempt to explain the entirely opaque idea about how he conduct of Christians and atheists relates in any way to the idea of some god using the theory of evolution to separate the sheep from the goats.

Furthermore, TBT offers no way of determining how one should judge and compare anyone's conduct here. Perhaps he has in mind "agreeing with TBT" as being "good" conduct, and "disagreeing with TBT" as being "bad" conduct. Certainly a favorable measure for his point of view, but one not particularly persuasive.