-Religion is perfectly fine, but blind devotion to anything creates cults. Keep in mind that whatever Holy text one group has must be seen just as valid as that of any other religion, like lets say the Koran for example.
Religion is pretty much blind devotion to something by definition. Religions are state-approved cults; however, cult should not be synonymous with evil/insane.
-I say if you deny evolution you are not only defying science, but religious advancement.
Erm, religion shouldn't "advance". That's effectively changing the past (in the eyes of those who believe that their holy text does indeed describe the past).
Today religion is seen as conflicting with science, but why should the two be so separated?
Because science attacks religion?
What is science but an explanation to how and religion an explanation to why?
Erm, religion is as much or more so an explanation of how as an explanation of why. For example, genesis does not document why the Christian god creates everything; it documents how he does.
Stop trying to assault everything that goes against science or religion as untrue and shut yourself off from truth by a veil of ignorance.
What?
The two can be connected if you truly contemplate it.
The two can be connected through doublethink and fallacy, or a desire to not "offend" people for political/cowardice reasons.
Many theories in science today still don't explain everything
Because a theory's job is not to explain everything.
the Big Band theory doesn't explain how all the universes matter was created, simply how it reached it's current state
And the Theory of Gravitation does not explain why the sky is blue. This is not a failure of the Theory of Gravitation; it is a failure of your understanding of what a theory is.
Evolution doesn't explain how life exists, simply how it reached it's current state
Because it doesn't attempt to explain how life came to be.
the theory that lightning created the first cell on earth
Which is a hypothesis, and is not by any means the only one.
conflicts with many well established scientific theories and principals like how you can create an organic substance or even the structure of something organic from non-organic materials
Seeing as both are just molecules, that is rather obvious.
but you can't create something truly living from non-organic substances, life requires other life exist.
Do you even know what an organic molecule is? Hint: it doesn't have to be alive. Also, life does not require other life to exist.
-The Bible is an interesting read
Yes, and gruesome.
but really you shouldn't take every word literally,
Because that would, after all, indicate that it's full of shit.
perhapes the Bible was brought to a level that which people of that time could understand simply to allow the religion to start?
Or perhaps it's because they were a bunch of bronze age farmers who had no idea how the world worked and wanted to explain it by making shit up.
Think of it, what happened to people how brought up true yet unpopular ideas in olden times - they were killed, shunned or exiled.
Same with false yet unpopular ideas; religion proves this.
If the Bible was originally written to include evolution,
Which would be hard because nobody thought it up until the nineteenth century.
then Christianity would never have flourished like it has to current times.
Oh? I'd like to see you justify this.
Nothing says it can't be metaphoric.
Nothing says it should be either.
-Most modern religions have the same components when you get down to it-
That's because those components are pretty much the definition of what a religion is. You're pretty much saying "things within the same category have features in common" and expecting it to sound insightful rather than sound like a tautology (which it is).
ex- the idea of God
Christianity: an all powerful omniscient God
Islam: same as Christianity
Well, seeing as Islam is derived from Christianity I'm not exactly surprised.
Buddhism: Im no expert on Buddhism but from my understanding God in Buddhism is a bit less clear then those portrayed in religions like Christianity but there is the idea of an intangible force in life.
And how is that necessarily a god? You're pushing it here.
Hinduism: Like Buddhism with the whole force thing, but with more representations.
Nah, Hinduism has gods.
Most modern religions have this underlying concept, who's to say they're not all the same God just represented differently based on region?
Because some are polytheistic, some are monotheistic, some believe gods to be the ultimate force, some believe gods to be simply more powerful, and most of the similar ones are similar because they stole from each other.
And about Global Warming, this same little thought has appeared in pretty much every forum with a large number of people from the same type of person: the extremist Republican persuaded by people like Glenn Beck and the Oil Companies. You shouldn't hold a grudge against these sorts of people since they can't think any different - they're casualties to the current political system.
I don't hold a grudge against them. I just think they're deluded idiots.
-If you believe Global Warming doesn't exist then why don't you go to all the other consequences of air pollution from human activities like acid rain, smog, etc.
These have what to do with global warming (barring common cause)?
-To the idiots suggesting a hotter Earth is better - screw you. I mean it, screw you. I direct all people like you to places where its warm year round, like Florida or some Middle American Countries. When its hot in these places, ITS HOT. The weather is miserable, there's constant downpours (warm rain of course so no relief here) and the insects such as mosquito's are bountiful. All you see is beaches and babes, which are nice to visit every once in a while but high temperatures like this every day SUCKS. Thank God for colder regions, I don't know what I'd do without winter every year.
I think you misunderstand what global warming really means just as much as these people do.
-Global Warming is not a "We're all gonna die by being baked" sort of thing. It's a heating up the earths temperatures can cause massive damage to the natural cycle of things and flood many low lying areas.
Define damage. It would switch it around, which is fine from the planet's perspective but bad for ours and many other life forms'.
-Oil = Technological Fossil. Oil is outdated, old, archaic when compared to computers. We have seriously had the technology to not use oil since the car was invented (look it up, the Original Model T Ford came in an Electric and a Gas model).
Not only was the Model T not the first car, but oil is used because it's convenient, not because it's new or the only option or something.
-The statements that people have used to claim Global Warming doesn't exist are often taken WAY out of context
No shit?
-Glenn Beck and company are doing more damage to the republican party then good, I don't care how but these idiots need to fall from grace somehow, someway.
Good luck with that.
Just some food for thought
Mostly food for rebuttal.
