“Believers” pay little attention to facts. They are locked into the addiction of religion.

Why do people believe in god?

I believe the biggest reason is fear.

It is to avoid the existential terror of living in an uncaring, unfeeling, non-sentient universe in which death is final, in which bad things can happen without warning to good people, in which good things can happen to bad people, in which there is no protection and very limited control over our fates. At any moment, things can go wrong: We can fall seriously ill, be attacked and mugged, raped, or killed, hit by a train, etc. This feeling of helplessness is difficult to live with.

Now religion, illogical though it may be, is carefully constructed to protect believers from this harsh reality. It provides the concept of an afterlife to insulate us from the finality of death, and to reassure us that pains and problems of this life will be “made up for” by some glorious fantasy future of eternity in heaven. It helps keep some people in line by threatening them with eternal torture in hell. It provides a theoretically loving “Sky-Daddy” who can do miracles and magically extricate us from trouble. Some people find great comfort in this belief.

Therefore, they are willing to overlook a lot. The self-contradictions in the bible. The need for ‘faith,’ or in other words, the willingness to believe with neither scientific evidence nor proof. The embarrassing fact that, for example, the churches have a long history of repression and oppression of people. When they are totally immersed in the fantasy, they develop a strong dependency upon it. This is called religious faith.

Now, an addict is so wedded to the thing to which they’re addicted that ‘truth’ plays no part in it. Evolution deniers comprise only a fraction of believers, by the way. Not all people who believe in god deny evolution; the pope himself has acknowledged that it is true. But the people without enough sophistication to understand that the bible is not a factual, historical document, but a symbolic and allegorical work, may interpret it literally, and for them, the theory of evolution contradicts the bible. Faced with a choice between the drug of religion and facts, they will choose the drug every time.

Clap for yourself.

If Z evolved from B and B evolved from A, if you keep going on and on you will have infinite regression. Does it make logical sense?

BTW, why haven't humans evolved into another creature? Evolution has expired?

You guys claiming critical thinkers but have limited perspective.

Smh

jmoore:
Clap for yourself.

If Z evolved from B and B evolved from A, if you keep going on and on you will have infinite evolution. Does it make logical sense?

BTW, why haven't humans evolved into another creature? Evolution has expired?

You guys claiming critical thinkers but have limited perspective.

Smh

Thats not how evolution works. I’m not willing to educate you anyways because you will always choose the creation myth irrespective. So cheers

jmoore:
Clap for yourself.

If Z evolved from B and B evolved from A, if you keep going on and on you will have infinite regression. Does it make logical sense?

BTW, why haven't humans evolved into another creature? Evolution has expired?

You guys claiming critical thinkers but have limited perspective.

Smh

instead of trying hard to make something seem wrong, why not find a ways to prove yours is right?

jmoore:
Clap for yourself.

If Z evolved from B and B evolved from A, if you keep going on and on you will have infinite regression. Does it make logical sense?

BTW, why haven't humans evolved into another creature? Evolution has expired?

You guys claiming critical thinkers but have limited perspective.

Smh

You've a point but God only created Adam and Eve, who did their children get married to

jmoore:
Clap for yourself.

If Z evolved from B and B evolved from A, if you keep going on and on you will have infinite regression. Does it make logical sense?

BTW, why haven't humans evolved into another creature? Evolution has expired?

You guys claiming critical thinkers but have limited perspective.

Smh

If God made us from a handful of dirt, why is there still dirt?

Payperboii:

You've a point but God only created Adam and Eve, who did their children get married to

And you didn't think their children married each other?

1Sharon:


If God made us from a handful of dirt, why is there still dirt?

This one is an upcoming atheist. Your question is built on confusion.

jmoore:


And you didn't think their children married each other?

Alright, so if that's the case, between Adam and Eve, which of them was Asian, African and Caucasian?
How did we get different varieties of human race if we haven't evolved since then?

chinasaekpere:
Alright, so if that's the case, between Adam and Eve, which of them was Asian, African and Caucasian?
How did we get different varieties of human race if we haven't evolved since then?

Human is human. The evolution you should be talking about is human to another creature, maybe a human-like creature with wings.

You believe Apes are human's cousins? Then there should be another leap from human to another creature on top of the food chain. Why are we stuck with same humans?

falcon01:
instead of trying hard to make something seem wrong, why not find a ways to prove yours is right?

When a thing is wrong it must be immediately pointed out that it is wrong.

chinasaekpere:
..Why do people believe in god?

I believe the biggest reason is fear.

Workch, chief of multiple monikers!

Only a foolish creation thinks he can escape from the hand of his Creator and Live, like a Camry or phone living without its Creator shall be killed by, Hunger, Destruction, Rust and Abandonment.

chinasaekpere:
“Believers” pay little attention to facts. They are locked into the addiction of religion.

Why do people believe in god?

I believe the biggest reason is fear.

It is to avoid the existential terror of living in an uncaring, unfeeling, non-sentient universe in which death is final, in which bad things can happen without warning to good people, in which good things can happen to bad people, in which there is no protection and very limited control over our fates. At any moment, things can go wrong: We can fall seriously ill, be attacked and mugged, raped, or killed, hit by a train, etc. This feeling of helplessness is difficult to live with.

Now religion, illogical though it may be, is carefully constructed to protect believers from this harsh reality. It provides the concept of an afterlife to insulate us from the finality of death, and to reassure us that pains and problems of this life will be “made up for” by some glorious fantasy future of eternity in heaven. It helps keep some people in line by threatening them with eternal torture in hell. It provides a theoretically loving “Sky-Daddy” who can do miracles and magically extricate us from trouble. Some people find great comfort in this belief.

Therefore, they are willing to overlook a lot. The self-contradictions in the bible. The need for ‘faith,’ or in other words, the willingness to believe with neither scientific evidence nor proof. The embarrassing fact that, for example, the churches have a long history of repression and oppression of people. When they are totally immersed in the fantasy, they develop a strong dependency upon it. This is called religious faith.

Now, an addict is so wedded to the thing to which they’re addicted that ‘truth’ plays no part in it. Evolution deniers comprise only a fraction of believers, by the way. Not all people who believe in god deny evolution; the pope himself has acknowledged that it is true. But the people without enough sophistication to understand that the bible is not a factual, historical document, but a symbolic and allegorical work, may interpret it literally, and for them, the theory of evolution contradicts the bible. Faced with a choice between the drug of religion and facts, they will choose the drug every time.

Even Science calls it a "THEORY".
What does that tell you?

Almost immediately after posting this, you and a number of others on the thread have ALREADY VEERED OFF from 'evolution' into some other TOTALLY UNRELATED issues.

If your brains work like this, how do you expect to appreciate the right answers to your questions?

The problem is not about religion but lack of understanding!
Surely the theory of evolution and creation contradicts but then we need to ask ourselves:
What is the benefit of each theory?
Evolution leads people astray regarding how mankind can cohabit peacefully while Creation teaches us how we can live peacefully as the one and only intelligent specie on this planet.

Another problem is misinformation, majority are misinformed about God and worship this has complicated everything as those claiming believers are not different from atheists in their line of thought!

jmoore:


Human is human. The evolution you should be talking about is human to another creature, maybe a human-like creature with wings.

You believe Apes are human's cousins? Then there should be another leap from human to another creature on top of the food chain. Why are we stuck with same humans?

answer the question

chinasaekpere:
...It is to avoid the existential terror of living in an uncaring, unfeeling, non-sentient universe in which death is final, in which bad things can happen without warning to good people, in which good things can happen to bad people, in which there is no protection and very limited control over our fates.

SEE, YOU STILL CONFESS THE TRUTH. FEAR RULES!

Fear of terrors, death, evil and complete inability to stop it. Proving the Truth of the Word of God which Sayeth "Evil pursueth the evil man.

sagenaija:
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Even Science calls it a "THEORY".
What does that tell you?

Almost immediately after posting this, you and a number of others on the thread have ALREADY VEERED OFF from 'evolution' into some other TOTALLY UNRELATED issues.

If your brains work like this, how do you expect to appreciate the right answers to your questions?

Atomic theory is also a scientific theory but it is used to build atomic bombs
Cell theory is also a science theory but I can see cells under microscopes

Gravitational theory is also a theory but you can't jump from an upstairs and float.

Maybe you are just the one who doesn't know what a scientific theory is. You mistake for the lay definition of a theory probably because you are not very grounded in science. Don't you think you need basic education on how theories work in science and how it's differences from a lay definition?

1Sharon:


If God made us from a handful of dirt, why is there still dirt?

What kind of shitty thinking is this, because Mr Toyoda made the toyota, metals got exhausted.

chinasaekpere:
Alright, so if that's the case, between Adam and Eve, which of them was Asian, African and Caucasian?
How did we get different varieties of human race if we haven't evolved since then?

The same way my dark skinned family suddenly gave birth to albino.

Dtruthspeaker:


The same way my dark skinned family suddenly gave birth to albino.

Alright, mutation in the gene of tyrosinase enzyme is the reason black people give birth to albino and that's the driving force for evolution, it's a form of evolution. Thanks for unknownly validating evolution

chinasaekpere:
Alright, mutation in the gene of tyrosinase enzyme is the reason black people give birth to albino and that's the driving force for evolution, it's a form of evolution. Thanks for unknownly validating evolution

You call it mutation, I call it the Wonder and Awe of God changing the colours and forms of his creations exactly as Mr. Toyoda introduced several different colours and varieties of his Camry since he first made the Camry in 1980.

Simply, THE POWERS OF A CREATOR IN ACTION

Dtruthspeaker:


You call it mutation, I call it the Wonder and Awe of God changing the colours and forms of his creations exactly as Mr. Toyoda introduced several different colours and varieties of his Camry since he first made the Camry in 1980.

Simply, THE POWERS OF A CREATOR IN ACTION

Mutations is evolution. Thanks for validating evolution

jmoore:


And you didn't think their children married each other?

So I can marry my sister.

Payperboii:

So I can marry my sister.

Is there a magnetic force that stops you from getting married to your sister?

chinasaekpere:
Mutations is evolution. Thanks for validating evolution

You also called growth spurts, anomalies and deformities, infirmities mutations eg 6 fingers, birth marks, colourations of skin etc.

And none of you ever called it evolution, so Thief, As Usual with you Criminals called Atheist, carry your Lying Thieving soul out of this place.

Dtruthspeaker:


You also called growth spurts, anomalies and deformities, infirmities mutations eg 6 fingers, birth marks, colourations of skin etc.

And none of you ever called it evolution, so Thief, As Usual with you Criminals called Atheist, carry your Lying Thieving soul out of this place.

This is exactly how evolution by natural selection works.
Good job confirming that

chinasaekpere:
This is exactly have evolution by natural selection works.
Good job confirming that

Did you people not say that evolution is not nature now you are stealing nature's work. Kai! You people are Thieves.

Dtruthspeaker:


Did you people not say that evolution is not nature now you are stealing nature's work. Kai! You people are Thieves.

If you say mutations exist then you already accepted evolution unknowingly

chinasaekpere:
If you say mutations exist then you already accepted evolution unknowingly

Like saying because pimples and ezema exists therefore a person has evolved. Chai Stupid creations should not be allowed to live.

chinasaekpere:
Atomic theory is also a scientific theory but it is used to build atomic bombs
Cell theory is also a science theory but I can see cells under microscopes

Gravitational theory is also a theory but you can't jump from an upstairs and float.

Maybe you are just the one who doesn't know what a scientific theory is. You mistake for the lay definition of a theory probably because you are not very grounded in science. Don't you think you need basic education on how theories work in science and how it's differences from a lay definition?

Ok then scientist chin, what is the scientific PROOF, (not a regurgitation of what the theory is), of the theory evolution?

jmoore:
Clap for yourself.

If Z evolved from B and B evolved from A, if you keep going on and on you will have infinite regression. Does it make logical sense?

BTW, why haven't humans evolved into another creature? Evolution has expired?

You guys claiming critical thinkers but have limited perspective.

Smh

Your post if it was made by someone in the 18th century I would have forgiven you due to ignorance but in this 21st century where you have access to almost limitless information from the internet I cannot forgive you
Please Google is your friend, evolution is very slow. The first record human(homo sapiens) evolved from homo erectus around 200,000 years ago. Please no one is hiding information, it is all on the internet with proof for it unlike a certain way of life *cough*religion*cough*

sagenaija:
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Ok then scientist chin, what is the scientific PROOF, (not a regurgitation of what the theory is), of the theory evolution?

Just google it, some of us are vey busy hustling instead of hoping that some imaginary being will bless us and give us money

Dtruthspeaker:


Like saying because pimples and ezema exists therefore a person has evolved. Chai Stupid creations should not be allowed to live.

Please your example didn't corelate to what he said. Evolution causes mutation. Radiation also causes it
Note- what i said about evolution causing mutation is very vague because based on your previous arguments with other atheist I don't think you are intelligent enough to understand the specific part

ifyken:

Please your example didn't corelate to what he said. Evolution causes mutation. Radiation also causes it
Note- what i said about evolution causing mutation is very vague because based on your previous arguments with other atheist I don't think you are intelligent enough to understand the specific part

I have not met you before, great to meet you.

Since you have looked me up a little, I would tell you, it stands to record here that about 8 times your evolution people could not make a valid case at all

So saying "Evolution causes mutation. Radiation also causes it" is this not double talk and ass covering?

Exactly like say women give birth to children and men also do so?

Any who speaks this way, do we not call such person mad?

We all know why you desire evolution and it is not for any tangible reason other than to live irresponsibly and unaccountably without punishment for the wickedness and evils you have committed against others whom you joyfully fled from leaving them crying for ''Just Is"

So you wish to escape "Just Is" hence your wishfulness for evolution.