We were awakened by the blaring sirens and flashing lights of our Retard-o-tron™. The blinking letters on the wall said WorldNetDaily. Instantly alert, we rushed to the computer.
The Retard-o-tron™ directed us to WorldNetDaily’s presentation of a new video by the brilliant and articulate leader of David Rives Ministries. WND’s headline was Evolution or not: It matters a lot.
Trembling with anticipation, we noted that the rev’s video is titled Evolution? Have ye not read? We clicked on it. Thrilled, we absorbed it all. The experience took less than two minutes, but we will never be the same again. We learned that Jesus was a creationist. He didn’t believe in evolution, and neither should you.
Don’t delay, dear reader. Your place in eternity hangs in the balance. You need to click over to WND and watch the thing.
As we’ve done before with the rev’s videos, please feel free to use the comments section as an Intellectual Free Fire Zone. You know the rules. Okay, now go to it.
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As I watched the video in giddy anticipation of being enlightened I was not prepared for the astounding brilliance with which David made the case. I was so taken aback I choked on the hunk of divine flesh I happened to be munching on at the time and had to wash it down with some sacrificial blood. Whew! That was close…
Religion is a theory looking for evidence. Science is evidence looking for a theory. Only one of them is a useful tool to navigate.
David’s ability to use his brain constructively, uh, is not good. But he is amusing……in a scary kind of way..
Yesterday I read an author who basically said that rather than attacks on science, it is a better approach to use beliefs to understand that ancient writings convey a greater truth about mankind and the world, if one simply looks for that in what one reads.. A moderate and much more rewarding approach that works for me..
One needs at least a modicum of intellectual reasoning ability and sophistication of thought and ability to come to that realization. If one is a creationist, that must be as impossible to grasp as science, and a manifestation of a very dogmatic and rigid education, or the other three explanations that have been offered by commentators on the phenomena.
Barring severe catastrophe economically and calamit wise, Creationists see that approach as compromise and failure .
I see this rigidity as indicative of a failure to think….opinion of course..
Jesus was a creationist? Um, wasn’t genesis written after the crucifixion?
Oops, my mistake. Apparently the date is in question, but it was a few centuries before the crucifixion. My Christian mythology isn’t up to snuff. Luckily I’ve forgotten most of it.
The comment section of his videos are quite special, some beautiful quotes. Larry Pierson “I am an engineer and used to working a great deal with math. I have run the numbers involving evolution and concluded they don’t work.”
mrgb “No such thing as an atheist. Whatever gives meaning to one’s life is his god.” I’ve never heard this one before, still made me chortle like a deer.
I have wondered why antirationalists, antiscience, etc. folks focus their attacks on evolution rather than the ideal gas laws, for example. First, most folks think they have some understanding of evolution, but may not even be aware of the ideal gas laws. Secondly, and perhaps more basic, many think humans are “unnatural” in the sense of being separated from nature, perhaps because we are divine, or whatever, and thus think we have the right to do as we will with no bad results from our actions.
Evolution theory explicitly includes us a a part of nature, and makes us subject to the laws of nature. We cannot ignore nature and do as we will without being noticed, and being punished, by a metaphorical Mother Nature.
The comments below the video were entertaining. We should somehow invite Steve Thompson to read this blog. He was consistent, polite and accurate.