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Belief in Evolution is a mental disorder
There is no scientific proof of the Theory of Evolution. Belief in macro evolution requires tremendous faith. Actually, it also requires a closed mind and a stubborn refusal to use common sense or to look at the evidence objectively.

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old comment by Nobody

[Belief in Evolution is a mental disorder]

You're being childish here. Not a good way to start a post.

[There is no scientific proof of the Theory of Evolution.]

Argument from ignorance. Just because you can't be bothered to look at the evidence doesn't mean it's not there.

[Belief in macro evolution requires tremendous faith.]

Actually, no it doesn't (see above).

[Actually, it also requires a closed mind and a stubborn refusal to use common sense or to look at the evidence objectively.]

So in summary: you resort to namecalling, you argue from ignorance, and then you accuse the *other side* of being closed minded and stubborn?

Take a closer look at yourself.

old comment by Mageapprentice

I found this info just Googling Schizophrenia-

--Hypersensitivity to criticism, insults, or hurt feelings
--Sudden irritability, anger, hostility, suspiciousness, resentment
--Depression- feeling discouraged and hopeless about the future
--Dropping out of activities and life in general
--Inability to form or keep relationships
--Social isolation- few close friends if any. Little interaction with people outside of immediate family.
--Increased withdrawal, spending most of the days alone
--Inappropriate responses- laughing or smiling when talking of a sad event (all those LOL’s we keep seeing in posts)
--Intense and excessive preoccupation with religion or spirituality
--Making up new words (neologisms) (theobiology ring a bell?)
--Becoming incoherent or stringing unrelated words together (word salad)
--Lack of insight (called anosognosia). Those who are developing schizophrenia are unaware that they are becoming sick. The part of their brain that should recognize that something is wrong is damaged by the disease.
--Nonsensical logic
--Difficulty understanding simple things
--Thoughts, behavior, and actions are not integrated
--Delusions of reference- thinking that random events convey a special meaning to you. An example is that a newspaper headline or a license plate has a hidden meaning for you to figure out, that they are signs trying to tell you something.
--Delusions of grandeur- the belief that you have an important mission, special purpose, or are an unrecognized genius, or famous person

Examples of Hallucinations associated with Schizophrenia----

--Hallucinations are as real as any other experience to the person with schizophrenia. As many as 70% hear voices, while a lesser number have visual hallucinations.
--Auditory hallucinations can be either inside the person's head or externally. When external, they sound as real as an actual voice. Sometimes they come from no apparent source, other times they come from real people who don't actually say anything, other times a person will hallucinate sounds.
--When people hear voices inside their heads, it is as if their inner thoughts are no longer alone. The new voices can talk to each other, talk to themselves, or comment on the person's actions. The majority of the time the voices are negative.
--Visual hallucinations operate on a spectrum. They start with the overacuteness of the senses, then in the middle are illusions, and on the far end are actual hallucinations.

It seems that religion is the mental illness, not science.

old comment by Schwaller de Lubicz

I agree. Evolution is absurd. Atheism is immoral, and absurd. All attempts to describe this life are useless and will always deceive, just as it is impossible to explain how a point becomes a surface, how One becomes Two. The Euclidian exoteric theory is practical but absurd. It was
employed in ancient Egypt for ordinary purposes, but
sacred geometry began from volume and not from "a
point which results from the intersection of two lines
which themselves come from the movement of the
point." The whole of materialist, rationalist philosophy
is based on the absurd, and necessarily so, while
esoteric philosophy, or sacred science, is based on fact in
order to know Cause. Everything is space, which means
that it has volume. There is no point, in the sense of one
sole-singular comprehensible moment in the universe.
The sliced volume gives the planes, the angles of the
lines of intersection give the point which, in the simplest
case, is the result of the meeting of three lines of
intersection. The point is ternary. The cosmic Cause is
ternary; every comprehensible beginning is "three in
one." Everything resulting from this is comprehensible,
and constitutes rational science. The error of our
science is to want to penetrate the mysteries of life
through its ordinary means of comprehension.

old comment by Anon-e-moose

"Belief in Evolution is a mental disorder
There is no scientific proof of the Theory of Evolution. Belief in macro evolution requires tremendous faith. Actually, it also requires a closed mind and a stubborn refusal to use common sense or to look at the evidence objectively."

Andy Schaftafly, is that you?

As for you & your ilk's attitude to the ToE - now (with the shitloads of evidence) The Facts of Evolution, consider this: Charles Darwin is one of only five non-royalty people buried in Westminster Abbey. The Church of England generally had a 'Meh' attitude to his "On the Origin of Species" (even the General Synod acknowledged that much of the Bible is metaphorical, and not literal) - which was such a huge bestseller, it was massively oversubscribed in terms of advance orders (and outsold the Bible in it's day). And was greatly respected by C-of-E clergy*. His face appears on the reverse of our £10 note:

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Your call, astroplane.

*- And they (as to this day) didn't feel their faith was threatened by this new science (after all, one of the earliest gaps was filled when the first church put up a lightning conductor). Insecure in your beliefs much, astroplane?

“Belief in Evolution is a mental disorder”
Does someone with the proper credentials stand behind this statement, or are you just name-calling?

Exodus 23:9 says Also thou shalt not oppress a stranger: for ye know the heart of a stranger, seeing ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
A Christain told me that means: Don't open your mouth when it would mistreat a stranger

So, _I_ think you’re making shit up as an attack, and you don’t have actual support for this, but rather you’re making baby Jesus cry.

“There is no scientific proof of the Theory of Evolution.”
But there is a shitload of evidence for it.

“Belief in macro evolution requires tremendous faith.”
If you accept MICRO evolution, why would you not accept that sufficient accumultion of tiny changes could produce a major change?

“Actually, it also requires a closed mind and a stubborn refusal to use common sense or to look at the evidence objectively.”
Uh huh. By ‘common sense,’ you mean that you reject science that’s too complicated to show in a cartoon. No one cares.

Belief in Creation is a mental disorder
There is no scientific proof of the Myth of Creation. Belief in Scripture literalism requires tremendous faith. Actually, it also requires a closed mind and a stubborn refusal to use common sense or to look at the evidence objectively.

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