I believe in creation and evolution, obviously changes have occured over time, but evolution does not explain how the moon got there
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I believe in both the color blue and the smell of freshly cut grass, but the smell of grass doesnt explain why theres a rhinoceros stealing my car.
You see? I can make non sequiturs too!
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*turns and walks away*
I think he means he's a theistic evolutionist. Evolution happens and explains how life is so diverse, but God still made the Universe.
This isn't very fundy since this is what most Christians believe.
Y'know, I think I understand what he means: yes to evolution, but it required a creator to get it going.
I think the point he's trying to make is that evolution doesn't explain non-organic factors of the universe, so he invokes deity. Come on, guys, this isn't fundie in the slightest; This quote's just going to make people think we're putting up every theistic comment. Our goal is to criticize the truly loony and crazy. At best, this is simply not articulated properly, at worst, ill-informed. Remove this.
I don't think this is fundie at all.
It's just saying that while evolution is real, it doesn't explain things outside the realm of living organisms.
edzo4 is (wrongly in my opinion) attributing the rest of the universe to divine creation, but as someone else said, this is hardly an unusual position for religious people.
It should probably be removed.
The interesting thing is, that this statement:
I believe in creation and evolution, obviously changes have occured over time
and this statement:
evolution does not explain how the moon got there
Are both fine by themselves. Neither one of them, alone, would make you appear like an idiot.
It's when you include the but in between them that we have to question your ability to do Kindergarten level reasoning.
Ugh. That thread is the Cockatrices' den of fail
They're going on about 'kinds'
'I've never seen a cat giver birth to a non-cat'
'resistence to herbicides is not proof of evolution'
'are you saying just because you don't look exactly like your parents you're some kind of mutant?'
>> Atheissimo
Sure it does. See, daddy Earth and mommy Venus loved each other very much and wanted to have a little baby together. So one day, daddy and mommy got together and they loved each other very much and got very close and nine months later, a new little planet was born, called the Moon. Later, daddy and mommy found out that they were arguing and fighting a lot and decided not to live together any more. Mommy started drinking a lot, and eventually they got divorced and the Sun decided that the Moon should live with daddy.
This is one of my favorite comments on the whole site.
It's not hateful or even especially fundie, it's just... amazing.
Yeah, I don't think this is very fundy.
Basically, although evolution may be true, this does not explain how the Universe itself came into existence. Therefore this person concludes that there is a Creator.
I would say that this is what the average person more or less believes.
Hell, I believe in evolution and admit that it is at least possible that some type of higher force is behind the Universe.
This one doesn't seem all that fundie. I don't see why everyone assumes that he's expecting evolution to explain how planets, moons, etc. are formed, when it seems more like he's just pointing out that evolution only applies to biology.
While I don't think this one is terribly fundie, it is kinda funny. The guy seems to only know of the Christian fundie version of the theory of evolution which supposedly explains the origin of the universe, which he realizes is silly. But he continues to think the scientific community claims otherwise. Which I find amusing, in a slightly depressing kind of way.
Meh. Not really fundy and certainly not darndest. It seems like he's simply admitting that while evolution may explain how changes occur in living organisms over time, it doesn't explain the origins of the universe. He's saying that he believes in both creation (God made the moon, the universe, etc.) and evolution (God allowed for a mechanism through which live adapts over time).
Why the hell does this quote have 52 votes where the one below it saying that it's "Obvious that it's the end times" only has 42 votes, how is this one more fundi that that one?
Or the one who thinks that Fasting and praying is going to somehow get Obama kicked from office? It's been on longer and it only has 33 votes.
Ah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha...
Well, he got us there. Evolution definitely does not explain how the moon got there.
Have to give him credit, though...at least he believes in evolution. His IQ is still probably about 50 points higher than most fundies.
Ah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha...
Well, he got us there. Evolution definitely does not explain how the moon got there.
Have to give him credit, though...at least he believes in evolution. His IQ is still probably about 50 points higher than most fundies.
I'm very disappointed. This now has a rating of 89 and is in danger of making the top 100, based so far as I can tell on people reading only the last half of the sentence and misconstruing the meaning. He's calling himself a theistic evolutionist, which is a common viewpoint. If you read it properly he's not saying evolution should explain the moon. It's just not fundie. IMHO we're making ourselves look as reflexively viscous and dogmatic as the fundies here.
You see, edzo4, evolution DOES NOT explain how the moon got there. It does, however, explain how after generations of inbreeding, someone as blindingly stupid as you may come into existence. It's amazing!
No, it does not, because EVOLUTION HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE FUCKING MOON!! Holy shit, it's like these people put their brains in a blender so that they could be even more stupid than one would think physically possible.
@Bink
Seems like some here are pushing the belief that everyone who isn't an Atheist is a Fundi. That's pretty fundi of them.
Hey, good catch. Finally, someone realized that Evolution has nothing to do with astrology, planetology, geology, or astrophysics.
Way to go, buddy [/verbal irony]
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