DarthMetaKnight wrote:
Creationism literally makes no sense.
Animals that do not fit with their environment die before they reach sexual maturity. That leads to small genetic changes over millions of years.
That's like saying "Hey! Did you know that two plus two equals four?"
Flowering plants need bees to pollinate.
Bees need flowering plants to survive.
Which "evolved" first?
Charles Darwin himself said the real proof of Evolution would be constant changes evident in the fossil record, yet these innumerable fossilized "missing links" do not exist. Species come and go, with little to no proof of one magically transforming into another. The fact is, the same genetic code runs through all living organisms on Earth. That's evidence of a singular fabric or template, but hardly a linear progression.
The failure of Evolution as a theory doesn't necessarily
prove Biblical creationism, but it does prove that smug twits like you don't have all the answers. In your defense, of course, you never came up with a single "scientific" idea you didn't parrot from someone else, so you can hardly be fully responsible for your own ignorance. Your belligerence, OTOH, you own that.
DarthMetaKnight wrote:
Why did God create predators? Why would a loving God create such brutality?
There is no God. We don't live in a just world[/url]. There is no karma. Bad things happen to good people and harmless animals. We live in a brutal world. Fairness only exists when we fight for it.
"Fairness" doesn't exist at all, it's merely a point of view, and a rather childish one at that.
As for predators and brutality, you're assuming that things that frighten or intimidate you are automatically bad. Predators gotta eat, too, ya know.
Step outside your Left-Wing programming "victim mentality" for a moment and try to imagine things from the point of view of an entity unaffected by spacetime, creating from pure thought. Dimensionality is irrelevant, there's no
up, no
down, no pain, no pleasure, no life, no death...
So you
imagine these things. And there they are - but where? You're not sculpting with Play-Doh. It's all
right here, inside yourself, your "mind" as it were. But you are
only mind. And now you are a universe. Or many. Or an infinity.
Good and evil, life and death, joy and agony - these are all constructs limited to a four-dimensional world - the crucial dimension being TIME, for without that, none of these experiences could be savored. Outside of that world,
they simply don't matter. They aren't real. They're just IDEAS.
So, as you continue to create and imagine, and bring these creations to sentient life, it is necessary that they experience both the positive and the negative in varying degrees, in order to be truly alive (as well as have free will). If their living experience is one-dimensional, then they aren't fully participating in the play. The game's no fun if there is no jeopardy. Is that cruel? Of course not, because
THIS WORLD ISN'T REAL.
Wake up, Darth - your imagination is severely limited. You will never achieve enlightenment if your personal bitterness traps you in immaturity. If you think humanity is now at the pinnacle of it's knowledge, therefore YOU, by espousing CURRENTLY ACCEPTED CONSENSUS "knowledge," are an advanced, superior being, you're every bit as pompous a fool as the scientist of the 1800s, convinced that "
if man were meant to fly, he'd have been born with wings." In it's day, that was perfectly rational thinking, but also perfectly wrong.
I'm sorry finding out that Santa isn't real was so traumatic that you now distrust anything you can't prove, but even "scientific proof" isn't always the final word, because academic consensus is not FACT.
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