An Athiest Teacher Meets Her Match

What's so funny about that? I choose not to make faith beliefs.

You mean God doesn't exist for you. God doesn't exist in any named incarnation for me either, but it does for other people. That's why it is a belief.

Belief that god exists doesn't mean that god exists.

Since everything is relative anyway, belief in the big bang doesn't mean it happened, but believing it makes it real for a person.

Show me the data that supports the belief that god exists.

I just thought you were a little out of line.

Yes, and whats important is that they believe it, and it is true to them.

Because I guess it makes life a little easier. It's like having a security blanket which simplifies things people don't understand.

Personally, all human evil I put down to human nature, whereas someone else may believe it were the influence of an external evil.

religion is the reason we still have the caste system in india, why we had the crusades, why Iran treats woman badly, why hundreds of thousands of women were burnt alive in the middle ages because they were thought to be witches, why aids have still be spread easily in africa, ect. Its far from the harmless.......

Well then, did birds evolve from running lizards or gliding lizards?

Buttercups are very simple plants, that can survive nearly anywhere. Orchids are very complex plants that can only survive in very specific environments. Which is the more evolved? The survivor or the complex?

Also, evolution postulates a series of gradual changes, when each change results in a new type of organism that is better able to survive. Where are all the intermediate organisms? If bats evolved from rats, where are all the bat/rat composites and how could any be better than the basic rat?

Where are all the missing links? There aren't ANY. All fossils can be identified as belonging to a specific species. There aren't any missing link fossils!

Because I guess it makes life a little easier. It's like having a security blanket which simplifies things people don't understand.

What makes me wonder is why they don't go and try and find out about what they don't understand instead of ascribing it to some deity.

Because they want life to be simple. They somehow don't want to know - so the brain creates something that is within reason, and is accepted by them.

Oh well, makes me happier that religion is for insular simpletons.

I didn't say it was harmless - I said it simplified things for people. The simple things aren't always harmless.

but often are as i have shown with examples you have completely ignored the amout of hatred religion has led too

How often? When often? Huh?

If you read my posts, or knew the first thing about me, you would know I'm trying to tone it down because I believe organised religion is bad. Very bad.

To sum up soming Kay said in men in black (I just watched it) 'A person is smart. People are dumb'

What a stupid post. So, the teacher used a crap argument. God still doesn't exist.