[...The real absurdity lies in those claiming by Argument from Authority that their deity IS, said this, or created that, without a shred of tangible evidence in support of that claim and yet challenge the lack of (illogical) evidence to the contrary...]
Just because you refuse to acknowledge evidence as such, has no bearing as to rather or not evidence exist. For example, I consider the fact that we exist in spite of the fact that scientifically, we should not be here, as evidence of there is a God that created the universe and us. I consider the fact that scientist have proven that even the smallest form of life produced in a laboratory needed intelligent life to mix the already existing ingredients in a controlled environment as evidence of an intelligent designer. I consider the many prophesies that have come true in the Bible as evidence of there being something to the Bible as well as of inspiration by God. I consider that since many modern scientists now say that all life did not all have a common ancestor just as the Bible said all along as evidence of something you will likely ignore.
[Buddhists are atheist,]
Do you consider atheist Buddhists to be evil like you do other religions?
[Since it is a prerequisite to be taught religious dogma, as no one comes to god-beliefs in a vacuum, then the state of non-belief IS the base, or default state.]
It seems that some of the earliest writings of man involve 'religious dogma'. Who taught them?
[Hez, you further make a poor point about belief in evolution, a typical error of ill-informed theists and their dewy-eyed brethren, the Creationists. Accepting something as true based on weight of evidence is less a belief than proclaiming the same absent any proof at all. There is currently more evidence FOR evolution than there is for GRAVITY. We know gravity exists. ]
Anyone can pretty much take anything as evidence that they want to.
Part of an article from 1985:
EDIT: {Did Ape-Men Exist?
9 In 130 years of searching for fossils of the missing link between ape and man, evolutionists have come up with a pitifully small array of bones. According to the magazine Science Digest, “all the physical evidence we have for human evolution can still be placed, with room to spare, inside a single coffin!” No doubt, that is where such so-called evidence belongs—with the lid of the coffin nailed down tight!
10 Those magazine pictures of ape-men that are used to bolster the evolution theory are nothing more than figments of the imagination, drawn on the basis of a few small fragments of a skull or a jawbone. For example, on page 1 of The New York Times of August 16, 1985, there appeared an “artist’s reconstruction of Amphipithecus, earliest known higher primate . . . from which humans evolved,” showing its hairy head and hands. From what was this reconstructed? Says the accompanying article: “The rear portion of a lower jaw . . . together with the frontal jaw fragment found half a century before.” But can the complete head, hair and all, really be reconstructed on the basis of two such fragments? The article quoted an anthropologist at Harvard University as calling these fossils a “pool of light in acres of darkness.” But may they really be equated with light?
11 What some might call another such “pool of light” was the skull of Piltdown man. It held the center of the evolutionary stage for about 40 years but was exposed in 1953 as an assemblage of bone fragments, some animal and some human, fraudulently stuck together as a hoax!}
[...Faith is acceptance without evidence (an antithesis of knowledge) and all the gods demand this, ... not coincidentally. ...]
{What Is Faith?
This post was edited by texasescimo at December 19, 2017 10:24 AM MST
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