Posts by Alan Roberts

Vatican endorses Darwin, slights intelligent design

to another anonymous coward

" There's an awful lot of hostility evident in some of these comments, and in the original article" and rightly so, its the same as when somebody says they seen a ghost, theres a lot of hostility and laughter then too. (i don't blame you for wishing to remain anonymous)

"what did the pope ever do to you"...... personally nothing.

However I do have a lot against what he and the church stands for . the pope is the boss, the man in charge, so its only right that he will take the flak. like any other business ,the buck stops with the manager.

nobody is attacking the pope... we are attacking religion and its supernatural stupidity as a whole.

what about the ancient egyptians and their hundreds of gods? why were they wrong and christianity correct?

simple because the belief the egyptians had went out of fashion.

they didn't know where they came from or how earth was created (we now know this is because the sun formed from a disk of gas and rubble and the leftovers clumped together to form earth and the other planets in the solar system)

I know the religous among you will say "ah but where did the gas come from".... thats not the point , the point is that god never created the solar system end of story. which causes the whole creation argument to fall flat on its face at the 1st hurdle.

like the christians, the egyptians came up with a story to attempt to explain it all because they simply didn't have the means to prove otherwise. We have this capability now, yet religion still clings to an ancient belief despite damning evidence to the contrary.

the idea of 1 god actually arose in ancint egypt when Akhenaten turned his back on thousands of years of tradition to say that the sun god was the only true god because the sun is the giver of life. (thats got more standing with me than the christian god because at least there is some truth in it.)

in a couple of thousand years from now man will look back at christianity and laugh as we now laugh at early ancient egyptian beliefs.

about time

finally the church is starting to accept facts over speculation and age old stories from so called learned people who did not know any better.

its about time too.

there is millions of scientific evidence to support evolution and absolutely none to support a god. (peoples faith and what they believe is not proof of anything i;m afraid)

now they are saying that it was actually the church that came up with the idea in the first place...... yeah right..... its just so childish.

they placed galileo under house arrest for a good part of his life for stating that the earth wasn;t the centre of the universe and it took them hundreds of years to actually acknowledge it as fact and give the poor guy a reprieve.

even tho the evidence was staring them blatantly in the face for centuries. (but they chose to believe otherwise because it went against what they had been teaching for centuries)

religion was just a way to control the masses of the past by telling them if they were good they would go to heaven and if they were bad they would go to hell.

if people want to believe in god then fine I will not think anything less or more of them, what gets me is the shock from these religious zealots when you say you do not believe in it. (it is laughable to be honest)

would the case for there being a god stand up in court.... you can bet your ass it wouldn;t

would the case for evolution stand up...... Yes it would because there is evidence to show within reasonable doubt that it is fact. (the doubt I may add is from the church)

I know which theory i believe in. and its certainly not an almighty creator.