james bond
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Where have YOU, a 'science poster' been while these Idiots are Blaring THEIR anti-evo OPs?
I let them blare because their ignorance doesn't offend me. I recognize that acting like an asshole won't benefit science. Their ignorance doesn't excuse your childish behavior. If you actually care about science you should stop using it to berate people that don't see things the way you do.
Thank god I'm not the only athiest who thinks this way. I guess it is to be expected. Atheism as a movement is relatively young, unorganized and by its nature without an orthodoxy. It doesn't yet have a defined positive cause, and very well may never - but it has defined itself so far in what it's against. That might just be all it can be...
Atheism is relatively young? "Atheist" was coined in the 16th Century, but the concept of "there are no gods" goes farther back in time. No one knows how far back, but there are records of atheist-like sentiment dating back to the Vedic Period in India, which was roughly from 1500BC to 500BC. Before that was a pygmy tribe in Africa that held no beliefs.
Right. But like I wrote: atheism as a movement is relatively young.
AFAIK modern atheist thinking started with Epicurus during ancient Greece. Atheists love to quote this man. In the end, God punished him as he died a very painful death of huge kidney stones. Epicurus, during his life, spoke many times about death:
Epicurus said "that death is nothing to us." His basic argument is laid out as follows:
1. Death involves neither pleasure nor pain.
2. The only thing that is bad for us is pain.