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Where does atheism and common sense overlap?

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Hospital Bob
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KarlRove

KarlRove

You really can't think the Earth was lucky to be places where it is and that all people came from monkeys.

Hospital Bob

Hospital Bob

KarlRove wrote:You really can't think the Earth was lucky to be places where it is and that all people came from monkeys.

If you're asking "do I think the nature of existence can be described by using the same word we apply to a gambler at the Atmore casino when he hits the jackpot?" then the answer is no I don't believe that.

But as to your second question, I've never seen any monkey do stuff as dumb and destructive as humans are capable of, so if I "came from" them I consider it an honor.

Hospital Bob

Hospital Bob

Well I have to take that back. There was that one monkey that literally ate the face off of the human woman who was living with it.
But you know what, I bet that woman did something to piss that monkey off bad.

Hospital Bob

Hospital Bob

Which one of these would you most trust,  Karl?

This monkey...

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OR,  this human...

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Wordslinger

Wordslinger

KarlRove wrote:You really can't think the Earth was lucky to be places where it is and that all people came from monkeys.

The earth is where it is in our planetary system because that's where it ended up.  There is little doubt that there are other life bearing planets orbiting other stars than our sun.  It's just a matter of time before contact occurs. 

Of course we descended from ape-like creatures.  We and Chimpanzees have common ancestors -- and that's proven by fossils as well as DNA research.  Science, not belief. 

What frightens you so about having such a background?  Why is a God-figure necessary to your psyche?

I and millions of people like me aren't concerned about how the earth got where it is, with its orbit around our sun.  It would be an interesting thing to know, and there are scientists working on the problem.  But the answer has nothing whatever with how any of us live our lives in this time period.   With or without that knowledge, a cup of coffee will still cost $5 at Starbucks ... or more.

I've got a Chocolate Lab with more smarts than some of the rednecks I've met here.  The Lab, like all dogs, is descended from Wolves.  Do you object to that fact also?

Hospital Bob

Hospital Bob

Wordslinger wrote:
KarlRove wrote:You really can't think the Earth was lucky to be places where it is and that all people came from monkeys.

[size=18]The earth is where it is in our planetary system because that's where it ended up.  There is little doubt that there are other life bearing planets orbiting other stars than our sun.  It's just a matter of time before contact occurs. 

Karl, as do so many other Christians, believes there are only two explanations for the nature of existence, Wordslinger.

1. the Bible

2. "it just happened by chance" (Karl puts it as "luck").

They ALL completely ignore the real alternative explanation which is just that we humans don't and cannot (and maybe even have no capacity) to grasp what the nature of existence is.
But it aint gonna be some human idea like "chance" or "luck" or "creation".
"Chance" and "luck" are fine for understanding the lottery, and "create" and "creation" are fine for describing a work of art or a blueprint or a cake recipe. But all they are is human word concepts originating with human intellect and they have no relevance to what we're discussing in this thread.

The reason they ignore that option is because it's really hard for many people to accept a reality where they don't have pat answers to unanswerable questions.


Yella

Yella

Bob wrote:Well I have to take that back.  There was that one monkey that literally ate the face off of the human woman who was living with it.  
But you know what,  I bet that woman did something to piss that monkey off bad.  

More on monkeys:

A piano player in a bar had a pet monkey that cavorted around on the piano while the pianist played tunes for the people. He kept a schooner of beer on the piano to sip on as he played. A drunk seated in front of the piano noticed the monkey went to the glass and pissed in it.
The drunk yelled at the piano player, "Hey, do you know that monkey pissed in your beer?
The piano player smiled and said "Naw, but if you can hum a few bars I can fake it....."

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Hospital Bob

Hospital Bob

Yella wrote:

More on monkeys:

A piano player in a bar had a pet monkey that cavorted around on the piano while the pianist played tunes for the people. He kept a schooner of beer on the piano to sip on as he played. A drunk seated in front of the piano noticed the monkey went to the glass and pissed in it.
The drunk yelled at the piano player, "Hey, do you know that monkey pissed in your beer?
The piano player smiled and said "Naw, but if you can hum a few bars I can fake it....."

lol

boards of FL

boards of FL

Atheism and common sense overlap in the sense that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. If someone tells me that the entire universe exists inside of a snow globe, I'm going to need to see some evidence for that before I buy in. Common sense. In the same vein, if someone tells me a tale - which is one among thousands - that some supernatural being created everything and that the universe is only 7,000 years old, talking snakes and bushes, etc.,...common sense tells me that that is simply an ancient myth, like thousands of other ancient myths, and I'm not going to accept that on blind faith without some real-world evidence.


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Hospital Bob

Hospital Bob

boards of FL wrote:Atheism and common sense overlap in the sense that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.   If someone tells me that the entire universe exists inside of a snow globe, I'm going to need to see some evidence for that before I buy in.  Common sense.  In the same vein, if someone tells me a tale - which is one among thousands - that some supernatural being created everything and that the universe is only 7,000 years old, talking snakes and bushes, etc.,...common sense tells me that that is simply an ancient myth, like thousands of other ancient myths, and I'm not going to accept that on blind faith without some real-world evidence.

I would be very interested to read Karl Rove's response to this post.  Or Markle or any other Christian for that matter.

You started this thread and posed the questions, Karl. So don't punk out on us now.

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