atheist paradox

[The Mad Monk]

It is absurd to think you have any ability to reason. Then again ridiculous christofascists like you lack intellectual capability. You call yourself a Christian yet support someone like Donald Trump. You rely on ancient myths that were invented around the same time people thought the earth was the center of the solar system and that garlic would prevent the plague.

Over the time people have learned to prepare teas and tinctures from garlic and simultaneously learned how to mix equal quantities of garlic and honey etc. As a result, they beat many gastric infections, learned how to fight cold, fever, diarrhea, thereby prolonging the life of many sick people. Owing to garlic, in 1720 a thousand inhabitants of Marseille were saved from the spread of the epidemic of plague.[4] In 1858, Louis Pasteur wrote that garlic killed bacteria. As he maintained, it was effective even against some bacteria resistant to other factors. He also noted that garlic killed Helicobacter pylori.[9] The antiseptic properties of garlic were confirmed in the keeping down of cholera (in 1913), typhoid fever and diphtheria (in 1918) in Beirut.[6] French phytotherapist Lekrek used garlic as a preventive remedy with success during the great pandemic of influenza, the so-called ‘Spanish fever’, in 1918.

Extracts from the history and medical properties of garlic

[Elok]

The percentage of people who will believe patently untrue things seems to have remained more or less constant over time. The four humors really aren't that much dumber than homeopathy. Just differently dumb; less dumb if you factor in that the people who believed in the humors didn't have ready access to the truth.

[Jon Miller]

I noticed that in enlightened Sweden, so enlightened that while ~80% of the population are Lutheran, ~78% of Lutherans are atheists( and that includes the Lutheran pastors), almost everyone believed in things like astrology and horoscopes and other such things.

JM

[Elok]

There was a study a while back that found atheism was more strongly correlated with belief in UFOs than religiosity was. Not a huge difference, but significant.

[Kidlicious]

Believing in UFOs is a lot less absurd than believing that there is no creator or that Christianity is evil.

[JohnT]

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis+1&version=NIV

Genesis also has vegetation appearing before the Sun is created. He also created birds prior to other land-based animals.

But to answer the larger question, perhaps the "sherpers and goat fornicators" were told about the Big Bang and evolution by the same aliens which built the pyramids*, could not really understand it, and, in their confusion said "you know, I forgot what they said and can't really figure it out how this all happened, so **** it: God did this."

*Because it took aliens for mankind to figure out block-stacking technology apparently....

[Aeson]

There was a study a while back that found atheism was more strongly correlated with belief in UFOs than religiosity was. Not a huge difference, but significant.

Not really surprising, as many religious people have theological reasons not to accept the possibility of extraterrestrial life. Whereas atheists can have a self/ideology serving bias towards there being ETs.

[Bereta_Eder]

genisis 1.1 says: there was nothing and then there was something science says: there was nothing and then there was something. some people are.... little kids and don't want to man up. that's their prerogative

[spambot]

With only two options (either the universe has existed for a finite amount of time, or it has always existed) they had a 50/50 chance of being right!

[Bereta_Eder]

your percentage is of course arbitrary. the universe always existed. logical. 100%

[spambot]

You arbitrarily chose one thing in Genesis that sort of fits modern scientific knowledge while ignoring everything that contradicts it

[Bereta_Eder]

only the first thing (it is genesis afer all)

[JohnT]

... excepting the "waters" part, which was before the creation.

[Proteus_MST]

AFAIK actually science say that "We don't know" and then there was something.
Because we cannot draw conclusions about anything that was before the Big Bang

But actually you can also justify that other mythologies give you even better depictions of the Big Bang.
Example:
According to one of the stories in greek Mythology everything was born by a silvery egg, which was created by Chronos (the embodiment of eternal time)

And in the chinese "Tao te ching" there was something that stood unchanging and finally, like an egg, gave birth to duality then trinity and then all the miriard beings


Those surely are better depictions of everything coming to be from a single tiny spot in time and space which expanded

[Bereta_Eder]

That's 1.2 as that sympathetic german pointed out. I'm talking 1.1.