Quote from jprad:
Sorry to touch such a raw nerve, but it really was an honest question.
"touching a raw nerve" is not a proper idiom for this situation. hit/touch a (raw) nerve. That means "to upset someone by talking about a particular subject." My comment was that you went through an entire detailed post and extracted one thing without any attempt to digest it. It is like looking at someone's exam, and saying they don't know much because they wrote the wrong date on it. IE, who cares???
Do they also believe that Man was created in God's image?
who cares what people like you or I believe? It gets closer only to belief or opinion, not truth. No atheist has any clue why he is here, or where he is going or anything else, for that matter. They just run around with chips on their shoulder, pretending to know more than people who do believe in God.
Can you prove that man was NOT made in the image of God? Can you show any other animal with clearly demonstrable religious practices? (without resorting to "elephants show particular interest in the bones of other dead elephants", which does not prove any religious attachment, but of bonding) Can you show anyMAJOR human culture so far unearthed that was CLEARLY DEVOID of religious influence? Mayans? Egyptians? Chinese? Mongols? Native Americans?
If, so then explain a fossil record which, as far as we can tell, indicates that life has existed for about 550 million years and experienced at least 5 major extinction events that have wiped out 99% of the biological diversity that once lived.
After you explain how this CLEARLY shows the ABSENCE of God, beyond doubt. I already said I was a theistic evolutionist who believes in the longterm earth and the existing fossil record. You are just raising questions you yourself can not answer with anything other than opinion.
Is it all just a case of God having a few hundred million years to kill until the universe settled down enough so that he could get on with it?
I am waiting for your definitive proof that God does NOT exist and can prove without doubt that he did NOT create life in this way. Again, you are only expressing opinions, which would be thrown out of court or a proper debate because they are speculative, not definitive.
Unless you will continue to confuse your opinions with knowledge, I don't see the point of continuing. You believe you are right, but are incapable of anything but speculating on the cosmos, and think somehow your uninformed opinion is better than the uninformed opinions of everyone else. No one can prove much of any of this, so your trying to look clever and informed about this matter is juvenile, not intellectual. I was an athiest for years. Nothing of what you are saying is even approaching the more informed arguments of atheists. You are throwing darts blindfolded, and looking smug because your darts landed closer to some particular blade of grass than someone else did.
