Religion

[mancity2012_eamo]

Which reminds of that (now) rarely heard phrase...
Christmas on a bike.

It doesn’t ring a bell.

 

[Protein Junkie]

Can’t believe I have consistently missed this thread especially from the anthropology viewpoint.

 

[Protein Junkie]

I’ve already explained that life did not just come from nowhere.

It was the flow of excess charged particles called protons that came from vents pumping out heated alkaline fresh water into cooler more acidic salt sea water that created electrical charges, chemical reactions and energy that formed molecules called cells.

It’s like when you scratch a match across a rough surface. There’s no flame in either the match or the rough surface, but the chemical reaction and the energy released from friction creates a spark and thus a flame. The flame doesn’t just come from nowhere, and neither did life.

We are yet to form the full chain. We’ve only been researching these things for a few hundred years and mapping billions of years of evolution is not something that you can just click your fingers and find. There are missing links to the chain all over the place and it could never be fully mapped, but at least we’re trying and not just saying “some spaghetti armed jelly man from behind the Moon did it all in 6 days”.

However, in a more specific time that palaeontologists have been researching, there is evidence of a link between the emergence of larger brained hominids and the occurrences of natural disasters creating severe and immediate climate change in North-East Africa. Every time scientists find and date early human bones, they see that where it appears that the brain volume of these early humans was ever larger it coincided with an event that changed the climate rapidly. Humans get more intelligent when faced with rapid onset climate catastrophes in order to adapt and survive, brain sizes increase through generations and within time you have a different species.

Great post !!

 

[Thorin Oakenshield]

Great post !!

He's a nerd! Lets get him!!

 

[Protein Junkie]

He's a nerd! Lets get him!!

Shut up you Dwarf :-)

 

[tonea2003]

I’m not claiming to be a higher intellect, I’m just someone who once trained to be a New Testament scholar before giving it up when I got a family.

I am not religious at all myself but I think when criticising a religion we need to get what we’re saying right.

I avoid criticising Islam for that reason, I know it’s bullshit but I feel unequipped to take the scripture to pieces.

But as you allude to it’s all made up like all factions of religious belief
that’s your starting point
Yes the fine details of course we are not equipped but the basic premise is the same
A deity no one can prove

 

[Blue Mist]

Very possible for Santa if reindeer food prices increase.

Oh buger always check that your post hasnt been changed by spell check :-)

Christ on a bike

 

[I'm no cynic but...]

Religion only ever began because primitive man, even then more advanced than animals, had time to both fear yet wonder about their environment. The Sun gave warmth and light, the Moon with its appearance of a face brought darkness and cold. Throw in thunder storms and there they had the basics for speculation.

 

[Blue Mist]

Religion only ever began because primitive man, even then more advanced than animals, had time to both fear yet wonder about their environment. The Sun gave warmth and light, the Moon with its appearance of a face brought darkness and cold. Throw in thunder storms and there they had the basics for speculation.

But back then we were primitive thinkers. We've had a good harvest let's prey to the sun to thank it.
We've now sent men to the moon and space craft far beyond and yet some still believe stories made up to basically say thank you for a good harvest.

 

[Zubrman]

Why do men have to take their hats off in church, (unless they are a bishop or a bloke with tall white feathers on his helmet,) whilst women can keep them on?