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	<description>I am an astronomer, writer, and skeptic. I likes reality the way it is, and I aims to keep it that way. My real name is Phil Plait, and I run the Bad Astronomy blog.</description>
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		<title>By: Clifford Dehrer</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/03/27/creationism-is-bad-religion/comment-page-5/#comment-401848</link>
		<dc:creator>Clifford Dehrer</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2011 22:25:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Thank God: Religion May Be Going Extinct in Some Countries &#124; The Icarian</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/03/27/creationism-is-bad-religion/comment-page-5/#comment-371227</link>
		<dc:creator>Thank God: Religion May Be Going Extinct in Some Countries &#124; The Icarian</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Mar 2011 01:58:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Jerson</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/03/27/creationism-is-bad-religion/comment-page-5/#comment-332035</link>
		<dc:creator>Jerson</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Nov 2010 18:46:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The fact is the Bible is written in a different time and place that you might think. The story of creation is meant to be understood by the people at that time according to their understanding and culture but to say and there is  some apparent contradictory stories. Nevertheless it does not hold to be true that it is false.  Science i s a growing field when it at one says that the world is flat and later said that it is round.  At one time said that the Pluto is a planet and now it is not. That the moon is barren and Apollo mission was there to testify it. Now it is not, and that water exists int he moon, and the Apollo mission was a hoax..was it? The fact is man not only science is slowly discovering bits and bits of creation.  While creation can be presented in many ways according to the science of those days. Creation is not false as it is. Talking about evolution, it is true in a point that the bible says that man is created from the dust of the ground, though not negating someone who created the ground and doing the process of changing man from the dust of the ground.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The fact is the Bible is written in a different time and place that you might think. The story of creation is meant to be understood by the people at that time according to their understanding and culture but to say and there is  some apparent contradictory stories. Nevertheless it does not hold to be true that it is false.  Science i s a growing field when it at one says that the world is flat and later said that it is round.  At one time said that the Pluto is a planet and now it is not. That the moon is barren and Apollo mission was there to testify it. Now it is not, and that water exists int he moon, and the Apollo mission was a hoax..was it? The fact is man not only science is slowly discovering bits and bits of creation.  While creation can be presented in many ways according to the science of those days. Creation is not false as it is. Talking about evolution, it is true in a point that the bible says that man is created from the dust of the ground, though not negating someone who created the ground and doing the process of changing man from the dust of the ground.</p>
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		<title>By: Bethany B</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/03/27/creationism-is-bad-religion/comment-page-4/#comment-217852</link>
		<dc:creator>Bethany B</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 00:22:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>TechyDad- God is not a &quot;trickster&quot; who planted evidence to make us fail. He was the Intelligent Designer. We were created to love Him and to make Him famous. We do that by obeying Him. We fully choose to disobey God and in turn it separated us from Him. There had to be a consuquence to our decision. He still loves us just as much as He did before we sinned, but He wants us to realize that it was our fault. That is the whole point of Christianity to recognize our need for a Savior, Jesus Christ. 


Everything takes faith. When you believe what you are told in science that is faith. When you sit down you have faith that he chair will hold you up. If you look at the earth you can tell that it is not an accident. The Lord wants us to reason, He tells us so in His Word.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>TechyDad- God is not a &#8220;trickster&#8221; who planted evidence to make us fail. He was the Intelligent Designer. We were created to love Him and to make Him famous. We do that by obeying Him. We fully choose to disobey God and in turn it separated us from Him. There had to be a consuquence to our decision. He still loves us just as much as He did before we sinned, but He wants us to realize that it was our fault. That is the whole point of Christianity to recognize our need for a Savior, Jesus Christ. </p>
<p>Everything takes faith. When you believe what you are told in science that is faith. When you sit down you have faith that he chair will hold you up. If you look at the earth you can tell that it is not an accident. The Lord wants us to reason, He tells us so in His Word.</p>
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		<title>By: Cherry</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/03/27/creationism-is-bad-religion/comment-page-4/#comment-205414</link>
		<dc:creator>Cherry</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 14:03:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;m not one for arguing, so I&#039;ll simply ask 4 questions and then look forward to your intelligent answers: 

1. Exactly what do you understand &#039;creationism&#039; to be?

2. Where did the gasses come from that everything &#039;created&#039; came from?

3. Why are you able to form such intricate thoughts and questions - as opposed to an ape, for    example?

4. Why does every person on earth - past, present and future - have different fingerprints?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m not one for arguing, so I&#8217;ll simply ask 4 questions and then look forward to your intelligent answers: </p>
<p>1. Exactly what do you understand &#8216;creationism&#8217; to be?</p>
<p>2. Where did the gasses come from that everything &#8216;created&#8217; came from?</p>
<p>3. Why are you able to form such intricate thoughts and questions &#8211; as opposed to an ape, for    example?</p>
<p>4. Why does every person on earth &#8211; past, present and future &#8211; have different fingerprints?</p>
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		<title>By: The Gospels or Good News? &#171; My agnostic views &#38; images I like</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/03/27/creationism-is-bad-religion/comment-page-4/#comment-203472</link>
		<dc:creator>The Gospels or Good News? &#171; My agnostic views &#38; images I like</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 17:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Young Earth: God's Truth</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/03/27/creationism-is-bad-religion/comment-page-4/#comment-200987</link>
		<dc:creator>Young Earth: God's Truth</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 17:06:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>When we try to further our wisdom, even in the slightest amount, we are striving towards the glorification of God. It is, as Christians, the chief end of our lives. Glorifying God and enjoying the world that He has given us is important, however, some of the &quot;wisdom&quot; you are striving towards is faulty. Listening to this video, I see the claim that we Young Earth Creationists want to have our view, and ours only, taught in schools. This is false. How can we further our wisdom if our heads are in self made boxes? So right away, I see a faulty truth, or a lie. Second of all, if 99.98 percent of people in the world believe that the earth is a triangle, does this mean that it is true? Of coarse not! Even if the fact that 99.98 percent of scientists believe that evolution is true, it is not a valid point against Young Earth Creationists. Ah, and then I see those skulls. Observe that most are either so ape like that they could pass of for a monkey skull, or so human like that we can gather that it was most likely a human. We do not have a clear specimen that shows a monkey to human transformation. If evolution were true, we would still see humans becoming smarter and more advanced, however, I see that humans become more stupid as we learn more about the elements of earth. Next we see that the man talking attacks the Bible itself. He clearly says that even though the Bible is unfalable, the perfect God who wrote it knew nothing about geography. I find this funny because the guy says he believes the Bible, but doesn&#039;t which is a self contradiction. After this, the man says that we are as very stupid people who know nothing about cars and then take out car to the shop and deny everyone else&#039;s oppinion. I see a few problems with this. First of all is that we are not stupid! I have taken quite a few classes on both Creation and Evolution and decided that Creation is valid for many reasons. Second, God is a lot smarter, and I mean a lot smarter, than all those &quot;car smart people.&quot; He knows the earth He has made and clearly said in His Word that it was created in 6 days. I am clearly insaulted by the rest of the comparison. The bad car people are not good representatives of Christian Scientists. Many have gone farther than most evolutionists in their training. And, if you are a Christian, the Bible has everything to do with the world around us. There are points in history that many people have made a mistake before. This is one of them. Next point: Assuming that you evolutionists are right and all these educated creationists are wrong is the ultimate arogance. I think it works both ways. Expecially when you believe you are right when you believe someone is wrong. 

You have still not proven that we are wrong, yet you say we are off by millions.

And here we have the old, &quot;Because you do it and you say it is still wrong I won&#039;t believe you.&quot; Here is a comparison, a man who has taken drugs his whole life comes to his sons and daughters and says that they must never take drugs because it will ruin their lives. They won&#039;t believe him because he has commited the act of taking drugs. So, they take drugs. Just so Evolutionists say, &quot;Because Chreationists have sinned and formerly believed in evolution and now say it is wrong, we will sin and believe in evolution. I have run out of time, so I will say this. The truth will set you free, and the truth is in the Bible. Look and see.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When we try to further our wisdom, even in the slightest amount, we are striving towards the glorification of God. It is, as Christians, the chief end of our lives. Glorifying God and enjoying the world that He has given us is important, however, some of the &#8220;wisdom&#8221; you are striving towards is faulty. Listening to this video, I see the claim that we Young Earth Creationists want to have our view, and ours only, taught in schools. This is false. How can we further our wisdom if our heads are in self made boxes? So right away, I see a faulty truth, or a lie. Second of all, if 99.98 percent of people in the world believe that the earth is a triangle, does this mean that it is true? Of coarse not! Even if the fact that 99.98 percent of scientists believe that evolution is true, it is not a valid point against Young Earth Creationists. Ah, and then I see those skulls. Observe that most are either so ape like that they could pass of for a monkey skull, or so human like that we can gather that it was most likely a human. We do not have a clear specimen that shows a monkey to human transformation. If evolution were true, we would still see humans becoming smarter and more advanced, however, I see that humans become more stupid as we learn more about the elements of earth. Next we see that the man talking attacks the Bible itself. He clearly says that even though the Bible is unfalable, the perfect God who wrote it knew nothing about geography. I find this funny because the guy says he believes the Bible, but doesn&#8217;t which is a self contradiction. After this, the man says that we are as very stupid people who know nothing about cars and then take out car to the shop and deny everyone else&#8217;s oppinion. I see a few problems with this. First of all is that we are not stupid! I have taken quite a few classes on both Creation and Evolution and decided that Creation is valid for many reasons. Second, God is a lot smarter, and I mean a lot smarter, than all those &#8220;car smart people.&#8221; He knows the earth He has made and clearly said in His Word that it was created in 6 days. I am clearly insaulted by the rest of the comparison. The bad car people are not good representatives of Christian Scientists. Many have gone farther than most evolutionists in their training. And, if you are a Christian, the Bible has everything to do with the world around us. There are points in history that many people have made a mistake before. This is one of them. Next point: Assuming that you evolutionists are right and all these educated creationists are wrong is the ultimate arogance. I think it works both ways. Expecially when you believe you are right when you believe someone is wrong. </p>
<p>You have still not proven that we are wrong, yet you say we are off by millions.</p>
<p>And here we have the old, &#8220;Because you do it and you say it is still wrong I won&#8217;t believe you.&#8221; Here is a comparison, a man who has taken drugs his whole life comes to his sons and daughters and says that they must never take drugs because it will ruin their lives. They won&#8217;t believe him because he has commited the act of taking drugs. So, they take drugs. Just so Evolutionists say, &#8220;Because Chreationists have sinned and formerly believed in evolution and now say it is wrong, we will sin and believe in evolution. I have run out of time, so I will say this. The truth will set you free, and the truth is in the Bible. Look and see.</p>
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		<title>By: Robert</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/03/27/creationism-is-bad-religion/comment-page-4/#comment-184219</link>
		<dc:creator>Robert</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 01:05:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>When the Rapture Comes,   We&#039;ll get Our Country Back!   


 The following is to free your mind of ignorance and tyranny. I hope you gleam a small bit of useful information from the following passages. What role religion is playing in America today? We live in a rare time and country where the individual can choose for themselves how much or little Religion we want in our lives, but religion’s followers just don’t understand the word no! Not in my life not in my schools not in my government, NO! People have the right to decide for themselves what direction there lives take, and a woman’s choice to decide whether to get an abortion or not, or two people in love to marry no matter there sexual orientation, it is there choice. But sadly the followers of the Christian god or Jesus, or the many other religions’ want to make that decision for us all, embryonic stem cell research that could save millions if not more from disease pain and suffering have to take a back seat to these religions follower who influence our government time and time again, They are trying to convert the USA into a Christian state.
 
 First: religion is in no way real. The word religion or god is nothing more than an expression or product of human fear and weaknesses. The Bible, a collection of ancient myths and stories borrowed or stolen from many different cultures, which have no real value. No interpretation no matter how subtle can change this for them. Religion, as an idea has been with us before recorded history from the caveman’s worshiping of fire to the catholic’s murder of the innocent throughout its history. Some folks caught in this complicated delusion crafted to take advantage of the powerless, weak minded, or fanatical. Want it to be real, because they have so much of there lives invested in it. They have fallen to the trap and are forever locked in its embrace. Religions coerced observance is how they operate; Worship Me or you will be tortured for all eternity. Signed, God! Coerced belief is Tyranny! Remember the Dark Age’s religion ruled in that dark distant past. It didn’t serve our ancestors well back then and it will not serve us well today.
 
  Second: religion no longer has a place in the real world. It is dividing us as a people to take sides to choose logic over ignorance to forsake the future for the past. With that in mind religion should not infringe in anyway a schools teaching of science, or the office of government, or used to consider new laws! This country was not founded on the rule of Christianity! The time for killing in the name of  your god or the burning of witches, belief in a flat earth, or priest harming children or religions attempts at interfering with the progress of science, or its many other crimes against humanity is over. Point 1.14 Book of Knowledge Only a fool follows blindly and without question. Unfortunately there are too many powerless and weak minded people willing to give up there freedom, there hard earned money to fanatical charlatans spreading deceit. The servant of the Christian god said “Have faith in this book, the (Holy Bible) it was inspired by our god and you must follow its teachings or your soul is damned for eternity, elect only those who follow the bibles teaching, and denounce those who do not, donate your money to help us buy support for our cause, and when you die you will be shown the truth”. There is a sucker born every minute.
       
Book of Knowledge</description>
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<p> The following is to free your mind of ignorance and tyranny. I hope you gleam a small bit of useful information from the following passages. What role religion is playing in America today? We live in a rare time and country where the individual can choose for themselves how much or little Religion we want in our lives, but religion’s followers just don’t understand the word no! Not in my life not in my schools not in my government, NO! People have the right to decide for themselves what direction there lives take, and a woman’s choice to decide whether to get an abortion or not, or two people in love to marry no matter there sexual orientation, it is there choice. But sadly the followers of the Christian god or Jesus, or the many other religions’ want to make that decision for us all, embryonic stem cell research that could save millions if not more from disease pain and suffering have to take a back seat to these religions follower who influence our government time and time again, They are trying to convert the USA into a Christian state.</p>
<p> First: religion is in no way real. The word religion or god is nothing more than an expression or product of human fear and weaknesses. The Bible, a collection of ancient myths and stories borrowed or stolen from many different cultures, which have no real value. No interpretation no matter how subtle can change this for them. Religion, as an idea has been with us before recorded history from the caveman’s worshiping of fire to the catholic’s murder of the innocent throughout its history. Some folks caught in this complicated delusion crafted to take advantage of the powerless, weak minded, or fanatical. Want it to be real, because they have so much of there lives invested in it. They have fallen to the trap and are forever locked in its embrace. Religions coerced observance is how they operate; Worship Me or you will be tortured for all eternity. Signed, God! Coerced belief is Tyranny! Remember the Dark Age’s religion ruled in that dark distant past. It didn’t serve our ancestors well back then and it will not serve us well today.</p>
<p>  Second: religion no longer has a place in the real world. It is dividing us as a people to take sides to choose logic over ignorance to forsake the future for the past. With that in mind religion should not infringe in anyway a schools teaching of science, or the office of government, or used to consider new laws! This country was not founded on the rule of Christianity! The time for killing in the name of  your god or the burning of witches, belief in a flat earth, or priest harming children or religions attempts at interfering with the progress of science, or its many other crimes against humanity is over. Point 1.14 Book of Knowledge Only a fool follows blindly and without question. Unfortunately there are too many powerless and weak minded people willing to give up there freedom, there hard earned money to fanatical charlatans spreading deceit. The servant of the Christian god said “Have faith in this book, the (Holy Bible) it was inspired by our god and you must follow its teachings or your soul is damned for eternity, elect only those who follow the bibles teaching, and denounce those who do not, donate your money to help us buy support for our cause, and when you die you will be shown the truth”. There is a sucker born every minute.</p>
<p>Book of Knowledge</p>
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		<title>By: Why Do People Lose Their Religion &#124; Tangled Up in Blue Guy</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/03/27/creationism-is-bad-religion/comment-page-4/#comment-177439</link>
		<dc:creator>Why Do People Lose Their Religion &#124; Tangled Up in Blue Guy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 14:37:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Phil Plait</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/03/27/creationism-is-bad-religion/comment-page-4/#comment-177292</link>
		<dc:creator>Phil Plait</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2009 23:10:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Laura: &lt;a href=&quot;http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/02/18/is-science-faith-based/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;you&#039;re wrong&lt;/a&gt;.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Laura: <a href="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/02/18/is-science-faith-based/" rel="nofollow">you&#8217;re wrong</a>.</p>
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		<title>By: Laura</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/03/27/creationism-is-bad-religion/comment-page-4/#comment-177260</link>
		<dc:creator>Laura</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2009 21:55:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It takes faith to believe in creationism and faith to believe in evolution. Both are forms of religion whether evolutionists want to admit it or not. I advise everyone here to watch the move Expelled with Ben Stein. Evolutionists are so afraid of being proven wrong that they go to great lengths to shut people up as you will discover in the movie.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It takes faith to believe in creationism and faith to believe in evolution. Both are forms of religion whether evolutionists want to admit it or not. I advise everyone here to watch the move Expelled with Ben Stein. Evolutionists are so afraid of being proven wrong that they go to great lengths to shut people up as you will discover in the movie.</p>
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		<title>By: We&#8217;ve Only Just Begun&#8230; at Radical Atheist</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/03/27/creationism-is-bad-religion/comment-page-4/#comment-174619</link>
		<dc:creator>We&#8217;ve Only Just Begun&#8230; at Radical Atheist</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 04:46:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Chris</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/03/27/creationism-is-bad-religion/comment-page-4/#comment-171711</link>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2009 06:23:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This is insane! Folks, please meet the Christian Chris Crocker!

Here’s Chris:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHmvkRoEowc&amp;feature=related

Here’s Paul Washer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t61uHOJnpvA</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is insane! Folks, please meet the Christian Chris Crocker!</p>
<p>Here’s Chris:<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHmvkRoEowc&#038;feature=related" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHmvkRoEowc&#038;feature=related</a></p>
<p>Here’s Paul Washer<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t61uHOJnpvA" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t61uHOJnpvA</a></p>
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		<title>By: kao</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/03/27/creationism-is-bad-religion/comment-page-4/#comment-171353</link>
		<dc:creator>kao</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 20:35:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>6000 years old in god years duh.</description>
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		<title>By: Darth Robo</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/03/27/creationism-is-bad-religion/comment-page-4/#comment-171163</link>
		<dc:creator>Darth Robo</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 10:01:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Brooke

&gt;&gt;&gt;&quot;It is complex and intricate in all aspects and I glorify God for creating something so amazing and deep as science, even though, sadly (in my opinion) most scientists use science to disprove the God who loved them enough to give them science to enjoy.&quot;

Scientists are not trying to disprove God, because God is not scientific.  Atheists have the opinion that He may not/does not exist, and that&#039;s their perogative.  However, the original point still stands, which is that creationism, as it sticks to a more literal interpretation of the Bible is bad religion as it attempts to deny reality for the sake of dogma.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Brooke</p>
<p>>>>&#8221;It is complex and intricate in all aspects and I glorify God for creating something so amazing and deep as science, even though, sadly (in my opinion) most scientists use science to disprove the God who loved them enough to give them science to enjoy.&#8221;</p>
<p>Scientists are not trying to disprove God, because God is not scientific.  Atheists have the opinion that He may not/does not exist, and that&#8217;s their perogative.  However, the original point still stands, which is that creationism, as it sticks to a more literal interpretation of the Bible is bad religion as it attempts to deny reality for the sake of dogma.</p>
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		<title>By: Chris</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/03/27/creationism-is-bad-religion/comment-page-4/#comment-170992</link>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 21:08:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Isaac met Jill and they went back up to fetch a pail of water.</description>
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		<title>By: John Paradox</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/03/27/creationism-is-bad-religion/comment-page-4/#comment-170715</link>
		<dc:creator>John Paradox</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 06:42:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@Petrolonfire:

Note carefully on reading the Abraham/Isaac story (Gen. 22) that when Abe comes down from the &#039;sacrifice&#039; that there is NO mention of Isaac being with him.....

J/P=?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@Petrolonfire:</p>
<p>Note carefully on reading the Abraham/Isaac story (Gen. 22) that when Abe comes down from the &#8216;sacrifice&#8217; that there is NO mention of Isaac being with him&#8230;..</p>
<p>J/P=?</p>
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		<title>By: Petrolonfire</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/03/27/creationism-is-bad-religion/comment-page-4/#comment-170713</link>
		<dc:creator>Petrolonfire</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 06:25:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Argh! Forgot the link there &amp; then it won&#039;t seem to let me post it.  :-( 

Try :

 www (dot) thebricktestament (dot)  com (slash) 
 judges (slash) jephthah_kills_his_virgin_daughter (slash) 
jg11_34 (dot) html</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Argh! Forgot the link there &#038; then it won&#8217;t seem to let me post it.  <img src='http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_sad.gif' alt=':-(' class='wp-smiley' />  </p>
<p>Try :</p>
<p> www (dot) thebricktestament (dot)  com (slash)<br />
 judges (slash) jephthah_kills_his_virgin_daughter (slash)<br />
jg11_34 (dot) html</p>
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		<title>By: Petrolonfire</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/03/27/creationism-is-bad-religion/comment-page-4/#comment-170710</link>
		<dc:creator>Petrolonfire</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 06:19:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Right - now the link! Click on my name here for a cute lego link to a very ugly biblical story. 

(THX to whoever first posted the lego bibble site on another thread. IVAN3MAN I think.)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Right &#8211; now the link! Click on my name here for a cute lego link to a very ugly biblical story. </p>
<p>(THX to whoever first posted the lego bibble site on another thread. IVAN3MAN I think.)</p>
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		<title>By: Petrolonfire</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/03/27/creationism-is-bad-religion/comment-page-4/#comment-170709</link>
		<dc:creator>Petrolonfire</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 06:17:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I also meant to note the tales in Judges - 11.34

Incidentally, the bibble notes that Jephthah&#039;s sacrificed daughter - who doesn&#039;t even get her name recorded - was apparently a virgin which is somehow meant to matter ..  :roll: 

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Duplicate comment you say computer? Huh? Why isn&#039;t it appearing then? I&#039;ve waited I&#039;ve refreshed the page and still .. nada. Odd. Sorry if it does come through twice. Okay taken link out &amp; trying again ..</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I also meant to note the tales in Judges &#8211; 11.34</p>
<p>Incidentally, the bibble notes that Jephthah&#8217;s sacrificed daughter &#8211; who doesn&#8217;t even get her name recorded &#8211; was apparently a virgin which is somehow meant to matter ..  <img src='http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_rolleyes.gif' alt=':roll:' class='wp-smiley' />  </p>
<p>&#8212;&#8211;<br />
Duplicate comment you say computer? Huh? Why isn&#8217;t it appearing then? I&#8217;ve waited I&#8217;ve refreshed the page and still .. nada. Odd. Sorry if it does come through twice. Okay taken link out &#038; trying again ..</p>
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		<title>By: Petrolonfire</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/03/27/creationism-is-bad-religion/comment-page-4/#comment-170704</link>
		<dc:creator>Petrolonfire</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 06:02:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Jephthah. That was the name of the Bible&#039;s other less famous child sacrificer that I mentioned earlier. Funny how Jephthah despite going that extra mile &amp; actually sacrificing his girl gets far less press than Abe -after all who&#039;s herad of Jephthah before? Still he only killed a female child so clearly it doesn&#039;t count as much with yahweh .. (sark) :roll:</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Jephthah. That was the name of the Bible&#8217;s other less famous child sacrificer that I mentioned earlier. Funny how Jephthah despite going that extra mile &#038; actually sacrificing his girl gets far less press than Abe -after all who&#8217;s herad of Jephthah before? Still he only killed a female child so clearly it doesn&#8217;t count as much with yahweh .. (sark) <img src='http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_rolleyes.gif' alt=':roll:' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: Chris</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/03/27/creationism-is-bad-religion/comment-page-4/#comment-170686</link>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 04:29:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>An anecdote does not constitute data. However, kudos to Georges Lemaitre for being able to put aside his religious lens in order to think scientifically.</description>
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		<title>By: kris</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/03/27/creationism-is-bad-religion/comment-page-4/#comment-170647</link>
		<dc:creator>kris</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 01:10:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Some people on this blog seem to think that religion is a sickness and science is the cure, and that anyone who is religious is in someway developmentally disabled. If you subject this absurd generalisation to a bit of dispassionate study you&#039;d see how badly it fits the facts.

The big bang theory is often held up as a prime example of something that is rejected by religious people. But when you look into its history, the big bang theory is actually a prime example of religion and science coming together in harmony.

The big bang theory (though it wasn&#039;t called that name at the time) was first seriously proposed by a chap called Georges Lemaitre, who was both a professor of astronomy, professor of physics, an astrophysicist... and a catholic priest. He continued to be devoted to both religion and science throughout his entire life. He was advocating an expanding universe when Einstein was still rejecting it, and eventually Lemaitre&#039;s view became the view of most astronomers today.

In other words, someone who had devoted their life to a belief in god was also advocating an unpopular scientific view which is now held by the majority of mainstream astronomers. How on earth can that be possible if religious faith is supposed to prevent scientific aptitude? How was the priest right and Einstein (of all people) wrong? It&#039;s because Lemaitre wasn&#039;t just a priest, he was also a scientist, who used scientific methods when drawing conclusions from empirical evidence. He proved it was perfectly possible to have a foot in both camps.

This isn&#039;t an isolated case either, for example Newton wrote more about religion than he did about physics, yet this side of his work is very rarely mentioned when his memory is evoked as a founding father of modern physics.

The trouble is, religious scientists are treated as non-existent oxymorons, destined to be edited or even airbrushed out by extremists on both sides of this artificial science-religion divide. Extremists want simple things to be true, want simple battle lines between &quot;US&quot; and &quot;THEM&quot;, so that insults can be hurled while ignoring the vast amount of collateral damage it does to all the moderates in the middle.

We&#039;ve got to stop seeing this as a war, it isn&#039;t. Most of this conflict is extremely artificial and stirred up by hardcore extremists with axes to grind.

It is perfectly possible to be deeply religious and have a distinguished career in empirical evidence-based physical science. That&#039;s not an opinion or a hope, that&#039;s a historical fact. Anyone who claims otherwise is out of touch with reality.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Some people on this blog seem to think that religion is a sickness and science is the cure, and that anyone who is religious is in someway developmentally disabled. If you subject this absurd generalisation to a bit of dispassionate study you&#8217;d see how badly it fits the facts.</p>
<p>The big bang theory is often held up as a prime example of something that is rejected by religious people. But when you look into its history, the big bang theory is actually a prime example of religion and science coming together in harmony.</p>
<p>The big bang theory (though it wasn&#8217;t called that name at the time) was first seriously proposed by a chap called Georges Lemaitre, who was both a professor of astronomy, professor of physics, an astrophysicist&#8230; and a catholic priest. He continued to be devoted to both religion and science throughout his entire life. He was advocating an expanding universe when Einstein was still rejecting it, and eventually Lemaitre&#8217;s view became the view of most astronomers today.</p>
<p>In other words, someone who had devoted their life to a belief in god was also advocating an unpopular scientific view which is now held by the majority of mainstream astronomers. How on earth can that be possible if religious faith is supposed to prevent scientific aptitude? How was the priest right and Einstein (of all people) wrong? It&#8217;s because Lemaitre wasn&#8217;t just a priest, he was also a scientist, who used scientific methods when drawing conclusions from empirical evidence. He proved it was perfectly possible to have a foot in both camps.</p>
<p>This isn&#8217;t an isolated case either, for example Newton wrote more about religion than he did about physics, yet this side of his work is very rarely mentioned when his memory is evoked as a founding father of modern physics.</p>
<p>The trouble is, religious scientists are treated as non-existent oxymorons, destined to be edited or even airbrushed out by extremists on both sides of this artificial science-religion divide. Extremists want simple things to be true, want simple battle lines between &#8220;US&#8221; and &#8220;THEM&#8221;, so that insults can be hurled while ignoring the vast amount of collateral damage it does to all the moderates in the middle.</p>
<p>We&#8217;ve got to stop seeing this as a war, it isn&#8217;t. Most of this conflict is extremely artificial and stirred up by hardcore extremists with axes to grind.</p>
<p>It is perfectly possible to be deeply religious and have a distinguished career in empirical evidence-based physical science. That&#8217;s not an opinion or a hope, that&#8217;s a historical fact. Anyone who claims otherwise is out of touch with reality.</p>
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		<title>By: Chris</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/03/27/creationism-is-bad-religion/comment-page-4/#comment-170625</link>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 00:05:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>PS. Jesus predicted lots of “mockers and scoffers” in his last age. So even as Richard Dawkins, Phil Plait and others of that godless “mocking &amp;
scoffing” ilk try to prove Him wrong they’re are fulfilling His very predictions!

--

Isn&#039;t this the same thing as a retarded kid saying, &quot;I knew the other kids would call me a retard before they even did it! This mean&#039;s I&#039;m really a genius!&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>PS. Jesus predicted lots of “mockers and scoffers” in his last age. So even as Richard Dawkins, Phil Plait and others of that godless “mocking &#038;<br />
scoffing” ilk try to prove Him wrong they’re are fulfilling His very predictions!</p>
<p>&#8211;</p>
<p>Isn&#8217;t this the same thing as a retarded kid saying, &#8220;I knew the other kids would call me a retard before they even did it! This mean&#8217;s I&#8217;m really a genius!&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: Brooke</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/03/27/creationism-is-bad-religion/comment-page-4/#comment-170619</link>
		<dc:creator>Brooke</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 23:31:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>As a Christian myself i do believe God created the world. I do not deny certain aspects of evolution theory. I believe God created evolution. 
The evolution I see sense in is an organism adapting to it&#039;s surroundings in order to better survive. God had a plan for everything, and he knew that as time changed so would the world around organisms so he enabled them to better live in their surroundings. The world did take time to form and shape. A world as complex as ours took more time than 6000 years and most human history didn&#039;t even take place in that amount of time. I believe God took billions of years to work on this earth so we would come to appreciate the beautiful planet he gave us.

To me science is something God created. It is complex and intricate in all aspects and I glorify God for creating something so amazing and deep as science, even though, sadly (in my opinion) most scientists use science to disprove the God who loved them enough to give them science to enjoy.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As a Christian myself i do believe God created the world. I do not deny certain aspects of evolution theory. I believe God created evolution.<br />
The evolution I see sense in is an organism adapting to it&#8217;s surroundings in order to better survive. God had a plan for everything, and he knew that as time changed so would the world around organisms so he enabled them to better live in their surroundings. The world did take time to form and shape. A world as complex as ours took more time than 6000 years and most human history didn&#8217;t even take place in that amount of time. I believe God took billions of years to work on this earth so we would come to appreciate the beautiful planet he gave us.</p>
<p>To me science is something God created. It is complex and intricate in all aspects and I glorify God for creating something so amazing and deep as science, even though, sadly (in my opinion) most scientists use science to disprove the God who loved them enough to give them science to enjoy.</p>
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