Top 12 Reasons Atheism = Stupidity (#8)

(This is my revised version of "The 12 Days of Christmas" renamed "The 12 Days of Atheism = Stupidity" -- it's basically the top 12 reasons why atheism is so securely grounded in stupidity -- the song goes like this...)

On the eighth day of Christmas my True Love gave to me...

John Lennon's song "Imagine"

The people in Heaven have a great sense of humor. They changed the lyrics of John Lennon's song "Imagine" and sing it like this:

Imagine there's no atheism
It's easy if you try
No atheists below us
Above us only God

Imagine all the people
Living life in peace
Yoohooooo
You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will live as one...

Top 12 Reasons Atheism = Stupidity (#9)

(This is my revised version of "The 12 Days of Christmas" renamed "The 12 Days of Atheism = Stupidity" -- it's basically the top 12 reasons why atheism is so securely grounded in stupidity -- the song goes like this...)

On the ninth day of Christmas my True Love gave to me...

History

Perhaps the most stupid reason that atheists use to reject religion in general and Christianity in particular goes along these lines: They say religious people, including Christians, have been responsible for killing "huge numbers" of people.

If you're going to use "killing huge numbers of people" to reject religion, then you really should apply that criteria to rejecting atheism, not religion. The atheistic, anti-religion, communist regime set up in China by Mao was responsible for killing at least 40 million people. The atheistic, anti-religion communist regime set up in Russia by Stalin was responsible for killing at least 20 million people.

People debate whether Hitler was an atheist, but Hitler is on record saying "National Socialism and religion cannot exist together" and "The heaviest blow that ever struck humanity was the coming of Christianity." Atheists who deny that Hitler was anti-religious seem to conveniently ignore the fact that beginning in 1937, Hitler's government became openly and increasingly anti-religious, and that Hitler's top advisers (Goebbels, Bormann and Heydrich, for example) were atheists who were vehemently anti-religion. Hitler was responsible for killing at least 5 million people.

Overall, atheistic purges throughout the 20th century killed at least 100 million people. Atheists love to bring up the Spanish Inquisition as a prime example of the "evils" of religion. The Spanish Inquisition resulted in between 5,000 and 10,000 deaths over the course of 100 years or so.

Top 12 Reasons Atheism = Stupidity (#11)

(This is my revised version of "The 12 Days of Christmas" renamed "The 12 Days of Atheism = Stupidity" -- it's basically the top 12 reasons why atheism is so securely grounded in stupidity -- the song goes like this...)

On the eleventh day of Christmas my True Love gave to me...

The Theory of Evolution

Ever since Darwin published his theory of evolution, atheists and others have been using the theory to claim that humans are just "sophisticated animals" -- the claim goes along these lines: because humans evolved from apes, and apes evolved from other animals, humans are just a different species of animal.

What is so funny about this involves a "crisis" of sorts that has been brewing among evolutionary biologists over the last few years. Get this. There is now a big disagreement between two camps of evolutionary biologists:

Camp #1 says evolution has STOPPED since humans arrived on the planet.

Camp #2 says evolution has ACCELERATED since humans arrived on the planet.

In other words (according to the latest understanding of the theory of evolution), a process which has been occurring for 3.8 billion years has suddenly changed since humans arrived on the planet. To me, that sounds like humans are pretty special. To me, that sounds like humans are NOT just a "sophisticated animal." To me, that sounds like the theory of evolution PROVES that humans are NOT just "sophisticated animals."

So, according to the current understanding of the theory of evolution, a process that has been working in the same manner for ALL species for 3.8 billion years all of a sudden works DIFFERENTLY in humans. Hmmm...

You know, some people think that the theory of evolution rules out spiritual things and God. It doesn't. People probably got that idea because they thought the theory of evolution was a threat to religion. It's not.

Also, some people think that science is displacing religion. It isn't. Science isn't displacing religion. Science is actually confirming religion (it's just taking a little longer than a lot of people have the patience to wait for).

If you want to learn more about this big brouhaha among evolutionary biologists, here are some links... 

Top scholars claiming EVOLUTION HAS STOPPED since humans arrived on the planet:

Ajit Varki says that with humans (unlike with animals), behavior is not “encoded in DNA” but is “transmitted within and by the culture” http://www.nature.com/news/2009/110209/full/457776a.html 

Michio Kaku says “mankind has stopped evolving” http://bigthink.com/ideas/26647 

Steve Jones says “natural selection, if it hasn't stopped, has at least slowed down” http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12535647 

Top scholars claiming EVOLUTION HAS ACCELERATED since humans arrived on the planet:

Archaeological Institute of America says “Human evolution has been gathering speed for the past 50,000 years” http://www.archaeology.org/0803/etc/conversation.html 

Gregory Cochran and Henry Harpending say humans have been evolving very dramatically for the last 10,000 years: http://the10000yearexplosion.com/

John Hawks says “our evolution has recently accelerated by around 100-fold” http://johnhawks.net/weblog/topics/evolution/selection/acceleration/accel_story_2007.html and http://johnhawks.net/weblog/topics/evolution/recent/moran-recent-selection-journalism-2009.html

Top 12 Reasons Atheism = Stupidity

(This is my revised version of “The 12 Days of Christmas” renamed “The 12 Days of Atheism = Stupidity” – it’s basically the top 12 reasons why atheism is so securely grounded in stupidity – the song goes like this…)

On the twelfth day of Christmas, my True Love gave to me...

Richard Dawkins

If you need any more proof of how atheism is grounded in stupidity, then look no further than Richard Dawkins and his minions. Mr. Dawkins is a darling to atheists all over the world, but Mr. Dawkins should actually be a huge embarrassment to any self-respecting atheist.

When atheists pledge allegiance to Mr. Dawkins, they reveal just how utterly blind they are to the man’s fatal flaws (his fatal flaws in science as well as in logic and reason).

First of all, here is a man who is not only highly intelligent but is also recognized as a top-notch scientist in the field of evolutionary biology. The thing is this. While Mr. Dawkins gets a lot of things “right,” his analysis of religion (and evolution) is fatally flawed for several reasons.

First, here is a man who is a biologist, yet when you read his books it’s clear he’s absolutely clueless about how the sensory systems function in humans and animals. Normally, being clueless about how the sensory systems function wouldn’t be such a horrible thing, but it becomes horrifically funny in the case of Mr. Dawkins because he rejects religion on the basis of the sensory information that has happened to penetrate his sensory systems and enter his brain.

Please. If you’re going to reject religion on the basis of the sensory information that enters your sensory systems and gets processed in your brain, then, for crying out loud, the least you should do is a) understand how the sensory systems work and b) understand the biological limitations of the sensory systems!

If you don’t think that Mr. Dawkins is clueless about how the sensory systems work in humans and animals, then just look at his book titled “The Selfish Gene” or even any of his more recent books. When he puts so much emphasis on the level of the gene in determining an organism’s behavior and its evolutionary destiny, it’s because he doesn’t understand that there are too many other variables (other than genes) involved in evolution the “farther up the food chain” you go. And his utter cluelessness about this is evident because nowhere in his books – nowhere – does he talk about “perception versus reality” in humans and animals.

It’s perfectly fine to say “the gene drives evolution” at the level of microorganisms (because the behavior of microorganisms isn’t mediated by anything we call “perception”), whereas behavior in humans and animals is almost entirely driven by perception. And the fatal flaw in Mr. Dawkins perception of the world, his perception of reality, his perception of religion, and his perception science is this: any piece of “sensory information x” can be perceived in an almost infinite number of ways by humans (but not by animals, and certainly not by microorganisms).

Please, get a life already, will you Mr. Dawkins?

Another big problem with Mr. Dawkins is that he has become emotionally attached to his point of view about how to interpret “the data.” Mr. Dawkins gets incandescent with rage whenever he’s exposed to people and ideas that don’t agree with his point of view. (Doesn’t he know that emotions and science don’t mix? Doesn’t he know that scientists who get emotional about their subject matter can’t be trusted as objective observers?)