The Atheist Communist Caliphate Made Flesh, Spread the Clusterfuck Around Thread

[RV]

College words. This is why we don't see winged spiders or wolves with horns.

A wolf with horns would be pretty badass. Stupid evolution.

[Jon]

College words. This is why we don't see winged spiders or wolves with horns.

A wolf with horns would be pretty badass. Stupid evolution.

No arugment here. Add a jetpack and the ability to breathe fire and I would hella use those to defend my Cathedral of Secular Worship from the Nonunbelievers.

[BH]

College words. This is why we don't see winged spiders or wolves with horns.

A wolf with horns would be pretty badass. Stupid evolution.

And yet we end up with a zebra-horse hybrid... wtf.

[Jon]

College words. This is why we don't see winged spiders or wolves with horns.

A wolf with horns would be pretty badass. Stupid evolution.

And yet we end up with a zebra-horse hybrid... wtf.

I blame the Russians.

[Oleg]

College words. This is why we don't see winged spiders or wolves with horns.

A wolf with horns would be pretty badass. Stupid evolution.

And yet we end up with a zebra-horse hybrid... wtf.

I blame the Russians.

Just leave the Ukrainians out of it?  OK?

[Jon]

College words. This is why we don't see winged spiders or wolves with horns.

A wolf with horns would be pretty badass. Stupid evolution.

And yet we end up with a zebra-horse hybrid... wtf.

I blame the Russians.

Just leave the Ukrainians out of it?  OK?

Look, I got no beef witht you Elvish Folk. I will honor the treaties.

[SKO]

College words. This is why we don't see winged spiders or wolves with horns.

A wolf with horns would be pretty badass. Stupid evolution.

And yet we end up with a zebra-horse hybrid... wtf.

I blame the Russians.

Just leave the Ukrainians out of it?  OK?

I'll do no such kindness for a bunch of lousy Cossacks.

[Chuck to Chuck]

College words. This is why we don't see winged spiders or wolves with horns.

A wolf with horns would be pretty badass. Stupid evolution.

And yet we end up with a zebra-horse hybrid... wtf.

I blame the Russians.

They're pussies.

[Slaky]

College words. This is why we don't see winged spiders or wolves with horns.

A wolf with horns would be pretty badass. Stupid evolution.

And yet we end up with a zebra-horse hybrid... wtf.

Is the full question wtf is the coolest shit ever? The answer is zorse.

[Jon]

College words. This is why we don't see winged spiders or wolves with horns.

A wolf with horns would be pretty badass. Stupid evolution.

And yet we end up with a zebra-horse hybrid... wtf.

Is the full question wtf is the coolest shit ever? The answer is zorse.

Yeah, but imagine a zorse with horns and wings.

[Slaky]

College words. This is why we don't see winged spiders or wolves with horns.

A wolf with horns would be pretty badass. Stupid evolution.

And yet we end up with a zebra-horse hybrid... wtf.

Is the full question wtf is the coolest shit ever? The answer is zorse.

Yeah, but imagine a zorse with horns and wings.

You mean a Pegazorse? Yeah, we got those too.

[Indolent Reader]

College words. This is why we don't see winged spiders or wolves with horns.

A wolf with horns would be pretty badass. Stupid evolution.

And yet we end up with a zebra-horse hybrid... wtf.

I blame the Russians.

They're pussies.

I hope the Russians love their children too.  We share the same biology. Regardless of ideology.

[Brownie]

I won't argue with your tenet that the bill sucks. It most certainly does. It's populism, and prominent leaders from both parties practice way too much of it.

However, there is room for both religious faith and scientific reason.  Countless theologians with greater intellectual heft than I possess have grappled with the conflict of Faith and Reason, so I will refrain. One thing I believe: the scientific research we do has given us the power to do great things on a scale unimaginable even 50 years ago. It has also given us the power to do some evil (or at least harmful) things on a greater scale. If God gave us free will as I believe and is testing our ability to do the most good with the abilities we have as I believe, then advancing science is doing the work of God.

[Tank]

Also, evolution and any Christian faith are 100% incompatible.  God could not have "created" a random process.  It ultimately doesn't jive with omnipotence, and it implies absolute predestination.  If "evolution" as it is scientifically understood is really the work of God, then not only did it (thinking of God as having a gender is just retarded--and reveals a lot about the size of the mind of those who think of God as 'He') set the wheels in motion, but it knew what every outcome for every living entity at all points in time would be at the point it set the wheels in motion.  If it didn't know this outcome, then it wouldn't be omnipotent.

I think your understanding of Christian theology and its history is lacking. I gather that you're not a Christian (or religious at all), so you probably don't give a shit, nor should you.

At the same time, it's pretty uncharitable to project what you seem to assume others' beliefs should entail onto their faith only for the sake of calling bullshit on it.

Questions of free will vs. determinism are hardly the sole province of Christian theologians. They also comes into play in decidedly atheistic philosophical debates over physicalism, for example. And some Christian theologians have in fact embraced predestination, notably by Augustine and Calvin.

As for the implications of omnipotence, you're hardly the first to raise this difficulty, among many others.

In short, these very issues have been debated and wrestled with and mulled over by some tremendous thinkers for centuries. You may well find their answers to these questions unconvincing or just plain bullshit.

But don't just flatly assume that they were all ignorant or unthinking because you think you've found some Achilles heel paradox that must have simply never occurred to them.

And honestly, any religion capable of espousing something as bizarre and counter-intuitive as the Trinity (following a heavy dose of old school Greek philosophy) is surely capable of reconciling creation with evolution.

[Jon]

College words. This is why we don't see winged spiders or wolves with horns.

A wolf with horns would be pretty badass. Stupid evolution.

And yet we end up with a zebra-horse hybrid... wtf.

Is the full question wtf is the coolest shit ever? The answer is zorse.

Yeah, but imagine a zorse with horns and wings.

You mean a Pegazorse? Yeah, we got those too.

HORNED Pegazorses? That's awesome.