Sunday, 28 February 2010

Evolution/Creation - The thoughts of an Atheist

I have just been browsing Facebook (an activity I am rarely involved in, truth be told). I came across a campaign that is hoping to find 1 million people that believe in evolution. I wouldn't have though this was a difficult thing to do, but I guess you are reliant on Facebook users being that interested in such debates. I know I shouldn't sound like too much of a snob, but...

Anyway, something I do feel strongly about is Creation. I do not believe in it at all - I am an Atheist. However, if you are going to believe in the Abrahamic god of the Old Testament, then you do not have an option - in my opinion you must believe in Creation. You can't pick and choose the bits you want to believe in, it's got to be all or nothing. I'm sick of hearing Christians saying "they didn't really know, it was just their interpretation". What crap! If God was appearing to Moses et al, then he would have told them how he had done it.

However, more important than that is that therefore, the Young Earth Creationists are not as dumb as they first seem. They believe that the Earth is no more than 10,000 years old - something that all scientific evidence points to being wrong. However, let's look at the alternative, which is that the entire universe was made for the benefit of a god who then put life on one tiny planet in one relatively small galaxy. He had to wait for the earth to cool down, over several million years, create amoeba and algae, wait for them to evolve into animal and plant life, leave the dinosaurs to rule the planet for 100 million years, then wait another 65 million years to create Man in his own image.

When you stop and think about it, the Young Earth Creationists make more sense than Christians who believe in Evolution. I just wish they would stop and give it some thought themselves.


First Post

Well, after weeks of thinking about setting up a website so that I can spout my views about all things that are important (to me, at least) I realise that I can just use a blog. Modern technology is not my strong point. The problem is, now that I have this tool available, I'm struggling for something to say. Every day I am ranting about something that is going on - usually Gordon Brown and his "fair society", global warming (deliberate use of lower case there - those who may become regular readers will soon realise why), why the 80s were the best decade - politically, at least. Not so sure about the music or fashion. But we can discuss that later.

Well, it's Sunday lunchtime. I'm bound to get upset about something in the next twelve hours, so watch this space.