If there really is an intelligent and purposeful creator, then it would have to be he who constructed the fossil record revealing evolutionary history, and he has to be the one who conceived the genetic patterns which also trace that same course, and it must have been he who added the other lines of evidence which point to the evolutionary conclusion exclusively and in brilliant detail. Why else would all these things exist? Its as if he were trying to tell us something! Men couldn’t create any of those things.
If there really was one true god, it should be a singular composite of every religion’s gods, an uber-galactic super-genius, and the ultimate entity of the entire cosmos. If a being of that magnitude ever wrote a book, then there would only be one such document; one book of God. It would be dominant everywhere in the world with no predecessors or parallels or alternatives in any language, because mere human authors couldn’t possibly compete with it. And you wouldn’t need faith to believe it, because it would be consistent with all evidence and demonstrably true, revealing profound morality and wisdom far beyond contemporary human capacity. It would invariably inspire a unity of common belief for every reader. If God wrote it, we could expect no less. But what we see instead is the very opposite of that.
Instead of only one religion leading to one ultimate truth, we have many different religions with no common origin, all constantly sharding into ever more deeply-divided denominations, seeking conflicting truths, and each somehow claiming divine guidance despite their ongoing divergence in every direction.
The bible was written by men. This is why so much of it can be shown to be historically and scientifically dead wrong about damned-near everything back-to-front. We’re talking about people who believe snakes and donkeys can talk(Genesis 3, Numbers 22: 1-35), who believe in incantations (Genesis 1,36,9,11,1420,24,29), blood sacrifice(Leviticus 1:9, Ezekiel 39:17), ritual spells (Leviticus 14), pyrotechnic potions (Number 5:20-26), astrology(Job38:32, Luke 21:25,Mathew 12:32 & 28:20), and the five elements of witchcraft(Lev 14). They thought that if you use a magic wand to sprinkle blood all over someone, it will cure them of leprosy (Leviticus 11:6). We’re talking about people who think that rabbits chew cud, and that bats are birds, and whales are fish (Deuteronomy 14:11-18), and that Pi is a round number (1st Kings 7:23). These folks believed that if you display striped patterns to a pregnant cow, it would bare striped calves (Genesis 30:37-43). How could anyone say that who knows anything about genetics? Obviously the authors of this book didn’t.
As a moral guide, it utterly fails, because much of it promotes animal cruelty, incest, slavery, abuse of slaves, spousal abuse, child abuse, child molestation, abortion, pillage, murder, cannibalism, genocide, and prejudice against race, nationality, religion, sex, and sexual orientation.
But creationists still continue to ignore all of that. Some of their sites even admit that wherever reality conflicts with the Bible, then reality must be ignored! And why is that? Creationist Christians think that if the Bible is wrong, then God lied. But the Bible has been conceived, composed, compiled, translated, interpreted, edited, and often deliberately altered by men for political and selfish reasons.
Why oh Why do I waste my time with this?
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