Witness..?

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Originally posted by AzCivic
yeah i know the earth supposedly didnt have an atmosphere(can you really say thats a fact??)...but where did that bacteria you talk of come from??? from another planet that was bombarded with asteroids that contained bacteria, and those asteroids came from another planet whose life came from some asteroids.....my point is that it had to start somewhere.

This is the very essence of what makes virtually all organized religions so wonderfully exploitative...nobody knows nor will they ever know where we came from. Creationists will argue that something can't come from nothing. I'll go along with that, but if that's the case then where did "god" come from? He couldn't have always been and he couldn't have emerged from nothing. What a total bitch, huh? It's a total catch 22. Both of the arguements are fairly self contradictory. But for those who are religious you can't question these things or you don't have faith. Almost by definition, faith is believing without proof and not questioning that belief. If you question it, you don't really have faith. This is why I exclude myself from all organized religions...I like to question everything that I don't have direct and irrefutable proof of. I also love how people absolutely refuse to make a compromise. No one will ever say that, while god may have created the Earth and maybe even life on it, evolution is still possible. No offense to those with faith, but in my opinion organized religion is a complete joke. Believe what you believe and know that it's right...don't have someone read to you from a book that's thousands of years old and tell you THAT'S what's right. Think for yourselves and organized religion will cease to exist.