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I know there are people out there who believe in god, deities, pixies, and so on. And I know that these myriad people are quite happy living their lives around whatever tenets they and the abstract centre of their belief hold to be correct. What I didn’t realise is that some of them have access to film crews and a penchant for Goebbels-esque propaganda.

I’ve watched this video twice now, alternating between laughing so hard it hurts and goggling at their attempt to justify their position. They seem to put great store in logic and then go on to abuse it so much that it was found bleeding in an alleyway after the show.

Here, I’ll give you an example of their marvellously leading “logical” questions nabbed directly from their book and backed up by some pretty inscrutable logic.

Test One

The person who thinks Coca Cola cans have no designer is:
A. Intelligent
B. A fool
C. Has an ulterior motive for denying the obvious

Did you know that the eye has 40,000,000 nerve endings, the focusing muscles move an estimated 100,000 times a day, and the retina contains 137,000,000 light sensitive cells?

Charles Darwin said,

“To suppose that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree.” (The Origin of Species, Chapter 6).

If man cannot begin to make a human eye, how could anyone in his right mind think that eyes formed by mere chance? In fact, man cannot make anything from nothing. We don’t know how to do it. We can re-create, reform, develop . . . but we cannot create even one grain of sand from nothing. Yet, the eye is only a small part of the most sophisticated part of creation-the human body.

Can you feel Jesus yet? No? I can’t say that I’m surprised. If you omit setting the quote from Darwin deliberately out of context and then using it to imply he thought his own theory incorrect you still have to stumble through the reasoning. Oh my word, the reasoning.

They’re right though; man cannot create anything from nothing. I will give them that; we cannot magic goblins from the ether. However in the assertation that “if man cannot begin to make a human eye, how could anyone in his right mind think that eyes formed by mere chance” there is a mistake and, sadly, it’s the one that is always made. It is the assumption that we are, at this exact moment, the most intelligent we’re ever likely to be. Turn the wheel back 500 years and you’d be reading something along the lines of “if man cannot begin to replace a failed kidney with a working one, how could anyone blah, blah, blah” or if you want to go back further “if man cannot use simple tools how are we ever going to stop living in caves.” I hope you see what ‘m getting at.

More importantly, there’s the test. I’ve written my own test along the same lines. I think that by taking it you’ll see the folly of your ways and come to accept “the truth.”

The person who thinks I am fucking awesome is:
A. Intelligent
B. A fool
C. Has an ulterior motive for denying the obvious

The answer is A. If you gave a different answer see below.

You are wrong. Theo-social clap trap, something about Coke cans, wizards, you’d best be ready to answer A now or you’re going to hell. Etc…

Man I love fundies.