Reply #115: Only an idiot looks at a complex mechansim which fulfils a dedicated function, and [View All]

[Joe Chi Minh]

denies that it was designed. It's too elementary to teach an infant. It's the most patent and instinctive common sense. You'd have done better to remain silent a 4th time, or just 'period'. This is what is so infuriating with people interested in science: as well as attracting people for positive reasons, it also attracts people who are beguiled by its simplicity, dealing as it does, with the grossest, most basic aspects of human life, creation.

But when the first devotees take it to another level, the latter misunderstand everything. The spectrum is so broad it could make you weep. All the more so, in that the stupidest - and I'm not necessarily making a judgement on you, personally - are the ones who are the first to crawl out of the woodwork, mob-handed, when a religious post appears here, and full of the most misconceived arrogance sneer at the post, whil vaunting - no, don't laugh - ther own special gift for LOGIC!

I've got some news for them (I want to check it all out on Google): there are approximately 2 billion Catholics and the figure is growing, half billion more than there are Moslems, and of course, many, many more than there are atheists. so if they think they're going to win the day... it gives you some measure of their intelligence, or rather want thereof. Very amusingly, the journalist who quoted the figures seemed to preface the paragraph with the mention of an 'alarming growth in fundamentalism'...!! Tee Hee.