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Post by Galvatron »

Am I the only one who gets these whiny emails on a regular basis from religious relatives, friends, or co-workers?
*One Sunday morning during service, a 2,000 member congregation was surprised to see two men enter, both covered from head to toe in black and carrying submachine guns. One of the men proclaimed, "Anyone willing to take a bullet for Christ remain where you are."

*Immediately, the choir fled, the deacons fled, and most of the congregation fled. Out of the 2,000 there only remained around 20.

*The man who had spoken took off his hood, looked at the preacher and said "Okay Pastor, I got rid of all the hypocrites. Now you may begin your service. Have a nice day!" And the two men turned and walked out.

*Too deep not to pass on...

*Funny how simple it is for people to trash God .. and then wonder why the world is in the condition it is today..

*Funny how we believe what the newspapers say, but question what the Bible says.

*Funny how everyone wants to go to heaven provided they do not have to believe, think, say, or do anything the Bible says.

*Funny or is it scary?

*Funny how someone can say "I believe in God" but still follow Satan (who,by the way, also "believes"in God).

*Funny how you can send a thousand 'jokes' through e-mail and they spread like wildfire, but when you start sending messages regarding the Lord, people think twice about sharing.

*Funny how the lewd, crude, vulgar and obscene pass freely through cyber space, but the public discussion of Jesus is suppressed in the school and work place.

*Funny, isn't it? Funny how someone can be so fired up for Christ on Sunday, but be an invisible Christian the rest of the week.

*Are you laughing?

*Funny how when you go to forward this message, you will not send it to many on your address list because you're not sure what they believe, or what they will think of you for sending it to them.

*Funny how I can be more worried about what other people think of me than what God thinks of me.

*Are you thinking? Will y ou share this with people you care about? Or not?

*I picked you~

My instructions were to send this to people that I wanted God to bless and I picked you. Please pass this to people you want to bless!!
Okay, well...bless you... I guess. :wink:
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Post by Surlethe »

I get ones like that all the time. Sometimes they're funny, sometimes they're a bit thought-provoking, and sometimes they're shitty.

BTW, does this mean the entire forum just got blessed?
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Post by salm »

Cool. He equates believing in the bible with believing in what is in newspapers. Now, since believing everything that is in newspapers is idotic, this guy is stating that people who believe in the bible are morons.
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Modified it a bit:
*One Sunday morning during service, a 2,000 member congregation was surprised to see two men enter, both covered from head to toe in black and carrying submachine guns. One of the men proclaimed, "Anyone willing to take a bullet for E.T. remain where you are."

*Immediately, the Conspiracy Theorists fled, the UFOlogists fled, and most of the congregation fled. Out of the 2,000 there only remained around 20.

*The man who had spoken took off his hood, looked at the preacher and said "Okay Mulder, I got rid of all the hypocrites. Now you may begin your service. Have a nice day!" And the two men turned and walked out.

*Too deep not to pass on...

*Funny how simple it is for people to trash Aliens .. and then wonder why the world is in the condition it is today..

*Funny how we believe what the newspapers say, but question what the Book of Mormon says.

*Funny how everyone wants to go to Outer Space provided they do not have to believe, think, say, or do anything the Crop Circles says.

*Funny or is it scary?

*Funny how someone can say "I believe the Truth is Out There" but still follow logic (who, by the way, also "believes" in the possibility of extraterrestrial organisms).

*Funny how you can send a thousand 'jokes' through e-mail and they spread like wildfire, but when you start sending messages regarding the Lord Darth Vader, people think twice about sharing.

*Funny how the lewd, crude, vulgar and obscene pass freely through cyber space, but the public discussion of E.T. is suppressed in the school and work place.

*Funny, isn't it? Funny how someone can be so fired up for Star Wars on Sunday, but be an invisible Warsie the rest of the week.

*Are you laughing?

*Funny how when you go to forward this message, you will not send it to many on your address list because you're not sure what they believe, or what they will think of you for sending it to them.

*Funny how I can be more worried about what other people think of me than what Aliens thinks of me.

*Are you thinking? Will y ou share this with people you care about? Or not?

*I picked you~

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Shroom Man 777, I liked your version better.

Galvatron, why don't you reply with the modified post, and see what happens.
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Post by Shroom Man 777 »

After a while, I came up with this:
Muwahahuhehohoho...weee! I'm bored. Leprechauns are real! If you don't believe in Leprechauns, who love you with all their bodies (even their pee-pees), then they'll turn you into frogs and roast you in their tiny leprechaun muffin oven. Because they love you so much. Praise!


*One Sunday morning during service, a 2,000 member congregation was surprised to see two men enter, both covered from head to toe in black and carrying submachine guns. One of the men proclaimed, "Anyone willing to take a bullet for E.T. remain where you are."

*Immediately, the Conspiracy Theorists fled, the UFOlogists fled, and most of the congregation fled. Out of the 2,000 there only remained around 20.

*The man who had spoken took off his hood, looked at the preacher and said "Okay, I got rid of all the hypocrites. Now you may begin your service. Have a nice day!" And the two men turned and walked out.

(Then they got arrested by police officers and got sent to jail, where they were beaten half to death by the inmates who were ALL undoubtedly sinful evil godless homosexuals. They were probably also black people who married with white women. How sinful! Ooogabooga! Rar!)


*Too shallow not to pass on...

*Funny how simple it is for people to trash Leprechauns .. and then wonder why the world is in the condition it is today..

*Funny how we believe what the newspapers say, but question what the Book of Mormon says.

*Funny how everyone wants to go to Outer Space provided they do not have to believe, think, say, or do anything the Crop Circles say.

*Funny or is it scary?

*Funny how someone can say "I believe the Truth is Out There" but still follow science (which, by the way, also "believes" in the possibility of extraterrestrial organisms).

*Funny how you can send a thousand 'jokes' through e-mail and they spread like wildfire, but when you start sending messages regarding Lord Darth Vader, people think twice about sharing.

*Funny how the lewd, crude, vulgar and obscene pass freely through cyber space, but the public discussion of E.T. the extraterrestrial is suppressed in the school and work place.

*Funny, isn't it? Funny how someone can be so fired up for Star Trek on Sunday, but be an invisible Klingon the rest of the week?

*Are you laughing at this parody of all those "convert you heathen, my beliefs are superior" chain letters? (hopefully, yes)

*Funny how when you go to forward this message, you will not send it to many on your address list because you're not sure what they believe, or what they will think of you for sending it to them. Or whether they'll appreciate having their email spammed by your attempts to shove rhetorical bullcrap down their throats.

*Funny how I can be more worried about what other people think of me than what Emperor Palpatine thinks of me.

*Are you thinking? (hopefully not, since thinking is wrong, since you should never question your beliefs or else the Leprechauns will turn you into a frog and burn you up, because they love you so much! just obey mindlessly, robot!) Will you share this with people you care about? Or not?

*I picked you (Pikachu! Pokemon is satanic, rar!!! Watch me as I defame the shows children watch because they somehow threaten my superior beliefs! Harry Potter wears satanic jockstraps! Burn eeevil Harry Potter books!)

My instructions were to send this to people that I wanted Aliens to abduct you and I picked you. Please pass this to people you want to abduct!! Please shove your beliefs down other people's throats!

Keep watching the skies!!!1111 The truth is out there!!!1 Don't make me spam your inbox with more self-righteous bullcrap that I think (with my pee-pee) is so deep, thought provoking and true!

Note: I just copied one of them standard lame arse chain letters and replaced some of the stuff in 'em.
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ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!
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Yeah, my crazy aunt (as opposed to my cool aunt, whom the crazy aunt hates because she divorced a Baptist preacher and discovered she was lesbian and is now in a much happier marriage-of-sorts with her wife) sends them to my mom all the time. She'd send them to me too but I make sure not to let her know my email address. We delete them like Strong Bad deletes stupid emails, but don't tell her to stop sending them. We figure the more time the woman spends finding stupid emails and forwarding them, the less she has to do things like harass my cool aunt.
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Post by GrandMasterTerwynn »

My response to such e-mails tends to be:

"Ooooh, who shall I bless . . . I know, your ISP's anti-spam department, and the guys responsible for enforcing your ISP's Terms of Service! Let's see you send me any more pointless forwards when you have no e-mail to send it with!"
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Oohhh, my turn, my turn!
*One Friday evening at the Community Center, a 2,000 member group was surprised to see two men enter, both covered from head to toe in black and carrying submachine guns. One of the men proclaimed, "Anyone willing to take a bullet for Big Brother remain where you are."

*Immediately, the band fled, the orators fled, and most of the assembly fled. Out of the 2,000 there only remained around 20.

*The man who had spoken took off his hood, looked at the Inner Party member and said "Okay Comrade, I got rid of all the hypocrites. Now you may begin your meeting. Have a nice day!" And the two men turned and walked out.

*Too deep not to pass on...

*Funny how simple it is for people to trash Big Brother.. and then wonder why Oceania is in the condition it is today..

*Funny how we believe what our friends say, but question what the Ministry of Truth says.

*Funny how everyone wants to become one with the Party provided they do not have to believe, think, say, or do anything prescribed by Ingsoc.

*Funny or is it scary?

*Funny how someone can say "I believe in Big Brother" but still follow Goldstein (who,by the way, also "believes"in Big Brother).

*Funny how you can send a thousand 'jokes' through e-mail and they spread like wildfire, but when you start sending goodthinkful messages, people think twice about sharing.

*Funny how the lewd, crude, vulgar and obscene pass freely through cyber space, but the public discussion of the Party is suppressed in the school and work place.

*Funny, isn't it? Funny how someone can be so fired up for Oceania at Community Center meetings, but be an invisible Comrade the rest of the day.

*Are you laughing?

*Funny how when you go to forward this message, you will not send it to many on your address list because you're not sure that they are goodthinkers, or what they will think of you for sending it to them.

*Funny how I can be more worried about what other people think of me than what Big Brother thinks of me.

*Are you thinking? Will you share this with people you care about? Or not?

*I picked you~

My instructions were to send this to people that I wanted Big Brother to bless and I picked you. Please pass this to people you want to bless!!
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Since I have my Spam filter set to maximum, I don't get those. But maybe I'll examine a few in the future. I guess I'm lucky in that I am not really connected to any fandamentalist Christian types with a strong sense of missionary work about them.
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Morlilore wrote:Oohhh, my turn, my turn!
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

That's probably the funniest thing i've read all day.
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Mayabird wrote:Yeah, my crazy aunt (as opposed to my cool aunt, whom the crazy aunt hates because she divorced a Baptist preacher and discovered she was lesbian and is now in a much happier marriage-of-sorts with her wife) sends them to my mom all the time. She'd send them to me too but I make sure not to let her know my email address. We delete them like Strong Bad deletes stupid emails, but don't tell her to stop sending them. We figure the more time the woman spends finding stupid emails and forwarding them, the less she has to do things like harass my cool aunt.
I have that crazy aunt ... she went from Catholic to agnostic to evangelical .... she knows better than to even hint at this stuff to my atheist mom, and she doesn't have my e-mail address.

All I could think when reading the OP was "Funny .... none of this is remotely funny."
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*One Sunday morning during service, a 2,000 member congregation was surprised to see two men enter, both covered from head to toe in black and carrying submachine guns. One of the men proclaimed, "Anyone willing to take a bullet for Christ remain where you are."

*Immediately, the choir fled, the deacons fled, and most of the congregation fled. Out of the 2,000 there only remained around 20.

*The man who had spoken took off his hood, looked at the preacher and said "Okay Pastor, I got rid of all the hypocrites. Now you may begin your service. Have a nice day!" And the two men turned and walked out.
I've read a varient in which the gunmen tell off the remaining people about how stupid they are. No idea if I'll be able to find it, of course- the Christian versions always dominate the internet.
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Morilore wrote:-snip-
Oceania's certainly mellowed out a lot in the last 20 years if anyone would be able to send that message :)

I've never understood why being prepared to die for your faith is considered a virtue, this quote pretty much sums it up for me
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speaker-to-trolls wrote:Oceania's certainly mellowed out a lot in the last 20 years if anyone would be able to send that message :)
Well, they'd have to invent email first, but if they did, I can see something like that coming right out of ++comradeobrien@minitrue.com every other day. Remember, the clear and horrible cognitive dissonance invoked by a persecution complex within an absolute ruling class is no challenge for the doubleplusdoublethinkful. There's nothing crimethinkful about it, isn't there...?
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Any time a Christian says "Bless you", I like to say, "I didn't sneeze."
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I don't get why you should lay down your life for God. I mean, I aint crazy enough to say I'm gonna die for my invisible best friend. Why would it be considered a virtue anyways? Great, God loves me, so I'm sure he'd want me to die for him. :)

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*One Sunday morning during service, a 2,000 member congregation was surprised to see two men enter, both covered from head to toe in black and carrying submachine guns. One of the men proclaimed, "Anyone willing to take a bullet for Christ remain where you are."

*Immediately, the choir fled, the deacons fled, and most of the congregation fled. Out of the 2,000 there only remained around 20.

*The man who had spoken took off his hood, looked at the preacher and said "What the fuck is wrong with you loonies! This is a real AK-47."
The gunman ripped off a burst into the wall. "See. Pastor, these people need serious help. Have a nice day!" And the two men turned and walked out.

*Too deep not to pass on...

*Funny how simple it is for people to trash society .. and then wonder why the world is in the condition it is today..

*Funny how we believe what the Bible say, but question what the paper says.

*Funny how everyone wants to go to heaven and so refuses to give a shit about what's happening here and now.

*Funny or is it scary?

*Funny how someone can say "I believe in God" but still hate his fellow humans (who may also believe in God)

*Funny how you can send a thousand 'jokes' through e-mail and they spread like wildfire, but when you start sending messages regarding being tolerant, people think twice about sharing.

*Funny how the pious, self-righteous, idolatous and obscene pass freely through cyber space, but the public discussion of critical thought is suppressed in the school and work place.

*Funny, isn't it? Funny how someone can be so fired up for Christ on Sunday, and be an absolute shithead the rest of the week.

*Are you laughing?

*Funny how when you go to forward this message, you will not send it to many on your address list because you're not sure what they think, or whether they'll dob you in to your pastor for sending it to them.

*Funny how I can be more worried about what God thinks of me than what my neighbour thinks of me.

*Are you thinking? Will y ou share this with people you care about? Or not?

*I picked you~

My instructions were to send this to people that I wanted to start thinking and living for themselves and I picked you. Please pass this to people you want to think!!
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bwahahahaha! :P

Funny stuff, especially with the Big Brother bit. Excellent.
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Lol. Well, we have to understand, to these people, we're in self-denial, and will spend an eternity in the torment of hell. For many of them, it isn't even about 'belief in god' as they were raised to be absolutely certain of the existance of such a being. For them, it's all about how much of your time you're willing to devote to your invisible best friend up in the sky. You can't question something that you're taught to accept before you gain accountability for your own thoughts and actions. I understand why they would send these crappy self-righteous e-mails, and I truly do feel quite sorry for them...
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*One Sunday morning during service, a 2,000 member congregation was surprised to see two men enter, both covered from head to toe in black and carrying submachine guns. One of the men proclaimed, "Anyone willing to take a bullet for Christ remain where you are."

*Immediately, the choir fled, the deacons fled, and most of the congregation fled. Out of the 2,000 there only remained around 20.

*They were all killed, their bodies oozing blood, perforated by hundreds of rounds of submachine gunfire. The gunman was reported to be heard muttering, "What a bunch of retards..." as he walked away from the scene.

*Too deep not to pass on...

*Stupid how simple it is for people to bomb each other .. and then wonder why the world is in the condition it is today..

*Stupid how we believe what the Bible say, but question what hard scientific research indicates.

*Stupid how everyone thinks following a 2000 year old book of misogynism, bigotry and hatred will lead to good.

*Stupid or is it scary?

*Stupid how someone can say "I believe in God" but still slaughter thousands of others (who also believe in God).

*Stupid how you can send a thousands of idiotic, religious chain-letters through e-mail and they spread like wildfire, but when you start sending messages regarding the logic, people think twice about sharing.

*Stupid how public discussion and endorsement of some hippie, Jewish dude who lived 2000 years ago is publically is accepted, but fairness to other religions in school and the workplace is surpressed.

*Stupid, isn't it? Stupid how someone can be so fired up for Christ on Sunday, but be an absolute asshole the rest of the week.

*Are you laughing? If so, then you are a complete jackass, and should die this very moment. I hope you grow up to have many children, and all of them are slaughtered by a serial killer, and their entrails are smeared down your abdomen. I hope your own ribs puncture your heart, and you die, and a thousand onagers shit on your grave.

*Stupid how when you go to forward this message, you will not send it to many on your address list because you're sure they're religious bigots, who'll spam you to kingdom come (ironically).

*Stupid how I can be more more worried about some invisible, intangible sky pixie than my fellow humans.

*Are you thinking? Will you share this with people who need it? Or not?

*I picked you~

My instructions were to send this to people who are total and complete idiots and I picked you. Aren't you proud of yourself? Please pass this on to your fellow morons.
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Not a chain e-mail, but just a little piece of hate mail I got yesterday.
Some Moron wrote:Surely someone as 'wise' as you could not possibly believe that your brain has evolved by blind chance. Unfortunately, this seems to be the case. You are a 20-something year old person and you know everything.

There has to be a first cause. For what purpose would an infinitely small universe have to exist? You claim that the universe has always existed, yet scientists (not college students) have known for some time that the universe (space, time, and matter) had a beginning. In addition, there are problems with the evolutionary theory and the big bang theory. I am not a scientist; these are the brute facts, realized by thousands of scientists. Why do you think scientists are turning to God? Are you smarter than every scientist?

To believe that something nearly infinitely complex like DNA could evolve is utterly laughable. To believe that all of the systems vital to a 'new' animal's existence would simultaneously come into being is ridiculous.

As you know, evolution is taught in high schools around the country, despite the fact that there is no proof of this pseudo-science, and that it is only wishful thinking. I suspect atheists the world over have been brainwashed into believing this crap, and told to not worry about the problems with the evolutionary theory and big bang theory, because of course science has to be right, even though it's not real science.

Oh, look, here's a transitional fossil...oh sorry, my mistake. Haven't found one yet, atheist. Give me a few more thousand years, and I still won't find one. (Shouldn't you be digging around with the other atheist pseudo-scientists, trying to find proof of evolution?) I'll save you some time. You won't find any, either.

You seem to be very proud of your atheist quotations. Good for you. They prove nothing. How about a quote from scientists which indicate the mathematical impossibility of an accidental universe? How about a quote which states that life is much too complex to evolve by chance? This is precisely why some scientists embrace the panspermia hypothesis, though that doesn't explain where that life came from.

It's obvious that you found the idea of God to be utterly ridiculous, so you immediately trusted your gut feeling and became a permanent atheist. Unfortunately for you, it takes infinitely more faith to believe in random forces that create something from nothing than to believe in a Creator God. Your smugness and arrogance will not allow for that. Open your eyes, atheist.

You were right about one thing: the unsaved 'stamp' on your picture was right on the mark. If any of your friends or professors are atheists, tell them they're unsaved, too.
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Surely someone as 'wise' as you could not possibly believe that your brain has evolved by blind chance. Unfortunately, this seems to be the case. You are a 20-something year old person and you know everything.
Ad Hominem fallacy. What does it matter if he's 20 or 60 or 3? he can still be right. Furthermore, your own arrogance leads you to presume that since the brain seems so complex to YOU, it couldn't possibly have evolved by chance.
There has to be a first cause
Why? Also, red herring.
For what purpose would an infinitely small universe have to exist?
You assume that there is a reason everything happens. That's bullshit. Everything in the world is probably completely arbitrary. And again, red herring.
You claim that the universe has always existed, yet scientists (not college students) have known for some time that the universe (space, time, and matter) had a beginning
No they don't. The universe has always existed, for as long has time has (if such a phrase is usable. Time is woven into the fabric of the universe, and there was no "before". Btw, nice Ad Hominem. College students constantly contribute to their fields. It's called a thesis. And yet again, red herring.
In addition, there are problems with the evolutionary theory and the big bang theory. I am not a scientist; these are the brute facts, realized by thousands of scientists. Why do you think scientists are turning to God? Are you smarter than every scientist?
Appeal to authority. Just because they're scientists, doesn't mean they're always right. Ever heard of Galileo? Furthermore, you fail to provide statistics that scientists are increasingly theistic. Even if they are, it has no bearing on the validity of atheism. Many scientists acknowledge the irrationality of believing in God, but continue to believe anyways, like Stephen Hawking. Also, the big bang is an observation, not a theory. Through the Dopler effect, we have observed galaxies receding. Rewind the clock and you find that about 15 billion years ago, all matter and space-time was at a single central point. And will you stop with the red herrings? The big bang relavent to the biological theory of evolution.
To believe that something nearly infinitely complex like DNA could evolve is utterly laughable. To believe that all of the systems vital to a 'new' animal's existence would simultaneously come into being is ridiculous
Strawman distortion. Evolution does not claim the simultaneous creation of DNA. Furthermore, that's abiogenesis, not evolution. And systems don't come into being to support animals. Animals evolve to the existing system, and can even change it.
As you know, evolution is taught in high schools around the country, despite the fact that there is no proof of this pseudo-science, and that it is only wishful thinking. I suspect atheists the world over have been brainwashed into believing this crap, and told to not worry about the problems with the evolutionary theory and big bang theory, because of course science has to be right, even though it's not real science
Folks, when your opponent starts spouting conspiracy theorist shit, you know he's rather pointless to debate. And when he doesn't even bother to proove bold assertions...well, I don't need to say much more.
Oh, look, here's a transitional fossil...oh sorry, my mistake. Haven't found one yet, atheist. Give me a few more thousand years, and I still won't find one. (Shouldn't you be digging around with the other atheist pseudo-scientists, trying to find proof of evolution?) I'll save you some time. You won't find any, either.
List of transitional fossils:
Falcarius utahensis- An omnivorous missing link between the small, fierce predatory ancestors of therinzisaurs (and dromaeosaurids) and slow, lumbering vegetarian therinzisaurs proper

Lucy- A missing link between humans and their ape-like ancestor (though a more proper link would be something like Ramapithecus, one of the first apes to take up a plains-dwelling existence).

Archaeopteryx- The link between birds and dinosaurs.

Coelocanths + relatives (sp?)- The missing links between fish and amphibians.

Cynodonts- The transition between therapsids and mammals proper.

Alioramus- A possible early Tyrannosaur

...Undubitably, you will decry these all as either hoaxes or different species in their own right, and then will again ask for the transitionals. I demand that you define what a transitional form should be, and then I will provide suitable examples.
You seem to be very proud of your atheist quotations. Good for you. They prove nothing. How about a quote from scientists which indicate the mathematical impossibility of an accidental universe?
You lie. Only some extremely bullshit mathematics could come up with an answer to the question you pose. Time began when the universe began. There was no accidental cause.
How about a quote which states that life is much too complex to evolve by chance? This is precisely why some scientists embrace the panspermia hypothesis, though that doesn't explain where that life came from.
Show me that quote. All other such quotes have been shown to be bullshit. In reality, the first living organism was extremely simple, and they had an entire ocean and hundreds of millions of years to work with. Not surprising that life came up. Panspermia is a valid hypothesis as well, but you are correct in saying it simply shifts the origins of life to somewhere else.
It's obvious that you found the idea of God to be utterly ridiculous, so you immediately trusted your gut feeling and became a permanent atheist. Unfortunately for you, it takes infinitely more faith to believe in random forces that create something from nothing than to believe in a Creator God.
Oy. How many times has this been said? Get it through your head: there is no evidence of your creator God. There is evidence that the Universe is guided by arbitrary law and chance.

I just like to smack these letters down for fun. I'm sure you've already written your own. I think you're lucky for getting hate-mail, somewhat. I don't get to do this often.
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wolveraptor wrote:I think you're lucky for getting hate-mail, somewhat. I don't get to do this often.
You've obviously never seen my in-box. Here's a sample I received just yesterday:
Andy Gocke <agocke@gmail.com> wrote:wow youre really a closeminded dumbass arent you (bet you voted for bush). Yeah, im 14, big fucking deal. Im self taught and just passed my A+ certification test, so if you want me to rape your ass in C++, or any other computer related concepts, be my guest. In addition, you have got to be the STUPIDEST engineer i have ever met, cause "watts are a unit of power, not energy." is the craziest fucking bullshit i have ever heard. Power IS energy. There is one thing in the universe: matter/energy (proven that they are the same by the widely known E=MC2) and if electricity exists (dont try and bullshit your way through that one) then its gotta be either matter or energy in a certain form.
Speaks for itself, really.
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