Atheism

[simbagirl]

I'm doing some revision on stuff we touched on briefly at the start of last time and doing shedloads of extra reading. I've come across some theories for how life evolved from what was a prebiotic reducing atmosphere (meaning that it promotes the addtion of hydrogen to molecules and the removal of oxygen and the reduction in oxidation state of

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[johncoxon]

Faith =/= creationism.

[deronn66]

I was so confused as to what you meant by =/= I started a forum thread on it.

At an educated guess, we all assume you mean '≠'.

[simbagirl]

I'm thinking that's what it means....

[johncoxon]

Yes, if you can be bothered to look up the symbol and post it. I don't happen to know it offhand.

[simbagirl]

Whilst that is true, for me things like this render 'God' pointless.

But then it's just my journal, my knowledge and my oppinion, as ever.

[johncoxon]

I know. But faith dates back thousands of years, and creationism is a Victorian invention, to all intents and purposes. :)

[deronn66]

I didn't know the Bible only came out in Victorian times, so I'm assuming you mean when the term was first used?

[johncoxon]

The idea that the Bible's account of creation was literally true and should be taken as an argument against that of conventional science.

[simbagirl]

In what way was it literally true? God actually made the Earth?!

[johncoxon]

It's perfectly good grammar and it makes sense. The idea that the Bible's account of creation was literally true and should be taken as an argument against that of conventional science ('creationism') is, primarily, a Victorian invention.

[deronn66]

Oh, I guess before people believed it wasn't literally true?

Thats a silly statement. People took the bible literally for hundreds of years before the Victorian. Just because origin of Species wasn't published until that era doesn't mean people didn't take the bible literally since then.

[deronn66]

*before then