Nov 10
20
The Utter Insanity of Religion
by Jason Stotts
I found out today that I know people, who seem otherwise normal, but who do not believe in evolution. They argue, rather absurdly, that Genesis is correct and that the idea that we evolved “from monkeys” is crazy. I can’t help but think that’s ironic. Crazy means that a person has a mind that is not working correctly, that is not in contact with reality: which is precisely the condition with which one if afflicted if they are tainted with faith.
I have no respect for any person afflicted with faith; that is, for a person who has so corrupted their mind that they can no longer properly interact with reality. In fact, it seems to me that faith is a form of insanity.
Every time I meet one of these people, I can’t help but wonder how it’s possible that they’re real. I look at them as though they cannot possibly believe the crazy things they are saying, as though they were parodies of the craziest position ever, a position so absurd that no one could really actually hold it.
Look, evolution has been proven time and again. We don’t even need the fossil record to prove it. If there is a god, he’s a horrible designer. There are countless examples of vestigial organs, inefficient organisms, misplaced muscles, etc, in animals that exist today that shows they weren’t designed, that shows an evolved past. For a whole host of examples, see Richard Dawkins book “The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution,” which is a phenomenal book and something you should read, especially if you already believe in evolution. Evolution has been proven beyond any reasonable doubt. It is as irrational to deride it as a “theory” as it is to deride gravity because it is “only a theory.” This is something stupid people say when they don’t understand things. I’m sure that these creationists don’t understand the science of radio waves, but they seem to have no problem believing in cell phones.
The fact that sure insanity still exists in this day and age is thoroughly depressing.
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