Fundamental Discord

systemofaclown:

fundiediscord:

intheshadowofyggdrasil:

sonic-hip-attack:

peteshotfourguysincalifornia:

If god isn’t real, then why are bananas so perfectly made for consumption by humans?Not only is it easily gripped by our hands, it even has a tab on one end to ensure easy opening. It also curves towards your mouth as you hold it in your hand, and is soft and very nutritious. To add frosting to the cake, it’s easy to tell if a banana is ripe simply by observing its color.In other words, god designed the banana for human consumption. I think it’s quite reasonable to conclude that those who seriously think that bananas “evolved” by random accident are a bit mentally challenged. It’s like saying that a perfect working jumbo jet is likely to be assembled simply by throwing all components into a box and randomly mixing it around.

LOL
can’t tell if this is a troll or not. I’m assuming yes, given all the perfect herp-derpy statements in this.
A) Bananas as we know them were selectively bred to be this way. The curve, the color, the sweetness, all of that is man-made.
B) We actually hold bananas wrong. If you watch monkeys do it, they don’t peel from the top stem (your “tab”) like we do. they peel from the bottom opening. So, um, God clearly didn’t do a good job of explaining this “perfect for consumption” device to two of his smartest creatures.
C) Even ignoring that we bred bananas to be this way, perhaps the fruit evolved to that shape because it was eaten more successfully (therefore its seed was spread more successfully) when it was curved/delicious/bright and easy to see.
The banana doesn’t point to God any more than a cloud that looks like your Aunt Joanne points to God. It’s called an attribution bias. You see something, you APPLY meaning to it, and then work backwards to give credit to God for that meaning YOU added to something.

THE CHRISTIAN’S NIGHTMARE:
A pomegranate.

If Eris didn’t design us to bowl, then why the fudgeripple do we bowl so well?
I was bowling Saturday, in accordance with tradition, and watched several folks bowl underhanded and with what appeared to be a great deal of inebriation. And fuck if they didn’t curve that ball nearly as well as the showoff in the other lane who was bowling “correctly.”
Surely, Eris in her love for us, intended for us to bowl. Lots.
On the other hand, we know that modern corn and bananas are the product of human selection. In fact, it seems likely that all our cultivated food has undergone human selection.
You can tell because the pre-agriculture bananas were disgusting and the pre-ag corn had like one or two kernels. Clearly Eris did not intend for us to eat bananas or corn. Fortunately, she’s also pretty indifferent and doesn’t threaten hellfire if you fail to believe her ridiculous claims.

Something I’ve noticed… proponents of Intelligent Design always base their arguments in a fundamentally flawed understanding of basic scientific principles. Shortly after Charles Darwin introduced his theory of evolution, a bastardized misunderstanding of it was thrown around, based on the notion that evolution was a guided or controlled process, that it had some end goal or purpose, and that humans were the highest order in a series of stages of improvement. This pseudo-scientific misconception has carried through to today, despite the efforts of teachers who know better.
Like anything else, any order we see in evolution is invented. Evolution is a combination of random processes (natural selection and mutation) which does a wonderful job of suiting life to environment in most efficient manner possible. To assume that there is some driving force behind it is every bit as primitive as believing that lightning strikes are the work of an angry god smiting the people for their lack of piety.
It is actually possible to be a Deist and not be a credulous idiot, but it is extremely rare.

The deists tend not to be the problem on the whole. It’s the theists who think Angry Jehovah (or Allah or whomever) has it out for anyone who doesn’t believe quite the same way as they do.

Deists tend to be the Invisible Pink Unicorn Believers of the spiritual world. A god set the universe in motion and then went to play cricket and hasn’t come back to check on what happened and whether anything became of our universe.

But, yes, theists suffer an abundance of credulity. :D

fundiediscord:

intheshadowofyggdrasil:

sonic-hip-attack:

peteshotfourguysincalifornia:

If god isn’t real, then why are bananas so perfectly made for consumption by humans?

Not only is it easily gripped by our hands, it even has a tab on one end to ensure easy opening. It also curves towards your mouth as you hold it in your hand, and is soft and very nutritious. To add frosting to the cake, it’s easy to tell if a banana is ripe simply by observing its color.

In other words, god designed the banana for human consumption. I think it’s quite reasonable to conclude that those who seriously think that bananas “evolved” by random accident are a bit mentally challenged. It’s like saying that a perfect working jumbo jet is likely to be assembled simply by throwing all components into a box and randomly mixing it around.

LOL

can’t tell if this is a troll or not. I’m assuming yes, given all the perfect herp-derpy statements in this.

A) Bananas as we know them were selectively bred to be this way. The curve, the color, the sweetness, all of that is man-made.

B) We actually hold bananas wrong. If you watch monkeys do it, they don’t peel from the top stem (your “tab”) like we do. they peel from the bottom opening. So, um, God clearly didn’t do a good job of explaining this “perfect for consumption” device to two of his smartest creatures.

C) Even ignoring that we bred bananas to be this way, perhaps the fruit evolved to that shape because it was eaten more successfully (therefore its seed was spread more successfully) when it was curved/delicious/bright and easy to see.

The banana doesn’t point to God any more than a cloud that looks like your Aunt Joanne points to God. It’s called an attribution bias. You see something, you APPLY meaning to it, and then work backwards to give credit to God for that meaning YOU added to something.

THE CHRISTIAN’S NIGHTMARE:

A pomegranate.

If Eris didn’t design us to bowl, then why the fudgeripple do we bowl so well?

I was bowling Saturday, in accordance with tradition, and watched several folks bowl underhanded and with what appeared to be a great deal of inebriation. And fuck if they didn’t curve that ball nearly as well as the showoff in the other lane who was bowling “correctly.”

Surely, Eris in her love for us, intended for us to bowl. Lots.

On the other hand, we know that modern corn and bananas are the product of human selection. In fact, it seems likely that all our cultivated food has undergone human selection.

You can tell because the pre-agriculture bananas were disgusting and the pre-ag corn had like one or two kernels. Clearly Eris did not intend for us to eat bananas or corn. Fortunately, she’s also pretty indifferent and doesn’t threaten hellfire if you fail to believe her ridiculous claims.

Something I’ve noticed… proponents of Intelligent Design always base their arguments in a fundamentally flawed understanding of basic scientific principles. Shortly after Charles Darwin introduced his theory of evolution, a bastardized misunderstanding of it was thrown around, based on the notion that evolution was a guided or controlled process, that it had some end goal or purpose, and that humans were the highest order in a series of stages of improvement. This pseudo-scientific misconception has carried through to today, despite the efforts of teachers who know better.

Like anything else, any order we see in evolution is invented. Evolution is a combination of random processes (natural selection and mutation) which does a wonderful job of suiting life to environment in most efficient manner possible. To assume that there is some driving force behind it is every bit as primitive as believing that lightning strikes are the work of an angry god smiting the people for their lack of piety.

It is actually possible to be a Deist and not be a credulous idiot, but it is extremely rare.

The deists tend not to be the problem on the whole. It’s the theists who think Angry Jehovah (or Allah or whomever) has it out for anyone who doesn’t believe quite the same way as they do.

Deists tend to be the Invisible Pink Unicorn Believers of the spiritual world. A god set the universe in motion and then went to play cricket and hasn’t come back to check on what happened and whether anything became of our universe.

But, yes, theists suffer an abundance of credulity. :D

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