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    Quote Originally Posted by Straight Shooter View Post
    Im pretty sure YOU did. The Lord God made me. Youll see one day soon.
    The Lord God made me an atheist.

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    Quote Originally Posted by FromMyColdDeadHand View Post
    There is a HUGE evolutionary pressure for sentience. Almost like the race for AI in computers. Planning, communication, society, ethics and abstract thought.
    Thats the real argument right there. Perhaps intelligence is only up to to a certain point. Enter the Fermi paradox, if sentience and intelligence is so beneficial then why is universe so devoid of it? Its entirely possible intelligence is actually HARMFUL to existence as intelligent beings tend to destroy themselves more often than not a la making AI.

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    Quote Originally Posted by jpmuscle View Post
    You evolved from an Ape. Accept it.
    First off, I know there are things we cannot understand. Having said that, I believe that God's creation day may not have been the same as our 24 hour day.

    The thing about evolution that I have never understood is where are all the half ape/half men? I mean how does it go, at some point nature says 'okay, all done, everybody in the pipeline that hasn't yet fully evolved, your out of here? And you there, you stay an ape - forever, sorry dude.'

    Same thing about the big bang theory, so who put those atoms into play?
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    Quote Originally Posted by 26 Inf View Post
    The thing about evolution that I have never understood is where are all the half ape/half men?
    Have you seen Congress? Antifa? AOC? Etc?

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    Quote Originally Posted by jpmuscle View Post
    You evolved from an Ape. Accept it.
    We evolved along side of apes.

    Quote Originally Posted by vicious_cb View Post
    Thats the real argument right there. Perhaps intelligence is only up to to a certain point. Enter the Fermi paradox, if sentience and intelligence is so beneficial then why is universe so devoid of it? Its entirely possible intelligence is actually HARMFUL to existence as intelligent beings tend to destroy themselves more often than not a la making AI.
    I do worry about AI, but if it is truly that much more advanced, it will just leave us- which would also explain why we haven't heard from them. The universe is uncomfortably silent, eerily quiet. I like to run the Drake Equation backwards. The longer we go with out hearing from aliens, the less likely they become. Intelligence may be dangerous, but the universe is also frighteningly deadly. Or do you get smart enough to realize that it all doesn't matter and Aliens are a bunch of Lewbowski's. What ever man.

    Quote Originally Posted by 26 Inf View Post

    The thing about evolution that I have never understood is where are all the half ape/half men?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mick Boon View Post
    The Lord God made me an atheist.
    Nah. That was the other fella.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Straight Shooter View Post
    Nah. That was the other fella.
    The Lord God made everything, read a bible.

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    Consciousness not only evolved, we’re about to create it in the computer labs.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mick Boon View Post
    The Lord God made everything, read a bible.
    I am not a religious man nor am I a biblical scholar, but I believe that the Lord God made you with the option to chose to be an Atheist or not. The choice to follow whatever fellow that you want to is one of the gifts bestowed upon mankind. So some say at least.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Striker6 View Post
    I am not a religious man nor am I a biblical scholar, but I believe that the Lord God made you with the option to chose to be an Atheist or not. The choice to follow whatever fellow that you want to is one of the gifts bestowed upon mankind. So some say at least.
    I don't recall being offered a choice, but if he did give me the choice to be an atheist he's an idiot.

    Perhaps it was another god who gave me the choice !

    " God standeth in the congregation of the mighty. He judgeth among the gods "

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