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my-tardis-bookshelf:prguitarman:bauske:growlywolf:killbenedictcumberbatch:mcguirkthejerk:kristinethequeen:jimmysnowvakk:This is what pisses me off about Tumblr. You all say you’re so accepting and you don’t want to offend anyone, but then thousands of people reblog something like this because Christians aren’t the minority. You wouldn’t want to offend a Muslim, and if this were offensive to them or another minority, there’d be so many comments about it. But everyone is completely fine with offending a non minority. “You’re not oppressed, you can’t talk!” You know what? I’m a Christian and this offends me and my faith, but nobody’s going to care about that because I’m not oppressed. Tumblr is hypocritical and that needs to stop.Amen to the commentOh my precious lambs:Examine why you are being offended. Because this is literally how a sunset works. There is not room for debate on this question. There is less room for debate on this than there is on just about any other thing. We are not reblogging because Christians aren’t the minority, dear ones. We are reblogging because after the debate a few days ago, creationists were given the opportunity to pose a question for non-creationists. One of these questions was:“How can you explain a sunset if their is no god?” (sp.)Questions, we assume, are posed so that someone might answer them. And yes, there is an answer of how exactly one can explain a sunset given the absence of a divine force. Now, you can certainly posit that God is the creator of all things and so all things came from him including the sun and light refraction and anthrax and kittens and famine and all that jazz.But you don’t get to deny that THIS IS HOW A SUNSET WORKS, and of the necessary elements of this equation (Sun + Atmosphere + Angle = Sunset), God is not one of them. That’s because everything else is an observable phenomenon, and God is not. You can explain a sunset without God. You can go ahead and believe that God’s part of it all. That’s cool. Lots of people believe stuff like that, and I encourage you to delve into the ways that people make science and their faith jive. But if you are offended by being shown the basic scientific principals behind a sunset, you must be offended by damn near everything. And that seems exhausting. In short:“science offends me”The thing is, the question of “how can you explain X if there is no God?” is posed in some cutesy little snide way which actually says, “Oh you sillies, you can’t explain anything without God!”This is why she and Creationists are being mocked. Not because they have a faith or a set of beliefs, but that they’re so arrogant in thinking their beliefs are “truth” when basic, provable, factual, supported science says otherwise. And furthermore, they’re taking that level of ignorance to an extremely dangerous and destructive place by trying to inject it as a equal substitute for science, which is an incredible detriment our society and needs to be stopped. I literally cannot reblog this fast enough.Beliefs are one thing, and everyone is free to believe what you want, but science is fact. Science started because we, as people, didn’t understand things, so we researched and learned and figuring stuff out so that the things we didn’t understand we understood. Scientists didn’t just make this stuff up. They’ve spent decades discovering the world and learning how it works so that we can grow and discover even more!What makes me sad about some creationists is that they want to deny these things. It’s like there’s a fear of learning, a fear that if they uncover the truth of the matter, all their beliefs will be ruined and God will no longer exist.These scientific facts exist, and you’re still welcome to believe there’s a God. That’s okay! But don’t deny science and decades of human study and replace it with “God did this” because you don’t want to understand how amazing our world is and how it works.Huh. Guess I could have reblogged that faster had I not typed all that. I STAND CORRECTED.[learning intensifies]Tl;dr “their” typo not mentioned onceActually, the bible specifically says not to use the bible as a scientific textbook. They said you can believe in any scientific theory as long as it doesn’t. Contradict with your belief in god. They also said not to take anything in the bible literally. Most of the shit there is metaphors. -- source link