I wasn't going for simple. I was going for correct, which can be more difficult, but is worth the effort. Atheism requires intelligence and courage. What is easy is to accept the first holy book thrown into your playpen, and just believe that.
So now Occam's simplest explanation is no good! Make up your mind.
To the believer, the secular humanist says rise from your knees, cease groveling and calling yourself an unworthy worm in the eyes of an angry god, shed your magical thinking, stand up with pride like the bipedal ape you were born to be, and take your proper place in the cosmos..
And the result of this 'rising' is that you think you came form a worm like thingie (same ancestor as the flat worm) and have no eternal life or future or purpose etc etc.
Face and accept the very real possibility that we may be all there is for light years, and that things don't get better if we don't make them better.
Man can't save himself.
Accept the likelihood of your own mortality and finititude.
Jesus died so we do not have to.
"You stare into your high definition plasma screen monitor from the comfort or your air conditioned and electrically lighted home, type into your cordless keyboard then hit enter, which causes your computer to convert all that visual data into a binary signal that's processed by millions of precise circuits.
"This is then converted to a frequency modulated signal to reach your wireless router where it is then converted to light waves and sent along a large fiber optics cable to be processed by a super computer on a mass server.
"This sends that bit you typed to a satellite orbiting the earth that was put there through the greatest feats of engineering and science, all so it could go back through a similar pathway to make it all the way here to my computer monitor 15,000 miles away from you just so you could say, "Science is all a bunch of man made hogwash."- anon.
Do you not have any sense of the message you send when you rail against science using science?
NONE of this has any connection to your origin fables religion. Zero.
It embarrassed Christianity further. There was a very fascinating trial iin which intelligent design was found to be religious pseudoscience. Several reputations were damaged. most notably Micheal Behe's. Dembski got pretty dinged up for tucking tail and running from the trial after some tough talk.
Monkey trails do not interest me. Judges can go eat a banana for all they know, and pick their armpits!
If that isn't how you approach reality, then what use are your ideas to others (or you)? This is pretty basic. If belief B leads to action A that results in desired outcome D, it's a keeper, and can be called whatever you call ideas that cork - correct, fact, knowledge, or truth.
I don't need religion. I've learned to navigate the world comfortably without it.
You got one like it or not.
The Christian Bible makes no mention of continental drift. You would have no such concept without my "religion." Yours was no help.
Earth was divided.....it fits in there well.
DNA functions according to the relevant physical laws,
Now it does, and it functioned as it did in the former nature also. How that was you do not know.
. We can visualize distant events that took place near the beginning of time.such as galaxy and star formation, which seem to obey the same rules we see today operating in our galaxy today.
Fantasy and godless dreaming. The reality is that if time is not the same in all the universe, you have no idea idea how old anything is! Ha. Religion.
We see the same spectral emission lines from the same atoms whose electrons were jumping from the same shells in exactly the same manner then as now.
Because you see them here.
These kinds of findings as well as the confirmed predictions of the Big Bang theory are what put those very tight limits on how much the laws of physics could have changed.
Those kind of fables show you have bad religion no science regarding your sick fables. Really.