Henry Rollins - Evolution

Choose your creation myth

There are a few people here (we know who you are) who believe an invisible super natural being that exists outside of space and time created the universe and everything in it. In itself this is a fine hypothesis, but there is no evidence to support it all at (for example, matter can neither be created nor destroyed).

In any case, if we are to accept creation as a valid hypothesis, then which creation story should we belief? There seem to be a number to choose from:

• The Bakuba account of demiurg
• The Maasai of Kenya
• The Mandinka people of southern Mali
• Voodoos Damballah (Sky-serpent loa and wise and loving Father archetype)
• The Yoruba creator called Olorun
• Unkulunkulu, the Zulu creator
• The Ainu people of Hokkaidō creation myth
• Hmong creation myth
• The Korean JoMulJu
• The Mansi people of Siberia creation myth
• Buddha Sakyamuni creation myth
• The Orok people of Sakhali creation myth
• The god Izanagi and goddess Izanami
• The first Division-Genesis in Tao Te Ching and partially in I Ching
• Ancient Finns creation myth
• The ancient Greek creation story
• The Voluspa Norse creation myth
• The Buddhist Trimurti of Brahma (the Creator) creation myth
• The Sikh Scripture, Sri Guru Granth Sahib (SGGS) creation myth
• Surat Shabda Yoga creation myth
• The Babylonian creation myth
• The Ennead creation myth
• The Ogdoad creation myth
• In Hermeticism creation myth
• The Muslim creation story found in the Qur’an.
• Jews and Christians creation myth
• Mandaeism creation myth
• The Zoroastrian story of creation
• Mesopotamian creation myth
• Kiowa Apache creation myth
• The Coatlique creation myth
• Cherokee creation myth
• Choctaw creation myth
• The Digueno creation
• Hopi creation myth
• Inuit Indian creation myth
• Iroquois creation myth
• Lakota creation myth
• Maidu creation myth
• Navajo mythology
• Seminole creation myth
• Tlingit creation myth
• Australian Aboriginal Dreamtime
• Polynesian creation myth
• Hawaiian Māui and Kumulipo creation myths
• The Māori creation myth
• Tagalog creation myth
• The Incan creation myth
• The Maya of Mesoamerica creation myth recounted in the book “Popol Vuh”
• Mormonism creation myth
• Raëlism creation myth
• Scientologists creation myth

To my mind, all of these have exactly the same evidence supporting them - none.

2% is a lot!

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You just need faith!

I have discovered something peculiar about the theist mind, and I was guilty of this in the past. When all the arguments have been dismissed with clear rational reasoning the last resort of a believer is to declare “You have just got to have some faith!”. Obviously, I disagree.

First let’s define what we mean by faith. Faith is the belief in a notion or idea to spite any evidence to support it, or in some cases in complete contradiction to the evidence available. When a believer states “It’s all a matter of faith”, my usual retort is now “If it’s solely about faith, then why should I not have faith in Poseidon, Zeus, Baal, Xenu, Vishnu, Allah, or Wotan?” Typically this is meet with stoney silence.

But I am not here to make that point, I want to highlight another aspect to this poor argument. If it’s just a matter of faith, why do believers try SO HARD to conjure evidence to support their claims?

In America you have Christian Evangelical’s building “Creation Museums” detailing in extraordinary detail how science supports their particular version of creation. Of course, they completely ignore vast mountains of knowledge and research that disagrees with their prior assumptions about the universe and present twisted versions of what we do know in order to further their cause. Are the people who build these monuments to ignorance aware of what they are doing, or are they themselves victims of their religious delusions?

We have numerous authors publishing misleading propaganda on “the religion of atheism”, or “the evils of evolution” for no other apparent reason than these conflict with their deeply held core beliefs.

If all I need is “faith”, then why did Jesus exist at all (assuming he did for a moment). Why perform all these miracles? Why bother healing the sick, walking on water, feeding 5,000 people, curing blindness, and coming back to life if it’s all a matter of faith? Surely NOT to provide evidence he was the “son of god”, the Messiah, and the savour of all mankind?

Even god himself was required to show numerous “proofs” of his existence by creating everything, causing a global catastrophic flood killing everyone on earth, smiting cities with fire and brimstone to destroy the wicked, impregnating a virgin, lighting a star in the sky to guide three wise men to his place of birth, setting bushes alight, parting the seas, writing commandments in stone, and underlying the crucifixion with earthquakes, eclipses, and zombies.

If it was “just a matter of faith” you would not have need for the proofs contained in the bible. The stories of god’s wrath, or his supposed eternal love for us demonstrated via the act of killing himself to appease the curse he himself imposed (never mind the fact that this brilliant solution from the omniscient creator of the universe doesn’t work if you don’t “have faith”). Why do you need the bible if it all comes down to faith? Why hold up the bible as evidence of the existence of your god, because the book says it was divinely inspired. This you call proof while simultaneously claiming you do not need proof, for proof denies faith and without faith you can not be a “holy man”.

Don’t tell me is “just a matter of faith” when you try so desperately to provide evidence or rational arguments for the existence of your particular version of the omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent, omnibenevolent creator. 

Your retreat to the phrase “you just need some faith” is the last ditch attempt to convince your opponent to believe because of the lack of evidence, or to spite the evidence, or just to simply believe for the sake of believing.

Faith does not require evidence - that’s WHY we call it FAITH! So stop trying to provide any evidence or reasoning to support your claim. You are only undermining your position and making a fool of yourself.

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