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>This project argues that trade is the origin of most problems: from climate change to slavery, waste and pollution, corruption, crime, you name it.

>I sure do love sometimes eating exotic food imported from other parts of Earth.
<Do you know that by eating imported food via trade you are causing climate change, corruption and slavery?
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Atheists (for the most part) are rebellious Christians.

They reveal their underlying assumptions when they say things like "40% chance you would have been born an African".

If you're not religious then there is no "you" before you're born (or technically: conceived)...
It's funny because was not raised religious, so for me at an instinctive level, the idea of dying and meeting Saint Peter is kind of on par with the idea of dying and meeting Vishnu or something...

That said, to the extent Christianity teaches people not to be dumb, I fully recognize its utility.

So as much as I have difficulty imagining how it is to believe there's a fundamental truth which is Jesus, I have an even HARDER time imagining what it would be like to accept the baseline assumptions of Christianity (the soul, hell, etc), but to actively rebel against the teaching.

Shitlib-Atheism is such a weird mentality to me...

@cjd @phnt @vonzeppelin @Hoss Indeed, the huge vast majority of even White Mankind aren’t in any position to falsify much of anything current within the establishment dataset and paradigm. It’s really a priesthood by every metric. And we find ourselves beholden to them very much like the typical shopkeep in medieval Europe was beholden unto the Papal Church. The Ivory Tower remains gatekept by everything they can throw into it.

Well, it depends on how far you want to stretch it.

If you adopt the "humans are unique metaphysical entities not subject to evolution like animals are", I obviously can't PROVE you wrong more than I can prove we're not in Plato's cave...

BUT, for all intents and purposes, that doesn't really fit with the data. Darwin's evolution is something you can see in plants and animals, you can control it by breeding them, you can even model it in a computer program, and everything works out exactly as predicted. Human behavior does as well - so it's overwhelmingly likely that this is how it works.

But if you say "sure it may be like that, but God set it up" then legitimately unfalsifiable...

@cjd @phnt @vonzeppelin @Hoss Oh you’re talking about the Ark ? Gotcha. Yeah no I personally have no interest in falsifying computer models predicated upon evolutionary models, “Darwinian” or otherwise. I don’t at all doubt environmental pressures result in adaptive response by organisms, which then result in traits changing over time. And I don’t at all doubt it’s possible to “make it all fit” into a coherent “timeline” descending from some hypothetical single common ancestor.

That being said, I do doubt the claim that such a single common ancestor actually existed, within the given biosphere; and that such a model accurately explains the origins of the observed biosphere; and also very much doubt that random mutation is in reality the primary driver of evolution. But if other people believe those things it really isn’t my problem 😆

My main focus is of course on the historical reliability of the Genesis Narrative, up to and including a Global Flood. Independently of current findings in biology, the Narrative stands head-and-shoulders above all others for making sense of the entire scope and span of Human History. The key to seeing this is what I call Intentionality, though maybe other terms are prefered in mainstream literature on the subject about which I’m unaware.

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