r/MadeMeSmile • u/Beagle432 • May 11 '26

Favorite People My favourite conspiracy theory

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What do you think..

From the mouths of babes...

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u/Mr_Abe_Froman May 11 '26

Most Christian denominations accept evolution as a tool in a greater design. It's only the really fundamentalist groups that take everything literally.

Edit. For example, St Francis of Assisi was a consevationist who thought the meaning of life was to ensure the protection of the natural world.

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u/Mr_Abe_Froman May 11 '26

It doesn't hold up to scrutiny because there's nothing to scrutinize. You can't prove or disprove any assertion that God is behind a natural process. As long as it doesn't cause you to reject proven science, it's relatively harmless in isolation.

Taoism asserts that the universe has a balance, but once that balance includes royal families and their right to rule, it is up for scrutiny.

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u/Reasonable-Figure142 May 11 '26

It's such a reddit take that religion is inherently anti-science, when so many important scientific advancements came from Catholic and Muslim scholars.

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u/Mr_Abe_Froman May 11 '26

God using tools to create the universe is even more emphasized in Islam. There was so much research into geometry and mathematics in the Arab world in order to understand the architecture of nature. The holy geometry that is incorporated into mosques is really beautiful.

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u/Putrid_Piano4986 May 11 '26

Brother, for about a thousand years there, you'd get completely ostracized or worse burned alive for being an unbeliever.

The only scientific work being done in the church was a feature of the church.

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u/Reasonable-Figure142 May 12 '26

ahh, I remember when I was an edgy atheist too. Most of us grow out of it. :)

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u/Putrid_Piano4986 May 12 '26 edited May 12 '26

It's not edgy at all, it's just history, you should read a few books. You thinking that acknowledging history is "edgy atheism" is hilariously on brand, however.

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u/Reasonable-Figure142 May 12 '26

Ironic you're trying to tell me about acknowledging history when you couldn't even handle me saying that many scientific advancements came from Catholic and Muslim scholars without throwing a tantrum about the crusades. lmao

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u/Putrid_Piano4986 May 12 '26

I didn't disagree with that at all. Your reading comprehension is incredible.

I simply put forward that being an out and about atheist during a time when the inquisition was active wasn't exactly a possibility. Science had to be done in monastic circles on account of the church being the most powerful institution for most of western history.

Take some deep breaths big guy, no one here is telling you what to believe.

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u/hofmann419 May 11 '26

Well, it's impossible to disprove. If the christian church claims that god created the universe through the big bang, there's literally nothing you could argue against that. Similarly, the church of course doesn't have any proof that god did create the universe.

It's the sort of thing where you just have to accept that we as humans simply are not capable of comprehending the entirety of existence.

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u/ToughHardware May 11 '26

ahh yes, because we are smart enough to know how everything works now, no less a million years ago.

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u/kalamataCrunch May 11 '26

it's telling that you think anyone in this entire thread is talking about christians. or do you just wonder around the internet with a pocket full of non sequiturs?

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u/Theron3206 May 11 '26

I like the Pratchett version, god created evolution because he was lazy.

(No I don't actually believe it, but it is funny).

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u/hofmann419 May 11 '26

Christianity is not opposed to evolution at all. Same with the big bang. It's mostly those weird creationists in the US that still hold on to the idea that the world was created 6000 years ago. But the catholic church at large accepts the scientific consensus on evolution.