I don't take the "evolution" lie seriously at all.
"Evolution" didn't even start with Darwin. He took it from Babylonian pagan "mystery" cults.
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"Evolution" didn't even start with Darwin. He took it from Babylonian pagan "mystery" cults."
No, that was Christianity that was stealing from the Babylonians. And they weren't the only ones they swiped shit from either.
Oh, for fuck's sake. If you're going to quote your pastor at people, at least have the decency to stay awake and attentive for the *entire* sermon so things don't get all jumbled in your poor little head.
Perhaps I can find another use for my collection of Darwin's works.
I can drop them on Chris from a great height.
They weigh a lot more than a babble.
True, the theory of evolution started before Darwin came onto the scene. He came up with natural selection, which is the corner stone of evolutionary theory. Some naturalists were sharp enough to notice that the various species of the world seemed to suggest that there was some kind of metamorphosis going on over time, which was what led to the diversity of species long before Darwin's dangerous idea came into play. Darwin just allowed us to understand HOW that so-called 'metamorphosis' worked.
However, I'm pretty sure that Babylonian "mystery" cults weren't the originators of evolutionary theory...
If you are talking about the mystery religions that prevailed in the Mideast and Mediterranean basin for thousands of years, they -- together with a dash of Jewish Messiah myth -- are the source of your Jesus legend. They weren't long on science, though, any more than you people are.
It's true that the idea of evolution didn't start with Darwiin, various scientists were theorizing about it for a hundred years before Darwin, but Darwin was the first person to come up with a plausible mechanism.
And btw: even if the theory of evolution did originate from Babylonian mystery cults, which it didn't, it's still an extremely successful theory. It doesn't matter if a theory came from somebody who was doing a cocktail of heroin, shrooms, and LSD, just as long as it explains the facts and has predictive power.
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