The hype is to be believed. What a great film. (Taken with instagram)
All the vocab! Such messy writing too. It all goes by so fast. (Taken with instagram)
The delightful Matt and his multi-era hair (Taken with instagram)
Not the Schonell’s best angle. (Taken with instagram)
At least it’s better than pine green and burnt orange? (Taken with instagram)
Real mature, Bradley. (Taken with instagram)
Sleepy Sunday morning (Taken with instagram)
#qanda
This is basically a tweet that (obviously) got way too long for twitter. I still don’t necessarily ‘get’ tumblr, but I have one and I’m not putting this on facebook. So here it is.
I can’t be bothered getting hung up on the God Gap trap crap etc., because if I were Christian it would mean nothing to me, and as a nontheist it’s equally ridiculous. This also goes for Big Bang and evolution - if I were Christian it wouldn’t be hard for me to believe that God made physics —> physics made the Big Bang —> God made the Universe. My understanding of Christianity and a lot of my respect for it comes from the whole idea of faith - belief without proof, taking a leap and trusting. Trying to prove God is to misunderstand God, in my understanding/opinion. That’s also why Christianity is way too big an ask for me.
This debate should be about faith and its meaning in people’s lives and whether or not it’s potentially dangerous, its effect on children, the cost of religion, whether it’s an outdated explanation for life or a whether the reason people still believe is because God is actually out there, or whether or not something like Christianity is generally a force for good. Anything other than that is just personal opinion and individual difference. There are so many different reasons for and types of atheism and theism; trying to pit one against another is like arguing over your favourite colour.
It would be interesting to hear some genuine debate between science and Christianity, but for whatever reason, Dawkins and Pell won’t engage, they’re just throwing words at each other.
Meh.
