This has been said over 9000 times...

9/14/2008 | 2:06 AM | Evolved Rationalist

...but I think it is time to say it again.

One of the most irritating straw man arguments I have heard from creationists is that evolution is atheism.

Yes, folks. People actually think that this is the case.

RRRAAAGGGEEE!!!!

When are the creationist dumbfucks going to understand that the theory of evolution has nothing to do with atheism or even religion for that matter? Whenever I pose a seemingly simple question to creationists along the lines of “Where in the theory of evolution does it say that there is no god?”, most creationists start fumbling, fudging, preaching or quoting from the Bible.

Cretinous theistards, I’ll set it straight once and for all: The scientific theory of evolution is not atheism. Understanding the theory does not require atheism. The theory of evolution is silent on the issue of the existence of an active deity. It is no different from the other scientific theories in that it does not make any claims about your pet religious ideas.

The debate on the existence of an active deity is not a part of the scientific theory of evolution. Evolutionists do not bring god into the facts supporting evolution; rather, it is the creationist who starts the old straw man about evolution actually being 'atheism'.

One creationist went as far as to tell me that evolution is atheistic because the theory of evolution does not mention that god was involved in the evolutionary process. However, this notion is false because the theory of evolution does not make a claim claim one way or another about the existence of a deity, and although the theory of evolution does not say that a supernatural deity directed the evolutionary process, it does not say that there is no active deity. The theological arguments about the existence of an active deity/personal god is not included in the study of origins simply because it is not science and because there is no evidence for the existence for such a deity directing the development of life.

If creationists want to make a convincing argument that evolution equates to atheism because god is not mentioned in the theory of evolution, why don’t the same creationists claim that meteorology also equates to atheism because the meteorologists do not say that god is involved in directing wind patterns?

Creationists insist on mentioning god and pushing their fundamentalist religious beliefs into every damn thing, yet they are the ones who claim that evolutionists are attacking religion. They are the ones viewing creationism as their religion, so perhaps they are merely projecting when they whine about how evolution is an 'atheistic religion'.

This straw man notion is riddled with more contradictions that the ones found in the creationists' holy texts, but there are those who still defend this claptrap in the name of religion. At the rate it is going, I wouldn’t be surprised if the creationists are planning to take us back to the Dark Ages sometime soon in order to make pushing their theistarded god- lunacy into everything much easier. If that happens, science would be ~~fucked~~ ruined. Do not let this happen, folks. Speak out and say something. Do not be appeasers - the cost of appeasing the theistards by keeping quiet about reason is too high.

Onwards, science soldiers!