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Debating Christianity vs Atheism has to be the one of the most pointless things in the world.
The agnostic master race watches on with contempt.
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Agnostics are just atheists; there is no practical difference. They are not mutually exclusive. An agnostic is someone who "doesn't know" whether God exists, which overlaps with "weak" atheism. A "strong" atheist is someone who claims to know that God does not exist. There are very few "strong" atheists, because this is something they don't actually know, and is not a position that can be defended.
There are many lines of evidence from which it is possible to know that God exists. One of my favorites is consciousness. Supposing it were possible for us to build a man from the physical elements of the world, in much the same way a computer or robot is built, there is still no way make a creation of man actually have conscious experiences. You can have a collection of cells that can walk and talk, but not actually feel anything. It's possible to infer that there is a property of mind in the universe. But what caused that? Our consciousness is not eternal, but came into existence in time. Therefore, there must be a single, uncaused First Cause, which did not begin existing in time because He created time. And that He can create both the mind and body testifies to His supreme and eternal power.
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No. Agnostics are the only people mature and conscious enough to recognise that the eternal is unknowable, beyond anyone's possible comprehension. Atheists and the Religious are basically two sides of the same coin: believers, people who are arrogant enough to claim with certainty what they don't know, either because they can't handle the spiritual void or they can't handle the idea of not having the answers, usually smug know-it-all's with a superiority complex in the case of atheists. For religious people who claim to have been 'touched by god' in some way then fair enough, that is their experience and it's not for me to doubt (or believe), but otherwise....
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Human races developed by selective inbreeding in isolation, which caused certain genetic characterists (that were already present in the original ancestors of all human groups) selectively came to the fore. In the same way that we now have different breeds of dogs, who look very different today but all came from the same dog ancestors (wolves etc). But they were all canids and were created canids by God. They were never dolphins or snakes or birds.
No, macro Darwinian evolution is not a fact, and has never been observed in science. You should check it out... they've been lying to you.
God created everything, all the different kinds of animals, and humans as the crown of creation. Unfortunately humans sinned and were separated from their original glory they had with God. All this will be restored one day, and spiritually can already be restored when you get born again of the Holy Spirit through the blood of Jesus. Many people can testify of that, including myself.
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Well actually God has made himself known to the world, by coming in the form of a human being 2000 years ago. That was the most important event in human history since creation. Even our modern calendar starts from the birth of Jesus (although he was likely born between 4BC and 2BC in reality) -- and label what was before him "BC" (Before Christ). And with the advent of the internet, everyone in the world can now hear and know about Jesus Christ, which is perhaps another reason why Christianity is seeing such an explosive growth in previously unreached areas of Asia.
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