First Prove God? (Another way Evolution Fails)

Posted on June 27, 2018 by A Bit Of Orange

I find that a lot of conversations with atheists on social media tend to follow the same path. I always hope for better conversations, but instead I wind up in deja vu land, and I have yet another good reason to be thankful for that MUTE button. One of the tired and well worn avenues which I get dragged down by the roach clowns who stop by to start an argument with me is the declaration that, before I can prove Evolution is false, I have to prove that God exists, and then I have to prove that He is the God of the Bible and not Thor or Zeus or Oprah.

I spend a lot of time reading tweets multiple times and saying to myself,

“What the whaaaaaat?”

Here is the point: It is possible to prove that Evolution fails without first concluding that the Bible is true. The irony is, you can’t come to the conclusion that Evolution is a fact without first rejecting the Bible. That’s what Charles Lyell and Charles Darwin and a host of other people have done. Now a days the kids are all told to use their faith in evolution as a reason to reject the Bible, but the point is the same.

One does not need to accept the Bible as true before he can reject evolution, one only needs to know enough science. If you want to see evolution fail, just look closely at evolution.

Evolution fails all by itself.

But once it does, the smart thing is to start asking- “Where we did come from?”, which will eventually lead you to discovering that the Bible is true starting on the very first page. The entire “Defining Evolution/Thursday Night Nachos” series shows just this- that evolution fails on its own merits merely by examining what it teaches and the relevant sciences. I suggest you check that out here. Among other resources. And remember, #JesusLovesYou

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Evolution is to blame for the violence in Charlottesville

Posted on June 25, 2018 by A Bit Of Orange

In late 2016 a collection of Nazis and KKK Klanspersons met in Charlottesville to protest something or generally be annoying. I don’t remember why and it’s not important enough to my point to Google. But it is worth noting that it was a pitiful, small gathering. Getting a group of White supremacists together is super hard these days unless you offer free pedicures or hold it under large banners reading “I’m with HER.” But I digress.

A big collection of other jerks came out to protest these jerks and shocking as it may be to those of you literally living under rocks in shallow holes in the ground, there was violence. I know, you expected the white supremacists and the black supremacists and other assorted loonies to meet and say, “Hey, look, we ALL love segregating people by color and assigning some value or identity to them based on their skin tone. Let’s meet on that common ground and talk out our differences over a Grande` skinny latte.”Image result for american nazis

Instead, someone got in a car and ran some people over.

On purpose.

I have to say “on purpose” because in places like, for instance, Chicago, people getting run over with a car happens with alarming regularity, but it’s often an accident caused by careless pedestrians walking on or near the street, or on the sidewalk, or occasionally in the lobby of posh hotels. Continue reading →

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Why I end conversations with people on social media

Posted on June 22, 2018 by A Bit Of Orange

Hey Friends,

Many of you have dropped by the blog or other social media outlets to converse with me, share your thoughts, and sometimes tell me how amazingly stupid I am, and I appreciate all of your comments. I prefer some over others, but I digress.

Some of you have found that these conversations don’t last forever, and I figured it was worth explaining why.

  1. I got busy with other things. This is a real common one, because I have bills and a wife and a child. A small child doesn’t take up a huge amount of space, but they are very distracting. And since I don’t get paid for this blogging stuff, I have to occasionally do other things so they don’t shut off the WiFi.
  2. I have said all I have to say. Once we go round and round I get vertigo and I need to lay down and play Angry Birds for several hours.
  3. You have failed to uphold your side of the conversation. If you’ve been throwing logical fallacies (Which I call being “Flawgical” TM) or personal attacks at me, I lose interest really quickly. One of my biggest pet peeves is when I am asked or told something and I answer it directly, and the other person acts like I said nothing, or they pretend I said something COMPLETELY different*. Similarly, when I ask a question half a dozen times and it goes ignored. At that point I say, “If you are going to invent my side of this conversation and ignore what I actually contribute, then it’s really not worth it for me to provide my half,” and I go find something better to do. Sometimes I vacuum.

So if you asked me something, or told me something, and wondered why you never heard back, there’s why. If I’ve already told you that you’re acting like I’m not part of the conversation, then don’t be surprised when I start deleting your comments, or use that wonderful little “Mute” button over on Twitter.

You people over in category #3, I don’t get you guys. You really that bored? Is leaving sarcastic comments on my blog about things I never said really better than Mine Craft? Maybe you need to get a dog, or take up golf.

I donno. Something.

But to all of you who take the time to read and reply, thanks. I mean that.

And remember: #JesusLovesYou

*Here’s a great recent example which you will think I am making up, but I am not:

Me: Thus again I say, Natural Selection cannot create new species, and Darwin’s book is wrong before the very first page (Which interestingly he admits in the 4th chapter of his book in the 6th edition).

Them: You will also, hopefully, see how, well, dopey and childish it is to say things like “if you go to Darwin’s Origin, the third printing, and see that the second word of the second sentence of the fourth paragraph is misspelled it’s obvious that Darwin’s theory is wrong!’

Me: [face-palm]

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Evolution and the Flat Earth

Posted on June 20, 2018 by A Bit Of Orange

Having spent some quality time looking into the moon landing conspiracies (this is what I do for fun while other people are golfing), the next obvious stop was the narrow world of the flat earth.

I imagine many people don’t realize what a big thing this is on Youtube. People make all KINDS of videos trying to sell the flat earth theory, using all kinds of fun pictures and computer graphics, and some of it is fairly convincing. By “some” of it, I mean “almost none of it”, but it’s fun anyway, like those books which dissect things from Star wars so you can see what the inside of Jabba’s sail barge looks like, or how a lightsaber works.

After watching a lot of these videos, and asking one of those video makers about his model of earth and space, I discovered an interesting correlation which you will think is sarcasm but is not: Flat Earthers are just like evolutionists, and the flat earth theory is just like the evolution myth. Continue reading →

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Wind Chill- WHERE IT ALL WENT WRONG

Posted on June 18, 2018 by A Bit Of Orange

Looking around the country, you may have noticed that a large percentage of the people who make up the United States have literally lost their minds. And the suggestion that they go out and find it is offensive. Actually, almost everything is offensive, but I digress.

We have MEN among us who INSIST that they are women, and WOMEN among us who INSIST that they are men, and we have been told to ACCEPT THIS AS TRUE. Yes, you are told that men ARE women and women ARE men if they FEEL like they are. Remember all of that time you wasted in Human Anatomy Class? I mean, you STUDIED for those tests, right? And now, all of it is considered hate speech.

How did this happen?

WIND CHILL.

Continue reading →

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Maybe the Atheists are onto something…

Posted on May 17, 2018 by A Bit Of Orange

I was called a name recently which I had not been called before. A twit on twitter called me an “evolution denier.” Right off the bat I want to state for the record that, whatever differences we Creationists may have with the Evolutionists, and whatever heated arguments may be had with atheists, we should all agree that “evolution denier” would be a terrible name for a band.

“Hello Hickman Nebraska! We are EVOLUTION DENIER!!!”

But the accusation made me consider something I had not thought of before. Why are we Creationists trying so hard when the Atheists have set the bar so comfortably low? Let’s just take a few pages from their playbook and put up our feet and take it easy for a change! Continue reading →

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People CAN Change Their Minds! Even on FACEBOOK!

Posted on May 15, 2018 by A Bit Of Orange

A lot of haters be hatin’, and saying things like,

“Why you gots to be sayin [poop] about other people? Why cants you just leave them alone?”

Lots of people simply like to rag on others for using social media to have discussions instead of merely posting pictures of their latest meal, or whimsical cat posters. Some people use the old social medias for the hope of convincing people to take another position on religious, political, or social issues. And in return, the haters be posting things like this:

“Your FaceBook post really convinced me that I had taken the wrong position on this social issue,”

said no one ever.

Continue reading →

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Why can’t we all be right? (A Not-a-Mormon misses the point)

Posted on May 10, 2018 by A Bit Of Orange

I was listening to an enraged caller trying to attack the host of a TV show for saying Mormonism is wrong. After a few minutes it was clear that she wasn’t really sure what Mormons believe, and while she claimed to be one, she wasn’t REALLY a Mormon, which she eventually admitted to.

Her only real point was, the host was saying some people were wrong, and she felt he was wrong to do so. So she called to condemn him for his wrongness.

I hope you can at least smell the irony if you can’t actually see it.

“ErmaGersh! That man said he felt that, in certain situations, violence is justified, and even necessary. I was so offended that I punched him in the throat! I mean, I HAD to!”

Continue reading →

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How Darwin invented the Internet

Posted on May 8, 2018 by A Bit Of Orange

Like Bill Nye, he calls himself the “science guy” and he had this to say on a recent online article.

“Funny how the religious fanatics (by which SG means people who reject evolution) seem to forget that without science they would be writing this all on paper and sending via the pony express. Three phase power, transistors, etc…all results of GREAT science.”

I see comments like this one ALL of the time. Some atheist with a cute pseudonym tries to make fun of creationists by reminding them that SCIENCE/evolution is responsible for all of the video cameras, laptop computers, blogs, and youtube accounts that the creationists are using to spread their silly religious ideas. Continue reading →

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Big White Whale (Not a post about dieting)

Posted on April 25, 2018 by A Bit Of Orange

Lately, the church attenders in our nation have wondered how, if it’s so obvious to people like me that Genesis 1-3 are meant to be read as literal history, that so many people with college degrees have decided that it is merely a literary device meant to teach a spiritual lesson and not real history.

Their point is a good one- HOW would educated people fail to miss the obvious historicity of Genesis 1-3  and then themselves write all kinds of theories about how Genesis is a metaphor for the ancient pagan temple dedication, used by Moses as a literary device to describe how God formatted the world in the guise of a temple, like maybe the Egyptians would have done.

It is something of a quandary, and I think I can clear it all up by having you ponder one facet of literary history: Moby Dick.BIG WHITE WHALE copy Continue reading →

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