All things dull and ugly,
All creatures short and squat,
All things rude and nasty,
The Lord God made the lot.

Each little snake that poisons,
Each little wasp that stings,
He made their brutish venom.
He made their horrid wings.

All things sick and cancerous,
All evil great and small,
All things foul and dangerous,
The Lord God made them all.

Each nasty little hornet,
Each beastly little squid–
Who made the spikey urchin?
Who made the sharks? He did!

All things scabbed and ulcerous,
All pox both great and small,
Putrid, foul and gangrenous,
The Lord God made them all.

One section attempts to encourage you in by being nice, saying how great things are when you’re a Christian, extolling the virtues of eternal life, providing support in the community and so on.

The other section attempts to force you in by threatening death and eternal hellfire if you don’t.

At least the former are generally trying to be nice, misguided as they are in their aim. (You don’t have to be a Christian to be nice and a credit to the community, which is a line they often blur – but that’s beside the point.)

So how is a God a more logical explanation than evolution? I don’t get it. Simply because you’re bribed with the promise of eternal life?

And more ridiculous still — why send hate mail to somebody who expresses a different point of view? If you are so sure that you are right, why not just laugh and say ‘my, how misguided that poor man is’? Telling somebody they’ll burn for all eternity isn’t exactly going to endear them to your vision.
I wonder if these Christians are acting out because they fear their own doubts, and are thus angered at all that dare fuel those doubts even more…

Maybe he should reply by asking them why they don’t give credit to a lot of other things besides God. Or whether their God will approve of them spreading hate … I myself would not reply to those senders either I guess..

I’m not in favor of any theory so far .. it just will not change life if I adapt to any of those. I’m searching for my own truth as usual.
Well, searching .. soaring and seeing and chewing on stuff, reviewing etc etc .. no answers so far that will do. Which is not that bad .. Life will be there anyway. No matter who created it, how it developped .. it’s life as it is right now I have to deal with .. no God nor Darwin will help me there .. The urge to see more than this is not always there, just now and then .. which says it all I guess. Of not such a major importance at all when it comes to living life. Pondering upon stuff can be nice though. Single cell organisms if it needs to be evolution .. but those can be from somewhere else ofcourse .. not planet earth .. maybe we don’t come all from the same species .. or some of us dont go back so far .. dna .. reptiles .. insects .. etc etc .. .. maybe all part of us .. or partially part of us … They don’t know that much about human dna yet … more than half of it is a dark area.
They just started, science .. no wonder.

I’m not a scientist, so I can afford to speak like this. Entertain myself with brainwaves I don’t need to proof. We can all follow the same automated systems in our brain … and come to the same conclusions as many others before us … the difference is that we will have more fun when searching for stuff ourselves. Those who write about stuff had so much fun with this. Way more than people will have when just reading their stuff. Not that you should stop reading, but be aware of what it can;take away from you ..

Not to mention “I can hardly see how anyone ought to wish Christianity to be true; for if so the plain language of the text seems to show that the men who do not believe, and this would include my Father, Brother, and almost all my best friends, will be everlastingly punished. And this is a damnable doctrine.”

BTW I’ve just started reading ‘This Thing Of Darkness’ by Harry Thompson, which explores the relationship between Darwin & Fitzroy, captain of the Beagle. Excellent stuff, highly recommended.