Saturday, December 26, 2009

Atheism anyone?

Well, this guy is hilirious. Seriously in his own world and giving evidence as to why religious people are a bit illogical.



Let me give my own evidence on the logic of God:


"The Babel fish is small yellow and leech-like, and probably the oddest thing in the Universe. It feeds on brainwave energy received not from its own carrier, but from those around it. It absorbs all unconscious mental frequencies from this brainwave energy to nourish itself with. It then excretes into the mind of its carrier a telepathic matrix formed by combining the unconscious thought frequencies with nerve signals picked up from the speech centres of the brain which has supplied them. The practical upshot of this is that if you stick a Babel fish in your ear you can instantly understand anything said to you in any form of language. The speech patterns you actually hear decode the brainwave matrix which has been fed into your mind by your Babel fish. Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mindbogglingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as a final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God. The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing." "But," says Man, "the Babel fish is a dead giveaway isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves that you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED." "Oh dear," says God, "I hadn't thought of that," and promptly disappears in a puff of logic. "Oh, that was easy," says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is whte and gets himself killed on the next zebra crossing. Most leading theologians claim that this argument is a load of dingo's kidneys, but that did not stop Oolon Colluphid making a small fortune when he used it as the central theme of his best selling book 'Well That About Wraps It Up For God'. Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different race and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation. "

Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, 1979, Chapter 6

I really like Douglas Adams arguments against religions. In response to people who would claim that we are so perfectly designed to work in our world and that our world meeting all our needs, that a God must have played some role in creation (or intelligent design), he would put forward this analogy:
A puddle, were it sentient and using the same argument, would claim it was so perfectly fitted to the hole it occupies that the hole MUST have been designed just for it. However, ofcourse the puddle is the shape it is purely because of the shape of the hole it occupies. Just as humans and all plant and animal life has evolved (Yes, EVOLVED) to fit and work with the environment we are in.

Evolution, gotta love it.

Its Super-Cool.

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