{"id":2804,"date":"2012-03-07T12:17:34","date_gmt":"2012-03-07T17:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dangeroustalk.net\/?p=2804"},"modified":"2012-03-07T12:17:34","modified_gmt":"2012-03-07T17:17:34","slug":"you-cant-explain-it-therefore-jesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dangeroustalk.net\/?p=2804","title":{"rendered":"You Can\u2019t Explain It\u2026 Therefore Jesus!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over the weekend, I got into another conversation with Aaron Tabor. You don\u2019t know who he is? He has more friends on facebook than anyone! He runs the \u201cJesus Daily<\/a>\u201d page with 12 million fans. Every once in a while, I\u2019ll post an article on the page and to my surprise Aaron always responds. But we never really had a dialog\u2026 until this weekend. Aaron generally uses two arguments. The one I am going to talk about today is his view that science hasn\u2019t yet found strong evidence for how life began on Earth, therefore Jesus.<\/p>\n

First, I\u2019m not up on the latest science on this topic. So I really don\u2019t know if that is even true and Aaron tends to flat out lie. But let\u2019s for the sake of argument assume that it is true and that the leading scientists in the field have no idea how life on Earth began or at the very least don\u2019t have any strong evidence for their hypothesis. How exactly does that lead to the conclusion of Jesus?<\/p>\n

I tried to explain to Aaron that I have no problem saying that I don\u2019t have an answer and no need to make up an answer if I don\u2019t have one. Also, just because I don\u2019t know an answer doesn\u2019t mean that I have to accept an answer which doesn\u2019t seem plausible and is downright silly\u2026 especially when there is insufficient evidence for that answer.<\/p>\n

But let\u2019s give Christians like Aaron the benefit of the doubt and let\u2019s say that their answer isn\u2019t as ridiculous as it actually is. At most, they are making an argument for some kind of divine creator. But which one and how do we even know that it is just one? Even this extremely weak line of reasoning doesn\u2019t get us to Jesus.<\/p>\n

The tides go in and the tides go out\u2026 and even if we couldn\u2019t explain it (and we can) it still doesn\u2019t support the idea that God did it and even if it did, it wouldn\u2019t support the belief that the Christian God did it. To make matters worse, Aaron is a doctor who conducts gene research. He should fucking know better!<\/p>\n

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