Creaphis
I will deliberately take a contrary position just for the sake of writing incredibly long arguments

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I'd better not watch the 180 movie because I know if I do I'll just feel pissed off all day. I am familiar with Ray Comfort, though; I remember watching some of his anti-evolution stuff, co-starred by a former child actor, evidently the most famous and charismatic fundamentalist he could find. For some reason, the one argument from those videos that keeps coming back to my mind is, "It actually takes more faith to believe in evolution than to believe in creationism." Okay, that just goes to show that Ray Comfort doesn't believe in God out of conscious effort (which I respect) but because, for him, it's the easiest, intellectually-laziest thing to believe in, as he thinks that the physical evidence for creationism outweighs the evidence for evolution. This is obviously wrong, but even if it weren't, physical evidence shouldn't be used as a basis for faith, anyway. This is a contradiction of terms. We have faith in the things for which we have no evidence. If you only have faith in God because of misinterpreted physical evidence, you're not being faithful, just a crappy scientist. My Christian friends agree with me on this so this isn't just the opinion of a knee-jerk atheist.
NINJA EDIT: Flanders is a dweeb but also a faithful, non-judgemental Christian character and thus does not deserve to be associated with Ray Comfort. Shame on you geX!
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