Jennifurret

DARWIN FISH SALE



Bumper stickers, magnets, mouse pads, pins, earrings, and patches!

- Wed, Nov 14th from 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM outside CL50

- Thurs, Nov 15th from 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM in LILY main lobby

Don’t miss out on these great deals - prices are never this low online!

Proceeds support the Society of Non-Theists at Purdue University. www.purduenontheists.com

DrNickRiviera

I personally am not a religious person, but in all honesty, flaunting whatever religion you are (Including being atheist or agnostic, which are technically religions), is just worthless. People who put Darwin fishes on their car are just as bad as people who put Jesus fishes on their car. Frankly, no one cares what you believe in, and the people who do are just idiots. One thing we can all agree on though, is that Scientology is just dumb. Really really dumb.

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kamikaze21

I think it is hilarious. I would love a Darwin fish for my car and i am christian (episcopalian) too.

xero

May Xenu strike you down.

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Jennifurret

Then don't buy one? That's your personal opinion. Others would like to show their support of evolutionary theory.

agorzals

I completely agree. I'm religious, but people shouldn't flaunt their beliefs with car magnets.

map

Argh, then I guess we should stop flaunting sports apparel or even things that say Purdue University. Heck, clothes should just be solid colors then nobody would get offended. But what happens when I like one color over another color. Someone may get offended by that. In that case, all clothes should be white or black.

Or we can just learn tolerance. I could understand if someone is getting in your face about something, that could be offensive and rude. A magnet is harmless. If a magnet offends you that much, go live under a rock. I'm sure you'll be safer there and any insecurities about the religion you've chosen will soon go away.

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agorzals

Sounds good.

ccb056

lol, I had no idea what a darwin fish was so I googled it and found this

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agorzals

haha. that's awesome

PwrRngr

That's an awesome pin. I wonder if they make them so they can be put on the back of my truck.

stathmk

I don't know what church you go to; so you know that I'm not making fun of you. It's just that this would be my favorite religion-related bumper sticker that doesn't have an image on it:

To err is human,
but to forgive is devine.
Neither is part of the policy of the U.S. Marines.

Wow. That's one clever bumper sticker.

Back to the Darwin fish topic. It took me a couple days to make this image last November:

However, its based off of a different one where the fish evolves hands and is holding a wrench. I'm in the process of getting the web pages moved to the permanent skeptic account now.

stathmk

Some people confuse the writings of Darwin with the writings of Empedocles. Darwin wrote that man descended from primates or a common ancestor of primates and man. Empedocles wrote that man descended from fish. I can't remember if it was History 333 or 350 where my Professor told us hilarious stories about Empedocles, Isaac Newton, and other people. Cool.

I don't normally watch South Park and I don't know the names of many of the characters. I don't know the crazy-talking man who teaches 3rd or 4th grade. He talked nonsense, said he doesn't believe that man evolved from monkeys, and then shouted out, "I'm not a monkey! I'm a woman!" That's about all of that episode that I watched.

ccb056

I don't see why evolution and religion are mutually exclusive

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stathmk

I think I'm done with being a comedian for tonight and moving on to the more serious posts.Seriously, I had heard from a lady whom I know that doesn't joke about these things that Scientology founder L Ron Hubbard was on a drug very much like crystal meth and developed schizophrenia as he had gotten older. Maybe we can't discriminate against schizophrenics because it's caused by genetics and trauma, but who in the world would use hard-core drugs? Scientology is also too cult-like.

Maybe 1 or 2 years ago, I believe I was looking at a web page about quotes from famous people and the current news makers. Gosh, I wish I could have remembered the man's name, but it's been so long. Since he seemed to be quiet, I don't know if he was a follower of one of the other world religions, or if he was Atheist or Agnostic. Or maybe he could have been a type of Christian that thinks that the preachers only care about money or that other Christians are delusional. His quote was similiar to the effect of "If God is so big and powerful, then never trust a man who believes that God is small enough to fit on a t-shirt, onto a bumper sticker, or into a political/company slogan." Or maybe he could have been the type of Christian or Jew that thinks that God is too holy to mention in public because of passages like the "Thou shalt not use the Lord's name in vain" commandment. We know of people like that.

PurdueDoubleE

@ccb: They're not. Evolution and Young Earth Creationism are mutually exclusive.

agorzals

That's really interesting. I'll have to save that quotation.

stathmk

Thanks, ccb056. That reminds me of something I had forgotten to mention. Some paranoid people say that Einstein and Darwin were Atheists. I believe Darwin was Catholic and Einstein was raised Jewish. Einstein also has a sort-of Buddhist, sort-of Deist quote where he says that he can't imagine why God would reward or punish his creations.

Religion and evolution don't necessarilly have to be mutually exclusive if people don't believe Genesis before and including the parts with Noah's Ark and The Tower of Babel. I'm not a Muslim, but the Koran has a flood with a man who's name should translate to Noah.

This is a good place for me to stop typing before somebody is more likely say that this should be bumped to a new thread.

Jennifurret

Actually, Darwin was a pretty staunch atheist. In his memoirs he wrote about these feelings, but when he died, his immediate family removed them before publication so he wouldn't be seen in a bad light by the public. Later, I believe it was one of his grandchildren, restored those sections to the manuscript because she thought it was only right to have his true beliefs heard.

ccb056

Most civilizations around the time of "the flood" had some sort of record.

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Eira

Most civilizations that are old enough also place their country and/or people as the starting point of human kind and say their gods created the earth. If it were another religious group blaming (crediting?) their god, would you have the same opinion about it?