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Originally posted by shakran
yep, i've heard that one too. They always say the bones were planted to test our faith. That always bugged me because if they really believe that, then they're saying that faith = abject stupidity.
I mean, there's an old saying that if it walks, talks, and craps like a duck, it's most likely a duck. Well, if it's 3 million years old and looks like the fossil of an ancient reptile, it probably is. If god really did plant all these fossils to test our faith, what he's really doing is testing to see if we're stupid enough to be presented with gobs of evidence pointing to one conclusion, yet still believe something else.
2+2 does not equal 5 no matter how strong your faith is.
I guess I just don't like the implication that god's sole purpose in life is to make sure we're stupid. I don't think that's what a higher power would be about at all.
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you're looking at this pretty much the same way i am. why would God create the remains of dead lizard-like animals? i just dont see the logic.
it serves us no purpose to have the "fossils" of some animal. sure, it gives us something to research, imagine, and speculate. but if they never really existed, then all research, images, and speculations would be pointless.