Gooood morning atheists, how do you explain information?

Even if (which I doubt very much) you had studied evolution on doctoral level: The scientific method (which I doubt that you understand it, or you could disprove evolution yourself, get a Nobel prize, and change the world for the better) requires peer review of the findings, so just because you are convinced that evolution is wrong doesn't mean anything in the grand scheme of things. Hence I dismiss your opinion and rather believe the guys who gave me the Internet.

And about that Christianity thing: Is truth really a majority vote (aka "might makes right") thing? And how far off does the second opinion have to be in numbers to be called "not a contender"? 2.2 billion Christians, 1.8 billion Muslims, 3.2 billion other people (The dominant world faith practically being that the Abrahamic religions are wrong, and 5 billion believing that specifically Christianity is wrong.) - that's a difference of only 400 million (about 20%). I don't think that 20% would be enough for me to choose my eternal fate. It's interesting that you use the majority argument. If you would find the Bible somewhere and read it because you have too much time, would you say "Well, this is compelling! I think those guys were on to something!" if there were not billions of other believers in the world? Concordantly, if there were no Christianity, but everybody would be a Scientologist, would you not also follow the wicked teachings of Scientology? Your epistemological standard is just horribly low, which your denial of evolution proves beyond reasonable doubt.

I could say that it all comes down to the fact that anyone could make shit up and make people follow them (especially with a crowbar-against-the-weak-minded like Pascal's Wager / Hell), and it has been tried many many times in history, and has worked many times. That Christianity and Islam are currently the dominant religions is partly randomness and partly the assimilative design. To join either of these with sane mind ... well, I can't complete the sentence, because no one with sane mind would do that.

But what it all really comes down to is this: I am God. I know that all religions are wrong. And that's it.

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