Pity and Guilt: Yet Two More Reasons Creationism is Ridiculous

[`mud]

If someone tosses a coin here,
it would land on it's edge !
~
'mud

 

[rusra02]

Pity and guilt. Pity is ugly and guilt is useless. If a god really had designed and created us, we would experience neither emotion. Only a god created by us in our own image could endorse either pity or guilt.

Thoughts? Please discuss!

I think the opposite is true. If we are just animals, "evolved" from lower life forms, why do we feel pity or guilt? I think many find pity a beautiful quality, and feelings of guilt restrain at least some people from committing heinous crimes, and are thus quite useful. While the true God never feels guilt, he often feels pity for people.

 

[George-ananda]

Pity and guilt. Pity is ugly and guilt is useless. If a god really had designed and created us, we would experience neither emotion. Only a god created by us in our own image could endorse either pity or guilt.

Thoughts? Please discuss!

I am not making sense of these questions. They almost argue that humans have evolved for more complex things than biological survival. Pity shows empathy for other living things. Guilt is useful if it provokes change.

 

[`mud]

There seems to be a lot of facets on that diamond !
~
'mud

 

[Revoltingest]

I wouldn't disagree with it. I would just say that you have no way of knowing that and that the proper position is one of agnosticism.

I can't ever tell if you have a sophisticated wry sense of humor, or if we just don't understand each other.

 

[psychoslice]

Because she loves her child, she is taking pity on him.

I am not going to argue over a word, but for me its love, for you its pity.

 

[jac]

Pity and guilt. Pity is ugly and guilt is useless. If a god really had designed and created us, we would experience neither emotion. Only a god created by us in our own image could endorse either pity or guilt.

Thoughts? Please discuss!

Evolution is all about survival. To survive to show neither pity nor guilt. If you are not strong enough you do not survive nor do you allow a weaker member to endanger you. You show them no pity and do not feel guilty about getting rid of them. So from my view point emotions such as these would only be caused by a creator.

 

[Sunstone]

Evolution is all about survival. To survive to show neither pity nor guilt. If you are not strong enough you do not survive nor do you allow a weaker member to endanger you. You show them no pity and do not feel guilty about getting rid of them. So from my view point emotions such as these would only be caused by a creator.

Thank you so much for that string of garbled misinformation regarding evolutionary psychology. In a day and age when googling up better information about evolution is practically painless, your post is shameful.

 

[`mud]

It's a lot like borrowing one of Trump's mirrors,
everything is right side up, but it doesn't make sense !
Where's the smoke anyways ?
~
Humans in general prevent their own evolution,
in my thoughts, we feed the wrong wolves !
~
'mud

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Evolution is all about survival. To survive to show neither pity nor guilt. If you are not strong enough you do not survive nor do you allow a weaker member to endanger you. You show them no pity and do not feel guilty about getting rid of them. So from my view point emotions such as these would only be caused by a creator.

That's the cool part about being a social animal - We don't have to be strong enough on our own because we are so much stronger as a group, and our working as a group is partly was has allowed us to thrive and flourish. For us, evolution didn't make us isolationist like a snake, a tiger, or a shark, but rather our survival is dependent upon social bonds. Even our forerunners the Neanderthals took care of those who less physically capable, and those people likely contributed as they could.

 

[`mud]

Like this thought:
".... but rather our survival is dependent upon social bonds."
from:"Shadow"....and I like shadows, especially the quiet ones,
and I really like it.
~
'mud

 

[Guy Threepwood]

Pity and guilt. Pity is ugly and guilt is useless. If a god really had designed and created us, we would experience neither emotion. Only a god created by us in our own image could endorse either pity or guilt.

Thoughts? Please discuss!

Pre Christian Romans felt no guilt or pity for the innocent people they watched torn apart for amusement, in great stadiums built for this purpose, similarly for Aztecs/ Omecs etc

Pity and guilt were ugly and useless of course, ... from the perspective of the spectators.

But can you at least appreciate more than one perspective here?

 

[CreeperHugger]

Pity and guilt. Pity is ugly and guilt is useless. If a god really had designed and created us, we would experience neither emotion. Only a god created by us in our own image could endorse either pity or guilt.

Thoughts? Please discuss!

This is a great question! This is probably one of the first things a lot of Atheists ask, but the answer is pretty simple. According to Christianity, God let Adam and Eve eat from any tree except the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, man sinned, and God punished them by banning them from the garden, this is how I believe evil, sorrow, and bad things as a whole came along.

 

[`mud]

REALLY !