lord give me strength...
PP:
For many years I was sincerely perplexed when someone told me they believed in the evolution theory or were an Atheist.
I have found myself in a similar situation many times, and i would recommend you try to listen to people who are atheists or believe in evolution so you actually know why they believe as they do.
I never understood how someone could ignore all the evidence for intelligent design and overlook all the holes in the evolution theory.
For example, the human biology clock is synced with the rotation of the earth, the earth is the perfect distance away from the sun to sustain life, the earth has an ozone layer to protect us from the sun's radiation, the earth naturally produces fruits and vegetables to be used for food, our bodies produce enzymes to break down the fruits and vegetables so it can nourish us, the earth produces water and oxygen, etc. All of this to me is clear evidence that the earth was specifically designed for human life.
As you have phrased it, it is equally strong evidence the earth was designed to produce Ipads.
Your argument also ignore evolution (which it is very obvious you have no idea what is about) and the fact the universe contain billions of stars which can form earth-like planets. Also when you write: "the earth is the perfect distance away from the sun to sustain life" I hope you realize the earth is not in a circular orbit and there is a range of distances the earth could be in which could sustain life.
I don't understand why you would think that considering that there are over 1,000 known planets and absolutely none of them show any signs of life.
The planets we are most likely to observe are extremely heavy and extremely close to their sun, and therefore very unlikely to sustain life. Also, how can you say none of the planets contain life? we would not be able to observe it...
A logical person can't look at all the evidence for intelligent design and say all of this came from a big bang.
what is the evidence?
How can gases mixing together or energy heating produce intelligent beings?
cosmological evolution explain why there are stars, stellar evolution produce the heavy elements required for life, life arise through abiogenesis and evolve to produce humans. The details take about 14 billion years and are not fully known, but its an explanation for which the positive evidence mount year after year as opposed to your explanation, "poof magic", which from an experimental POW has not moved forward the last 2000 years and are at the same level of evidence as the flying spaghetti monster, unicorns and hobbits.
How can intelligence come from unintelligence?
evolution...
Until now I honestly could never understand how someone could make a case for Evolution or Atheism.
no, because you are arguing from your own lack of knowledge on the subjects and it is an endless fountain of confusion you mistake for evidence. but rather than reading up on the subject, you apparently deside to psycho-analyze all atheists. i think there is a scripture in the bible that it is foolish to speak of things which one does not know...
I've now learned that the vast majority of people who are Atheist or promote the evolution theory are people who had bad experiences with religion.
Thats right, they realized God does not exist and they have --to some degree-- been lied to, often by well-meaning people. Secondly, having people arrogantly tell you what you believe and why, all while showing a complete lack of understanding of atheism and evolution, tend to put your in a bad mood.
These would be people who've been ex-communicated by friends or family members (shunning), molested or abused by a clergy member, a victim of religious violence such as Islamic terrorism, or religious hatred such as what a homosexual receives.
I fit in none of those categories. neither does my parents who also do not believe in God.
I've learned that it is these traumatic events that a person experiences in their lives that makes them abandon logic and start basing their belief in Atheism or the evolution theory on emotion.
dammit, there are books after book on the evidence for evolution. Where is the evidence for eg. the flood? Also the arrogant 2p psycho-analysis you have going is getting really old now. if you want to accuse atheists of not having any evidence, you should try to spend an hour or two on reading the overwhelming evidence: http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/comdesc/
How often do you hear someone say "I don't believe in God because there's too much suffering in the world"
extremely rarely...
or "If God was real this or that would of never happened",
ditto. its not an argument against god, its an argument against a loving god. and a damn good one. but since it seem outside the scope of this topic to address rational arguments or give an accurate representation of what atheists usually believe i am not surpriced you get that one wrong to.
these are emotional arguments and does nothing to disprove all the facts that point to intelligent design.
yes, but since atheism does not rely on those arguments (and they would obviously not work against a cruel God), they just amount to yet another strawman.
If you think for a second
if you recommend that i think, i will recommend that you read a book on evolution.
about the most prominent Atheist on this forum and in the world, you'll see that they all on some level had a bad experience with religion.
...and since we have had a bad experience with religion that invalidate our rational arguments against religion? rather than addressing what we have to say, you call our motives into question. meh.