No you are not. You are randomly generated freaks of nature that just happened to carry a bunch of genes that were fairly well suited to the environment in which your ancestors lived.
A little while ago I got cornered by a two creationists who wanted to try to persuade me, an intelligent and rational person, that the theory of evolution was in fact a sham and that creationism or intelligent design was the faith based explanation that I should take more seriously. Unfortunately I have read the Bible and they had not read anything on the subject of evolution other than the materials they had been fed by their handlers. I tried rational reason but they had been well programmed to just talk over me and so I left them with the following question before I left: “have you seen any evidence of creationism?” no? well I have seen enough evidence of evolution to satisfy me for the time being, but fortunately you don’t have to take my word for it or act on faith because the evidence is there for you to see yourself.
What I don’t get is the constant quest by the fundamentalist christians to try to persuade people that something written as a parable or metaphor two thousand years ago should be taken as litteral. In the same way that kosher jews are just idiots following a several thousand year old health and safety manual, those who take religion to be litteral rather than a basic framework for morality are just dumb. Religion has always been a great way to pacify the masses; be good now and you get eternity of happiness. Religion is also a way to promote the idea of marriage and avoid men unknowingly investing their time and resources providing for an illigitimate child, the fear behind the culture of monogamy in the Abrahamic and other religions. We have now moved on and so litteral interpretations of whatever brand of creator fantasy are just no longer relevant in a world where communcations, science and law replace the requirement for religion.
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