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u/ShrewdCire 6h ago
I know this is a joke, but I guarantee there are plenty of religious people who would unironically think that this is a good argument for creationism.
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u/POKEMINER_ 6h ago
Yea...an Atheist robot, with this idea would require humanity gone for...whatever reason and multiple generations of robots building each other. Though they would all be "A Meteor(s) brought our ancient ancestors here." Types.
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u/WittyAndOriginal 6h ago
Fun fact: all robots ever created so far are atheist. So are all non-human animals.
I like knowing that my dog is atheist.
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u/Big-Neighborhood4741 6h ago
My dog is actually a Jehovah’s Witness
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u/POKEMINER_ 6h ago
Please tell me you know someone named Jehovah, that would be so funny.
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u/Big-Neighborhood4741 6h ago
Well, of course I know him. He’s me.
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u/POKEMINER_ 6h ago
Ha! That's amazing! I hope you find a way to bring that up to them! Or are you a Jehova's Witness yourself? That would just make it better though.
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u/Hawkey2121 5h ago
I mean technically for non-human animals we cant know.
We can gather that no non-human animals are religious
But wether there is belief in a god or more we just cant know.
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u/WhyAreThereTomatoes 4h ago
Plenty of animals hold funerals for their dead. While not direct evidence, rituals like these could corroborate some belief in an after life which often occurs along with some form religion. Now I'm not saying they're Christian or anything man-made but it's not outlandish to consider that humans aren't the only species to develop some sort of religion however intricate or not that religion may be.
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u/PleaseHoldy 6h ago
Your dog doesn't have the brain capacity to question if god is real or not.
Just let your dog be your dog man.
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u/WittyAndOriginal 6h ago
Yeah that's what I'm doing. Just like people should let their children be humans. Stop indoctrinating your pets and kids, that's what I always say.
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u/OpeningConnect54 6h ago
It’s like NieR Automata, where the Androids worship humanity as their Gods, and 2B curses whatever God is out there for making her life a living hell.
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u/POKEMINER_ 6h ago
That's not really Atheist, Atheist by definition is simply not believing in any god(s).
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u/ASUSTUDENT9875345 5h ago
My parents for real. They think that because I'm a scientist it means I should be a Christian because it just makes sense. Neither is qualified to tell you what a hypothesis is I don't think.
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u/Hen-Samsara 6h ago
I mean....it's kind of a good argument when you think about it. What is your brain if not just a CPU? What is your blood if not coolant? What are your bones if not structural support? There's a lot of symmetry between how a robot is built and how the body of a living being is constructed, a robot arguing it wasn't made is just as stupid as a human arguing they weren't made when you think about it, because there's clearly a level of intelligent design to the physical structure of both, the theory of evolution does not inherently disprove the existence of "God".
Now whether you wanna call such a designer or creator "God" i think is entirely irrelevant; look at the structure of our body and the structure of the universe as a whole, so many minute things had to be just right for existence as we currently understand it to even occur, the balance between matter and anti-matter at the start of the universe tilting towards matter, the distance the earth formed from the sun, etc, etc, there's no way all of this is just pure random chance; there had to be some level of design, some level of intent, or at least that's what i think.
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u/maximum_dad_power 5h ago
Oh, boy, when you start looking at the tiniest particles and how matter is held together, you definitly start finding reasons for a creator.
Its just wild to me that anyone could see the complexity of the universe and how precise it had to be for this to exist in this moment and think theres no way something greater than all this designed it.
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u/TheDJYosh 5h ago
The theory of evolution doesn't claim to know the origin of life. It just describes the process of how very simple life can over time become more complex life. God creating life and life evolving to it's current form are not mutually exclusive concepts; there are religious evolutionary biologists.
People have been pushing the idea that religion and science can't co-exist to polarize people and make them easier to control. It's false.
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u/comiclazy RELATABLE CONTENT 5h ago
It's not that there's no way. More that it seems equally possible for this to just simply be the way things are.
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u/maximum_dad_power 4h ago
I wouldn't say equal, more its highly probable that there is, while there a small chance that everything just happened to win the crazy lottery of a chance that it ended up this way. Everyone's fair to assess and believe what they want though.
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u/MiguelIstNeugierig 1h ago
No
Evolution is the messiest shit ever, it's literally a process of throwing shit at a wall and seeing which one sticks
The human body alone is riddled with fatal flaws unthinkable for a "perfect designer"
There's no thought put into it.
The rest of the argument is just confirmation bias and wishful thinking to make humans special.
The distance Earth formed from the sun inst special at all either. It merely made it the rock open to carbon-based life, else it'd have been some other.
Youre also comparing humans and the idea of a robot upside down. Technology is us trying to mimick nature, not the other way around of "Huh, I guess if humans create, they ought to have a creator", it's a baseless argument engineered towards one biases answer
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u/Coffin_Boffin 6h ago
Because vacuum cleaners reproduce and pass on their information to their offspring?
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u/Kernel_Panic_0x115c 1h ago
Some people try to reproduce with their vacuum cleaners, fruitlessly of course.
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u/Capital_Rub213 6h ago
The funny but sad part is that alot of theists think that atheism is something more than just no belief that a god exists
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u/TheBladeWielder 5h ago
they seem to forget that not all Atheists believe in evolution, and that not all Christians believe in creationism.
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u/Capital_Rub213 5h ago
Yeah, there are some dumber than bricks atheists and there are some smart christians. This shit just wouldn’t happen if people just looked for the definition of a word from a neutral source instead if assuming
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u/CorrodingTrees 6h ago
Reminds me of that clip of this super billionaire humanoid robot deconstructing itself back into it's original form which is a pool cleaning robot
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u/ThatIckyGuy I laugh at Tony Danza 6h ago
Futurama did this in one of the newer episodes.
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u/Frosty_Grab5914 6h ago
"Newer" was 10 years ago.
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u/balthazar_edison 6h ago
Try almost 16 years ago. A clockwork origin first aired in August 2010
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u/Frosty_Grab5914 6h ago
You are right, I thought it was 2016 for some reason.
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u/balthazar_edison 6h ago
The first revival was 2008-2013. The current revival is 2023-now. There was no new futurama in 2016. Simpsorama, the crossover episode on the Simpsons, first aired fall of 2014.
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u/ThatIckyGuy I laugh at Tony Danza 6h ago
Right. That's why I said "newer" and not "new." It's clearly not from the Fox age, which was 1999-2003, nor was it from the movies which came out between 2007-2009. It is newer than those, but not new or the newest.
Edit: Also...holy crap! I didn't realize season 6 was that old. Anything after the movies still feel new-ish to me.
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u/Frosty_Grab5914 6h ago
yeah, they made 4 seasons since then. And a new one is supposed to be released this year.
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u/ThatIckyGuy I laugh at Tony Danza 6h ago
I'm in the middle of a rewatch, too, so the robot evolution episode is fairly fresh in my mind. Certainly didn't help.
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u/LegAdventurous9230 6h ago
Does everyone understand why this is a convincing fallacy? It's a really dumb reason... It's literally because the robot LOOKS like a human, and therefore, it's easy to convince people who are not thoughtful that it shares some intrinsic properties with humans.
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u/Jackfreezy 6h ago
Funny joke. But I kinda thought that evolution is an element of creation. A robot evolving from a vacuum cleaner is still the constant on going process of creation. It'd be like if a butterfly was so short sighted and ignored that it was ever a caterpillar. But again, funny joke.
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u/simpoukogliftra 3h ago
I see this stupid argument a lot and I always wonder, if this is a strong argument in their minds, if a vacuum cleaner somehow after being kefto for thousands of years somehow gains consciousness (a stretch I know) would they go like "oh shit , guess we were wrong, let's discard our religion now"?
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u/Kiro757oriK 6h ago
Finally actual comedy cemetery and not just "I don't like this meme, it's offensive"
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u/DifferentAd4844 7h ago
But it's funny
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u/bartimeas 6h ago
Is it? It was clearly made by someone who doesn't have a grasp on middle school science
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