{"id":192,"date":"2023-02-02T21:23:39","date_gmt":"2023-02-02T21:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesecularcommunity.org\/blog\/?p=192"},"modified":"2023-02-02T21:23:39","modified_gmt":"2023-02-02T21:23:39","slug":"god-is-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesecularcommunity.org\/blog\/2023\/02\/02\/god-is-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"God Is Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By Doutimiye Owonaro<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"612\" height=\"408\" src=\"https:\/\/thesecularcommunity.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Picture1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesecularcommunity.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Picture1.jpg 612w, https:\/\/thesecularcommunity.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Picture1-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 612px) 100vw, 612px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Chinese folks and other Asians look alike. Africans look alike. Caucasians look alike. Members of the same ethnic group usually share a lot of similar features, all hinting at a common ancestor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Taking it a step further, humans share 98.8% of our DNA with chimpanzees, 98.4% with gorillas, 96.9% with orangutans, and 93% with monkeys.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even animals very different from us share a lot of similar genes e.g., the zebrafish that shares 70% of genes with humans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These all point to a common ancestor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The evolution theory has been proven without reasonable doubt and is widely accepted in the scientific community as valid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The only reason the evolution theory hasn\u2019t been accepted by the rest of the world is because it debunks the claims of an all-powerful God who created man and the world in 7 days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It makes more sense to say because of biological mutations and adaptations, some humans are born perfect and others imperfect with diseases, than to say they were created flawed by a perfect creator e.g., humans born with sickle cell, blind, lame, or with incomplete or extra digits and other abnormalities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The evolution theory however points to a source of life, something that flipped the switch, giving rise to the first living thing and sparking the process of evolution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This source of life may or may not have been a living thing. It might have been a celestial body like the sun, moon and stars or a simple one celled organism like diatoms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One thing is for sure though, the source of life, if it was a living thing, couldn\u2019t have been a sentient being with thinking capacities because of the many flaws in creation and would have been long dead by now, like the extinct dinosaurs and mammoths.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Doutimiye Owonaro Chinese folks and other Asians look alike. Africans look alike. Caucasians look alike. Members of the same ethnic group usually share a lot of similar features, all hinting at a common ancestor. Taking it a step further, humans share 98.8% of our DNA with chimpanzees, 98.4% with gorillas, 96.9% with orangutans, and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesecularcommunity.org\/blog\/2023\/02\/02\/god-is-dead\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;God Is Dead&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesecularcommunity.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesecularcommunity.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesecularcommunity.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesecularcommunity.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesecularcommunity.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesecularcommunity.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":194,"href":"https:\/\/thesecularcommunity.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions\/194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesecularcommunity.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesecularcommunity.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesecularcommunity.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}