Darwin vs Jesus

[mrswdk]

Who would win in a fight?

WILD CARD: the referee's out for the count and Mohammed just ran down to the ring with a steel chair. Who does he hit with it?

[AndyDufresne]

I feel I cannot comment on this, since I do not have the wrestling gravitas and knowledge that thegreekdog has. So I will abstain. RIP TGD


--Andy

[jay_a2j]

You could blindfold, chain to a boulder 1.2 seconds from falling off a 10,000 foot cliff which ends in a river filled with man eating piranha and give Darwin every weapon known to man and Jesus would still prevail. Just sayin....

[Army of GOD]

Jesus has stage presence so he'll definitely have the crowd behind him. Not to mention he looks better with underwear and boots.

[Dukasaur]

Jesus has stage presence so he'll definitely have the crowd behind him. Not to mention he looks better with underwear and boots.

All true.

[jonesthecurl]

Was this an episode of Celebrity Death Match?

[oVo]

Darwin is dead, so I don't expect much of a fight from him. Some people believe The Bible is the greatest piece of fiction ever written, so it's quite possible that Jesus will be a no show too.

[notyou2]

Darwin is a book worm, Jesus is probably stronger.



What age are they?

[DoomYoshi]

Mohammed would hit Darwin for sure, the Quran lists Jesus as a prophet.

Jesus' body is gone though, so my money is on Darwin's rotted corpse.

[GoranZ]

who is Jebus from the poll?
mrswdk are you trying to confuse the believers

[TA1LGUNN3R]

Darwin is a book worm, Jesus is probably stronger.



What age are they?

Yeah, Darwin was known to have poor health throughout his life, iirc. And Jesus was a carpenter, so he's got that going for him.

If he were real, that is.

-TG

[Steiner75]

Jesus' body is gone though

Not quite right... you can endeavour on a pilgrimage to see his Holy Prepuce in Calcata, Italy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Prepuce#Modern_practices

[macbone]

You think Christians are serious creationists? Wait until the Muslims get involved. =)

Creationism, we often think, is a conservative Christian preoccupation. In the United States, young-earth creationists insist that the universe and all life were created in six days about six thousand years ago. There is also the newer intelligent design movement, which is a potent source of pressure on science education. Christian-flavored anti-evolutionary thought has a worldwide constituency, surfacing in Canada, Britain, Poland, Australia, Africa, Russia, and elsewhere. Still, attempts to promote “creation-science” and intelligent design as alternatives to mainstream science seem especially strong in the United States.

Muslim populations, however, provide a counterexample to this picture. Indeed, Islam has been the world religion that has proved most resistant to Darwinian evolution. Creationist distortions of science enjoy considerable support among modern Muslims. Among devout Muslim intellectuals, antievolutionary views are not fringe ideas but mainstream options. And Islamic versions of creationism have enjoyed official support to a degree that is the envy of American creationists. In many ways, the world’s most successful creationists are those who rise up to defend Islam, not Christianity.

http://www.hssonline.org/publications/N ... onism.html

And here's a piece from the Guardian:

Usama Hasan was the imam of a mosque in Leyton until he was driven from the post by death threats. This is perhaps the most extreme reaction there has ever been to an article on Comment is free: the death threats were the response of a section of his congregation to a piece he wrote here defending the truth of evolution. He kept his head down for a couple of years after that, to protect his family, but has now resurfaced as a fellow at the Quilliam Foundation, the counter-extremism thinktank.

At the weekend, he was in Salisbury, at the Muslim Institute's Winter Gathering, and I chaired a discussion with him there on creationism among Muslims. In close-up his story was even more shocking than it appears in summary. A visiting Saudi cleric issued a fatwa, from the Green Lane mosque in Birmingham, that supported his enemies in the congregation: not only did it explain that anyone who denied creationism was an apostate, who could (and should, in an ideal state) be killed, but that his support for women going bareheaded if they wished, and for a secular form of government, were also sufficient grounds for a death sentence.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfre ... sama-hasan

That's not to say that all Muslims believe in creationism, however. Muslim theistic evolutionists exit, just as Christian ones do.

But back to the matter at hand. Jesus only lashed out against religious teachers and people getting rich in the temple, and Darwin didn't have beef with the big JC. He was going to be a minister at one point, and then fluctuated through theism until finally settling on agnosticism.

They'd probably sit down over a bottle of wine and talk finches.

[notyou2]

Darwin for the win. Every time Darwin would hit Jesus, Jesus would turn the other cheek and Darwin would strike again.

If it was a tag team with Mary in Jesus in one corner and Galileo with Darwin, I expect Galileo would hit both Mary and Jesus with his telescope.

[WILLIAMS5232]

in an aquatic battle, jesus would definitely take a KO victory, due to his ability to balance on top of water molecules. on land, he would probably still win, because of his superhuman powers. ( self healing ability etc. ) but he would probably just parable him to submission before they were even able to fight. i'm sure darwin liked to hear stories as well, so it wouldn't even be a fair fight.

[oVo]

Jesus might smite Darwin under a pile of fish,
where he would suffocate looking for fish feet.

[Steiner75]

can we have Chuck Norris as an option for the poll as well, pleeeeease? I am really undecided, but with Chuck on board, I would know whom to pick.

[tzor]

Who would win in a fight?

If I recall correctly neither Darwin nor Jesus were all that much into fighting.

[oVo]

If I recall correctly neither Darwin nor Jesus were all that much into fighting.

A cage match battle of passive aggression.