Actually, you’ll find a significant proportion of our critique of mythology fanboyism, consists of pointing out the absurdities and iniquities contained in the requisite mythologies, and we don’t need science for a good many of these. I’ll provide you with an apposite example from the Old Testament. Namely, that right after the part thereof, where the purported “Ten Commandments” are presented, the authors of this mythology devote, without irony or self-awareness, over 200 pages of this anthology to gleeful depictions of genocidal Lebensraum wars. The authors assert that these brutal, genocidal Lebensraum wars were either directly ordered to be launched by their imaginary cartoon magic man (the same cartoon magic man they earlier asserted included “thou shalt not kill” in the “Ten Commandments”), or were given silent assent by the same entity.
I don’t need to resort to science to recognise that this is massively self-contradictory. Likewise, if I concentrate for a moment upon one of those genocidal Lebensraum wars, covered in Numbers 31:18, this is asserted to have been followed by the kidnapping of underage girls as sex slaves, after the unfortunate girls were forced to watch their parents being butchered in this particular exercise in Bronze Age ethnic cleansing. I don’t need to resort to science to deduce that this episode, if it actually occurred, constituted an ethical abomination on an obscene scale.
So it looks as if your pretence at knowing what we think and propose better than we do ourselves, crashes and burns on take-off.
Ahem, I’ll point you at this article in the peer reviewed scientific journal Nature, which demonstrates that scientists are dispensing with cartoon magic men from pre-scientific mythologies in record numbers. There may be a few outliers that still think a magic man exists, but they’re dwindling in percentage terms with each passing year.
Wrong on numerous levels.
First of all, evolution is an observed fact. It has been observed taking place in hundreds, if not thousands, of lineages of living organisms, and I have in my collection numerous peer reviewed scientific papers documenting apposite instances thereof, including speciation events (indeed, some of those speciation events have now been replicated in the laboratory). Furthermore, evolution is accompanied by a scientific theory enjoying massive evidential support from real world observational data, the postulates thereof having been directly tested experimentally and verified as being in accord with observational data. Evolution isn’t a “claim”, it’s an observed fact accompanied by possibly the best supported scientific theory in existence, and possibly one of the most spectacular products of scientific inquiry.
The only reason that we, as atheists, devote time to this matter, is because mythology fanboys summarily dismiss the requisite science, on the fatuous basis of thinking that the unsupported assertions of their favourite mythologies count for more than hard scientific evidence. The REAL claim here comes from mythology fanboys, who routinely assert, among other lies on the subject, that evolution is a product of “atheism” (it isn’t, it’s a product of science), and that the only reason we accept the findings of evolutionary biology, is because we purportedly want to “sin”. This latter assertion is bullshit on two levels - first, we accept the findings of evolutionary biology because they are scientifically rigorous and robust, with supertanker loads of evidence backing the requisite postulates, and second, because “sin” is a farcical imaginary offence against an imaginary cartoon magic man, erected as a tool of political control.
As for germ theory, again, this is a product of science, and frankly, I’m unaware of apologetic attempts to link this to “atheism” even by the extreme wingnuts among the mythology fanboys. Though who knows what weirdness I’ll uncover (doubtless to my regret) if I turn over the requisite stones to see what’s lurking beneath them. I’ve seen enough moon pie fantasising on the part of mythology fanboys to be aware that anything is possible with these people, but thus far, this is one piece of lunacy I’ve yet to encounter.
As for debunking superstitious claims, the whole of reality does this.
Here’s a tip for you … try applying diligence and rigour to your output, unless you want to endure much embarrassment here.