>>936959843Absolutely retarded comparison.
You're comparing ideas with physical objects. Do you deny that the physical fossils are actually there?
I'm not denying that occult ideas and themes exist. I deny that their contents have any basis in reality.
Just like I don't deny that the Harry Potter books exist, but I do deny that their contents have any basis in reality.
When historians look at common occult ideas and how they propagate through culture, they look at how those ideas *evolve* over time (very similar to biological evolution actually). That doesn't mean the content of those ideas exist at all. The only thing it means is that people in history found those ideas attractive/relatable in some fashion so they would propagate those ideas to their children.
God doesn't exist, so he can't hurt me.
I'm not desperate to deny it in the same way I'm not desperate to deny that bigfoot doesn't exist, or the easter bunny, or harry potter, or sauron.
These are ideas from stories that people have found attractive/relatable and thus are propagated through our culture. That's what humans do and have done for millions of years. That doesn't mean they're real.
The fossils however, *are* real. There are literally physical bones left from animals that no longer exist on this planet. And all the evidence points towards an evolutionary tree of life where populations slowly change from one species to another over millions of years.
Aka, the deeper we dig, the more the fossils change from those in the higher ground layers.
Also, scientists didn't just dig stuff up and then make educated guesses about how that stuff got there. That's only the first step.
The next step is taking those educated guesses and making future predictions from them and then testing those predictions. This has been done over and over and over and the theory of evolution has been correct in basically all those predictions (for example predicting where we would expect to find a fossil and then finding it)
