"Of course humans can influence biological developments, especially in other animals and plants (or whole environments), but also within our own species."
Well, you did write:
"But seriously, the most active part you can play in biologic evolution is unprotected sex."
I seriously hope, that's not your expanation for the chihuahua.;)
"Evolution is not a being, it can't be almighty."
A being with biological restrictions cannot be allmighty.
"But I challenge the notion that the early universe was metaphysical by definition, it was rather prophysical (as in: before our physical laws applied) or paraphysical (as in: different laws applied) or simply "unknown"."
You mean prephysical not prophysical, don't you?
Metaphysical means beyond physics. All scientists that I heard of claimed that the laws of physics stop working just before we reach the time of the Big Bang. That makes the Big Bang beyond physics. We have a word for that and it's metaphysical. So, why make up new words?
"Impotent men aren't allowed to be married either, or infertile people.
That really is news to me! And I don't buy it."
There are no tests done by the church, but if you can proof that the man is impotent the marriage can be annulled when the marriage wasn't "consumated". Problem one is that the pope has to do it and problem two that most men wouldn't want to admitt it. Nevertheless, it has happened several times when society in general still cared about the position of the church.
"What the churches accept or what they define as marriage I could not care less about."
Try to look at it from the other side. How about one of your extrem American churches (Evangelists or whatever they are called) would say I don't care about what these atheists define as Theory of Evolution, as long as it contains the possibility of creationism.
See how stupid that sounds, but you are similarily hijacking the term marriage.
Or maybe they say: We accept the Theory of Evolution and will further it's understanding, when you agree to call it "The complicated way to describe how God has created the world". All that would change would be the name. There can obviously be no problem with that, can there?
If people would never have started talking about giving gay people the right to marry, but only to give gay couples the same legal protection as married couples that would have been a whole different story. The GLBT was a little unsensitive when they decided to fight for the right to marry. I understand them, but it was a tactical mistake and not very diplomatic.
"What I want though is that the churches and the believers just stfu about what other people can or cannot do with their lives."
That's a childish position. When you are thouroughly convinced of something you try to convince others. (You do so with atheism, btw)
That's like saying:
I want you to stfu about what religious people can or cannot do with their lives.
When they want to spend their lives talking about religion, than that is as much their right as it is yours to fuck another guy in the ass.
"If infertile couples or older couples really were not allowed to marry, and if marriages would be annuled if one of the partners became infertile or the woman reaches menopause, it would be consistent."
No. Once the marriage started all bets are of. After the first fuck as a married couple you are stuck with each other in eternity.
Even in the time when your physical bodies don't exist anymore.
"The exclusiveness is solely based on the biological fact that they can produce offspring... Way to shoot yourself in the foot."
Now wait a minute. You say the exculsiveness is based on biological facts and still you want to change it. When the laws of nature were formative in this their is no reason to change it. That would be madness.
"Like I said at least 2 times before: it does not matter what occurs elsewhere in nature, it only matters for humans what humans have done and do."
I don't get it. Why do you think that humans are somehow different from the rest of the animals? Different biological rules for humans? Is this a foot-shooting competition?
"I don't really know what to make of the fact that you lost your obsession with just killing and replaced it with eating children."
My new obsession is eating children?;)
I add one to that:
When is it ethical to rape babies?
"The first thing Fascists usually try to do is silencing the opposition."
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