Evolution: Fact Or Fiction

Whats your religion?

Atheist	39.3%	[ 1138 ]
Protestant	16.9%	[ 489 ]
Catholic	14.1%	[ 407 ]
Hindu	1.3%	[ 37 ]
Muslim	1.8%	[ 53 ]
Jew	2.3%	[ 67 ]
Buddhist	5.1%	[ 149 ]
Greek Orthodox	0.7%	[ 21 ]
Pagan	14.2%	[ 412 ]
Egyptian	4.2%	[ 122 ]
Total Votes:			[ 2895 ]

[ElectrikSoul]

Harvested Sorrow

ElectrikSoul

People are going to try and back up different oppinions here, but it all depends on how much faith you have and what you belive in. 3nodding
I doubt anyone is going to change opinions... >___>;

Only, the truth of evolution is not an opinion.

Yeah, but if people really belive in their religion. Nothing you say is going to change their minds.

[southerndrawl118]

ElectrikSoul

Harvested Sorrow

ElectrikSoul

People are going to try and back up different oppinions here, but it all depends on how much faith you have and what you belive in. 3nodding
I doubt anyone is going to change opinions... >___>;

Only, the truth of evolution is not an opinion.

Yeah, but if people really belive in their religion. Nothing you say is going to change their minds.

ok...but that doesnt make then right..it makes them willfully ignorant

[maybecca]

Cuddle-fish

ElectrikSoul

Yeah, but if people really belive in their religion. Nothing you say is going to change their minds.

ok...but that doesnt make then right..it makes them willfully ignorant

Or, you know, insane. If someone deliberately denies reality, wouldn't that be considered insanity?

[Jaaten Syric]

chrisoya

Cuddle-fish

ElectrikSoul

Yeah, but if people really belive in their religion. Nothing you say is going to change their minds.

ok...but that doesnt make then right..it makes them willfully ignorant

Or, you know, insane. If someone deliberately denies reality, wouldn't that be considered insanity?

Unfortunately I kinda' doubt it (legally speaking), after all Hovind tried everything under the sun except an insanity plea...

[maybecca]

Jaaten Syric

Unfortunately I kinda' doubt it (legally speaking), after all Hovind tried everything under the sun except an insanity plea...

Just wait until the Evil Atheist Conspiracy make their move!

Which way do the horsies move again?

[Jaaten Syric]

chrisoya

Jaaten Syric

Unfortunately I kinda' doubt it (legally speaking), after all Hovind tried everything under the sun except an insanity plea...

Just wait until the Evil Atheist Conspiracy make their move!

Which way do the horsies move again?

In my country or yours? Counter-clockwise here biggrin

(State with equine history as long as my arm. My conscience wouldn't let me sleep if I didn't make that piss-poor joke.)

[devia aevum]

How can someone go from science to religion?

That... doesn't make much sense...

Unless you're not really all that smart, and didn't actually understand the process of evolution.


The Christian Bible never said that Adam and Eve looked exactly as humans do today. For all we know, they could have been those furry little creatures we think of as inferior.

Apes with intelligence = Humans with a lot of hair.

whee

[Diabhalta]

why do people think that evolution negates religion. it only negates creationism.

[Mr Bennet]

Hardrock91

why do people think that evolution negates religion. it only negates creationism.

For some people, unfortunately, creationism IS religion. That's fundamentalism for ya.

[Mr Bennet]

ElectrikSoul

Harvested Sorrow

ElectrikSoul

People are going to try and back up different oppinions here, but it all depends on how much faith you have and what you belive in. 3nodding
I doubt anyone is going to change opinions... >___>;

Only, the truth of evolution is not an opinion.

Yeah, but if people really belive in their religion. Nothing you say is going to change their minds.

This is a debate. It doesn't matter what you personally believe. What matters is if you can back up what you believe to everybody else. A person who comes to the EXTENDED DISCUSSION with no intention to DISCUSS their beliefs is a TROLL. Backing up different opinions is the point of this forum. If a person isn't willing to debate, they should take their opinion to the GD.

[Timo Supremo]

Baily_bob said:

if gods so real why doesnt he ever do anythin?



I ask:
What does God not do?
Are you willing to step out and view life with the possibility that there is a God?

[Jaaten Syric]

Timo Supremo

I ask:
What does God not do?
Are you willing to step out and view life with the possibility that there is a God?

Am I willing? Surely I am and have been, unfortunately asking vague hypotheticals does not a winning argument for the existence of a deity make.

[TrunkstheSlayer]

Hardrock91

why do people think that evolution negates religion. it only negates creationism.

Actually no it doesn't. The Big Bang (at best) would negate creationism but it isn't connected to evolution.
Here's one:
God sets it all up, creates the first couple cells and kicks evolution into the game.
Ta da. Evolution and creation. Yep, those really cancel eachother out. Even Adam and Eve wouldn't instantly be negated. They're just the first humans to evolve into being. Yep, that was just so hard to connect. stare