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True. I know I'd be pissed if someone said, "You exist, but you're not alive". What does that make me? A rock?

No. The Lord and Lady demand more than that out of their worshipers, because they are more than that. To do any less would invite...bad things.

What was that saying.... "Hell hath no fury like the scorn of the Goddess"?

Love and Vale,
-LD

No need to apologize, I quite understand. I often find it difficult to keep the faith, and I don't think that's an uncommon problem these days. Yet, I also find that if I ask of Them, I receive, and that is proof enough for me.

You just contradicted yourself. First you said that it's a proven fact.
And then you said they wouldn't drop it because it hasn't been proven.

All of these things are theories because they can only be proven to a certain extent. Science is not infallible, and trust me, all scientists know this. Certain things, such as gravity, are still called theories even though they are accepted by popular culture as fact because science can predict, very accurately, that if you drop something here on Earth, it's going to fall at a certain rate of speed, but they cannot predict everything one-hundred percent of the time. There is always a margin of error.

Evolution is different. It's a theory because we have no direct, incontrovertible proof that it's a driving force on Earth. We have a pretty good idea, and we have evidence to support that idea, but we can't go back in time and witness evolution taking place in order to say, "Ah, see? This is evolution." Can't be done. What we can do is observe the world around us, observe the similarities in the fossilized things left behind, and draw conclusions that are now deemed the Theory of Evolution.

I certainly believe in evolution. You have only to look at how humans have progressed in science, height, and culture to see the proof of evolution. Coming from a heavily Christian upbringing, I was taught as a child that evolution cut god out of the process (same as with the Big Bang theory). I look back now, and laugh at those Christian leaders' narrowminded focus. Even for a diehard Christian, it is possible to accept evolution as fact. What most Christians get hung up on is that evolution takes (at a minimum) hundreds of thousands of years. And the bible says God created the world and all the creatures in it in six days. But the Bible also says that to God, 'a day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as a day.' Which means, that any Christian openminded enough to look at it, could see that God could have taken an infinately long amount of time to create everything through evolution (even using the Big Bang to start it all off) and it would only have been six 'God days.'

Now that I'm Wiccan, I haven't changed that viewpoint on evolution, it's just different now that I don't have to justify myself to everyone I discuss science with. (And I put all of this down because I still find it amazing just how incredibly deliberately dense christians can be.)

Unless you're a scientologist. but they have to PAY to read fiction novels that L. Ron Hubbard wrote. Lol, L. Ron made them believe a big fake story XD.