You nut jobs make up 2/3 of Americans, sadly, please fascinate me with your ill gotten reasons in the space provided below, so that I may respond and mock you, thereby keeping me entertained for the next few minutes.
Dirtay Me - more people respond, and with more interesting remarks may I add, when you're mean about it.
Baptised Atheist - lol indeed
I'm a nice person - my bad, it was 1/3 that firmly reject evolution, and even more sad, only 14% that say evolution is "definitely true"
Tom Dran - When did I say I didn't like it? "I am endlessly fascinated" are you kidding me? I love it! Yes everyone is entitled to their own beliefs, that doesn't make them any more valid, especially when they fly in the face of every piece of evidence.
Dr. Bob - Right, all those scientists that have spent the better part of their lives exploring and studying evolution, and talk about it every day, know absolutely nothing about it... And if you're just referring to me, I have a masters in evolutionary biology.
Nick - We didn't "[come] from monkeys" we share a common ancestry with monkeys, they are our distant cousins.
jl - scrabble sucks
0011 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SAmsVYkgpw
? ??????… - We're both g
going to hell for making fun of the retarded
Est. 2088 - I pray too, I'm a Christian.
Shozbot - What about the Crusades? Hitler was an abomination, if you took the time to read "On the Origin of Species" you'd find moral, reaffirming words, nothing of eugenics or genocide. The people that "run the world" today claim to be Christian and probably deny evolution. Not that it makes a bit of difference, your argument is invalid.
The me inside - No soup for you, Manson. Next!
Historyandbookstudent - it matters because the religious fundamentalists which promote brainwashing children and oppose teaching them evolution are enemies to the advancement of science and humanity. I believe God is ashamed of people that hold back the exploration of His creation, all in His name.
Mark - Only Biblical literists believe intelligent life was created instantly. But other than that, yes, you encapsulated the big bang adequately... :S
? - I chuckled
jack - science has nothing to do with opinions
cyn
cynic32 - die
Angel - Religious fundamentalists don't have a right to brainwash children and hide them from reality. I don't believe in evolution, there is no faith in science, only facts and evidence. You're confusing scientific theory with layman's theory. A scientific theory has been vigorously tested and supported. Theory is the crowning achievement of science. Scientific theories do not become laws or facts or truths. Nothing in science is proven, proofs are for mathematics. Laws are facts, simple observable phenomena. Theories are our attempt to explain why or how these phenomena occur.
Evolution is both theory and fact. Evolution, common decent, is fact. The "theory of evolution by natural selection" or "the modern synthesis" is our best explanation for why evolution happens. Good scientists are skeptical of theories and test them repeatedly, that's how science works.
Michael - "?" took all my chuckles, sorry.
boxcar1441 - please do
'little' book,open(Rev10) - The Bible is n
The Bible is no different from other ancient religious documents in that it attempts to explain away phenomena we see in our world through quaint religious stories. I.e. snakes don't have legs because God cursed them in the garden, man is cursed to work the earth for food, women is cursed with painful childbirth, etc... is no different from stories in Greek and Norse mythology which explain how the peacock got all the "eyes" on their tails, lightning is Zeus throwing down bolts in anger, solar eclipse is when the dragon in the sky eats the sun, etc... Biblical creation is a story, literary in genre, whether or not it has its roots in a real relationship between God and man is a matter of faith, nevertheless, I will humor you since you humored me.
1. evolution's greatest gift to mankind is our brain, it's given us the ability to be conscious of how the environment affects us and vice versa, the ability to manipulate our environment, and make complex analogies.
2. heard of DNA?
3. Despi
3. Despite what the Bible says, this is not God's curse, this is a benefit (see #1) that enables us to survive in staggering numbers, health and vitality. It greatly increases the quality of our life.
4. Once again, our brain. Our ability to reason, make analogies. Picture a cave man chasing an animal, to find it killed by a pointed stick it fell on. He pick up the stick and realizes he can kill more animals for food by using it in the same manner and goes back to the cave to draw pictures (pictographs) of what happened to convey this idea to other cavemen. In the same way he realized that the apple core he threw in the dirt a while back has begun to grow into a plant that looks very similar to the tree he picked the apple from in the first place, he conveys this idea in the same way, and agriculture was born! That was the same as your stories but I didn't need to draw on the supernatural like all the other MYTHS.
5. Ever open a National Geographic?
6. Ah the downside of having big brains, we need big heads! No it’s not God’s curse, as mammals we give birth like other mammals, through the pelvis. It’s just unfortunate that humans evolved bigger brains but didn’t evolve a bigger pelvis. So it must stretch (pain) and the child’s skull must squeeze, made possible by the conveniently un-fused skull. Evolution is not a sentient being with an engineering degree.
Good enough ideas for you?
Apes, as smart as they are, don’t have our cognitive capacity, why would you expect them to be able to perform as we do?
Despite our brain we still have deepseeded animal tendencies as you’ve already noticed. Nice job destroying your own argument…
No Chance Without Satan – Isn’t it amazing how some people still believe it actually happened like that.
Mr. Beary – Even if it makes one person just think about it for a little while it was worth it. Ah hell even if it didn’t I was still thoroughly entertained.
Dirtay Me - more people respond, and with more interesting remarks may I add, when you're mean about it.
Baptised Atheist - lol indeed
I'm a nice person - my bad, it was 1/3 that firmly reject evolution, and even more sad, only 14% that say evolution is "definitely true"
Tom Dran - When did I say I didn't like it? "I am endlessly fascinated" are you kidding me? I love it! Yes everyone is entitled to their own beliefs, that doesn't make them any more valid, especially when they fly in the face of every piece of evidence.
Dr. Bob - Right, all those scientists that have spent the better part of their lives exploring and studying evolution, and talk about it every day, know absolutely nothing about it... And if you're just referring to me, I have a masters in evolutionary biology.
Nick - We didn't "[come] from monkeys" we share a common ancestry with monkeys, they are our distant cousins.
jl - scrabble sucks
0011 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SAmsVYkgpw
? ??????… - We're both g
going to hell for making fun of the retarded
Est. 2088 - I pray too, I'm a Christian.
Shozbot - What about the Crusades? Hitler was an abomination, if you took the time to read "On the Origin of Species" you'd find moral, reaffirming words, nothing of eugenics or genocide. The people that "run the world" today claim to be Christian and probably deny evolution. Not that it makes a bit of difference, your argument is invalid.
The me inside - No soup for you, Manson. Next!
Historyandbookstudent - it matters because the religious fundamentalists which promote brainwashing children and oppose teaching them evolution are enemies to the advancement of science and humanity. I believe God is ashamed of people that hold back the exploration of His creation, all in His name.
Mark - Only Biblical literists believe intelligent life was created instantly. But other than that, yes, you encapsulated the big bang adequately... :S
? - I chuckled
jack - science has nothing to do with opinions
cyn
cynic32 - die
Angel - Religious fundamentalists don't have a right to brainwash children and hide them from reality. I don't believe in evolution, there is no faith in science, only facts and evidence. You're confusing scientific theory with layman's theory. A scientific theory has been vigorously tested and supported. Theory is the crowning achievement of science. Scientific theories do not become laws or facts or truths. Nothing in science is proven, proofs are for mathematics. Laws are facts, simple observable phenomena. Theories are our attempt to explain why or how these phenomena occur.
Evolution is both theory and fact. Evolution, common decent, is fact. The "theory of evolution by natural selection" or "the modern synthesis" is our best explanation for why evolution happens. Good scientists are skeptical of theories and test them repeatedly, that's how science works.
Michael - "?" took all my chuckles, sorry.
boxcar1441 - please do
'little' book,open(Rev10) - The Bible is n
The Bible is no different from other ancient religious documents in that it attempts to explain away phenomena we see in our world through quaint religious stories. I.e. snakes don't have legs because God cursed them in the garden, man is cursed to work the earth for food, women is cursed with painful childbirth, etc... is no different from stories in Greek and Norse mythology which explain how the peacock got all the "eyes" on their tails, lightning is Zeus throwing down bolts in anger, solar eclipse is when the dragon in the sky eats the sun, etc... Biblical creation is a story, literary in genre, whether or not it has its roots in a real relationship between God and man is a matter of faith, nevertheless, I will humor you since you humored me.
1. evolution's greatest gift to mankind is our brain, it's given us the ability to be conscious of how the environment affects us and vice versa, the ability to manipulate our environment, and make complex analogies.
2. heard of DNA?
3. Despi
3. Despite what the Bible says, this is not God's curse, this is a benefit (see #1) that enables us to survive in staggering numbers, health and vitality. It greatly increases the quality of our life.
4. Once again, our brain. Our ability to reason, make analogies. Picture a cave man chasing an animal, to find it killed by a pointed stick it fell on. He pick up the stick and realizes he can kill more animals for food by using it in the same manner and goes back to the cave to draw pictures (pictographs) of what happened to convey this idea to other cavemen. In the same way he realized that the apple core he threw in the dirt a while back has begun to grow into a plant that looks very similar to the tree he picked the apple from in the first place, he conveys this idea in the same way, and agriculture was born! That was the same as your stories but I didn't need to draw on the supernatural like all the other MYTHS.
5. Ever open a National Geographic?
6. Ah the downside of having big brains, we need big heads! No it’s not God’s curse, as mammals we give birth like other mammals, through the pelvis. It’s just unfortunate that humans evolved bigger brains but didn’t evolve a bigger pelvis. So it must stretch (pain) and the child’s skull must squeeze, made possible by the conveniently un-fused skull. Evolution is not a sentient being with an engineering degree.
Good enough ideas for you?
Apes, as smart as they are, don’t have our cognitive capacity, why would you expect them to be able to perform as we do?
Despite our brain we still have deepseeded animal tendencies as you’ve already noticed. Nice job destroying your own argument…
No Chance Without Satan – Isn’t it amazing how some people still believe it actually happened like that.
Mr. Beary – Even if it makes one person just think about it for a little while it was worth it. Ah hell even if it didn’t I was still thoroughly entertained.
