SkepticThinker
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After first practicing it for centuries.
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Finally! More Young Americans Accept Evolution than Believe in Creationism...
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The internet makes life so much easier for us pedants.What's the name of you pet peeve?
You're quite clever when you get going, aren't you. Now no blushing! I kinda think that I knew that, and I kinda thought I had worded it right to show that but perhaps I didn't; either way, it is always nice to learn or have things clarified.
We can double check ourselves before posting.
The things themselves need nothing.
You need an explanation.
I might only want one.
Thus I can patiently wait for one, while need can lead some to leaping for quick but uncromulent ones.
I do.
It takes so little effort to just observe.
To me, design is either design or design, depending upon circumstances.
It's certainly possible I'm wrong.
That's the inherent advantage of the scientific approach.
(Insert Wolfgang Pauli quote here.)
Blind chance & a fitness function over vast populations & stretches of time is a good enuf explanation for me.
And it doesn't have the dreaded minty taste of creationism.
Shadow Wolf
Certified People sTabber
They are. And you'd think by now they'd learn not to go after them, because at it really achieves is ensure the comedian will continue to go after them, rather than just letting the whole thing eventually die off on it's own. And it's not everyday someone offer themselves, freely and willingly, as comic fuel.
Yup. Did you happen to catch it when a couple of South American politicians took offense at some stuff John Oliver had said about them? Fair to say calling him out DIDN'T lead to him backing down. Quite the opposite...lol
Ben Dhyan
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God was not created, nor born, nor evolved....if it were not so, there would be no refuge from being created, being born or evolving....
gnostic
The Lost One
Evolution is important, because it contributes a greater understanding of biology, more specifically to the mechanism to biological changes - the understanding to biodiversity -
- and how this biodiversity mechanism assist future generations in adapting and surviving external forces, eg changes in environment (natural selection)
- or how biodiversity can occur when two different populations can produce population of descendants with different biological characteristics (gene flow)
Evolution also help in understanding health, medicine, diseases. You can't truly understand in making vaccines and antibiotics without understanding viral diseases. And you can't understand viruses without understanding evolution.
Creationism doesn't teach anyone anything about medicine and diseases.
Evolution isn't a mystery like you seemed to think with creationism. Evolution is about the mechanisms in biological changes can affect the survival of future generations.
Evolution is about science, creationism isn't.
gnostic
The Lost One
The problem is not Christianity, Judaism or Islam. The problem is those fringe groups who followed the various forms of CREATIONISM. One of the most recent form of creationism is the pseudoscience Intelligent Design.
There are many Jewish and Christian people who are devout, and yet do accept evolution to be accepted theory in biology about the mechanisms for change, genetically.
It is creationism and their followers - the creationists - that sprout ignorance and falsehood in everything.
The falsehood they spread is not just about creation and the creator they believe in, but also in spreading misinformation about evolution, which also include radiometric dating, geology and totally unrelated subject of the Big Bang.
It is through these misinformation about science that they (creationists and ID believers) have all credibilities. Any word they write or say, I don't believe in them, because they are like the boy who cry wolves too many times.
Even Christians and Jews themselves have tried to distant themselves from creationists, speak volumes of creationists' lack of integrity.
There are many Jewish and Christian people who are devout, and yet do accept evolution to be accepted theory in biology about the mechanisms for change, genetically.
It is creationism and their followers - the creationists - that sprout ignorance and falsehood in everything.
The falsehood they spread is not just about creation and the creator they believe in, but also in spreading misinformation about evolution, which also include radiometric dating, geology and totally unrelated subject of the Big Bang.
It is through these misinformation about science that they (creationists and ID believers) have all credibilities. Any word they write or say, I don't believe in them, because they are like the boy who cry wolves too many times.
Even Christians and Jews themselves have tried to distant themselves from creationists, speak volumes of creationists' lack of integrity.
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gnostic
The Lost One
You can keep saying that, but you cannot prove it to be so.God was not created, nor born, nor evolved....if it were not so, there would be no refuge from being created, being born or evolving....
There are no evidence to support God existing before humans inventing him...or them for polytheistic religions.
gnostic
The Lost One
So you don't like Maxwell Smart's CONTROL?What can I say, RevoltingOne? I'm a fan of Chaos Theory.
YmirGF
Bodhisattva in Recovery
Hehe.... Always liked Don Adams
Ben Dhyan
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Haha.... who cares what you think....and you can't prove what I said is not correct....
cambridge79
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It's actually sad that we're happy for such a news. It would be like being happy because finally the majority of Americans can tie their shoes on their own
cambridge79
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Well you can't prove a talking koala is not in my room, what does that mean?Haha.... who cares what you think....and you can't prove what I said is not correct....
Ben Dhyan
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It means you probably are about 14 years of age and a time waster..
Shadow Wolf
Certified People sTabber
Yeah. I can only imagine he felt like top of the comedian world when he was getting that sort of attention, and he got a segment of his next show practically handed to him out of it. I'm anticipating the story of Phillip Morris trying to do something over Jeff the Diseased Lung in the next season of the show.
gnostic
The Lost One
Yeah, he is 100 times better than Steve Carell, who is just a sad imitator.
gnostic
The Lost One
Haha.... who cares what you think....and you can't prove what I said is not correct....
This is like saying "I have pink unicorn in living room, and you can't prove that I don't have one."
How can I prove something that is mythological or imaginary? ...or worse, delusional.
This thread showed that more young Americans now accept evolution is because their education in biology, something that they know, understand and test, should they venture into a career in medicine, medical research, or any other fields relating to biology.
Creationism is based on nothing more than superstitious belief and blind faith that there is a "creator", and using illogical circular reasoning based on scriptures or religious teachings that a creat1or god is responsible for "creation". That's not science, that's making baseless assumption that what you believe is true.
That's why it (creationism) is called faith, not science.
You are asking me to verify or test something that's not possible to test or verify.
Science is not just about theory, it is also about observation, which mean being able to test the theory or find evidences, that will either refute the theory or verify it as being true.
And you can't verify the existence of god and spirits, angels and demons, heaven and hell, or anything else relating to the supernatural.
My problem is not with you believing what you believe, ben. Because, you are an adult, well I am assuming that you are an adult, so you are free to believe in what god or spirit you like. For that I have no argument with you.
But if you think what you believe in is science, then of course, I am going to argue you against that.
Stick to that who or whatever you belief come from your personal belief or personal faith, and not make it more than the scope of your sphere of belief.
Ben Dhyan
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Why do you equate the absolute universe with a pink unicorn...how old did you say you were? Now you do accept that the universe exists yes...can you prove it is not eternal?
Altfish
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Can you put that into English, please
Altfish
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I don't undertstand what you're saying, any chance of it in 'normal speak'?God was not created, nor born, nor evolved....if it were not so, there would be no refuge from being created, being born or evolving....
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