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Rath on 15 February 2009
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kabhold said:
Rath said:

 

He's probably just getting annoyed. My experience as an atheist is that it often feels like banging your head against a brick wall. To be honest (once again only from an atheists point of view) all the evidence of evolution is blatant and irrefutable, so the probability of it actually being wrong is extrordinarily low.

OK. I'm not trying to start an argument. I believe in evolution. But the bolded statement...is not true. It's not fact. Honestly I believe it takes about the same amount of faith that religion does.  Keep an open mind. 

I'm agnostic, so I tend to believe that there is no proof of god, but I try to live my life as if there was.  Because there is no proof there is no god.  None. BUT the whole concept of any religion is to treat every person as good as you can.  Live your life as good as you can.  Be the greatest person you can be. Such a great notion. Such a great idea. BUT, the follow through is often pretentious/catastrophic.  Darwinism usually is as well. But that's our nature.

It comes down to:

"You don't think the way I do?"

"You're stupid" or "You're going to hell"

I wish that I could say that I live a life according to principals and morals that never waver. Never sway.  But I don't. And they do. But I try. I'm a good person, and I treat people accordingly. I don't know if there's a god, but if there is... i hope he can forgive.  And if there isn't I lived a good life. And I tried to be good.

 

No really, the evidence is all there to prove evolution is correct. There are parts of the fossil record that are in essence complete, for example we have the fossils of nearly the entire evolution of the horse. Observation and predictions have been made using the scientific method to verify it. You may believe evolution takes faith, I think it only takes knowledge of the evidence that exists.

I'm willing to keep an open mind about the existence of god, but as far as I'm concerned young earth creationism is just plain wrong. (and thats not just due to evolution either, geology, physics and chemistry all have their say as well).