| MaulerX said:
And the fact still remains that science has not proven evolution with any type of certainty, as referenced in that very link you posted. IMO the different meanings of the word "theory" become irrelevent as long as that fact remains. Ironically, it is people in the scientific community that refuse to accept things that have not been proven to a certainty. |
I love this kind of argument.
The fact of the matter is... Their is more scientific backing of Evolution than any religion.
Religion is all about beleiving in some all-mystical, all-loving forgiving imaginary friend where the preachers take your money
to keep building their already rich and powerfull empire, which I might add tries to inflience government policies all around the world. - Sometimes for the worst. (Gay Marriage being one of them.)
Heck, even the founder of scientology stated that the quickest way to get rich is to start your own religion and he was right, it's the basis of making people beleive in something, real or not and getting them to hand over money.
Fact of the matter is... If their is a "God", I highly doubt they are going to care where and how you pray/preach/enlighten ones self.
No need to go to a church, hand your money over to another person and waste your time, you can do that in the comfort of your own home.
Those are all Human-created practices, if you knew of the Heinous crimes that people have done in the "Name of Religion" you would probably run away from it. (Christianity being no exception.)
Which brings me to my next point about religion in general. Gods/Religions have been around since recorded history, where different civilisations have had different Gods, usually to explain something the people don't actually understand.
Take Ra, the sun god. The Egyptions had no idea the sun was a ball of gas sitting in outer space, so they created a God for it.
Same thing with Thor, the God of Lightning.
At-least with Evolution we have carbon dating and solid proof of macro and micro evolutionary steps.
Take the common flu for example, it's unable to be eradicated. Why? Because it keeps evolving so our vaccines are rendered ineffective.
This is a "Micro" evolution where just a small part is changed so that it survives as a whole, no we won't grow a 3rd arm because evolution dictates it.
It's usually a much slower change over the course of millions of years.
Is Evolution real? Well. Once we build a time machine we should be able to find out.
Is Religion/God real? Well. We will never know untill we either:
1) Die (Where we can't tell anyone anyway.)
2) Do the above and go back in time to watch evolution happen.
But I for one will place my bet where research has actually occured and has something solid. No the bible isn't good enough, it's been translated/re-translated and for all we know it was made by some looney cult leader thousands of years ago that tricked a bunch of people, because no one alive today actually saw the events that occured back then, if they ever happened.
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