Evolution is a fraud. I refer you to “Shattering the Myth of Darwinism†by Richard Milton.
While one may correctly say that evolution is a fraud, that is not to say that that same person “believes in†Creation as it is literally set forth in Genesis.
The answer is: We don’t know where we came from. Let’s find out.
Evolution is as much, if not more, of an irrational religion than what any Creationist spouts.
Sean O’leary
Except that evolution has decades of scientific evidence to support it, whereas creationism only has faith to back it.
I am Zook the keeper of the spaghetti sauce. I am here to testify on behalf of the great Noodler himself. He has told me through a message in my alphabet soup that he is angry for the continual attempts to disprove him most obvious omnipresence and demands a monument be erected so those that are truly faithful may travel to this new Mecca of homage. I have begun the great task of building this accolade to our great creator. Other must also fulfill the edict of the great noodle and build shrines in their own towns until our scientific enlightenment is spread to everyone worthy of the great un-kept secret of the pirates and the spaghetti monster.
Evolution is a changing, dynamic theory. When new information is discovered it can be added to the current theory or change the entire idea all together. Evolution is not conclusive proof of the origins of Humans or life in general, but it is the best guess based on the observance of the fossils in the rock record and the changing of species observed in modern time. While it is impossible to rerun the experiment of the Earth to observe the way the planet developed. It is possible to observe the record left of those changes through time (although much of the record is missing). Science can fill in the holes with logical conjecture.
Science as a whole has been working on the conundrums of the universe since humans first looked into the sky and at the planet around them. The theories and laws of science have been developed as that understanding has increased. There have been mistakes made and new developments, but as a whole a natural world explanation is sought out first to explain happenings. Right now evolution is the theory of explanation for the development of life on this planet. New evidence could change it (though unlikely) but the dynamic of the science allows for that change.
I am interested in the source you have provided, but I am weary of an argument based on a single source. I would be interested in your views of the development of life on the planet. You claim not to fully believe in Genesis creation, but do not provide your alternative creation theory. Your following statement suggest that you are open to the any possibility of how we came to be by “finding out”. I submit to you that deciding on the outcome (not evolution, and not Genesis creation) prior to research will give a skewed result.
As always please be respectful of all persons that post here. Debate and arguments should be conducted as civil as possible. Name calling and disrespect just cause your opponent to become defensive and unwilling to listen. If you want to change the ideas and thoughts of another person it is impossible through attack.
I just keep laughing to myself and thinking something that doesn’t seem to occur to the religious wackos. It’s acutally possible for both theories to co-exist.
Still with me? ok…
Heres a metaphor for ya.
God set up the dominoes and we’re seeing how they eventually fell.
The dominoes being the building blocks of life (dna) and how they fell is the process of evolutionary mutation.
logics a pisser ain’t it. :D
I want beer.
Is the stripper factory customizable to each one’s standards?
Some people like fat women but I like brunettes.
I wouldn’t want to be a Christian when the world ends because of our own wrong-doing. I’m not worried about all of that shit, though…
I just want the beer and strippers. Golden gates are for interior decorators and snobby aristocrats. It’s all a fabricated illusion…mirrors, even…
beer and strippers. can’t go wrong with that combo. :D
No, you and Milton are the frauds.
In spite of actual, real science, you still want to hang on to your Creationism posing as science? Evolution is indeed a theory, and if you actually knew what the word “theory” meant, you would shut up and crawl back under the religious fundamentalist rock so that we could step on it. Hey, don’t get upset; you should be overjoyed to meet your Christian God at the earliest opportunity, right?
I enjoyed insulting you here because you’re obviously no Christian, and you damned sure don’t act anything like Jesus would. You and others like you are attempting to use religion as a societal power device. The Dalai Lama, a Buddhist monk, is way, way more “Christian” than you or Milton will ever be.
it seems to me like mr. fraud isn’t as open to new ideas as his contradictory letter might lead one to believe. It contains both the statements “We don’t know where we came from. Let’s find out.” and “Evolution is a fraud.”
i don’t know if anybody else was confused by his post, but i have a book he can read to “shatter his myth” of creationism.
its called “The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.”
and no matter what anybody says, I don’t have any clue how ID is a more rational explanation than evolution. I don’t know whats so much more realistic about a “being” that created the earth in 7 days, and gave the power to some men to do everything they ever would do, and make sure that not one christian on earth has a clear idea of what it is that they believe in and make plenty of contradictions in literature and ideas and stuff.
its a proven fact that offspring are not the same as their parents. its true that offspring that are better fit for life have a better chance of living. over time, animals have changed because they were better suited for their specific environment.
carbon dating is real, and acurate down to an exact science.
if someone doubts evolution, then they should doubt all other theories and science. Instead of finding a logical explination, just saying “god did it” is just down right lazy. maybe they should argue that light reflects off of objects because god wants it to.
The only reason “Evolution” makes a lousy creation story, is because it’s not a creation story. Evolution is an explanation for diversity of life, and is falsely labeled creationism.
Evolution is nothing more than adaptation in the long term, and we have solid evidence supporting it. Just look at any small island.
Despite the fact that we have observed evolution in laboratories and found over a thousand transistory fossils. Other than that, though, its totally a religion.
You can’t win a logical discussion where faith is involved. Facts have no weight because the ‘faithful’ will simply choose to ignore them. Faith releases them from the responsibility of proving their claims and at the same time prohibits them from questioning it themselves.
Milton is a crackpot. He fits sqarely among the ranks of flat-earthers and the like. If you are interested, here is a site that responds to his “Shattering” evidence, http://skepdic.com/refuge/altscience.html.
If this is the best you have to offer, don’t waste my time. I’ve got more important things to do like clip my toenails.
RAmen.
Sum Yung Gai youre a retard how dare you insult the spaggeti monster! and how dare you posting youre beliefs from the heritic cristian church on this holy web page?
May the spaggeti monster have mery on youre soul…
Dear Sean,
I’m glad you were paying attention when watching the Reading Is Fundamental(RIF) stuff on Saturday morning cartoons when you were little.
However, I am so sorry that you didn’t get the part about
Critical Thinking Skills!
Of course I am now a member of the
“I’ve stopped bashing my head against a brick wall 12 step program.” so I can’t have this conversation with you.
Bashing my head against a wall was a very addictive habit, one that cost me many hours of my time and the peace of my homelife.
I encourage anyone who is currently bashing one’s head against a wall to join our 12 step program and stop bashing your head against a brick wall. I’ve ben on the “wagon” so to speak for about 2 years now.
OH by the way
take the words bashing my head against a brick wall out and insert
Debating Evolution and then you’ll get it, well maybe - but anyway your ignorance is no longer my problem.
Gotta go and call my sponsor now- I almost bashed my head here for a minute.
RAMEN and pass the marinara.
How is the theory of evolution irrational? To suggest something is irrational is to suggest that the process is chaotic, absurd and unfounded.
The last time I checked, scientists, researchers and the like had this horribly nasty habit of making things nice, neat orderly and, not only asking questions but making comparisons and drawing conclusions based off of what was observed…how is that irrational? It seems quite rational to me.
This whole idea of an ‘almighty being’ drifting around here and there making and unmaking things must doesn’t make sense to me. Where is the proof that this being exists? Where is the evidence that this omnipotent and/or omniscient being exists and has placed his/her/its hand/appendage in matters of our existence?
I can SEE proof of evolution and natural selection through fossil records. I can SEE proof of science and our understanding of the world around us (no, that is not some guy driving a chariot across the sky, that is the sun, moving as the earth rotates on its axis). I can observe these things.
You challenge me to prove that Evolution, a theory, is how things work and happen in the development of the world. I will take you up on that. I challenge you to prove to me that there is a God, and that this God created the world, our reality, our very existence. I challenge you to prove Evolution wrong.
Science, evidence gathered through fossil records and other means of information gathering have given plenty of solid, concrete observational evidence. I have my ammunition. I have my evidence and proof.
Where’s yours?
I have read this book by Milton. He is somebody who uses the the evidence that proves his point and either disregards the rest. The evidence that he doesnt disregard he misinterprets intentionaly or otherwise. I have included a link to an article written by milton.
http://www.world-mysteries.com/rmilton_darwin1.htm
Not to say there is no validity to his arguments but his DNA evidence is a little pale. He mentions nothing of genetic markers only sequences in common. His postulation is that evolution predicts these two animals are distantly related but they have a low precentage of identical sequences. He fails to argue or mention that haman and chimp DNA are almost 99% identical.
http://www.news.cornell.edu/releases/Dec03/chimp.life.hrs.html
Milton also fails to mention that DNA similarities and differences would be resultant on how far back the species diverged not how similar they are now. He sites that a chickien is more like a crocidile than a snake. Which he says disproves evolution. This same data would prove evolution if the snake seperated from a common ancestorial species earlier than the crocodile and chicken. He also uses number of chromosomes to prove his point. The goldfish has more chromosomes than the human so evolution must be false. Nevermind that complexity of chromosomes and how much DNA infromation is in each one is more important than the number of chromosomes. Nevermind that a significant amount of genetic infromation contained in most species is never used or turned on it just sits in the chromosomes being dormant. Milton seems to take something as complex as genetic science and turn it into nothing more than a numbers game.
Milton while presenting a far better argument than the watch maker argument is still dealing in some pretty soft science. If you like his article (link above) I recomend the book. If the article annoys you with its incorectly presented scientific evidence well the book is the same just longer.
Other links about Miltion:
Richard Milton vs. Jim Foley email debate:
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/homs/milton.html
Some sites that are not fair and balenced towards milton:
http://www.antiquityofman.com/book_miltonreview.html
http://www.simonyi.ox.ac.uk/dawkins/WorldOfDawkins-archive/Dawkins/Work/Reviews/1992-08-28shattering_the_myths.shtml
http://skepdic.com/refuge/altscience.html
Some people who like milton:
http://www.alternativescience.com/
http://www.christiananswers.net/catalog/bk-shattering.html
You mean the Richard Milton who believes in remote viewing? The Richard Milton who believes that a man can live for years on water alone? That Richard Milton? May I direct you to the site of one Mr James Randi (Who surely sits at the right hand of his noodlness) who has many entries about Richard Milton. These entries leave me in no doubt that anything endorsed by Richard Milton is ridiculous as for his book, Andy Hardy and Nancy Drew are more believable.
Yours in Carbonara :0P
Reply to Stevee:
I also recommend Randi’s website (homepage for the James Randi Education Foundation). Anyone who is interested can find the page at www.randi.org. That site is a bastion of reason in an otherwise insane world.
James Randi is one of my favorites. Right up there with Bad Astronomy, the Skepticality pod cast, and of course, venganza. Got to love those challenge applications on JREF. It’s sad that there are so many people ready to believe the “woo-woo.” Incidently, Skepticality just posted a pod cast on Sunday where they interviewed James Randi.
RAmen and pass the stinky cheese.
It always amazes me how many people still assume that evolution has anything to do with the origins of the world or the origins of life. IT DOESN’T!
The origins of the universe is an area belonging to the physicists. The origins of life is a discipline called “bioneogenesis” and belongs to the biochemists. Evolutionary theory takes as a starting point that life exists. Darwin made no claims as to how life started, just how new species arrived.
The current model is based on Darwin’s theories of natural selection, Mendel’s theories on inheritance and many other theories that interlink. It still makes no claims as to how life started (some believe in the convergence of organic molecules, but we all know that it was our Noodly Master). These theories are all rational conjecture based on observation of the natural world. As yet they have NEVER been disproved. As the very nature of science is to disprove things, this means this model is the best one we have.
May his Noodliness bless you
Cardinal Fang
I just realized why intelligent design is a joke.
Look at the penguins.
They can’t fly, they can’t walk on those feet… Intelligent designer? I think not.
A screw-up. I guess you could find tons of other examples as well.
Gabriel,
Another example: humans. Look at us. We’re ridiculous.
Proof of the existence of the FSM:
1. If there is a proof that the FSM is the creator of our world, then it must be true
2. There IS a proof. You’re just reading it (notice the headline).
RAmen
Intelligent Design is a fraud. I refer you to “The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster†by Bobby Henderson.
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While one may correctly say that Intelligent Design is a fraud, that is not to say that that same person “believes in†Creation as it is literally set forth in The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
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The answer is: We don’t know where we came from. Let’s find out.
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Intelligent Design is as much, if not more, of an irrational religion than what any Pastafarian spouts.
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Cap’nUberbob
I’m going to give you the short, I’m-feelin’-kinda-lazy response:
Evolution is not a religion, my dear, dear Sean. If you think evolution is a religion, then that explains why you cannot comprehend its value to science and see it as a fraud.
Best to you now and in the beyond.
You know, if “God” (or “FSM”) went to all that effort to plant the “false” information that would lead our [divinely created] minds to “discover” “evolution”; what makes you think that “God” would be pleased that “his” design is being thwarted by “his” followers?
Wow, a lot of opining going on here. Creation, Evolution, Marinara. I have GOT to party with you guys.
Do you know why knowbody’s heard of Richard Milton? Its because he’s a nobody trying to get attension by slamming a geniuses work
I just thought of something, maybe God does exist, maybe hes the idiot brother of our great noodly creator. What if he just told people to worship him because hes an idiot! Wow I think maybe I stumbled upon the answer!
Milton, eh … http://skepdic.com/refuge/altscience.html … that Milton? Huh.
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Have a bowl of belief, be at peace.
RAmen
//sÅŽsÅŽs\\
Genesis 6 vs 2: “That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.”
Note that the bible talks here about God having multiple sons. Sort of like multiple noodly appendages (and we all know about man’s noodly appendage).
…Dude, seriously. I have no problem with the debate on evolution but… come on. It is at LEAST only as crazy as what the creationists are spouting.
I believe firmly in evolution. It’s a whole hell of a lot less insane that claiming that the only possible explanation for the universe is a sentient being. Really. I’m down with science. Bring me rock soild evidence of your point, and I will believe. Until then, sod off.
Peace man. Really. RAmen.
~W.A.
creationism = theory backed by tradition and faith
evolution = theory backed by scientific evidence that may or may not be valid
FSM creationism = theory backed by scientific evidence AND tradition and faith
It is obvious which of the three is supreme.
“maybe they should argue that light reflects off of objects because god wants it to.”
another global warming activist (pirate) Sep 25th, 2006 at 1:06 am
Exactly! And objects fall to earth because that is where god likes things to be! Further more the world is still flat, the sun revolves around the earth, and adam and eve rode dinosaurs to church! If anyone says otherwise I am sticking my fingers in my ears and shouting at the top of my lungs because likes me just the way I am, nice and stupid!
Sean-
I don’t really feel like giving you the full argument and trash talking your ignorant mind so richly deserves, but allow me to quote a brilliant man here.
GOD: For people to believe in Me they must have faith. Proof denies faith, and without faith, I am nothing.
Man: What about all this crazy crap on the planet? You can’t tell me that’s not proof.
GOD: Oh, ermm….. well, I suppose it is.
Man: So by your own definition, you don’t exsist!
GOD: Oops, I hadn’t thought of that.
GOD promtly vanishes in a puff of logic.
Evolution is not a religion. It is a theory based on observable evidence which may very well change as more evidence is gathered.
Evolution is not out in any way to prove or disprove the existence of God, though IF THE EVIDENCE IS CORRECT (a very important point) then it does suggest that a literal interpretation of the Bible may not make any sense.
LETTER TO SEAN
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Dear Sean,
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You are a genius. Of course the best way to prove that youre right is to point to someone and say “he said it”. You could be pointing to a crazy bag lady or a komodo dragon, it would still refute arguments comprehensively.
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The “theory” of creationism CAN be considered as a scientific theory. All you have to do to make something “scientific” is to buy a petri dish. and maybe some Play-Dough. Then dissect a small furry animal.
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Evolution is a religion. They have fundraising bake-sales every Sunday and then they eat babies. Sometimes they just feed the babies cocain, just for laughs.
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You are so smart. Im sure you get four gold stars from your teacher everyday. And I so know you color inside the lines too, a pretty amazing ability.
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love,
the bad panda.
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Oh God of All things good and starchy, may you bless this man with all good things in life. And May You Give Him some brain cells, and maybe a kidney because he is obviously a speaking chimp and constantly constipated.
Ramen.
Science and religion are not mutually exclusive.
Clearly, string theory is evidence of His existence, and the all reaching of his appendages.
evolution may be just a theory but creationism is true crap. The crap that comes out after you go to that local chinese restraunt. Yeah the one that overloads on MSG.
Thanks! I needed a little smile this morning.
Yup, we don’t know where we came from. Believing in a God, whether the christian god or FSM (ramen), is just as valid as anything else because the origins of the universe cannot be proven. The reason why evolution is proposed is that it can be tested and its effects can be seen. Alas, religion is based entirely on faith not testing.
Hence, evolution is based on rational thought while religion is based on faith or irrational thought. You can have rational thought within an irrational thought. But, you can’t have an irrational thought within a rational thought.
Waits for the next email in the series by “Don Quixote”.
yes because god is a perfectly sane belief, with lots of hard evidance, just like evolution. in case you havent noticed im being sarcastic. i mean come on evidance vs no evidance, im gonna go for the 2nd 1 (more sarcasm). look evolution is as good as fact, just face it, logically it makes sence, its not easy to accept, and its not “beautifull” like creatrion but it happened, and is happening, face it
haha I love this! My grandfather sent me an article about it it freaking cracked me up… The majority of the population actually believes that we were simple “created” from nothing. A spaghetti monster is actually much more believable- my texan relatives are gunna flip. YAY!
Evolution is a fraud? Really? WOW and you have proof of this right???
Science is about explaining the world around us without resorting to “supernatural” explanations. It is reason-based, not faith-based. Theories are tested through observation and controlled experimentation. Good experiments are reproducible and verifiable. If results are not the same from one experiment to another, scientists do more experiments to figure out why (error in any part of the experiments? Poor methodology? Inaccurate hypotheses? Fraud?).
Intelligent design is not science because it has as the heart of its “theory” a supernatural cause, as does all creationist ideology.
Evolution is a broad theory of the development of life on earth, and simply put means “change over time”. There are a number of mechanisms by which evolution occurs. Natural selection is one of the most prominent. Huge amounts of verifiable, scientific evidence supports the theory of evolution & it’s mechanisms.
The continuing attempt to teach some form of creationism as a science is a waste of everyone’s time. I have no problems with classes on comparative religion or philosophy that cover creationism. But creationism is not science. Those who want to see it treated as science either do not understand the definition of “science”, or are intent on undermining science and critical thought.
Flamingo, you are obviously correct. I wouldn’t have any problems with a comparative religion course either, in fact I had one in high school and learned a lot. However, I seriously doubt that what ID supporters want is a more open and honest discussion. Would they be willing to have ID taught along side eastern religions and their ‘theories’ on the worlds creation? All religions represented equally and honestly? No, they do not want that. ID seeks to plant Christian ideals ahead of all others. Theirs is not an effort to increase ones understanding but rather to limit it. It is sad and pathetic that knowledge and understanding of our world is scary to some people.
Well I am off to burn in hell…
I truly feel disgusted when i encounter people who argue with evolution. Facts are facts and no amount of faith can change facts. Evolution is backed up by facts and religion is backed up by morons in a pulpit.
Naturalistic Evolution Theory is the scientific long road that will eventually lead to our God… the only one true God…. it will be inevitable. Trust me.
Nothing new has evolved… no new class of life has been discovered…. there is only extinction.
Jesus said in Matthew 7:13-14 that MANY will follow the broad road and enter through the wide gate to DESTRUCTION and that FEW would find the small gate on the narrow road that leads to LIFE. It certainly won’t be his fault in the end that probably over 75% will not enter His kingdom.
Keep eating the noodles and following your beloved spaghetti monster and I’ll keep the Kool-Aid pitcher full.
I’ll take my faith in Jesus over your faith in scientists any day. You love your children that much as to lead them down that wide road just to satisfy your miniscule knowledge of the universe… you seriously are all willing and able to make that bet?
It is probably true that most of you know 100x about the universe than myself… the problem is that when you compare that to the TOTAL amount of knowledge… we are both like little children…. kind of like comparing a billion to infinity.
I think I have just figured it out. There are in fact two species of humans on this planet. The ones who evolved from a simian type creature melenia ago. The others pregenitors where placed on earth nearly six thousand years ago when god decided to create on man and one woman. This man and woman had two sons one killed the other one. This leaves a man a woman and their son to go forth and be fruitful.
So one species of human is the result of simian natural selection. The other species is the result of incestual inbreeding the likes of which even the backwoods have never seen.
I’d rather come from a monkey than generations of inbreeders.
As for dumbass liberal I would point you to the Afracanized honey bee. As it migrates and breeds with other bees a new pseudo-species is being formed. Yes yes I know its not a truley new and seperate species but that is how evolution works. Oh and new strains of bacteria can be bread. A new species of bacteria is still a new species. Your argument that we know more than you but we dont know it all so you must be right lacks merit. Perhaps you should take a seminar in logical thought.
Your argument based on amount of knowledge as a measuring stick for corectness really says I know a little and I believe in creation those who know more than me believe in evolution. Those who believe in evolution do not know all so they are incorect. I know less than the incorect so my level incoectness must be greater than those who know more than me. Therefore evolution is more correct than creation.
The eye has been around since the first complex organisms such as the trilobyte which it’s fossil remains were found in the Cambrian period strata… problem is no complex organisms have been found in pre-Cambrian strata.
1. How can simple cells on their own know there is wavelengths of light that can be seen.
2. How simple cells organize and make the complex parts necessary to view the light especially when ALL parts are necessary for it to work?
How one can look at the brain, the eye, the ear or the mechanism that clots blood and not see the beauty of design?
Jesus claimed that preaching Christ crucified would be a stumbling block to the Jews and FOOLISHNESS to the gentiles and that the foolishness of God is WISER than a man’s wisdom.
Good Day to you all…
I am also not insisting that macro evolution isn’t at work. I am just insisting that it would only work if God himself set it in place.
I believe death came into the world through Adam and Eve and I believe that because Jesus never claimed otherwise… it must be a fact. Otherwise Jesus’s death and resurrection would be MEANINGLESS. That would make Christianity a lie.
Arrhur Clark said that
All things sufficiently advanced appear to be magic.
Like earthworms in the garden soil — we are unaware of the “magic” of life about us. Intellegent design? Evolution?
Both can indeed co-exist — some evidence exist for both. We tend to believe only our senses, so “scientific evidence” tends to surface as the explanation. String theory has given way to multiverse, the sun dosen’t revolve aroung the earth.
We have been wrong before, what’s different about today?
Dumbass Liberal
its nice to see not all the Christian posters are idiots but what your up against is a lot of people with complete faith in what they beleive in. We also face a grouping of the same type of people, you shouldn’t bother yourself about us (even though it is funny the response some get). We will either burn in hell or not we’ll see when we get there or anywhere else for that matter. In the meantime I’m going to beleive what I want no matter what anyone says, sorry but no fundamentalist, Crazy or intelligent, is going to change that.
Your friend
the antichrist
Ncik666
Mr liberal
I submit that whereas we can demonstrate the mechanics of life none can fathom the “imbuing” of the soul on that collection of cells and biology. The recognition of fair or right and wrong are perhaps an anthropology visited upon us by societal education, but there is still (in your gut — instinct?) an inner voice that stills abberant behavior. We are instinctivly drawn toward the ordering of our life by a higher power — The Greeks and Romans created a god for each season, planetary body, and hairy toe searching for that connection to the universe. We have all felt this at one time or another. We can’t deny evolution — it has happened within our own lifetime, mice are smarter bacteria are resistant to medication, humnans are more robust. The intangibleness ascribed God, faith, love, generosity exists also
I like the way you think.
Ncik666
I’m the last to proselytize, and wouldn’t presume to suggest a course of belief or disbelief. You are unique in ideas and personality, by virtue of that very uniqueness an open mind is a huge asset. Faith is by it’s very nature is absolute — you do or you don’t — when you sit on the couch you commit fully to that action. (I lay on the couch a lot — my wife says so) I can admire those who are fully commited. That commitment can be a barrier to new or fresh ideas.
“1. How can simple cells on their own know there is wavelengths of light that can be seen.
2. How simple cells organize and make the complex parts necessary to view the light especially when ALL parts are necessary for it to work?”
This is a common problem among creationists. You assume because you, personally, never having studied the chemical nature of light sensors or prokaryote social behaviour, do not have an answer there must be no answer at all.
@ Dumbass Liberal
What use is half an eye? Not that AGAIN. How many times does it need to be pointed out that irriducible complexity (I think thats the term) does NOT, in fact, prove ID. Evolution is not just an additive process, things can be taken away too; just feel the top of your ass-crack next time you come up for air to find evidence of something that we no longer have.
Watch out for the parasitic wasps. They’re gonna getcha!
Sigh. I didn’t want to have to do this, but you, Dumbass Liberal, have forced me to actually explain why I believe in evolution. And by the way, I am not a dumbass. Unless you were calling yourself a dumbass, in which case (insert harsh criticism here).
FIRST OF ALL: You believe very strongly in Christianity. That’s very nice for you, but how can you prove that your God is the correct one and the supreme being is not, as Bobby Henderson suggests, a FSM? And don’t give me that ‘the Bible is absolute fact’ crap. That’s not proof. That’s just an excuse for me to laugh at you with my ‘dumb liberal’ friends.
SECONDLY: As for your eye argument- there are very simple creatures in existance now, with very simple sorts of ‘eyes’ that could easily have existed first as a survival mechanism to find food. So that’s my defense of that.
THIRDLY: There is, as I think someone else rightly pointed out, several kinds of evolution happening as we speak. THe thing about evolution is it’s gradual. As in ‘glacier accumulating, moving twelve miles and melting over eons’ gradual. You can’t watch it happen in a month, or a year, or a lifetime. What you can watch is Darwin’s actual theory: natural selection. For that I’ll refer you to any (normal) science text book ever written.
AS A FINAL NOTE: It may be interesting to point out that in his time, Darwin was highly ridiculed by the mostly Christian oriented science community. He eventually won them over, which gives some more evidence to you that evolution is not total junk.
RAmen.
~W.A.
P.S.: How do you know that God gides evolution? DO you have proof? Food for thought.
Here’s an interesting dilemma, oh mighty spaghetti monster.
If (your judeo-christian religion here) is correct, then at the time of your death, you will meet with (your maker here) and go on to your heavenly rewards.
If there is no afterlife or (your creator here), then at the time of your death, you will be gone.
So, if you’re right, you win. If you’re wrong, you will never know, so in effect you still win, by at least having a belief that sustains and cheers you during your (one and only) life.
I do envy (your religion here) at times. Devout agnostic that I am.
A quick google search turned up a couple of sites on the evolution of the eyes in trilobites. With the exception of the trilobite which had the most advanced eyes many creatures in the late precambrian and early cambrian had pseudo eyes. You know if you want to believe that god created eyes thats fine. I kind of lean in that direction. But illregardless teaching that god created eyes in a state funded school system should not be allowed. And D. Liberal before you bust out the eye argument again you should do a quick google search and see if perhaps there isnt an explination for what you say cant be explained.
http://www.trilobites.info/eyes.htm
http://www.fossilmuseum.net/Evolution/TrilobiteArmsRace.htm
This all goes to show that my theory is correct: we are all mutants. Some of just know we are mutants. Others refuse to be one with their mutant natures.
As for what use half an eye is… approximately half as much use as a whole eye.
Dear “Dumbass Liberal”,
Your argument is cyclical. Science can’t be correct because it would make christianity false; christianity is true; therefore science is false, which proves christianity is true. So if you accept as an axiom the assumption that christianity is true, you’re able to prove it using that assumption. Can you really not understand the magnitude of your stupidity?
Teresa - you’re describing pascal’s wager. Here are a few pages about it - but beware: They sometimes involve math, which is almost as evil as science. If you believe in numbers, check out these links:
http://www.religioustolerance.org/pascal_w.htm
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pascal-wager/
http://www.iep.utm.edu/p/pasc-wag.htm
http://www.update.uu.se/~fbendz/nogod/pascal.htm
Enjoy.
let’s say a species with only dark/light-seeing eyes, wich means they see if there is light and if there is no light, prefer to eat plants. those grow where light is. So now they know light= food. they would servive, while the others search in the dark.
Well, i like to be a muntant, but why do only so less mutants know what they are:
See, if you raise a dog, he thinks he is in his pride with you and your family. he thinks(yes he thinks) he is one of us. that’s it. Dog-mutants aren’t so far away from human-mutants. just some million of years. take it easy. You’re not in live to prove yourself. You can live like: 1. the community allows you to, 2. you want to. no need to be afraid to drink alcaholics, if you are muslim, for example. The only hell you can get in, is addiction. But this is a quiet tough one.
You are 100% responsible for your doings - there is no destiny from above.
It’s too easy to say “he want it for me” …just say “Shit happens, I made a mistake/desiccion and accept the results of it.”
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sry for my english, I’m, from the (almoast) other side of this “Earthdisc”
There may be bones in the sand but GOD sent a bird in the hand and one bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
now
and we are created by GOD and GOD is real and watching us all.
Anyone that ever saw me pray knows, something is not the obvious with me.
There is a supernatural force and HAIL MARY FULL OF GRACE
the LORD GOD IS WITH THEE force.
Religious whackos?
Satan get back from me.
I pray and things happen.
You are seeing modern day signs and they are bonafide
miracles.
King James is the one who needs to bow down.
I am Mary sent back. I wrote the Queen of England a letter and she was on the news with it. I am not a fake.
I am much braver than you think I am.
“I believe death came into the world through Adam and Eve and I believe that because Jesus never claimed otherwise… it must be a fact. Otherwise Jesus’s death and resurrection would be MEANINGLESS. That would make Christianity a lie.”
Quite the house of cards, isn’t it?
Hey you disconcerned mouthy ones, you ought to be more concerned.
Well I believe that human kind needs to be taught a lesson and shit is about to hit the fan.
King James liked selling BIBLES, it distracted mankind from reality.
I am Mary sent back, I got renamed Catherine.
I live a normal life now.
Semi anyhow.
Things have got to change though.
I don’t like living in a warring world
and being unsafe in it.
Miracles are happening because of my prayers to GOD.
The birth was documented and the government confirmed that Mary had been reborn. The church asked for proof and I gave it to them.
Take your meds.
Mutant, mutant, mutant.
Fascinating and at the same time a bit scary to read the hate mail. But one thing strikes me as odd, a lot (well, at least some) of writers argue that evolution is all fake since the bible says otherwise but why arent there any(are there?) writers who argue that the earth is flat? This is also stated in the bible and I would expect at least some writers to claim it to be the truth and that anyone who says otherwise will burn in hell.
Patrick,
Please give me the book and verse in the bible where this claim is made.
Thanks
I am not impressed with the “scientific” evidence given regarding the evolution of the eye… sounds like philosophical smoke and mirrors to me .
When I consider Behe’s work regarding Irreducible Complexity and William Demski’s work regarding the probability of evolution, I personally feel that the likelyhood of macro evolution occurring based only on random events is quite laughable
Yup, veryone is nuts… I like the mutant theory.
I begrudge no one their belief no matter how laughable it is… a big santa in the sky is cute… really. May his noodly appendage heal all wounds. RAmen
If you can look at a list of eyes that actually exist, each more complex than the last, running from hardly being able to tell what direction a light source is in to spotting mice from however high hawks spot mice at, and believe that natural evolution of an eye is actually impossible… I just don’t know, man. That’s the sort of willful blindness that makes our discussing eyes seem ironic somehow.
I challenge any and every one here to prove that the universe has not yet ceased to exist.
It was UnMade by PacMan, the All-Devourer!!!!!
What I find far stranger though, is that, here, in South Africa, it is the liberals who tend creationist, and the conservatives that believe in evolution.
Of course, there is no proof of existence, except for things in existence. Obviously that is circular logic meant to confound us.
Sometimes it is convenient for religion to use logic to find holes in scientific theories, but never to support it’s own.
I’m going to go make some wine into water.
ALL HAIL THE FLYING SPAGHETTi MONSTER!
Religious or Scientific, what’s all the fuss about?
It’s all ancient Hermeneutics.
Who can make me a hummingbird without using any other hummingbirds? Please post :)
Mr “DL”(great choice of name for yourself, by the way)would you mind telling us, if Behe et al. have shown ALL living organisms to have the same designer? I don’t know how they can, as by definition the designer cannot be subjected to any study or examination. As such, quite possibly there are an infinite number of designers.
And did designers need their own designers?Again, quite possibly, because they cannot be examined. Unless, of course, the Great Designer is the Fly Spaghetti Monster. He doesn’t need one, because his Gospel says so.
If evolution is a fraud explain to me then what the skeletons of dinosaurs and cavemen are. Supposedly the world started with Adam and Eve so where do the dinosaurs fit?
Dear Bobby’s last reply,
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. A bird in the pants is just painful!
Ow! Ow! Keep your beak to yourself, you nasty pigeon!
Evolution is a religion in the same way that health is a disease. Or in the same way that genius may be considered a form of mental impairment.
Yeah, um…Sean? Evolution is not a religion, otherwise we evolutionists would be going to church, singing hymns about and to evolution. Religion=faith. Evolution=science. And believing in something just because something tells you it is so (like the Bible) is like jumping of off a cliff because someone told you there was a giant soft, cushy bed at the bottom. Science involves research, facts, theories, and (dare I say it?) INTELLIGENCE! So…unfounded blind faith, or hard logic, science, and intelligence? I dunno! Also, if you are looking for TRUTH, I suggest the Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster by our much loved prophet, Bobby Henderson. ‘Tis true. Yeeeeaaaaaahhhhh. Um. I’ll go.
P.S.-Sean, please stop being an idiot.
Love,
Emma
RAmen
I am not impressed with the “scientific†evidence given regarding the evolution of the eye… sounds like philosophical smoke and mirrors to me .
Yes and the Milton you quote is soooo scietific.
“I am not impressed with the “scientific†evidence given regarding the evolution of the eye… sounds like philosophical smoke and mirrors to me .
Yes and the Milton you quote is soooo scietific. ”
Dear Shawn,
You’ve read how many books on the subject?
I’m going to take a wild guess on and say none. It seems to me that it’s very possible indeed that you’ve only read one book, the Bible which is the flimsy work of fiction ever born of man.
For you to cite solid scientific deduction and make shame of it whilst hiding behind your ignorant beliefs is really badly hypocritical.
Dumbass Liberal suggests that the complexity of the eye is evidence of intelligent design. Could he explain therefore why the mamallian eye is the wrong way round?
In many invertebrates (for example the common mollusc)the nerves to the photoreceptor cells are behind them, leaving no gat and maximum visal accuity (moluscs can’t see 20/20 because they lack the brain to interpret the signal).
In mamallian eyes, the retina is inside out. The nerve fibres that carry the signals from the cones and rods (the photoreceptors) lie on top of them. In orger to reach the brain, they have to pass through a large hole in the retina to get to the brain. This creates the “blind spot”.
A designer who designed such a duff design can’t be that intelligent. However, if we go with evolution, and look at the evolutionary record, we see that mamallian photoreceptors evolved from brain tissue, then the wiring makes sense as it came from inside. We can also suggest why evolution hasn’t solve the “inside out” problem. To do so, many generations of “intermediates” would be blind whilst the nerves and photoreceptors swapped round - hardly an evolutionary advantage.
“Science and religion are but two boats floating under the same bridge steering away from eachother, it is depressing that they can not work together.” ~Unknown
Science is viewed in certain fields as a religion, and in fact it is followed as a religion, the only thing is that it isn’t really an organized religion if you will, it has no creed, church, or any one text to follow. I do not follow science a religion, rather science all to often makes much more logical sense than any religion, and quite frankly the only religions that have ever sparked my interest is Buddhism and Taoism.
Whereas faith is taught, science is learned. The mere word “faith” attests to devotion to a certain belief system with no substantive support. The Bible is a set of pages written, edited and collected by men.
FAITH is a dish served cold to the unthinking, tasteless masses without sauce or parmesan cheese.
Dumbass Liberal! Go to book of Ezekiel and you you will find that it is stated that Jerusalem is at the center of earth. This can ONLY mean that earth is flat. So it definately seems to me that anyone that claims that earth is not flat will burn in hell. Or do you just have to burn in hell if you disregard certain parts of the bible? Which parts can you disregard and is it the lord who tells us what junk in the book not to pay any attention to and what parts we have to follow not to end up in hell? Or is it up to anyone to make this judgement?
I love you American people.
My poor european mind cannot grasp if all this hate mail is a fake or not. Do such people really REALLY exist ?
But I love the concept of the FSM.
I want to believe. I want to become a pirate !
And the plank for all the unbelievers ! (if taht expression exists in english)
Its not just an American thing. They do exist in Europe as well! And Im not just speaking about the Vatican here.
But I agree that when reding the hate mail one wonders if a bunch of it isnt fake.
these people are getting stupider all the time. they should keep there mouths shut and try to accept this.
And why are you telling us about your little book and stupid theoires, everyone knows that humanity started with a mountain, some trees and a midgit…
Not humanity, but the entire universe. The universe itself is a 4D sphere, but inside it, He made the mountain, trees, and midgit. humanity didn’t really get started untill He gave the midgit a female.
Dear Shawn,
You’ve read how many books on the subject?
I’m going to take a wild guess on and say none. It seems to me that it’s very possible indeed that you’ve only read one book, the Bible which is the flimsy work of fiction ever born of man.
For you to cite solid scientific deduction and make shame of it whilst hiding behind your ignorant beliefs is really badly hypocritical.
Stri-I think you have misunderstood me. I am not a creationalist I favor evolution of the not ID variety. You are correct that I have read the bible. My beliefs in evolution may or may not be ignorant.
In edition to the bible I have read many books on the origin of species. Including “Shattering the Myth of Darwinism†by Richard Milton. The point I was making about Milton is that he does not adhere to the “scientific method”. Milton does not even adhere to the principal of truthfully representing facts. I guess I should have been more clear when I was criticising Milton. Not to say that Milton does not raise some good points. Now if you did understand what I was attempting to say…well we will just have to disagree on whether or not Richard Milton constitutes “solid scientific deduction”
you’re all assholes — Zeus shall arise and smite all of you with your modern gods and beliefs
I dont believe in the FSM.When man first saw him there probably was a food fight with spaghetti.so if you were “touched by his noodly appendage” maybe you should wash.
Are you “That” Fatima?
yes. the ass.
It’s the third time in a week I’ve come back to hate mail looking for a cheap laugh, and it’s the same one people are chatting about. I’m beginning to feel my humour relies oin no small part on the unhinged psychotics who end up with their emails sent here; like laughing at those retards who get hit in the groin and sent it in to TV, I moved on from that, shouldn’t I move beyond the written equivalent too? Or is it funny ‘cos they don’t understand?
How does one become a pastafarianism? Is there somekind of iniciation or something?
Sorry - pastafarianist
Or is it without “t”