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I hesitated creating a thread regarding this but this is really the best medium in which many people can talk openly about something w/o much consequence. Plus I'm big on freedom of speech and so here it goes.
Friday night I go and see Damon Wayans stand up. Second time I saw him, and he was pretty funny the first time. This time he wasn't nearly as funny. Mainly because he started attacking anything that wasn't Christian. Oh boy. So he goes on to say that evolution is the stupidest thing he's ever heard and goes about mocking how its ridiculous something just formed and one day hopped out of the water and another day got legs and another day jumped up into a tree and then finally said "I got to get a job" as a human. Hilarious. Oh wait, its not. In fact I was flabberghasted and the level of sheer stupidity emanating from this mans mouth. Evolution is the stupidest thing he's heard? Did he think it happened in 6 days? He then continued to say that atheism is on the rise and its basically got to be stopped and how its horrible not to believe in anything. By now your thinking, where is he going with this? My dilemma which is actually eating at me is how many of you think that evolution isn't real? How many people think that evolution happened overnight; and how many people are under the impression that evolution is just a hypothesis, nothing more than a guess; how many people think atheism is evil? Im genuinely curious. If I dont get any responses to this I'll chalk it up to I wrote too much, you got tired, fell asleep and drooled on your keyboard. I also want to say that if you do decide to respond, you do it in an intelligent, RESPECTFUL manner. I'm not looking for this to get closed because religion is a very very touchy subject. This is primarily for those who have an open mind, and willing to engage in intelligent conversation. Thanks. -------------------- |
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Ah yes. See you have fallen into a classic pitfall from which you are talking about. You are incorrect on this basis. It is NOT the job of people to disprove what you are saying. It is YOUR job to backup what you belief with evidence and facts. Science does not go around disproving things. Hypotheses are made, they are tested and retested and retested until they are Theory.
Unfortunately u have it backwards. If your in college; take the first 2 philosophy courses. It will challenge you in ways you didnt yet know you could be. I say the first 2 because the first is If-Then stuff, only does the second one come into the fallible logic your using now. Addendum. Science, in the broadest sense, refers to any system of objective knowledge. In a more restricted sense, science refers to a system of acquiring knowledge based on the scientific method, as well as to the organized body of knowledge gained through such research. Science does not have a direction. As in, they do not Prove or Disprove. Scientists observe. Simple as that. If a hypothesis is observed to be wrong. It is changed or thrown out. Only after hypothesis pass the scientific method does it become a theory. This is where the Theory of Evolution lies now. Its not a "theory" as in, we "think" this is whats going on. It is passed the scientific method and has evidence beyond a shadow of a doubt. This post has been edited by Supersprynt: Feb 25, 2007 - 10:33 PM -------------------- |
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