Rant on Theories, Laws & Misconceptions Options

[Supersprynt]

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.

[uberschall]

i am not atheistic. i am agnostic. it is my firm belief that the scope of human understanding is limited to the things that we can experience with our basic senses-sight, touch, etc.

i think that the human realm is rocks, trees, and everything on the earth, and that's it. regardless of how life came to exist on this planet, we simply cannot completely understand it.

in our limited scope, evolution is obvious from the standpoint that it continues to this very moment. there are new diseases born of existing ones through small-scale evolutionary processes. on top of that, the paleontological evidence of evolution is undeniable.

as for science, we can define it however we want. playing semantics about the definition of the word does not diminish that no matter what you want to call it, sciences are understandings and methods, nothing more. science nor religion can present a flawless ideological baseline, but it is an important feature of any ideological system to include a higher power.

if you choose to establish said higher power as a creationary being, so be it. if you choose to submit that there is no higher power, fine. i submit that we are simply incapable of beginning to understand anyway.