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.

[Supersprynt]

Agreed. But the big bang is only a hypothesis, if that. Its still highly debated. The big bang merely describes the current universe setup. Whose to say there wasnt just another universe before that and it imploded?

If science is observation and deductive reasoning, what would the the opposite? I'd say it would be blind faith, the following of mere feelings and beliefs based on highly circumstantial and very thin stories. You can say that I "believe" in evolution as someone would "believe" in god, but its not just different, its so different I would still conclude its the opposite.

When you say how can we explain why and how some things are living? What things are you talking about? We're a young species, why do the answers have to be provided here and now? Its as if because we cant explain everything now it has to be god. As a philosophy major you definately should know how wrong that would be.

There is very much we just plain old don't know yet. Think about the scientific knowledge 200 yrs ago compared to today. God helps keep people secure. Makes people feel warm and cozy inside. Makes things easy to understand, cut and dry. No wondering, no worry about things because its in gods hands. God has a plan.

I firmly believe there is no single "being" that has all the answers, all the power and a plan to carry out. We are but an insignificant part of a gigantic world. There is infinite space bigger and unexplained, but it would be unwise to say it never will be explained.

My sons step dad told him dinosaurs never existed, because
there is no mention of them in the bible. Some
people get too closed minded.

This reminds me of a girl who told me that dinosaur bones were put in the ground by people trying to ruin christianity.

I also found something today, I forget where, stating that some fundamentalists are stating that the earth not only does not rotate, it doesnt revolve. Now this is scientific fact, and people are still denying it. This is the stuff that drives me up walls.

This post has been edited by Supersprynt: Feb 26, 2007 - 12:13 AM

[Nate]

Agreed. But the big bang is only a hypothesis, if that. Its still highly debated. The big bang merely describes the current universe setup. Whose to say there wasnt just another universe before that and it imploded?

If science is observation and deductive reasoning, what would the the opposite? I'd say it would be blind faith, the following of mere feelings and beliefs based on highly circumstantial and very thin stories. You can say that I "believe" in evolution as someone would "believe" in god, but its not just different, its so different I would still conclude its the opposite.

When you say how can we explain why and how some things are living? What things are you talking about? We're a young species, why do the answers have to be provided here and now? Its as if because we cant explain everything now it has to be god. As a philosophy major you definately should know how wrong that would be.

There is very much we just plain old don't know yet. Think about the scientific knowledge 200 yrs ago compared to today. God helps keep people secure. Makes people feel warm and cozy inside. Makes things easy to understand, cut and dry. No wondering, no worry about things because its in gods hands. God has a plan.

I firmly believe there is no single "being" that has all the answers, all the power and a plan to carry out. We are but an insignificant part of a gigantic world. There is infinite space bigger and unexplained, but it would be unwise to say it never will be explained.

My sons step dad told him dinosaurs never existed, because
there is no mention of them in the bible. Some
people get too closed minded.

This reminds me of a girl who told me that dinosaur bones were put in the ground by people trying to ruin christianity.

very well put... as i was reading the posts before this i was trying to think of how to say what i was thinking. you pretty much hit the nail on the head for me