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.

[Kwanza26]

You know Super... people who believe are not gonna stop believing no matter what evidence or proof is shown. The design of religion is to reduce individual questioning of the universe to accept what is God's ultimate truths, so providing evidence only proves as a challenge and only strengthens belief itself. Pointless really. Understanding has to be gained independently.

Beyond that... I also don't expect much in terms of understanding or free discussion with the religious side ever (let alone HERE!)... unless these religious folk are theologians or philosophers in their own right. People in general do NOT distinguish between disproving of "Supernatural beliefs" such as Creationism and Miracles and such. "Supernatural beliefs" IS NOT the essence Christianity. You can take all of that crap out, and Christianity is still Christianity. Science, be it evolution or whatever is COMPLETELY compatible with the essence of religion. The essence of religion is LOVE. Love thy neighbor as thyself. What does that have to do with natural selection? Nothing really. It's ignorant literal interpretation of the bible that causes all of the headaches. Christian theologians will confirm literal interpretation of the bible is in fact... ignorant.

To close... Spirituality is fine and dandy and so long as you understand that religion is a guide to living a moral and just life; you can be a good religious person and believe in Science and evolution. It's the Supernatural stuff, the magic that people tend to believe in that is in contradiction to science.

Who said I beleived in the bible?

How about another theory, that life always existed, there was always life and will have life forever (on a universe scale), that there was no beginning and will never be an end. Life might be just organism flying from place to place and creating a large tree of evolution wherever it fall. If you think about it, its not anymore stupid than saying that the universe is infinite, which scientist says it is.

Life in fact is NOT infinite. Energy, however, is. Our human interpretation of life is limited to our planet. Don't call that a theory unless it's a real Theory.