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.

[Fastbird]

This is just my personal views.

Religion is nothing more than a man-made creation to give man something to believe in. The majority of men are people who are compelled for one reason or another with the need to believe in a higher power, be it for personal security or whatever. Look at history though. Religions have come and gone. Only the truly blind are the ones who think that "their" god is the only higher being and that said being has been around forever. Religion gives people something to believe in, but sadly, also gives people (in their minds) justification for war. Take away religion and 75% of the conflicts in history go away.

Why not put aside all traces of organized religion and look in a different view. The possibility that there is a higher being whom created or influenced VIA evolution??

Evolution is a scientific fact, there's no denying that. Being a complete atheist is along the lines of being a die-hard religious person to me though. I personally feel that it's just not that cut and dry. Agnostic is the way to go for me. Not an ounce of belief in organized religion, but open to the possibility that there is something higher and more mystifing going on.