How can you not believe in evolution?

[TheStinger]

were not talking a few weeks then

[aahz_capone]

You FOOLS!!!

You do not realize that the world is not even a microsecond old!

YES!

With every decision made, with every action that has the probability of more outcomes a universe is created and the past is destroyed. Infinate universes exist in the phase space of the present but the multiverse doesn't hold the past because time is a dimension that folds on itself unlik other dimensions! Which means by the time you read this I will never had typed it!


BAH HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAA!!!!

[aahz_capone]

[vulture]

aahz_capone, you're so very wrong. The universe won't even be created until the middle of next week. Currently it is all just a simulation in God's supercomputer...

[aahz_capone]

Originally posted by vulture
aahz_capone, you're so very wrong. The universe won't even be created until the middle of next week. Currently it is all just a simulation in God's supercomputer...

Really? What OS is he using? because I've come across some FUBAR stuff recently.

[Provost Harrison]

I am all for a rational position on the evolution debate, no matter what the faith. How can you stand strong in a wind of unsurmountable fact?

[SpencerH]

"A wind of unsurmountable fact?"

Eh?

[Provost Harrison]

I'm being poetic. It's not a pretty sight when a scientist gets poetic

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by CyberShy

- My common sence says it makes no sence. All this beauty on this earth appeared by random change? By usually damaging mutations? Nah....

I really have to single out this comment for laughter. Anthrocentrism at it's funniest. "Gee, all of these things couldn't be here by chance, so it that proves God!"

First, you have no evidence that the earth isn't here by chance, so the first half the sentence is an unfounded assumption. Second, your relying on such a subjective notion of "the earth is so pretty" is silly, as that's an opinion. Certainly there is also a lot ugliness, imperfection and such in the world, which goes against your theory.

The mutation statement just shows you don't really know how evolution works.

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by SpencerH
I dont believe in evolution any more than I believe in creation.

So do you also not believe in the Theory of Relativity any more than you do Voodoo witchcraft?

[JCG]

Evolution: The best answer so far that science has come up with.

Creationism: An ancient opinion which may or may not be true. In any case science cannot be either for or against it, rather just ignore it.

[SpencerH]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov

So do you also not believe in the Theory of Relativity any more than you do Voodoo witchcraft?

To me thats a reversal of what I meant earlier. I dont believe in evolution, but I do understand it as a scientific theory. I dont believe in creation (at all).

In your comparison I would say that I believe in relativity since I dont truly understand it as a scientific theory (at least not in the way I understand the theory of evolution) but I do accept that experts do understand it. Voodoo is anoda ting man! I dont believe in Voodoo. Tis real! (Just not magic).

[FNBrown]

The Theory of Evolution is just that... a theory. There are no facts to prove it.

[loinburger]

As opposed to, say, Creationism, which has oodles of evidence that supports it.

A scientific theory, like evolution, has supporting evidence and can be used to make predictions. When evidence contrary to the theory is presented, then the theory is modified or replaced by a theory that better fits the evidence. Creationism has a dearth of supporting evidence and cannot be used to make predictions, and in fact there exists a great deal of evidence that directly contradicts Creationism (particularly the more fundamentalist varieties of it).

Claiming that evolution is wrong "because it's just a theory" merely demonstrates that the person making the claim doesn't understand the scientific process. Gravity is "just a theory," fer cryin out loud.

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by FNBrown
The Theory of Evolution is just that... a theory. There are no facts to prove it.

Which, as we have established in this forum many times, is a completely false statement on the part of Creationists. There is an abundance of physical evidence for evolution. There is more physical evidence for evolution than there is for many theories that are accepted as scientific fact today. The fossil record is quite, quite large.