If evolution had been known all along...

[Elok]

Originally posted by GePap
Come on, the internet is great at finding dirty videos, pirated dirty videos, and wasting time reading blogs and other opinion pieces about religion and evolution.

Fixed.

[DirtyMartini]

I forgot about the one other use for the internet -- finding videos of people playing rock band drums all by themselves in their squalid apartments.

[Supr49er]

Originally posted by Unimatrix11
Funny idea, that he who believes in evolution cannot to be religious.

From what I've heard, Darwin himself was very religious.

[chequita guevara]

You heard wrong.

[MrFun]

A bit of a threadjack I guess but talking about other scientists in general.

Doesn't Stephen Hawkins belive in God? Or is he more of an agnostic?

[chequita guevara]

Does it really matter? Is your faith so weak it needs validation from other gullible fools?

[MrFun]

I don't need validation but it sure refutes the negative stereotype that atheists have of all Christians being dumb.

If a number of intelligent, rational scientists believe in God that goes a long way to refuting that stereotype.

[chequita guevara]

No, it doesn't. Because there are always people like you and BK to reinforce it. In any event, Hawking is agnostic.

[Sprayber]

You can't have it both ways Mr. Fun. You won't get any support from people who are religious or atheist by sitting on the fence. You won't be accepted by either.

[MrFun]

I don't sit on the fence. I believe in God, and as a Christian, believe in Jesus Christ.

I just don't interpret the Bible literally in believing the Earth is only 6,000 years old or that God created life itself.

Thankfully, I'm not looking for support from fundamentalists nor am I seeking support from arrogant atheists.

[Blaupanzer]

Hawking is indeed agnostic, which he defines as believing in God, but not in any particular religion.

Darwin was indeed a devout Christian, according to his own claims. Many years after writing the book he decided that he had tapped into the methodology God used to minister his flocks which was evolution.

Comrade Snuggles, behave. This is another debate about evolution and religion, not an opportunity for you to insult the debaters.

[Sprayber]

Originally posted by MrFun
Thankfully, I'm not looking for support from fundamentalists nor am I seeking support from arrogant atheists.

If you say so, I'll take your word for it. Just seems like your looking for some kind of justification by looking at who else believes. There is no sympathy here for that. You can be as liberal as you want to be but there is no acceptance from those "arrogant atheists" if you believe in anything more than this short life.

[Blaupanzer]

Frosty Boy, out of curiousity, which religions do you believe created mathematics, war, engineering. I must assume they weren't all a product of one ancient belief system. Similarly, if a Christian developed evolution, does that make evolution a Christian concept?

[MrFun]

Originally posted by Sprayber


If you say so, I'll take your word for it. Just seems like your looking for some kind of justification by looking at who else believes. There is no sympathy here for that. You can be as liberal as you want to be but there is no acceptance from those "arrogant atheists" if you believe in anything more than this short life.

It would be nice if more atheists respect the beliefs of religious people, that's all.

But, that won't happen in this millenium.

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Blaupanzer
Darwin was indeed a devout Christian, according to his own claims.

“an Agnostic would be the more correct description of my state of mind.” Charles Darwin