I want to believe in evolution

[DaShi]

Convince me.

Please ensure all your posts are specifically tailored to convince me alone.

[Lorizael]

I have your loved ones tied up in the basement. If you believe in evolution, I'll let them go. Otherwise, they might not be so lucky.

[DaShi]

Hmm, is there anyway that they could evolve their way out?

[Lorizael]

Populations evolve, not individuals. Maybe if I let them breed.

[Sparrowhawk]

Do his "relatives" include any chimpanzees or gorillas?

[Snotty]

Do his "relatives" include any chimpanzees or gorillas?

theres solid evidence that evolution is bunk as , to date, not a single monkey or chimpanzee in captivity has ever given birth to a human.

Wheres your false idol Darwin now, huh?

[Proteus_MST]

Populations evolve, not individuals. Maybe if I let them breed.

You could also give them the brains of individuals to eat which, in the past, successfully escaped from your captivity

http://everything2.com/title/The+ability+of+planarian+worms+to+run+a+maze+more+successfully+after+being+fed+the+remains+of+a+successful+worm

[DaShi]

theres solid evidence that evolution is bunk as , to date, not a single monkey or chimpanzee in captivity has ever given birth to a human.

Wheres your false idol Darwin now, huh?

Now I'm doubting evolution. Monkeys can't poop out people. My loved ones can evolve out of captivity. In fact, I can't think of any species that evolved out of captivity.

Things aren't looking good for evolution

[Proteus_MST]

theres solid evidence that evolution is bunk as , to date, not a single monkey or chimpanzee in captivity has ever given birth to a human.

Wheres your false idol Darwin now, huh?

Maybe they can only give birth to humans outside of captivity and without being observed

[Aeson]

Evolution says that with the proper environmental pressures, we humans may someday have giant tentacles. Not only is this something to believe in ... it's something of a road map as well ...

[DaShi]

If evolution was true, shouldn't all animals be the same?

[Robert]

You should believe in evolution because some people in white coats told me it's true and that they observed it, they have written this message in books, why would you not believe them?

[Joseph]

Have any of you had your DNA completed. I have. Father side Haplogroup R1b, M343 (Subclade R1b1a2, M269). My Mother side Haplogroup H.
This was done through National Geographic Project. Cost $100.00 each. No Monkeys were found. Page 1 parp. 2 reads, The genetic markers that define your ancestral history reach back roughly 60,000 years to the first common marker of all non-African men, M168, and follow your lineage to present day ending with M343, the defining marker of Haplogroup R1b, M343 (Subclade R1b1a2, M229.

In Para. 5, it reads, Today, roughly 70 percent of the men in southern England belong to haplogroup R1b, M343 (subclade R1b1a2, M269). In parts of Spain and Ireland, that number exceeds 90 percent.

My surname comes from England. My Mother side come from Ireland. I'm also doing my Ancestry and found out that I'm related to some people like Richard 1, Duke of Normandy etc. on both my Mother and Father side. Yes the means my Mother and Father are very distance cousin. And if my Mother was alive and I told her this, she would shoot me or something.

[loinburger]

Biblical Creationism is way too complicated, between magical ribs and flaming swords and global floods etc., and with Biblical Creationism and Evolution being the only two available theories this meant that I'm an Evolutionist.

[C0ckney]

i met someone the other day who believes in 7 day creationism, believes that the bible is the literal truth etc. she was american (what a surprise). she was bemoaning the fact that academics who believe in creationism are discriminated against in the sciences and not taken seriously. i was astonished to discover that there are academics who believe in creationism. i gently pointed out that maybe scientists find it hard to take seriously people who reject the enormous amount of scientific evidence for evolution. i gave the example of bacteria becoming immune to antibiotics. she said that there is evidence on both sides. i asked what evidence, apart from the bible, is there for creationism she said the bible was evidence. i, trying hard still to be polite, asked why she preferred the christian creation story to, say, the norse one or the greek one, or perhaps the one of that west african tribe who believe that the world is entirely made out of ant excrement. she said that she respected everyone's beliefs, including my one in evolution. i tried to explain that my 'belief' does not require faith in a single text written several thousand years ago but instead relies on a mountain of scientific evidence. she repeated that she respected everyone's beliefs. i decided to change the subject.

this woman is a teacher, although thankfully not a science teacher. she spent a lot of the rest of time talking about angels and demons and about the constant battle between good and evils 'forces' in the world. this included a particularly outlandish conspiracy theory about how many record labels had shrines to the devils and that their artists gained success by selling their souls.

what is it with the US and letting religious nutters instruct children?