I want to believe in evolution

[Kidlicious]

The versions that rely on an omnipotent God to make things look the way they look are impossible to disprove. (However they aren't convincing at all either.)

An omnipotent God is the best explaination for existence.

[C0ckney]

You were an ass.

pipe down you giraffe molesting ******.

[Ogie Oglethorpe]

Indisputable evidence that man evolved from a monkey like primate. Pix of how we looked only 2000 years ago.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-19349921

[Main_Brain]

i met someone the other day who believes in 7 day creationism ...

Know that Feeling. The akward moment in Conversation when you have to ask yourself: Do I want to get laid or dispute some ridiculous Argument?
In my Experience discussing Religious Beliefs is futile, as Beliefs are not subject to Logic (Hence "Beliefs"). Kudos for managing to change the Subject, probably the best Option in that Situation.

[The Mad Monk]

Indisputable evidence that man evolved from a monkey like primate. Pix of how we looked only 2000 years ago.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-19349921

Augh. That makes my heart sink. I hope it can be restored, and I really feel for the lady.

[MrFun]

Indisputable evidence that man evolved from a monkey like primate. Pix of how we looked only 2000 years ago.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-19349921

[Proteus_MST]

Indisputable evidence that man evolved from a monkey like primate. Pix of how we looked only 2000 years ago.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-19349921

Monchichi Jesus

[Elok]

Anyway, I convinced myself evolution is a bunch hooey when I decided that there is no way we would ever evolve away prehensile tails.

I'm not 100% sure, but I don't think any of our ancestors had such things--we and the monkeys descended from a common ancestor who, IIRC, was much like a squirrel. No prehensile tail. Also, once you come out of the trees and go bipedal, a prehensile tail is just a hand you have to turn your head around to watch. Until you're running away from a wolf and he catches you by it.

[Lorizael]

If you only use your prehensile tail to grasp your own body parts, you don't need to watch it.

[Elok]

Masturbating monkeys are easy prey. Plus the hair on the palms makes gripping awkward. Evolutionary disadvantage.

[MrFun]

[Sava]

math quiz
a lot of monkey are jerking each other
they use both hands and feet-hands
every monkey jerks another
no monkey jerks himself
no monkey jerks the monkey jerking him
how much monkey semen does the average calgary flames fan swallow in a day?

[Robert]

An omnipotent God is the best explaination for existence.

The question of existance of anything is far more interesting then the question of how one existing thing evolved into another existing thing.

No, I phrased that wrong, not the question of existing is most interesting.
Most interesting is imho the question how it is possible that there is space/room in which something could start to exist at all.

[Sava]

Sometimes "because" is the answer to "why?"

[Traianvs]

Bad news for the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster

Growing disbelief
Aug 22nd 2012, 19:30 by The Economist online | WASHINGTON


AMERICA is not an easy place for atheists. Religion pervades the public sphere, and studies show that non-believers are more distrusted than other minorities.

Several states still ban atheists from holding public office. These rules, which are unconstitutional, are never enforced, but that hardly matters. Over 40% of Americans say they would never vote for an atheist presidential candidate.

Yet the past seven years have seen a fivefold increase in people who call themselves atheists, to 5% of the population, according to WIN-Gallup International, a network of pollsters. Meanwhile, the proportion of Americans who say they are religious has fallen from 73% in 2005 to 60% in 2011.

Such a large drop in religiosity is startling, but the data on atheists are in line with other polling. A Pew survey in 2009 also found that 5% of Americans did not believe in God. But only a quarter of those called themselves atheists. The newest polling, therefore, may simply show an increase in those willing to say the word.

This change may have come about because of an informal movement of non-believers known as “New Atheism”. Over the past eight years, authors such as Richard Dawkins and the late Christopher Hitchens have attacked religion in bestselling books, appealing persuasively to logic and science. Mr Dawkins, a British biologist, has especially encouraged people to declare their disbelief.

Earlier this year he spoke at the “Reason Rally”, a gathering of thousands of secularists on the Mall in Washington, DC. “We are approaching a tipping point”, he predicted, “where the number of people who have come out becomes so great that suddenly everyone will realise, I can come out too.”

Some are doing so loudly. When Democratic convention-goers arrive in Charlotte, North Carolina, they will be greeted by a billboard sponsored by a group called American Atheists that claims Christianity “promotes hate” and exalts a “useless saviour”. A similar billboard mocking Mormonism was planned for the Republican convention, but no one would sell the group space.

American Atheists is also trying to block the display of a cross-shaped steel beam at the September 11th museum in New York. The beam, found in the wreckage of the World Trade Centre, was a totem for rescuers. The atheists see its inclusion as an unconstitutional mingling of church and state. The museum says the cross is an historical artefact, and that anyway it is not a government agency. Fights like this are unlikely to enhance atheism’s growing appeal in America.

http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2012/08/atheism?fsrc=scn/fb/wl/bl/atheism