Poll: How did human life come about?

[Leros]

Originally posted by: So

Originally posted by: Zolty
You really need a 4th option for atheists.

Option 3 is fine, unless you're being picky over semantics.

Just curious, are you Christian?

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Originally posted by: nkgreen

Originally posted by: DrPizza
It really doesn't matter to me if someone chooses choice 2 or choice 3, but anyone choosing choice 1 must be intentionally ignorant.

Troll much? Good job in insulting 84% of the world's populaton. :disgust:

Hey, if 84% of the population wanted to believe that 1+1 = 17 then they deserve to be insulted. Even if you're so weak minded that you must believe in the fairy tale of some great cosmic muffin, swallowing the ridiculous concept of it happening in the last 10,000 years (or even worse, the last 4500 years) makes you monumentally stupid. If that applies to 84% of the worlds population then they should be ashamed of themselves.

 

[SlitheryDee]

Originally posted by: Mo0o
Here's an entertaining scifi short story about Asimov, semi related to creationism etc. Quick read:

http://infohost.nmt.edu/~mlindsey/asimov/question.htm

I remember that story. It's undoubtedly one of the coolest things I've ever read.

 

[Mo0o]

Originally posted by: SlitheryDee

Originally posted by: Mo0o
Here's an entertaining scifi short story about Asimov, semi related to creationism etc. Quick read:

http://infohost.nmt.edu/~mlindsey/asimov/question.htm

I remember that story. It's undoubtedly one of the coolest things I've ever read.

yea, the end was definitely a whooaaaaaa moment

 

[clamum]

If you passed high school and still think the Earth is ~ 10,000 years old... wow. *shakes head*

 

[everman]

Does page three in a religion v. evolution thread get good ad rates?

 

[Leros]

Originally posted by: clamum
If you passed high school and still think the Earth is ~ 10,000 years old... wow. *shakes head*

Our high school never talked about the age of the earth. The teachers only wanted to teach science and the parents only wanted their kids to be taught the bible, so we steered clear of the subjects where science and the bible conflicted (evolution, origin of the earth, etc).

 

[chusteczka]

Garden of Eden

Here is some good reading that provides a logical scientific explanation for the story of the Garden of Eden.
Has the Garden of Eden been located at last?
In Search of Eden

 

[WolverineGator]

How did human life come about?

It came about after the airplane took off from the conveyor belt. Spontaneously.

 

[boomerang]

Originally posted by: keeleysam
Option three, minus the god part.

 

[Leros]

Originally posted by: chusteczka
Garden of Eden

Here is some good reading that provides a logical scientific explanation for the story of the Garden of Eden.
Has the Garden of Eden been located at last?
In Search of Eden

Here are some articles where scientists found alien wreckage.
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I bet, if you had the motive, you could find anything you wanted.

 

[6000SUX]

It scares me that the fundamentalist answers are so high in the total. The creationism/intelligent design stuff is scariest of all-- here you have people whose faith overrides common sense, yet who choose not to believe in their religion's teachings OR in science.

 

[6000SUX]

#3 is fine for atheists. From your perspective, it reads "The nonexistent being in whom I do not believe had nothing to do with the process."

 

[WA261]

How about the poll spot for aliens putting us here to evolve, or life hitching a ride on a meteor, smashing into earth and evolving off that? I believe it was one of the 2.

 

[Special K]

Originally posted by: Mo0o

Originally posted by: SlitheryDee

Originally posted by: Mo0o
Here's an entertaining scifi short story about Asimov, semi related to creationism etc. Quick read:

http://infohost.nmt.edu/~mlindsey/asimov/question.htm

I remember that story. It's undoubtedly one of the coolest things I've ever read.

yea, the end was definitely a whooaaaaaa moment

That story was really good.

WARNING: SPOILER QUESTION

How did the computer continue to function once all of the stars were gone? Where was it getting its power from? I realize it's just a science fiction story but that was the first thing I wondered once I got to the end.

 

[chusteczka]

Originally posted by: Leros

Originally posted by: chusteczka
Garden of Eden

Here is some good reading that provides a logical scientific explanation for the story of the Garden of Eden.
Has the Garden of Eden been located at last?
In Search of Eden

Here are some articles where scientists found alien wreckage.
Text

I bet, if you had the motive, you could find anything you wanted.

:disgust:

Try reading that which you have attempted to discredit and you may find further understanding into the stories found in Genesis.

The links I provided do not attempt to scientifically prove that a god exists, they provide a logical scientific explanation for the story of the Garden of Eden. This is valid, peer-reviewed, scientific research that has been printed in the Smithsonian Magazine.

First appeared in Smithsonian Magazine, Volume 18. No. 2, May 1987.

EDIT:
This is probably the main point of the work.

...
Then, at about 6000 to 5000 B.C., following a long arid stretch, came a period called the Neolithic Wet Phase when rains returned to the Gulf region. The reaches of eastern and northeastern Saudi Arabia and southwestern Iran became green and fertile again. Foraging populations came back to where the four rivers now ran full, and there was rainfall on the intervening plains. Animal bones indicate that in this period Arabia had abundant game. Thousands of stone tools suggest intensive, if seasonal, human occupation around now dry lakes and rivers. These tools are found even in the Rub al-Khali or Empty Quarter of Saudi Arabia. And so about 6000 to 5000 B.C. the land was again a paradise on Earth, provided by a bountiful nature-God---and admirably suited to the foraging life.

This time, however, there was a difference: agriculture had been invented. ...

 

[Kadarin]

There is no evidence to support the existence of God, so I see no reason to believe in it.

 

[thecrecarc]

Originally posted by: Special K

Originally posted by: Mo0o

Originally posted by: SlitheryDee

Originally posted by: Mo0o
Here's an entertaining scifi short story about Asimov, semi related to creationism etc. Quick read:

http://infohost.nmt.edu/~mlindsey/asimov/question.htm

I remember that story. It's undoubtedly one of the coolest things I've ever read.

yea, the end was definitely a whooaaaaaa moment

That story was really good.

WARNING: SPOILER QUESTION

How did the computer continue to function once all of the stars were gone? Where was it getting its power from? I realize it's just a science fiction story but that was the first thing I wondered once I got to the end.

god damn, thats a good story! im guessing the AC doesn't need electricity to function, or something.

 

[StageLeft]

I always wonder, if it was the big bang, what created that initial mass and initiated its explosion? Conceptually science cannot fathom the beginning, because it is cause and effect, and unless the universe has "always been" (which science canno reconcile), it had to have begun with something, and what started that? Again science cannot conceptualize.

 

[FoBoT]

God invented the universe and all the scientific laws of nature and set evolution in motion a really long time ago

 

[Mo0o]

Originally posted by: thecrecarc

Originally posted by: Special K

Originally posted by: Mo0o

Originally posted by: SlitheryDee

Originally posted by: Mo0o
Here's an entertaining scifi short story about Asimov, semi related to creationism etc. Quick read:

http://infohost.nmt.edu/~mlindsey/asimov/question.htm

I remember that story. It's undoubtedly one of the coolest things I've ever read.

yea, the end was definitely a whooaaaaaa moment

That story was really good.

WARNING: SPOILER QUESTION

How did the computer continue to function once all of the stars were gone? Where was it getting its power from? I realize it's just a science fiction story but that was the first thing I wondered once I got to the end.

god damn, thats a good story! im guessing the AC doesn't need electricity to function, or something.

i think asimov sidesteps it when teh cosmic AC that was "too big and complex" to imagine. And sinceit only existed in hyperspace im guessing its composition and energy requirements are different.

 

[Cerpin Taxt]

Originally posted by: Skoorb
I always wonder, if it was the big bang, what created that initial mass and initiated its explosion?

The Big Bang wasn't an explosion of mass, exactly. It was an expansion of space-time.

...it had to have begun with something...

No, it didn't have to have a beginning at all.

 

[WA261]

Originally posted by: WA261
How about the poll spot for aliens putting us here to evolve, or life hitching a ride on a meteor, smashing into earth and evolving off that? I believe it was one of the 2.

 

[Mo0o]

Originally posted by: Skoorb
I always wonder, if it was the big bang, what created that initial mass and initiated its explosion? Conceptually science cannot fathom the beginning, because it is cause and effect, and unless the universe has "always been" (which science canno reconcile), it had to have begun with something, and what started that? Again science cannot conceptualize.

you should also look up the foam theory of the multiverse and how natural selection could potentially occur on a cosmic scale, i thought that was cool.

 

[Kelemvor]

Well of course the poll posted here is going to go for #3 since this is a techy forum. But I voted #2.