I know better than to just trust what the Christian channel tells me, but isn't this true about the absence of transition fossils?
Yes, the cambrian explosion/gap. Very, very interesting stuff. This is a gap in the timeline of evidence. Meaning there was no evidence of life before it, and then there was, like things just appeared. What could this mean? Many things. The religious people are right, they don't teach that in science classes which sucked. I had to learn about it in college. But evolution makes sense and can be used today. From what I heard, we can use it to tell from what region someone is just by their physical features.
Well it seems unlikely to me that if evolution was a fact, that we would have no found transitonary fossils. I don't think it negates the entire concept, but I think it means maybe we shouldn't be so quick to accept it as a fact and negate any other ideas (creationism or anything else)
As soon as you understand what a theory is, then it seems unlikely that it was ever a fact since it's always been called Darwin's
Theory.
I can't agree. The Earth is a big place, they could be where no one has looked. It's also possible these "missing" links were not as numerous, thus harder to find or even no evidence survived.
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You are right, the earth is a big place. We haven't even explored the entire oceans, look how much is out there. There are creatures in the deep sea that we barely know about and that at first glance would have looked like they came out of a Sci-Fi movie. Possibly much land that we haven't explored or thought about exploring. All the missing evidence could still be here.
If you have a problem with religious people trying to hand you pamphlets, you need to lighten up. If they're trying to force their beliefs on you, then you have a legitimate complaint.
It's almost every freakin week I find one of these pamphlets at my job, toll collector, in my toll booth that people have handed out. Jahova's witness, that's the most annoying one. Creationism. I read some and they all seem to try and trick people into thinking it's something other than a religious pamphlet, but then in the end they get you and that's what I have come to expect. This seems like forcing. Please, if I was curious, then I would research, I don't need stupide pamphlets trying to trick me into their dying cult.
But I'm thinking you didn't consider how religious people are forced to live in your secular culture, and it's a bit more than pieces paper shoved at you.
I don't go out preaching. Religion should be kept inside your house and in your church and with people whom you know. And they aren't forced. They could move. They could become jewish or take on jewish practices that nearly isolate themselves from the rest of the world.
I believe this says alot. And don't forget all the hoopla over the phrase "under God" in the pledge of allegiance. It's a gross distortion to say these things mean the government endorses Christianity. I mean, the biggest picture on the county seal is a Roman goddess. Does the US now support Roman paganism? Do Christians feel "unwelcome" because it's there?
Maybe christians are being a little selfish, forgetting that there are other people with other religions in this world. People should have respect for other people's religious beliefs and that article was a demonstration of showing respect. Plus they would have gotten sued. But you know what's the funniest of all, money is endorsed by chritianity.
Sometimes we do go through stupid ideas though. Like remember that, a few weeks ago IIRC, some people wanted to change the BC and AD of time so that it didn't reflect religion. But the date reflects religion. I think removing that would be a shame since it's erasing a huge part of human history.
The Christian creation myth has no more validity than that of the Australian Aborigines, or of the Aztecs, or of any others, because it's based on Faith, rather than observable phenomena. It's a metaphorical description attempting to define the mysteries of perception in a highly superstitious goatherding society of 3000 years ago... written in an attempt to establish some social control by invoking the supernatural.
The corruption of past religious power in Rome comes to mind. As well as the incident of Martin Luther. Good man. Religious people shouldn't rule anything, because they are not objective. The pope's power should go the way of the Queen of England, non-existant. I'm not saying that the pope still can't do well, John Paul II certainly did some. But in truth, religion means nothing to people anyway. Has a war ever stopped because the pope said so? Unless we are talking about back in the day, no. Plus the new pope doesn't allow gays to get married. I mean, what is the harm of letting people do whatever
harmless thing they want. If nobody gets hurt, go ahead! But people get hurt, especially when religious issues come to mind.
Why do Athiests want to ban the mention of Christ in public?
what do you mean public?
Likewise, I think the OP saying "religious" people rail against evolution is equally broad a statement. There are those who do oppose evolution, however if the many religious out there really felt it an issue, it would have been moot a long time ago. Fact is there is a vocal minority. The rest really don't care.
It's big enough to cause a problem in a school system. It could just be shoving the snowball down the hill.
Those "god" billboards annoy me to no end, but people just talking about him is fine.
Oh yes, there is nothing more offensive than that to me. I'm agnostic, but people act like this religious stuff is Hard fact - as hard as a titanium 2x4 hitting your face. It's not. "Use your own name in vain - God" Oh really, god said that. Is god really his name. Or is it a label that we placed on him. This is what I'm talking about, shoving it in your face. I see a few signs like these within the scope of 13Miles. And if you down to Pennsylvania. Those farmers try shoving it down your throat too with dumbass signs like this. If I wasn't a decent human being, I would rip each sign to pieces. But alass, I am. That's right, decent human beings do live outside of religion.
I'm wondering about this also. I think "the Christian channel" is conveniently ignoring the existence of those.
(deep breath)... ya smell that... like corruption.
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