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Do you believe in evolution?

Posted - May 25, 2020

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  • 5391

    What’s to believe? All of the facts, in every relevant field of earth science are on the side of supporting evolutionary theory, as opposed to any other competing offering. As has often been said, there is more documented proof of evolution than of gravity.

    It’s not a point of faith to accept what the evidence shows. 

      May 25, 2020 12:04 PM MDT
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  • 44603
    I agree. I worked with a science teacher years ago who was such a devout Christian, he refused to teach it. But then he shows his student an emu leg and tells them it is from a dinosaur.
      May 25, 2020 12:10 PM MDT
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  • 5391
    My wife taught science for 17 years. 5th and 11th grade. A great resource. 
      May 25, 2020 12:12 PM MDT
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  • 14795
    Factual knowledge by those that have devoted their lives to research and find actual physical evidence simply cannot be refuted  ...:)
      May 25, 2020 5:06 PM MDT
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  • 14795
    Sounds like he told fairy tails and science fiction stories if you ask me...
      May 25, 2020 5:42 PM MDT
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  • 8214
    Who made the monkeys?
      May 25, 2020 2:18 PM MDT
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  • 5391

    No one “made” monkeys. No one “made“ any species. Life reproduces itself, the primary function common to all living things.
    I challenge anyone to present positive proof to the contrary. 

    Monkeys are primates, as are the great apes, as are we homo sapiens. DNA bears this out. Man did not evolve from monkeys; monkeys have tails, and we have catalogued over 200 species. All primates evolved from a common mammalian ancestor, long extinct.

    All extant life forms are descended down paths of natural selection from earlier ancestors and simpler life forms. 
    All life on the earth arose from the seas.

    This post was edited by Don Barzini at May 26, 2020 9:37 AM MDT
      May 25, 2020 3:03 PM MDT
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  • 8214
    You are not going back far enough.  Who made the ocean, the earth the universe? 
      May 26, 2020 4:16 AM MDT
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  • 14795
    Why would it have to be a human person when that life form had yet to evolve... ? 
      May 26, 2020 4:44 AM MDT
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  • 5391

    There is no data showing that anyone did. Or could have. Only the unsupported presumptions of people who don’t have any use for evidence to build their opinion.

    Now offer your proofs to the contrary. 

    Btw: Who made your supposed creator? 

      May 26, 2020 4:52 AM MDT
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  • 14795
    You are punching now below belt ...it was its dad and mummy as you well know...:) 
      May 26, 2020 4:57 AM MDT
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  • 14795
    Mummy and daddy monkey while monkeying around one day while making hay while the shined...:) 
      May 25, 2020 5:18 PM MDT
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  • 13395
    The truth of the matter of existence is like this..

    A long time ago an Alien from a different dimension of existence was roaming the vast emptiness of space when he came across the Realm of Heaven where he found God . They became friends and God showed the guy around his heavenly kingdom.  "Beautiful!" remarked the Alien then: "Say, God why don't you fill this vast emptiness with a universe?" "What is a universe?" God asked.  "Well y'know planets, suns, stars, moons, and galaxies,  all kinds of 'heavenly bodies. He even made sketches to show God.  "That's material stuff" said God. "I am a spirit and a spirit cannot create material stuff ". "Yes you can" replied the Alien."Just command ~BE!~ and all will appear into existence. Then you can also create life on one of the planets and the 'intelligent species of humans to bow down to you and worship you and be your servants".

    That is the event that occurred about 6000 years ago. 
      May 25, 2020 1:00 PM MDT
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  • 13277
    You seriously believe that, or are you being sarcastic?
      May 25, 2020 3:18 PM MDT
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  • 13395
    It's a story of creation with a different perspective. A novel novel. 
      May 25, 2020 4:17 PM MDT
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  • 13277
    More than a little far-fetched.
      May 25, 2020 4:25 PM MDT
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  • 13395
    Right.  I don't think a spirit is capable of creating material stuff. 
      May 25, 2020 4:49 PM MDT
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  • 7280
    Aristotle might beg to disagree.
      May 25, 2020 5:48 PM MDT
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  • 13395
    Yeah I would like to find out some philosophical opinions about their ideas of spiritual/material matters.
      May 25, 2020 7:09 PM MDT
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  • 4624
    Aristotle was a theist long before anyone had ever discovered the evidence for evolution.
    He may have been good at logic,
    but no logician has ever successfully argued for the existence of God without a subsequent logician finding a flaw in the logic.
    Conversely logicians have found arguments which prove that a God who is omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient and good cannot possibly exist. Take good out of the equation, and he could.
      May 26, 2020 3:00 PM MDT
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  • It sounds odd to me to speak of it in terms of belief. I accept the evidence of evolution, yes. 
      May 25, 2020 1:03 PM MDT
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  • 10635
    Evolution, as in man evolved from being an ape (or some other lower life form) into what he is today - NO!  
      May 25, 2020 1:10 PM MDT
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  • 4624
    The science of evolution has NEVER claimed that homosapiens evolved directly from apes.
    How on earth did that erroneous idea arise? And how did it spread and turn into a hoursewive's tale?

    Apes and humans evolved on different branches from a common answer.
    Google or Wiki it. 
      May 26, 2020 2:55 PM MDT
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  • 10635
    Why do you feel you have to attack me for my belief?  Is yours that weak?
      May 26, 2020 3:00 PM MDT
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