I don't understand when a person tells me that there is no proof of
evolution and so they'll stick to faith.
**
*Wouldn't belief in evolution then be faith and equally reasonable?*

Or maybe that doesn't hold water because it isn't *their* faith and any
differing faith would be laughable and wrong.




On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 12:34 PM, steve <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>  william wrote:
>
>> steve wrote:
>>  The evidence for
>>
>>> some version of evolution is compelling while there is a dearth of
>>> evidence for a plethora of deities.
>>>
>>
>> Please quote the evidence for some version of evolution, so that I too can
>> join the happy crowd of believers.
>> Without evidence, it remains a hypothesis, fairy tale, whatever.
>>
>> William
>>
>>
> http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090521/ap_on_re_us/us_prayer_death
>
> There is an abundance of evidence in many scientific fields that add weight
> to the theory of evolution.  I find that evidence for evolution abundance,
> wide ranging from geology, anthropology, genetics, species differentiation,
> etc., while the evidence for a plethora of deities is completely
> non-existence so definitely not repeatable.  No evidence for fairy tales,
> the same category as mythology.  One cannot even use the religious mythology
> to decide in any rational way which set of gods one must offer libations too
> or practice self mutilations for.
>
> “That's the problem with religion: you beat your way past the [greedy]
> clerics, fight your way through the demons, stand before the holy of holies,
> and when you rip away the veil, there's nothing there but a mirror.” --Owen
> Rowley quote
>
>
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