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The latest national survey by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press and Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, conducted July 7-17 among 2,000 adults, also finds deep religious and political differences over questions relating to evolution and the origins of life. Overall, about half the public (48%) says that humans and other living things have evolved over time, while 42% say that living things have existed in their present form since the beginning of time. Fully 70% of white evangelical Protestants say that life has existed in its present form since the beginning of time... and a substantial minority (38%) favors replacing evolution with creationism in public school curricula.Are you really this stupid? creationism is not a valid point of view. You can believe in it if you want, but please don't dumb down the schools any more. The US used to be 1st in science, math, you name it, now we have almost half the population believing some fairy-story about how species never change.
WHY???? Because Rod Parsley told you ? Because you think it's part of some amorphous faith, and if you don't accept every single tenet of this lunacy you'll be condemned to eternal damnation? Are you really so gullible?
Faith is ok for some people, I understand that some folks get a big kick out of Jesus. However, to deny the evidence before your eyes, to say that white is black and black is white, this is not faith, it is idiocy.
It does not take any faith at all to know that species change over time. Anyone can see it for himself with a look around. Take for instance, our friend the dog.
As a boy, I had a dog, his name was sarge, he was a german shepherd. German shepherds did not exist before 1900. That's right, we even know the name of the german who first created the breed from one (very good) male dog and several (pretty good) female dogs. Does your religion require that you deny any historical record, no matter how well documented that doesn't fit in your fairy-tale?
If, as a small boy, I was able to understand breeding, or artifical selection, then after thinking a little bit, grok the whole idea of natural selection, why do 42% of you not get it? Have you never had a dog?
German shepherds exist, therefore species change over time.
Horses...
Laboratory mice...
Influenza, cattle, pigmy goats, pot-bellied pigs....
Not worried? 42% of any given jury (70% in the bible belt) may decide to disregard clear DNA evidence proving that you are innocent, because it's just some scientific mumbo-jumbo that the devil uses to trick you.
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Ahhh, SPAM, it's whats for dinner...
Seriously though, as a Mormon I believe in God. I also believe that God is only God because of knowlege. By a higher knowlege of science he created all things. How is it so hard for evangelicals to understand God could have used evolution to create? Could it be that the Bible is NOT the whole story and doesn't even have enough to qualify as the "Readers Digest" version? I am in complete agreement that ONLY science should be taught in the classroom and anything that ignores plain evidence is NOT science. Religion belongs in church, science in the classroom. This is why the founding fathers seperated church and state. Those who wish for a theocracy can go elsewhere.
Samurai crabs...
Lifted from Carl Sagan's COSMOS show, but I'll paraphrase it here some.
Off the shores of Japan some 110 years ago, if a crab's shell sorta looked like the face of a samurai, it was thrown back.
After about 110 years, they ALL look like a samurai face. Quite distinctly too.
Pay me $100k and I'll personally set up an entity that will, in 100 years, yield a strain of crabs to look like whatever you want. You might not be here to enjoy it, but if you want your face (Please enclose a photo) to be around for your progeny to enjoy, I'll make sure it will happen.
Or just run off with the $ and blow it all on hats.
At any rate, it works. We can make the animals in whatever image we want. We can make ourselves in whatever image we want.
It's our world. We won. Feels great to win the race.
Gods? Well I wonder what the crabs will worship in one million years.
Themselves, as they fuck with the lower sea-life, I'm sure.
Did a creator make us so that we could explore and finally usurp his power? That's not the jealous old-testament being I'VE read about.
But of course, light was created before the sun. Oh, those wacky primatives.
or Revelations... Written about 800 (feel free to correct) AD and shuffled into the bible like canon? Sheesh. I might as well include my own verse. The Bible is as sacred as Wikipedia.
If the words of the profits - um, PROPHETS, are sacrosanct, why are we NOT all Muslim? Shouldn't we be? I mean really: Isn't it supposed to be the last true word? It's sure hard to keep up with this stuff without a subscription to the "religion of the month" club.
Haven't the time... Too busy drooling over internet hentai. Let me know how it ends for you.
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