Hey! That's not what an ape is!

[Kai Lord]

None of those posts addressed religion or politics, both forbidden topics here.

Evolution certainly is a religious issue. A totally unproven, faith based belief system that exists simply as an alternative to the teachings in the Bible. I sincerely doubt that its acceptable per board rules to say "The Bible isn't true" but not "I believe it is."

 

[dream66_]

No, it's against the board rules to discuss the bible one way or another.

Evolution is an unproven scientific theory, it doesn't have any relation to religion unless you choose to make it.

 

[d4]

I find it takes much less faith to believe that God created the world in six days than the "theory" that life and all things in existence just randomly happened.

well, it's a good thing that's not what evolution is. you might want to inform yourself on the opposition before you go attacking it. otherwise, you're just making a straw man argument.

Its not like there exists a single transitionary fossil, or case of one species giving birth to another in all of documented science, or few enough holes in the very theory as to make it anything other than completely dismissable.

again, you might want to check out the evidence that does exist before you simply state that it doesn't.

Evolution certainly is a religious issue.

as dream66 says, it's only a religious issue if you choose to make it so. there are quite a number of people who have no problem being deeply religious, devoutly believe in God, and still believe in the validity of evolution.

A totally unproven, faith based belief system that exists simply as an alternative to the teachings in the Bible.

again, you might want to read up on what you're talking about before you make false statements about it.

I sincerely doubt that its acceptable per board rules to say "The Bible isn't true" but not "I believe it is."

you were the first one to bring up the Bible. no one said anything one way or the other before you brought it up.

 

[LightPhoenix]

I believe the apt phrase here is, "Don't feed the troll."

 

[d4]

I believe the apt phrase here is, "Don't feed the troll."

i apologize.

 

[Kai Lord]

well, it's a good thing that's not what evolution is. you might want to inform yourself on the opposition before you go attacking it. otherwise, you're just making a straw man argument.

Right. Right. Evolution is "Change in the genetic composition of a population during successive generations, as a result of natural selection acting on the genetic variation among individuals, and resulting in the development of new species," totally unproven, and quite silly. If it offends your beliefs that I find it silly, then it probably shouldn't have been brought up on these boards in the first place.

again, you might want to check out the evidence that does exist before you simply state that it doesn't.

Done.

as dream66 says, it's only a religious issue if you choose to make it so. there are quite a number of people who have no problem being deeply religious, devoutly believe in God, and still believe in the validity of evolution.

So if a number of "deeply religious people who devoutly believe in God" also believe in X, then X is therefore not religious? I think you might want to try that again.

you were the first one to bring up the Bible. no one said anything one way or the other before you brought it up.

As a historical record to counter the bogus implications that we were evolved out of the same primordial ooze as apes, or were just an offshoot of apes, or however you want to classify it.

Whether or not you believe that the Bible is true it is absolute fact that it exists as an ancient text in world history explaining many things that the theory of evolution tries to explain. Kind of a double standard if you can bring up one and not the other.

 

[Kai Lord]

Evolution is an unproven scientific theory

Yep. And no one here was discussing evolution as in finch's growing new beaks on remote islands, but rather as an origin of man, a direct faith based counter to Genesis 1:27. If Creation is taboo for the boards, then the same should hold true for Evolution as Creation.

Regardless, that doesn't change the fact that we're all friends here.

 

[John Q. Mayhem]

Kai Lord, I agree with you, I am a Christian myself (young-earth creationist, in fact), and I agree that evolution is sufficiently faith-based to be considered a religion, but I don't think that it should be discussed any further on this thread, in this forum.

 

[Kai Lord]

Kai Lord, I agree with you, I am a Christian myself (young-earth creationist, in fact), and I agree that evolution is sufficiently faith-based to be considered a religion, but I don't think that it should be discussed any further on this thread, in this forum.

I also agree that evolution should see no further discussion on these forums, all the moreso if Creationism is forbidden.

 

[Piratecat]

Monkey see, monkey don't. You folks should darn well know better.

Klunk.