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Joined: Jul 2007
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I found my own gods a long time ago. They're just not your god. So you needn't exempt me from any spiritual discovery. I am by no means a non-theist.
Having said that, I still don't see the implausibility of the theory of evolution, considering that evolution evolution (quibble over the terminology at your leisure - a name is just a name after all) is an undeniable fact. One which you, yourself, admitted to two posts ago. Things evolve, change. A language "evolves". It changes over the course of time to adapt with the environment (people speaking it). So too does a species change over time to adapt to its environment. It should be blatantly obvious why different ethnicities have the features they do. It has to do with the climates they have spent thousands of years in. The climates they have adapted (evolved) to. Anglo-saxons, for example, do poorly in climates like Australia or Florida because of their sensitivity to sunlight, whereas they thrive in cloudier regions. Therefore, if small changes happen over thousands of years, what's to say greater changes do not occur over even longer spans of time? If you can accept the small changes, why not the POSSIBILITY of larger ones? While it's not 100% for sure, it's certainly not an unreasonable assumption to consider (note I said consider, not accept as blind faith). Even if it's dead wrong, it's not a bad theory. There is some logic to it.
Evolution and religion are not polar opposites.
Lastly, I'd like to thank you for both a) answering the question at hand and b) not insulting anyone in your reply. Cheers!
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