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Joined: Apr 2007
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Evolution is not a religion.
Rarely does one hear of a person believing in more than one religion, as this would be contradictory. Yet there are countless Christians, Hindus, Muslims, etc. who accept evolution.
That's like saying chemistry is a religion. Even if evolution is proved wrong tomorrow, it sure as heck isn't a religion. Not technically, in that it doesn't offer churches or temples or mosques... but it does require an enormous amount of faith in a substiantially unaccountable set of ideas and provides a worldview for it's followers, uniting them, in a sense, whereas otherwise they were not united within any particular belief system prior. One of the biggest questions, probably the biggest, of all humankind has always been, why are we here, how did we get here? Creation answers that question for the Christian, the Muslim, the Hindu, etc. Evolution answers that question for those who believe that. And actually, belief in more than one religion is not uncommon. There are even 'churches', known generally as Interfaith, which embrace pretty much all religions and their beliefs. Since you actually cannot be a Christian, Muslim or Hindu and believe in evolution without tossing aside a good portion of the basic beliefs of those religions, persons of those faiths who believe in evolution are actually interfaith, a mixture of different beliefs or faiths but neither one or the other specifically.
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