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- ukit0
- mikotondria30
"...why are monkeys not turning into people?"
Fuck me, son.
That's something that only someone who has literally no idea of the arguments put forward against the creationist position would say.
You're really so far behind the discussion if you're asking things like that - I don't wish to be rude to you personally, hell, we might be best buddies if geography and parents were different, but that question means you don't understand the basics of macro-evolution and heredity and common-ancestor concepts.
Please please please read or listen to (in the author's own splendid voice) Richard Dawkins' : Evolution - The Greatest Show on Earth. It's fantastically clear and sound explaination of evolution - the arguments for, and experiments designed and the results thereof - it's so empowering to understand the staggering simplicity of this stuff - you'll feel like a million dollars if it goes in. Also by him, the seminal God Is Not Great is more on the scientific angle of atheism, I challenge anyone to read it with an open mind and still be unclear about these issues.- +1. Creationism is utter bollocks. There. I said it.MrT
- "God is Not Great" is, I think, by Hitchins.killthefish
- The Dawkins book is "The God Delusion". Good read.killthefish
- Won't be a good read for a creationist, though.killthefish
- scarabin0
i'm going to pretend that there's not really an argument happening here about this
- There is, weirdly enough.Continuity
- * I started it.
Again.mikotondria3 - It's the ultimate though - it's the argument of arguments.mikotondria3
- MrT0
'creation happened, sorry.'
You should be, that's offensive to intelligent designers.
- Invalid0
i'm not going to even pretend im an authority on evolution or religion for that matter. shit, if i'm honest, none of the books on my shelf even come close to the subject.
what i said earlier wasn't meant to be taken as gospel. i just want to highlight that both theories seem as ludicrous as each other to the opposing party.
miko, i have heard of Richard Dawkins and i'll probably get around to reading "The Greatest Show On Earth", if it explains the theory like you say it does.
the main point i want to make though is our constant search for "perfection" in our work as designers and using the concept of form and function in relation to the world we live in. perfection is all around us in the form of living organisms. this is what i mean by intelligent design. this isn't an argument in favour of either side.