Evidence

[Owlix]

I agree, FallentoReason, except that we know animals existed for millions upon hundred millions of years, not any shorter amount of time. Humans didn't walk with dinosaurs, and it was around 65 million years ago that the last 'saur' walked the earth. Tiny rodent like mammals survived the great extinction (a meteor, would you believe? A meteor that caused chaos the world over, nuclear winter, volcanoes, earthquakes, 'hell on earth'. It was not just the meteor that extincted the dinosaurs, it was the domino or butterfly effect of said meteor) only because they burrowed and as such escaped the harmful effects happening topside. There is a basic understanding of how things evolved from single celled organisms, not 'poof! and you shall be man! Crack, and you are woman'. Ice ages and global warming, plate tectonics.....

The thing that I find so disgusting is that in the face of all of this information and knowledge and enlightenment, so many choose to ignore because of a fucking book.
Science is not speculation. Nor is mathematics. Formulae, experiements, variables and controls, denominators, these things are consistent and don't leave much room for interpretation. You can change the values, but the data at the end yields the same result.

Not so with religion. Who knows what was written metaphorically, allegorically, literally, or imagined? That's why it's hard to think about something that exists outside of everything we know. Because the only things that exist to tell us about said entity repeatedly fall when placed under scrutiny.