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Is Evolution a science or a faith?

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Is Evolution a science or a faith?
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RE: Is Evolution a science or a faith?
July 6, 2014 at 10:50 pm
Nice, good job on copying and pasting, dumbass. Original source:
http://books.google.ca/books?id=bFqnAwAA...2C&f=false
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RE: Is Evolution a science or a faith?
July 6, 2014 at 10:51 pm
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"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great

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RE: Is Evolution a science or a faith?
July 6, 2014 at 11:11 pm
Is Harris a dessert topping or a floor wax?
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RE: Is Evolution a science or a faith?
July 6, 2014 at 11:18 pm
Neither.

Harris is a base chucklefuck.

Not even an elevated chucklefuck.
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RE: Is Evolution a science or a faith?
July 6, 2014 at 11:34 pm
Evolution is a fact, just ask any creationist in the hospital dying from an infection caused by an EVOLVED pathogen.


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RE: Is Evolution a science or a faith?
July 6, 2014 at 11:41 pm (This post was last modified: July 6, 2014 at 11:41 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
"Evolved pathogen" my ass. God cursed every single one of those poor fuckers.
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RE: Is Evolution a science or a faith?
July 7, 2014 at 12:11 am
The problem with evolution is it isn't a thing. It's a way of interpretating the changes in properties of similar things over time. It's kind of like asking if rainbows are scientific-- there's red--there's blue-- but there's no arbitrary point at which you can say, "See, red has changed into blue."

However, denying evolution is kind of like denying that the samples on a CD represent analog sound. They are a DESCRIPTION of the sound, and the science that goes into reading and writing CDs, making new agorithms for encoding and decoding represented waves, etc., is fine.
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RE: Is Evolution a science or a faith?
July 7, 2014 at 12:14 am
As for the "evolution has never been observed" trope:

http://sciencepicks.wordpress.com/2011/1...es-emerge/

http://triblive.com/usworld/world/548337...z36kjOnkNX

http://www.wired.com/2009/11/speciation-in-action/

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RE: Is Evolution a science or a faith?
July 7, 2014 at 3:07 am
So much wrong in one post it is hard to know where to begin.
I will just start with the notions that atheists feel threatened when intelligent design is brought up.
What we tend to feel is annoyed at that tripe being trotted out all the time.
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RE: Is Evolution a science or a faith?
July 7, 2014 at 5:16 am
(July 6, 2014 at 9:50 pm)Harris Wrote: The responses, which I received for my previous post “Intelligence out of nothing,” had given me an impression that most of the atheists feel humiliation if someone try to challenge Theory of Evolution.

Humiliation? The word you are looking for is annoyed. Annoyed in the same manner as an adult confronted by a four year old's reason for staying up late to watch R rated movies while gorging on ice cream and coffee.
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