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Believe:
RE: Believe:
'EvF Wrote:being efficient and a good survivor - helps you survive!!

It's really so simple, that I'm amazed no-one thought of it before Darwin.

In essence, that which survives.... survives


@Lotus:

At the risk of simply repeating EvF and Ace's point (which is essentially what I'm doing Tongue, but it's such an important point that perhaps it needs to be made threefold, in 3 slightly different ways)

Disbelieving something because of a lack of evidence is NOT the same as believing something because there is no counter-evidence.

There are many things for which there is no counter-evidence. Faeries, Zeus, the abonimable snowman, Cthulu living in your toilet, but hiding round the U-bend where you can't see whenever you have to go, the list will only be exhausted when your imagination is.

Lack of evidence against these things is not reason to believe them.

If you reject the things I have listed, how can you believe in anything without evidence, without making a totally arbitrary decision about which things without evidence to reject?
Galileo was a man of science oppressed by the irrational and superstitious. Today, he is used by the irrational and superstitious who claim they are being oppressed by science - Mark Crislip
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Believe: - by g-mark - April 19, 2009 at 1:43 am
RE: Believe: - by dagda - April 19, 2009 at 4:32 am
RE: Believe: - by Kyuuketsuki - April 19, 2009 at 7:21 am
RE: Believe: - by LukeMC - April 19, 2009 at 9:27 am
RE: Believe: - by Kyuuketsuki - April 19, 2009 at 11:24 am
RE: Believe: - by LukeMC - April 19, 2009 at 2:00 pm
RE: Believe: - by Tiberius - April 19, 2009 at 12:38 pm
RE: Believe: - by fr0d0 - April 19, 2009 at 3:21 pm
RE: Believe: - by LukeMC - April 19, 2009 at 3:34 pm
RE: Believe: - by fr0d0 - April 19, 2009 at 3:54 pm
RE: Believe: - by Edwardo Piet - April 20, 2009 at 4:41 am
RE: Believe: - by g-mark - April 20, 2009 at 6:32 am
RE: Believe: - by leo-rcc - April 20, 2009 at 7:07 am
RE: Believe: - by Edwardo Piet - April 20, 2009 at 7:48 am
RE: Believe: - by athoughtfulman - April 20, 2009 at 8:34 am
RE: Believe: - by Edwardo Piet - April 22, 2009 at 10:22 am
RE: Believe: - by g-mark - April 22, 2009 at 4:02 am
RE: Believe: - by Kyuuketsuki - April 22, 2009 at 4:32 am
RE: Believe: - by Giff - April 22, 2009 at 4:23 am
RE: Believe: - by g-mark - April 22, 2009 at 5:27 am
RE: Believe: - by Kyuuketsuki - April 22, 2009 at 6:15 am
RE: Believe: - by g-mark - April 22, 2009 at 11:18 am
RE: Believe: - by Edwardo Piet - April 22, 2009 at 11:40 am
RE: Believe: - by g-mark - April 22, 2009 at 11:53 am
RE: Believe: - by athoughtfulman - April 23, 2009 at 5:58 am
RE: Believe: - by Pippy - April 23, 2009 at 8:46 pm
RE: Believe: - by Kyuuketsuki - April 24, 2009 at 7:27 am
RE: Believe: - by athoughtfulman - April 24, 2009 at 1:13 am
RE: Believe: - by g-mark - April 24, 2009 at 1:35 am
RE: Believe: - by athoughtfulman - April 24, 2009 at 2:04 am
RE: Believe: - by Pippy - April 24, 2009 at 7:57 am
RE: Believe: - by Kyuuketsuki - April 24, 2009 at 9:04 am
RE: Believe: - by Giff - April 24, 2009 at 9:18 am
RE: Believe: - by Pippy - April 25, 2009 at 8:41 am
RE: Believe: - by Kyuuketsuki - April 27, 2009 at 8:33 am
RE: Believe: - by Pippy - April 28, 2009 at 8:12 am
RE: Believe: - by Kyuuketsuki - April 28, 2009 at 9:52 am
RE: Believe: - by g-mark - April 24, 2009 at 10:21 am
RE: Believe: - by g-mark - April 27, 2009 at 5:20 am
RE: Believe: - by Giff - April 28, 2009 at 8:18 am
RE: Believe: - by Pippy - April 29, 2009 at 8:15 am
RE: Believe: - by Kyuuketsuki - April 29, 2009 at 11:13 am
RE: Believe: - by Pippy - April 30, 2009 at 8:18 am
RE: Believe: - by Kyuuketsuki - April 30, 2009 at 11:08 am
RE: Believe: - by Pippy - April 30, 2009 at 9:25 pm
RE: Believe: - by Kyuuketsuki - May 1, 2009 at 4:32 am
RE: Believe: - by g-mark - May 1, 2009 at 2:14 am
RE: Believe: - by Pippy - May 1, 2009 at 7:50 am
RE: Believe: - by Kyuuketsuki - May 1, 2009 at 11:31 am
RE: Believe: - by Edwardo Piet - May 1, 2009 at 1:40 pm
RE: Believe: - by padraic - May 1, 2009 at 10:02 pm
RE: Believe: - by Giff - May 2, 2009 at 8:21 am
RE: Believe: - by g-mark - May 2, 2009 at 8:32 am
RE: Believe: - by Pippy - May 2, 2009 at 9:58 am
RE: Believe: - by Kyuuketsuki - May 5, 2009 at 6:28 am
RE: Believe: - by fr0d0 - May 2, 2009 at 6:49 pm
RE: Believe: - by Pippy - May 3, 2009 at 4:45 am
RE: Believe: - by Giff - May 3, 2009 at 4:52 am
RE: Believe: - by Pippy - May 3, 2009 at 8:35 am
RE: Believe: - by Edwardo Piet - May 3, 2009 at 8:38 am
RE: Believe: - by Pippy - May 4, 2009 at 5:19 am
RE: Believe: - by g-mark - May 4, 2009 at 5:44 am
RE: Believe: - by Edwardo Piet - May 4, 2009 at 6:48 am
RE: Believe: - by Giff - May 4, 2009 at 8:04 am
RE: Believe: - by Pippy - May 4, 2009 at 8:29 am
RE: Believe: - by g-mark - May 4, 2009 at 9:07 am
RE: Believe: - by Edwardo Piet - May 4, 2009 at 9:36 am
RE: Believe: - by Giff - May 5, 2009 at 3:55 am
RE: Believe: - by Pippy - May 5, 2009 at 9:25 pm
RE: Believe: - by Kyuuketsuki - May 6, 2009 at 5:28 am
RE: Believe: - by Edwardo Piet - May 6, 2009 at 10:38 am
RE: Believe: - by Tiberius - May 6, 2009 at 1:08 pm
RE: Believe: - by Edwardo Piet - May 6, 2009 at 1:09 pm
RE: Believe: - by Pippy - May 6, 2009 at 1:36 pm
RE: Believe: - by Edwardo Piet - May 6, 2009 at 3:28 pm
RE: Believe: - by Giff - May 6, 2009 at 1:52 pm
RE: Believe: - by Pippy - May 6, 2009 at 9:26 pm
RE: Believe: - by Pippy - May 7, 2009 at 8:51 am
RE: Believe: - by Edwardo Piet - May 7, 2009 at 10:30 pm
RE: Believe: - by g-mark - May 7, 2009 at 8:53 am
RE: Believe: - by Edwardo Piet - May 7, 2009 at 9:22 am
RE: Believe: - by Giff - May 7, 2009 at 10:35 am
RE: Believe: - by Edwardo Piet - May 7, 2009 at 10:53 am
RE: Believe: - by Giff - May 7, 2009 at 11:48 am
RE: Believe: - by Pippy - May 7, 2009 at 9:25 pm
RE: Believe: - by g-mark - May 8, 2009 at 6:37 am
RE: Believe: - by Edwardo Piet - May 8, 2009 at 12:49 pm
RE: Believe: - by Giff - May 8, 2009 at 8:46 am
RE: Believe: - by Lotus - May 8, 2009 at 9:10 pm
RE: Believe: - by Edwardo Piet - May 8, 2009 at 9:41 pm
RE: Believe: - by padraic - May 8, 2009 at 10:24 pm
RE: Believe: - by Edwardo Piet - May 8, 2009 at 10:34 pm
RE: Believe: - by Lotus - May 9, 2009 at 7:55 am
RE: Believe: - by Edwardo Piet - May 9, 2009 at 4:06 pm
RE: Believe: - by lilphil1989 - May 12, 2009 at 4:59 pm
RE: Believe: - by Giff - May 9, 2009 at 8:15 am
RE: Believe: - by Pippy - May 9, 2009 at 2:48 pm
RE: Believe: - by Tiberius - May 9, 2009 at 3:45 pm
RE: Believe: - by Ace Otana - May 12, 2009 at 3:53 pm
RE: Believe: - by Edwardo Piet - May 12, 2009 at 3:58 pm
RE: Believe: - by Ace Otana - May 12, 2009 at 4:01 pm
RE: Believe: - by Edwardo Piet - May 12, 2009 at 5:03 pm
RE: Believe: - by fr0d0 - May 12, 2009 at 7:25 pm
RE: Believe: - by Giff - May 13, 2009 at 4:49 am
RE: Believe: - by lilphil1989 - May 13, 2009 at 4:58 am
RE: Believe: - by Giff - May 13, 2009 at 5:03 am
RE: Believe: - by Edwardo Piet - May 13, 2009 at 12:41 pm
RE: Believe: - by fr0d0 - May 13, 2009 at 5:36 pm
RE: Believe: - by Giff - May 14, 2009 at 4:07 am
RE: Believe: - by g-mark - May 14, 2009 at 11:40 am
RE: Believe: - by Edwardo Piet - May 14, 2009 at 1:41 pm
RE: Believe: - by athoughtfulman - May 15, 2009 at 10:51 am
RE: Believe: - by Edwardo Piet - May 15, 2009 at 10:55 am
RE: Believe: - by athoughtfulman - May 15, 2009 at 10:58 am
RE: Believe: - by Edwardo Piet - May 15, 2009 at 12:52 pm

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