(December 21, 2017 at 11:27 pm)Haipule Wrote: The main problem I have with "evolution" is the word itself! As far as I know, that word came from a Christian named Darwin.
You just say that word and people put on their boxing gloves ready for a fight! Which is completely stupid!
We need a better word. That word has out lived it's usefulness and needs to evolve!
Into...
He was a one time Christian but stopped.
here are snippets from his autobiography.
"During these two years I was led to think much about religion. Whilst on board the Beagle I was quite orthodox, & I remember being heartily laughed at by several of the officers (though themselves orthodox) for quoting the Bible as an unanswerable authority on some point of morality. I suppose it was the novelty of the argument that amused them. But I had gradually come, by this time, to see that the Old Testament from its manifestly false history of the world, with the Tower of Babel, rainbow as a sign, etc., etc., and from its attributing to God the feelings of a revengeful tyrant, was no more to be trusted than the sacred books of the Hindoos, or the beliefs of any barbarian."[
"the more we know of the fixed laws of nature the more incredible do miracles become". Though "very unwilling to give up my belief", he found that "disbelief crept over me at a very slow rate, but was at last complete. The rate was so slow that I felt no distress, and have never since doubted even for a single second that my conclusion was correct."
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.
