(November 7, 2012 at 10:06 am)Hitch96 Wrote: Hello freethinkers,Hey welcome. I have a very deep belief in evolution which goes way beyond the beliefs most atheists have in it, but I'm still the first to admit that it's just theory like the rest of physics and not just that, but there's plenty of people who simply aren't interested in this area of science.
I'm 16 and my parents are fundamental christians. They do not believe in evolution.
I haven't even told them I believe in evolution!
(They'd flip out and send me to talk to one of our pastors)
...they don't even know I'm atheist
I certainly don't think people "have" to believe in Evolution - nor should they. Belief in a young earth (literal 6 day creationism) is nonsense though.
I see evolution much the same way I see quantum physics and general relativity. I actually don't accept QM or GR as being truly representative of the structure of the universe. We know a few things about evolution (facts) but the theory is still largely incomplete.