(December 3, 2014 at 3:31 pm)Drich Wrote: Now before you spend alot of energy telling of all the 'proof' you think you have. Be honest with yourself and acknoweledge that It all boils down to you pointing to a guy or a group of people who you believe to be credible because they are smarter than you, and what they think. And for them what they think is based on what someone smarter than them thinks, and so on goes the daisy chain.
Bottom line what you believe about which ever side of orgins you stand on your belief is 'Faith based.' Fore a faith in 'facts' (A statement that can be proven or disprooved) is still faith.
That being the case what makes your faith any more important than anyone elses? Just because you point at the ground then to a book to decipher what it is you think you see in the ground, does not make you any less dependant on faith, than a man who points to God then the bible to discern his version of Orgins.
Why shouldn't both accounts be taught side by side, not as an excersize of which is right and which is wrong, but as what some believe verses what others believe. I truly think most of us will be shocked that neither strict interpertation of said events is correct.
I don't think any origins story is better than another. But teaching every origins story to every person in the world would take too much time, plus it's pointless because they're just stories. It's better right now just to admit that no one knows the origins of life yet.
Unless you're talking about the battle of evolution vs creationism.
In which case I don't believe the person who has the most credentials I believe the person who is talking the least amount of nonsense.
For example if the theory of evolution didn't involve mutation and natural selection, and it instead involved natural selection and a group of magic instantaneously changing animals, then it WOULD belong right along side all the other creationist stories.
It doesn't matter how clever Richard Dawkins sounds and looks, the moment he mentioned inexplicable magical events I would instantly be skeptical of what he's saying.
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Impersonation is treason.
