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Can evolution be "believed" or "not believed"?

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Can evolution be "believed" or "not believed"?
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Can evolution be "believed" or "not believed"?
April 16, 2013 at 3:55 pm
I know a couple of people who claim not to "believe" in evolution. But is evolution something you can really believe or not believe? Is there not enough evidence to show that evolution is true? If so, why do people think it's a choice whether or not to accept it. From what we know, it's true, whether people like it or not.
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RE: Can evolution be "believed" or "not believed"?
April 16, 2013 at 4:00 pm
(April 16, 2013 at 3:55 pm)CleanShavenJesus Wrote: I know a couple of people who claim not to "believe" in evolution. But is evolution something you can really believe or not believe? Is there not enough evidence to show that evolution is true? If so, why do people think it's a choice whether or not to accept it. From what we know, it's true, whether people like it or not.

I've often thought the same thing about the question along the lines of "who believes in evolution". Sometimes such a thing is asked of GOP presidential hopefuls (most of the hands don't go up). I object to the very question as well.

If it is a legitimate question, then for the record, I'd also like to express a "belief" in the theory of gravity, germ theory and atomic theory.
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RE: Can evolution be "believed" or "not believed"?
April 16, 2013 at 4:00 pm
Most certainly it's something that can be believed or not - much like the Apollo 11 landing. That it's a stone cold fact tends not to make much difference.
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RE: Can evolution be "believed" or "not believed"?
April 16, 2013 at 4:01 pm
It's not "believed" or "not believed" in. It's "accepted" or "not accepted because I've never actually studied it".
The truth is absolute. Life forms are specks of specks (...) of specks of dust in the universe.
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RE: Can evolution be "believed" or "not believed"?
April 16, 2013 at 4:13 pm
(April 16, 2013 at 4:00 pm)DeistPaladin Wrote: If it is a legitimate question, then for the record, I'd also like to express a "belief" in the theory of gravity, germ theory and atomic theory.

To be fair, isn't gravity a law?
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Re: Can evolution be "believed" or "not believed"?
April 16, 2013 at 4:17 pm
I was going to reply properly, but instead just smacked my phone into my face. That's my response.
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RE: Can evolution be "believed" or "not believed"?
April 16, 2013 at 4:24 pm
(April 16, 2013 at 4:13 pm)CleanShavenJesus Wrote: To be fair, isn't gravity a law?

There is the law of universal gravitation, and then there is the theory of gravity. Law only applies to things that can be put into equations, as far as I know.
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RE: Can evolution be "believed" or "not believed"?
April 16, 2013 at 4:27 pm
Quote:But is evolution something you can really believe or not believe?

I have no doubt that dumb-assed jesus freaks - and their equally dumb fundie muslim counterparts - don't "believe" it. Of course, they also believe in fucking miracles and a dead jew coming back to life so their beliefs are pretty retarded in any case.
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RE: Can evolution be "believed" or "not believed"?
April 16, 2013 at 4:47 pm
I refuse to believe in evolution. Random chance could never produce a creature as totally perfectly stupid and as perfectly designed to embarass humans as a creationist.

Only a perfectly malicious intelligence can explain the creationist.
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April 16, 2013 at 5:25 pm
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