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Why there is no reason to believe in evolution
March 4, 2026 at 11:12 pm
Most people believe in evolution because they were taught or indoctrinated into believing so, via a mass education system which provides just the bare minimum needed to get people up to the level of being able to fill out a job application. Just as how if they had been born in the middle ages and been taught to believe that the earth was the sentence of the universe, they would be believing that too.
I mean, sure, there are evolutionary biologists who've spent time studying it, and people who've actually read science books on their own, but the average person likely hasn't. Not to mention that much popular information about evolution may be outdated and unreliable, possibly dating as far back as the Victorian era, and wouldn't even be up to the level of cutting edge information about evolution and physical sciences anyway, so what little information about evolution that they possess may be entirely unreliable.
Therefore, my conclusion is that there is no reason for many people to believe in evolution, unless they're merely a sheep and mindless believe and parrot everything that they were taught as a child.
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RE: Why there is no reason to believe in evolution
March 4, 2026 at 11:22 pm
A cheap variation on "evolution is a religion too" argument. There's also a shitty ad hom tucked in at the end of your screed.
Anyone with a college-level science education has studied the process, and it's only the religionistas who deny it, not for reasons of data and facts and study, but because it undermines the doctrine of creation.
Your conclusion is horseshit, too, because it's based on flawed premises. It's almost as if you haven't heard of genetics or modern synthesis. Thankfully, scientific progress is not based upon the opinion of the average person. That's because facts don't care what you believe. And yes, you are a thoroughly average evolution denier.
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RE: Why there is no reason to believe in evolution
March 5, 2026 at 2:58 am
Is there no reason to believe evolution is true, or did a trickster god give us every reason to believe evolution is true, or did a tinkering god use evolution to fate us this way?
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RE: Why there is no reason to believe in evolution
March 5, 2026 at 3:21 am
Parading your ignorance around, you really think that's cool?
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RE: Why there is no reason to believe in evolution
March 5, 2026 at 5:21 am
(March 4, 2026 at 11:12 pm)FreethinkingSceptic Wrote: Most people believe in evolution because they were taught or indoctrinated into believing so, via a mass education system which provides just the bare minimum needed to get people up to the level of being able to fill out a job application. Just as how if they had been born in the middle ages and been taught to believe that the earth was the sentence of the universe, they would be believing that too.
I mean, sure, there are evolutionary biologists who've spent time studying it, and people who've actually read science books on their own, but the average person likely hasn't. Not to mention that much popular information about evolution may be outdated and unreliable, possibly dating as far back as the Victorian era, and wouldn't even be up to the level of cutting edge information about evolution and physical sciences anyway, so what little information about evolution that they possess may be entirely unreliable.
Therefore, my conclusion is that there is no reason for many people to believe in evolution, unless they're merely a sheep and mindless believe and parrot everything that they were taught as a child.
Evolution? What's that?
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RE: Why there is no reason to believe in evolution
March 5, 2026 at 1:53 pm
(March 4, 2026 at 11:12 pm)FreethinkingSceptic Wrote: Most people believe in evolution because they were taught or indoctrinated into believing so, via a mass education system which provides just the bare minimum needed to get people up to the level of being able to fill out a job application. Just as how if they had been born in the middle ages and been taught to believe that the earth was the sentence of the universe, they would be believing that too.
I mean, sure, there are evolutionary biologists who've spent time studying it, and people who've actually read science books on their own, but the average person likely hasn't. Not to mention that much popular information about evolution may be outdated and unreliable, possibly dating as far back as the Victorian era, and wouldn't even be up to the level of cutting edge information about evolution and physical sciences anyway, so what little information about evolution that they possess may be entirely unreliable.
Therefore, my conclusion is that there is no reason for many people to believe in evolution, unless they're merely a sheep and mindless believe and parrot everything that they were taught as a child.
I was indoctrinated into believing the theory of evolution was BS invented by Satan to ensnare us. Then I gave myself a basic science education.
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RE: Why there is no reason to believe in evolution
March 5, 2026 at 2:01 pm
The grand thing about evolution is that it’s not subject to belief or disbelief. It’s a fact that you can accept or reject. Kind of like gravity or plate tectonics.
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RE: Why there is no reason to believe in evolution
March 5, 2026 at 2:11 pm
New chew toy...you're welcome.
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RE: Why there is no reason to believe in evolution
March 5, 2026 at 2:50 pm
(March 5, 2026 at 2:11 pm)awty Wrote: New chew toy...you're welcome.
New, and unoriginal.
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RE: Why there is no reason to believe in evolution
March 5, 2026 at 11:59 pm
So this guy claims there is no need for people to believe in biological evolution and not because it's true or not, but because they were "indoctrinated" into it and they didn't read a book about it but only heard some untrue stuff about how it works.
One really wonders if the OP is a troll or a complete moron.
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