RomCat's point of view is one I am quite familiar with. How can you deny something you are completely unfamiliar with? What is so hard to understand about incredibly small changes over millions of years.
I just wanted to get a view of how evolution is viewed through out in the places you live.
Where I was raised and went to public school evolution is still taboo and parents go crazy when they hear a teacher has taught it in their child's class. Some children bring notes so they can be exempt...
I suppose any figure can potentially be a moral symbol. For some this is God and for others it is not. In my own life I try to get more of a collective sense of morality while using my own judgement.
Thanks for the feedback everyone, especially fantome profane.
I was starting to feel like a burden on facebook and with my peers because I was doing this. I felt that It was just a consequence of being right. Which, I still believe im right. BUT I am going to restrain myself from...
As an Atheist I am constantly in a position to confront people about their beliefs; and I usually do. I constantly hear the complaint that I am as fundemental as the religious that I am trying to inform (disprove.) I can understand this point of view but find it hard to hold my tongue when I am...
The arguements originally presented are purely hypothetical and prove nothing. Most of these scenarios could be disproven by the characters involved if they simply search out the answers for themselves. On the contrary, as hard as one might look for a god, one will always turn up empty handed...
God is merely a manifestation and attempt at an explaination of things that we do not currently understand. Throughout history man has placed the concept of God or an omnipotent being on things in it's environment. This evolved over time from worshipping the Sun to the recognition of several...