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What are the "facts" of Evolution?

Dirty Penguin

Dirty Penguin

Master Of Ceremony
RitalinO.D. said:
I'm not sure if you are being serious or being sarcastic :p
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I was being serious......

I should have elaborated.

I did not realize that some Atheist reject the facts of evolution. You learn something new everyday. Up until last year I was not aware of certain types of Atheist....(i.e. Agnostic Atheist)....

Thanks for the info...:eek:
 
RitalinO.D.

RitalinO.D.

Well-Known Member
Dirty Penguin said:
I was being serious......

I should have elaborated.

I did not realize that some Atheist reject the facts of evolution. You learn something new everyday. Up until last year I was not aware of certain types of Atheist....(i.e. Agnostic Atheist)....

Thanks for the info...:eek:
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Gotcha. Figured you were serious but sometimes its hard to read intent on a forum :p

But yes, I have met one or two, so they are rare. I have however met quite a few Atheists that either don't know the basic tenants of evolution, or just never cared.
 
meogi

meogi

Well-Known Member
Ritalin O.D. said:
I have however met quite a few Atheists that either don't know the basic tenants of evolution, or just never cared.
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Basic tenants or not, I still believe experience trumps objective observation. Which is probably a misguided belief of mine, but it stems from the idea that reality is only based upon our own experience.
That said, the evidence does lead me toward the idea that the diversity of life is based upon decent with modification. So the 'facts' of evolution would be the idea that reproduction happens, and that the life we see is a result of it. (With timescales unimaginable to us, i.e. - its hard to envision the Earth even 50,000 years ago, let alone 80,0000 times that amount.)
 
ellenjanuary

ellenjanuary

Well-Known Member
Consider, evolution. If dust of the ground is merged with breath of the divine through the intervention of the Creator, is that more like creation, or evolution? If a talking snake loses limb and voice through the intervention of the Creator, is that more like creation, or evolution? "Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds," (NIV Genesis 1:24) can that not be reworded, let species evolve, according to their environment?

I'm like - I love you! - as in this argument is flat earth. Sure, flat, infinite; scientific method! Walk out my door, keep going, forever; infinite, flat, the subjective laboratory of the mind...

Fear God and all will be well. ;)
 
tumbleweed41

tumbleweed41

Resident Liberal Hippie
ellenjanuary said:
Consider, evolution. If dust of the ground is merged with breath of the divine through the intervention of the Creator, is that more like creation, or evolution?
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That would be a form of theistic-abiogenesis. (life from non-life through supernatural intervention)
 
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