>Throwing away nearly two millennia of beliefs, culture and faith because of >a theory that fails to answer all the questions people have is pretty >distressing to me. > >Evolution isn't an obvious reality. It takes a very big leap of faith to >move from no life to a single celled organism because of some random >process. And it takes an equally large leap of faith to move from >non-intelligent forms of life, to cognitive beings.
First off evolution has nothing to do with the origins of life. That's something else entirely. This is strawman type argument. Secondly, define intelligence for me. Or non-intelligence for that matter. What about the more recent findings of tool using among paleo-apes. For that matter what about the consistent finding regarding increasing cranial capacity of our evolutionary ancestors. These show a consistent increase over time. Not the best measure of intelligence, but its something. > >Evolution has failed to answer these questions, scientist believe this or >that, but nobody knows. Without something pulling the strings how can it be >explained? There is plenty of evidence supporting evolution, so much so that except for a few cranks, it is simply not in dispute in the scientific community. Where is the contradictory evidence? Are there better theories with more adequate explanations of the data? If so what are they. > >Again with the belittling of people, now because somebody believes in God >they are delusional. who is belittling whom? Personally I prefer what the Dali Lama said, if the sacred texts and scientific evidence are contradictory, then the sacred texts are wrong. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create Web Applications With ColdFusion MX7 & Flex 2. Build powerful, scalable RIAs. Free Trial http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJS Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:234083 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
