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hot_pastrami · 12-12-2003, 12:34 PM

Any reasonable person should readily admit that evolution DOES occur. There is a sea of evidence to support evolution, and to refute it would be like claiming that the Civil War never happened. I think the main point of contention in evolution is whether humans evolved from a "lower" life form, or whether humans were plopped onto the Earth, as we are today, by some diety.

I'm a logical person who requires facts and evidence to make conclusions. Based on facts and evidence, I conclude that evolution is a real device used by nature, and/or potentially God(s). I have no direct evidence to indicate whether God(s) exist, but no evidence to the contrary either. So I reserve judgement, but lean towards a no-God(s) mentality. Likewise, I have no direct evidence that humans are descendants of aliens who landed on our planet thousands of years ago, so I tend not to believe that either. And I don't believe that we were all squeezed from a giant pimple on the face of a huge intelligent organism named "Earth" who died long ago and left us to occupy his/her slowly rotting carcass. Just because one belief is more popluar does not make it more likely.

God, particularly by a Christian definition, is such a tangled mess of contradictions and uncertainties that I frankly can't see why anyone believes in him/her/them so fervently. Faith? The dictionary says it best when it defines "faith" as "Belief that does not rest on logical proof or material evidence." I don't choose to believe in anything without evidence. If there is a Creator, he/she/it/they created me knowing that I would not accept them without evidence, so they have no one to blame for my lack of faith except themselves.

12-12-2003, 12:34 PM	#7
hot_pastrami I am meaty Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Salt Lake City, UT Posts: 1,119	Any reasonable person should readily admit that evolution DOES occur. There is a sea of evidence to support evolution, and to refute it would be like claiming that the Civil War never happened. I think the main point of contention in evolution is whether humans evolved from a "lower" life form, or whether humans were plopped onto the Earth, as we are today, by some diety. I'm a logical person who requires facts and evidence to make conclusions. Based on facts and evidence, I conclude that evolution is a real device used by nature, and/or potentially God(s). I have no direct evidence to indicate whether God(s) exist, but no evidence to the contrary either. So I reserve judgement, but lean towards a no-God(s) mentality. Likewise, I have no direct evidence that humans are descendants of aliens who landed on our planet thousands of years ago, so I tend not to believe that either. And I don't believe that we were all squeezed from a giant pimple on the face of a huge intelligent organism named "Earth" who died long ago and left us to occupy his/her slowly rotting carcass. Just because one belief is more popluar does not make it more likely. God, particularly by a Christian definition, is such a tangled mess of contradictions and uncertainties that I frankly can't see why anyone believes in him/her/them so fervently. Faith? The dictionary says it best when it defines "faith" as "Belief that does not rest on logical proof or material evidence." I don't choose to believe in anything without evidence. If there is a Creator, he/she/it/they created me knowing that I would not accept them without evidence, so they have no one to blame for my lack of faith except themselves. __________________ Hot Pastrami!