libertarian_knight
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dsg94 said:Your statement just proves my point.
What is false or dishonest about telling the truth about two differing views on on how this earth came into being. You think you know and Christians(and others) think they know how things came to be. If you are honest with yourself you admit that you want to believe the Earth was formed in a certain way and its OK to think so but you CANNOT prove it.
PROOF is a word, in science, that is limited to mathmatics. In out legal system also, we don't require proof, but beyond a REASONABLE DOUBT. Beucase some stinky semetic people made up a story, and Romans and Brits compeled it upon people, does not satisfy the "reasonable" portion for doubt.
If the expectation is that before things can be understood, full knowledge and absolute proff are necessary, well, that is unreasonable. See the Thoery of Evolution, really, ENCOMPASSES THE TOTATILY THAT IS BIOLOGY and a huge Portion of Chemistry as well. PAUSE FOR A MOMENT, and think of EVERYTHING that is LIFE. (Which is IMPOSSIBLE FOR YOU TO DO, PERIOD.)
Now assuming you even attempted (which a basic understanding may take a good year), if you imagine that the intracacies and variences of the totality of known life to be explained in three senteces, you are grossly mistaken.
Because a system is SOOOO Complex and varied, and is beyond ANY single person's complete understanding and ability to know, DOES NOT MEAN ANYTHING ELSE KNOWS THE SYSTEM. Nor does it mean anyone created the system. Creationism is FAR more an expression of Man's inadequate mind than anything else.
With the Scientific and Industrial revolutions, we found away, using our capacity for communication to mitigate the limitations of a single mind, and coordinate and share our knowledge, using mechanism of reason and logic. This in effect multiplies the processing power of each human brain by each new person added, by working in concert with other humans, thus circumventing cultural superstitions, dogma, tradition, and limitations of each person, to trancend beyond the mind of a single being, to that of a kind of "mental collective" contributed to by MILLIONS AND MILLIONS of people into the body of knowledge known as Science.
Day in and day out, people are searching, researching, studying, collecting and communicating relatively small bits of information and knowledge into a vast pool. As if we were small machines, or ants, going out into the world, collecting little bits of food, and bringing it back for EVERYONE else to look at, Examine, Study, Consume and Digest, in order to incorporate this new thing into their own beings.
People fear Evolution, becuase it exposes their limitations, imperfections, and insecurities. They have not the mind to understand part of it sufficiently, let alone EVERYTHING ABOUT IT. Evolution and Biology show, we are NOT PREFECT CREATIONS. We have organs we don't use, and organs in which the complete fuction can never be realize INSIDE THE BODY. And the Idea that we are not special Children of God, perfectly Created by a masterful God, scares the crap out of people because we are afraid to face our own mortality.
The problem is, everyone wants to be super special, and in reality, nobody is.
From a biblical perspective, PRIDE is a sin too ya know, a cardinal sin in fact, one that would prevent the sinner from entering Heaven. And Being so Proud that one would ignore the universe (God's Universe at that), because they are too unduly pround to admit they are not special... well, that doesn't seem like the Godly path to me.