Thread: Evolution is a Fact - Not a Theory

I was going to repond, but it's such a bunch of rubbish that I think I'll wait for you to define your personal belief in a nutshell of why you think evolution is something that is truth above all truths about reality. When you can decide what and why you think what you do...Then I won't have this look on my face when you write a string of nonsense designed to look scientific in your eyes

You didn't actually read it, did you? (It's okay, I didn't either ^__^)

I had a good look at it. Noticed it was irrelevant, boring, explaining the explanations of itself over and over in a loop of petty definitions, trying to sound authority like with strawman arguments. While ignoring and not even mentioning core concepts. No gold stars for this one.

Originally Posted by Mes Tarrant

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Quite right. But the cruel irony is that the ones who are unwilling to listen to reason are the ones that need to hear it most.

Originally Posted by Mystic7

No gold stars for this one.

I count five.

Originally Posted by Mark75

Quite right. But the cruel irony is that the ones who are unwilling to listen to reason are the ones that need to hear it most.

That's very true. I propose we stop worrying about them and let them be.

Originally Posted by Mes Tarrant

That's very true. I propose we stop worrying about them and let them be.

Would only that they stopped blowing us up.

Originally Posted by Mark75

Would only that they stopped blowing us up.

Okay okay. We let the non-violent ones be.

I know there is more. I was just trying to categorize people into two rough groups for nothing more than to simplify my explanation.

Here's the reason why Mystic and co get worked up and really upset in the face of facts. Religion has been a very important part of these people's lives, probably from a very young age. Religion gives them hope, it gives them something positive to rely on in an otherwise very uncertain and sometimes scary world. Religion is like their rock, and they are going to fight you for the death to protect it. So what if you convince them that there is no God - what are they going to do with the rest of their lives? Where are they going to find the strength that religion has given them, the same strength that atheists have long since learned to find elsewhere?

I am not religious. But, I don't need to be. I don't feel a gaping hole anywhere in my life. But fear of such a hole is what drives religious people to swear at you and to discard facts like a pile of shit. I think scientists/atheists should offer these facts to people who are eager to listen, not try to convince people who are unwilling to budge. This obviously applies to the other side too - I just want those Christian fundamentalists who shout at people in the street that God will kill them to leave us alone!

I'm not saying you're forcing anything on anyone, O'nus. I always find your posts very intellectual and objective. But this, I think, is the reason behind certain short-fused religious people. To each his own, I guess.