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Evolution? Does anyone here actually believe in this? I've spent many long hours pondering and considering all the facts, and I can find no conclusive evidence or proof regarding this theory. I've come to realise that, like Christianity, evolution is a faith. However, Christianity has more backing it up than evolution. Every "missing link" that has ever been found has been indentified as a fraud or hoax within 100 years. As for "Neanderthals", many of my Irish relatives have similar bone structures.
I believe in evolution to a degree-ie: extra hair, slightly changed body structure, better nocturnal vision, since I've seen these "in action". I just can't accept a bacterium changing into a poodle-it make no sense whatsoever! As for the "primordial soup" and "big bang" theories, where did the raw materials come from?
I have a very mathmatical and logical mind, and the chances/odds for the occurance of evolution are staggering. Anyways, I just don't get this!
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now this is going way out on a limb here, but what i believe is : (its kinda hard to word) that the universe has been around forever, and when i say forever i mean forever. i think that there have been billions upon billions of creatures just like us that have lived on this earth before us who thought they were the only ones, and eventually, they killed themselves off, like we gradually are. i believe in evolution a lot more than some "all mighty being" creating me. you might just have to accept the fact that the universe has been around a lot longer than nine billion years, and that forever is a long time, but on terms the size of the universe, its minute. just like the human race.

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OK, let's start with Dogs, then.

Every variation of the domestic dog has developed in the last 12000 years, with the help of man's hand, turning wolf into poodle. That's an amazing example of what can biologically happen in a short time.

Now, imagine that entire time period being extended by 100 times. You're starting to see how long 'modern' humans have been around. That's a hell of a long time. VERY VERY VERY long. Many things can happen randomly, and some stuff is coerced.

About the only evidence I have against evolution is that there are still ugly people walking around.

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Originally posted by askheaves:
bout the only evidence I have against evolution is that there are still ugly people walking around.

haha that and white man's penis != black man's.

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But they are Still dogs! I'm an advanced dog breeder, and I've been breeding dogs half my life, and if you put 100 different varieties/breeds of dogs into a pen with permanent food and water and leave them for 20 years, when you come back, all the dogs will look pretty much the same. Can anyone here give some CONCLUSIVE proof on evolution that's over 100 years old? I'll say it again-Where did the universe and all the raw materials come from? I'm a firm beliver in de-evolution, since I see it Every day!
I heard some scientists at Oxford figured out that the odds of "evolution" occuring were a 9 followed by 56 zeros. I don't even think Einstein could "get" that one. I don't know about you, but I certainly wouldn't bet on those odds!
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PostIcon Posted on: Apr. 13 2001,22:24 Skip to the previous post in this topic. Skip to the next post in this topic. Ignore posts   QUOTE

Aero you are forgetting one very important thing, and is that Creationism is based on the axiom that Humans were Created, by God, and that we have always been this way. All other creationism theories are based on this axiom. The problem is, unlike with geometery, a man made logical creation, you can't create "Reality Axioms" as I call them. Thus Creationism is not science, and should not be treated as such. Evolution is based on science, which includes the scientific method of observation, hypothessis, experimentation, and corroboration/falsification. Just because there are missing links, does not mean the entire theory of evolution should be thrown out.

And for askheaves-the reason for this is that I believe (my hypothesis) is that human evolution ceased with modern medicine. The phrase "Survival of the Fittest" has been ecentially changed to "survival of the Richest".

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PostIcon Posted on: Apr. 13 2001,22:32 Skip to the previous post in this topic. Skip to the next post in this topic. Ignore posts   QUOTE

I'd like to see the source for where you got your info. 2.3*10^5 people know that anyone can create random statistics by "some guy at oxford" to help their point.

What do you mean you don't think Einstein could "get" that one? That doesn't make much sense. Einstein wasn't a biologist.

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creationism can be science, a creator is just the starting point. tell me why it can't be science. use the scientific method and come up with a reason why creationism can't be science... better yet use it to disprove it.

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For something to be science, you can't just assume an initial (unproven) proposition to be true, and then build everything else from there. Now there may be an actual legitimate creation science, where people go out and try to find evidence that humans have not been evolving, nor ever have. I figure they will be out of buisness in 10-50 years, or as soon as they accept the fact that evidence has already been found that defeats their cause.
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You want proof? see Galapagos Islands.

Please don't flame my ass, I'm tired. I just finished writing a paper for history, and I've already had this discussion on icegaming.com's forums. Very tiring.

edit: "please don't flame my ass" addition

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