Also consider all the parallel worlds where this is not true.

Also consider that this absolute nonsense if God is a fact. Just because a lot people believe in evolution it doesn't make it true.

"Also consider that this absolute nonsense if God is a fact. Just because a lot people believe in evolution it doesn't make it true." The same could be said about god.

Also some of your ancestors committed (w)incest. Deal with it.

Actually it's still true if you believe in God. Just for the record, I don't (and I think what I'm about to write is a crock) but... It just shortens the time frame to a few thousand years, the remarkableness of your existence, is diminished only slightly...your great great great great great great great grandfather Abraham still didn't die in a war before impregnating your great great great great great great great grandmother. Maybe your God helped, maybe he didn't but the fact is there is still mystery & wonder in the chance event that is you.

pallgone: just because a lot of people believe in God doesn't make it true. Evolution on the other hand, there is supporting evidence.

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"believe" in evolution? "supporting evidence"?!! Evolution is absolute fact! The evidence is as complete and conclusive as any other scientific principle that you are happy to accept because they dont cause an apparent conflict with your faith. You dont have to reject evolution in order to maintain your faith, it's completely acceptable to accept the fact of evolution and believe in God.

WTF? Believing in God doesn't automatically make you dumb enough that you can't tell that the world is more than a few thousand years old. Screw you miss "God counts all the hairs on my head." What an innane crock of sh- well, it doesnt matter if I think it's a dumb idea. Nobody can dispute that there are people who genuinely believe in God but don't have any problem taking Genesis as a metaphor. You shouldn't act like all Christians warp reality the way you do.

even though hindsight is 20/20, I couldn't thank them more for contributing to the overpopulation of this planet

Evolution is a hypothesis until tested. Just because the assertion is founded on observations doesn't make it a fact until testing proves it as fact. Even then, in science it can be later tested and proven false. In my opinion there is supporting indirect evidence for evolution but not indirect supporting evidence for God. Look at the prayer vs cure rates when tested. Prayer does not cure medical issues when put to the test. We CAN indirectly link the structures of organisms on the Earth to one another and we can directly observer mutations occur. HULLO!!! Downs syndrome... In both cases you cannot directly observe God or evolution though. Maybe a better assertion is that believing in God is fit for a purpose that is different than the fitness of evolution for a different purpose. Believing in things unseen has no place in science and based on what the Bible says about testing God, science has no place in Christianity. How about we all keep in mind that the human brain LOVES connecting dots, even if those dots are on different pieces of paper. We make assumptions about all things, it helps us get through our day (I assume I won't get hit by a truck so I go to work) but when things get abstract we flounder about in meaningless arguments about what's true and what's false. I think that's why science has an edge over religion. It likes to be tested...science IS testing a hypothesis. God on the other hand...he hates to be tested. I wonder why...

For everyone who thinks evolution is not a fact, please read Richard Dawkins' "The Greatest Show on Earth" in which he clearly explains as to why evolution is a fact; and definitly not a theory. Even wikipedia says it. Damn.

To reiterate what many have already said, evolution is a fact. For those of you who don't know it is a scientific theory. Let me give you a few examples of other scientific theories that you might want to dispute as fact: Germ Theory, saying that disease is caused by microbes, Gravity, etc. Bottom line, there is proof of both macro and micro-evolution, if there was not proof, it would not be a scientific theory.

Lolz, gravity is not a theory...its called the "law of gravity". Its been tested and proven....lolz

@anon, on the contrary, the law of gravity proposed by newton has been proven faulty by Einstein (who was also proven faulty) with the THEORY of relativity.

The Vatican has no problem with evolution and says that it doesn't conflict with God or the bible. So then why do you religious types have a problem with it?

Let's get a few things straight: A HYPOTHESIS is an educated guess, based on observation. A THEORY summarizes a hypothesis or group of hypotheses that have been supported with repeated testing. A LAW generalizes a body of observations. At the time it is made, no exceptions have been found to a law. Scientific laws explain things, but they do not describe them. They are different aspects of the same concept. That being said, the THEORY of evolution was presented by Darwin in support of his HYPOTHESIS of evolution. Through DNA, the LAW of Evolution is explained. Here is the difference between a common layman theory and a scientific theory: To the educated, rational mind, all of evidence supports the scientific theory of evolution. There has never been any empirical evidence presented that disputes the Scientific Theory of Evolution. The uneducated, uninformed, irrational majority of the USA have a "theory" that the xian god exists, despite mounds of evidence that their faith is 100% false and despite not having a single scrap of empirical evidence supporting such a delusion. There also explains the difference between fact and fiction.

Theory is theory; fact is fact. Neither is truth which is wholly personal. Not all who believe in a god believe in the same god and those who do believe in the same god often disagree about specifics; and sometimes very significant specifics. Atheists who believe that science proves the non-existence of a god need to study more science and philosophy. The non existence of any thing is unprovable whether by any discipline. And NOBODY knows exactly what gravity is.

No, truth is truth. Whether you wish to believe it or not is a personal choice, but that doesn't change what is real in the really real world. If you choose to delude yourself and call what you want to be real "truth", well that basically just means that you fall into the "uneducated, self-deluded, irrational, superstitious" category of humanity. It just proves that you CAN'T know the truth, because you only believe what you WANT to be real instead of what really IS real. Sure, not all non-existent things that people can imagine can be proven not to exist, but the xian god is one of those thing that has been PROVEN to NOT exist many times over. Xians actually prove that their religion is 100% absolutely false every day, they just choose not to see that truth. No one has ever given a single shred of evidence that xianity is true. Not a single instance of any prayer that has been answered, not a single instance where the "hand of god" has been in any way benevolent. Meaning that some seemingly random act goes against statistics, that is. No evidence that a single utterance from the bible is from a supreme being. Not the slightest twitch that disputes a single bit of ALL of the MOUNTAINS of evidence that xianity is a complete fraud. Proof on proof on proof, but you just choose to follow Martin Luther and turn your back on reason and ignore all that so you can feel all warm and fuzzy inside and waste your life on false hopes. As for gravity (I have no idea where you came up with that one, but okay, let's run with it), you are (semi) correct. No one knows exactly how gravity works (although, we DO know WHAT it is). But that doesn't change the truth that gravity exists. If you choose to ignore that truth, it still doesn't allow you to float.

all of this applies to a blade of grass as well. no need to get all metaphysical about it folks.

There is not a shred of evidence outside of the human imagination that a god of any denomination or description exists. There is also no rational reasoning why one god should be seen to be existing over any of the other gods believed in by other religions or throughout history. There is plenty of evidence and rational reasoning to the theory of evolution. Mankind has been evolving plants and animals through selective breeding for hundreds of years.

@Kevin - Ya, that was one thing I was going to bring up. One "argument" I've often heard against evolution is that it is unobserved and therefore can't be verified. But I know of several horticulturists that artificially "evolve" plants to certain specifications. And what about dogs and cats? We obviously "evolved" dog breeds for specific reasons and created the different breeds. Heck, there are even breeds that have been created within the last couple of hundred years. The point being that we have seen evolution is both animals and plants easily within our written history and even within people's lifetimes. If humans can do it artificially in such a short time, how can you think that nature can't do it over thousands and millions of years? It's ludicrous for people to close their minds to reason, but some people doggedly do.

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