Do People Believe Things Into Existance?

I'm also playing catch-up. ;) Just a few things I want to interject:

1) Man didn't suddenly "spring up" 6000 years ago. Cave paintings in Chavet-Pont-d'Arc have been dated to approximately 31,000 years ago. They're not stick figure scribbles either, but true works of art.

2) Evolution has been witnessed first-hand. MRSA (Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) is a prime example of that. We may not be able to see first-hand the evolution of creatures that create one generation every 20-30 years, but we can sure see it in a species that has a new generation every 15 minutes. If evolution didn't exist there would be no bacterial resistance to antibiotics.

3) True scientific inquiry requires that using the same experiment will yield the same results, every time. Science is the process by which we reveal the true nature of the universe, and consequently, the true nature of God.

"I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modelled after our own - a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. It is enough for me to contemplate the mystery of conscious life perpetuating itself through all eternity, to reflect upon the marvelous structure of the universe which we can dimly perceive and to try humbly to comprehend even an infinitesimal part of the intelligence manifested in Nature."
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Albert Einstein says it better than I ever could.
 
Fellina said:
2) Evolution has been witnessed first-hand. MRSA (Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) is a prime example of that. We may not be able to see first-hand the evolution of creatures that create one generation every 20-30 years, but we can sure see it in a species that has a new generation every 15 minutes. If evolution didn't exist there would be no bacterial resistance to antibiotics.
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well evolution can be witnessed first-hand

have u witnessed the growth and development of a newborn brother or sister, or cousin or your own child perhaps? isnt that evolution at its finest? how bout witnessing your own evolution..im sure that u've changed alot in the past couple of years

everyone sees evolution as a long term thing, but it can also be looked at in the short term
 
Thats more procreation than evolution. The whole self-evolution doesn't really work either. That is just you changing when the debate at hand was sepeies as a whole.
 
I'm talking about evolution in its true definition, as changes in genetic code to enable a species to adapt to changing surroundings. Although every one of us encounters a "spiritual" evolution throughout our lives, it doesn't actually change our genes or necessarily better the species. ;)
 
on the topic of evolution we can see it on a global scale, for example what about the ppl who are ancestors to ppl who where amune (sp) pleuge they are now discoverying that those decendants have a slight amunity (sp) to serious dieses like AIDS. thats evolution right there.
 
sekehmet said:
on the topic of evolution we can see it on a global scale, for example what about the ppl who are ancestors to ppl who where amune (sp) pleuge they are now discoverying that those decendants have a slight amunity (sp) to serious dieses like AIDS. thats evolution right there.
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You can see it on an even larger scale. Some nationalities have a natural immunity towards some things. Europeans are strong to things Americans are not, and vice versa. I don't remember what, sadly. We adjust to the environment we live in. If we don't get put under bad conditions that threatens us, we won't adapt to it. People who are stronger to it, will get more kids, that will be stronger to it aswell.
 
A few years back, there was this man who bought all these stocks, and about a week later, they were worth a lot more. He said he knew that it was going to happen because he was from the future. @_@
 
The afterlife is only what you percieve the afterlife to be.
 
Oracle said:
Is the afterlife really that scary?
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no one knows what the afterlife is so they make things up to put themselves at ease
 
Assuming there is an afterlife, which I don't believe for a second. When the brain is gone, so are you and everything that made you you.
 
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