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Good old BBC

Look at the type of comment you get:

Believing in evolution takes just as much faith as beliwveing in a six-day creation - it is all about interpretation of the evidence. Evolution is actually impossible, but the scientific community and the media (especially the BBC) seem so intent on indoctrinating the country that evolution is fact.
Stuart, UK
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Where do people get this idea that evolution is impossible?

And I like the fact that he equates evolution with creationism and then declares evolution impossible.

But I was surprised to learn:
There is a creationist museum in Portsmouth called Genesis Expo, run by the Creation Science Movement (CSM). Children can play with Boris the dinosaur and learn why evolution is scientifically impossible.
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Shall we help the poor? Feed the hungry? House the homeless? No, lets spend our money on a museum promoting lies.
 
I saw the article as being a little tongue in cheek.

As for the creationists, how can people be so stupid?
 
Wow! - Check out their comments on the Asian tsunami

Not only do they have a fairly good go at Dawkins, they conclude with this:
At best atheism makes the issue of suffering meaningless and allows us to become indifferent to others, and at worse, through Darwinian survival of the fittest, suffering of the weak actually becomes good. Science must also be rescued from godless forces and pursued within an ethical dimension, and the world’s resources shared amongst the poor and less fit as well.
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There you go - atheists think that suffering of the weak is good.
 
"People think you're nuts if you don't believe in evolution," she says. "But maybe in 100 years there'll be some new discovery, and people living then will think that everyone today was nuts to believe we evolved from monkeys."
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Does anyone who understands evolution believe that we evolved from monkeys? :D

I noticed the old "science is a faith" argument too. :rolleyes:

Thankfully, there's not a large enough religious base here in the UK for this nonsense to take hold; although there is a definite drive by some in government to introduce faith-based schools.
 
John the Skeptic said:
Thankfully, there's not a large enough religious base here in the UK for this nonsense to take hold.
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The scary thing is, there doesn't need to be. All it takes is a vocal minority, or even a quiet rabid minority (like the school board in Kansas 1999 that banned teaching evolution until they were ousted in the next election).
Rubbish like this should not be tolerated and should be actively stamped out.

At least, for now, most of the comments do seem to have more common sense.

and well done, Tim
If you believe Creationism, you are not just dismissing Darwin's theory of evolution as wrong, but by believing that the earth is only about 6,000 years old, you are contradicting theories of cosmology, hydrology, geology, glaciology, palaeontology, archaeology, radioactivity and linguistics, many of which were developed before Darwin's work was published.
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I posted mentioning Talk Origins (as I am sure other people must have) and my post has not made it up there.

I am actually beginning to wonder whether there really is some underlying bias here. Weird.
 
John the Skeptic said:
Does anyone who understands evolution believe that we evolved from monkeys? :D
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Read Dawkins book?
Ancestor's Tale - A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Life

A 'work in progress' - it'll never be finished cause we haven't stopped Evolving yet of course.

New research will make some of it out of date, and i suspect the book will need to be revised in some years time, but it makes for compelling reading

The way i see it, evidence for Evolution is fairly strong
Evidence for Creationism?

Creationists reckon God created the Earth and whole Universe a matter of tens of thousands of years ago. I mere 'flicker' in Universal time.
If they believe that, then they must deny the existance of the dinosaurs.

Evolutionists think the Earth is more like 4 Billion Years old
A slight difference of 'opinion' there :)

What about all the fossil and molecular evidence that show the dinosaurs did indeed exist, i don't think any sane person disputes that these days.

So, it's puzzling to try to see things from the creationists perspective.

Dawkins makes sense.
The Vicor or Priest from the local church does not
 
AngrySteve said:
Evidence for Creationism?
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It is true because God said so!
Here, the whole evidence.

Let us forget, that said god could not keep his story coherent, so there are two, differing, descriptions of creation.
 
Love the bit about Beowulf fighting the tyranosaurus rex! How about Beowulf swimming the North Sea in his full fighting kit - I wonder what bit of the Bible that proves?
 
You stupid Evilutionists!

Can't you see that science proves science is crap!

The Genesis Expo covers a wide range of topics including -A study of genetics shows that all humanity came from one man and one woman.
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See? See?

Meanwhile the best evidence for creationism is still the 100% factual Bible, which is verified by the Bible itself!

Praise Jesus!
 
AngrySteve said:
Read Dawkins book?
Ancestor's Tale - A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Life
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I've read all of Dawkins' books.

The point is: we did not evolve from monkeys.

Creationists often put that case forward either as a strawman, or more likey because they don't have a clue about that which they are arguing against.

It's amazing that they still put it forward.
 
Well, "humans evolved from monkeys" is a very common misconception. Many people think it is true and creationists may think that if they show this (wrong) belief as false, they can undermine the rest in people's minds.
 
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