I was going to write a post about the recent comments from the Canadian minister of science about evolution, how he initially refused to answer whether he believed in evolution based on his claim that it was a religious question, and then his later back-tracking that indeed he does believe in evolution, but the question is irrelevant…
But the entire subject bores me…it’s so tiring to hear people argue creationism vs. evolution, compare religion and evolution as if that were a valid comparison, and talk about evolution in the ignorant manner that only a highschool science education can give you–where you have a vague caricatured idea of what it is, mixed with misconceptions (like we evolved from apes).
When you actually learn about evolution…when you actually start to find out, like I did, how little you know about how amazing the theory is and…OH YA…when you realize just WHAT a freakin scientific theory is…then all the arguments from creationists sound idiotic, comments from agnostics are unbelievably ignorant, and talk from people who say they believe in evolution but think everyone has the right to their own beliefs REALLY DOES sound as stupid as if you said that about the theory of gravity.
It’s so easy to pick up a book, watch a documentary, listen to a lecture and learn about how incredible evolution is. You’ll wonder, like I did, why you didn’t know it all before. And you’ll understand why Darwin’s work is the greatest scientific discover of all time.
March 26th, 2009 at 5:48 pm
Nobody fucking understands gravity, foo.
October 23rd, 2009 at 7:09 pm
Dear Ladies and Gentlemen, forget about Religion and Evolution. In 1915 the world’s population was just 1.8 Billion people. In 2009 the world’s population is 6.8 Billion people. In the past 94 years the world’s population has increased by 5 Billion people. That’s only one lifetime. In 500 years that will be 25 Billion people. If there is poverty, starvation, global warming and a hole in the ozone layer now, what do you think it will be like in 500 years? Man is literally destroying the earth and himself by over populating. Save your generations from suffering a miserable and horrible end. Stop creating and if you have children tell them when they grow up not to create. Please help spread this message to the entire world. Byeyouall, Jesus
March 28th, 2010 at 6:33 am
When people offer any disbelief in the fact of evolution (you can dispense with the theory part, the evidence is overwhelming to the point it’s perverse to deny it), send them to Jerry Coyne and Donald Prothero’s latest books. If they still have any objection of disbelief then they didn’t really read either of those author’s books. Being willfully ignorant, as most creationists are, is not admirable. If there were a god, any being capable of understanding all the scientific principles involved in the manufacture of the entire universe would just be incredulous at his/her ‘followers’ stupidity.
July 25th, 2010 at 8:54 pm
I see no reason why you can’t combine religion and evolution.