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Old 10-26-2011, 09:23 AM
 
Location: Greensboro, NC USA
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You start off making stuff up, thus I have to read no further than your first falsehood.

In the US only 40% of the people believe in the creation fairy tale, and we are on the stupid end of the scale.

In almost every other industrialized country the percentage is 20% or less.

When you start a premiss based on falsehoods, the rest is summarily dismissed as more of the same.

Here is the scale and the US is clearly on the stupid end.

I said most CHRISTIANS. I never said most people.
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Old 10-26-2011, 09:26 AM
 
Location: New Mexico
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Lightbulb What is the truth about the beginning of mankind?

Reader's Digest response:

Mankind's origins aren't found in religious texts.
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Old 10-26-2011, 09:28 AM
 
Location: Greensboro, NC USA
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All that means is the structure, impulses and thinking of humans are similar, everywhere.

All over the globe, humans seek water. That doesn't suggest anything supernatural. It just suggests that humans behave a certain way in most cases because they're members of the same species.

Similary, all over the globe, humans seek answers to their existence. Before we knew a thing about science, we assumed creation by a giant wizard.

We now know better. Or at least most of us do.
All humans do think very similar but the details of these myth are just too similar. They are based on some sort of common truth.
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Old 10-26-2011, 09:35 AM
 
Location: Greensboro, NC USA
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Sorry, but flat assertion with zero evidence doesn't fly well here. At all. Like Asheville stated, Americans are on the stupid end of the scale, but you seem to be on the stupid end of THAT.
There is a little saying.....absence of evidence is not evidence of absence
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Old 10-26-2011, 09:39 AM
 
Location: Brooklyn
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What NASA doesn't want us to know about the Bible, eh?
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Old 10-26-2011, 09:43 AM
 
Location: Greensboro, NC USA
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There is a little saying.....absence of evidence is not evidence of absence
Have you ever wondered why humans seem to be the only species on earth that have "evolved" so dramatically in a short period of time? And why do apes from hundreds of thousands of years ago look the same today? It has been said that humans and all life evolved from one source. Have you ever wondered why 223 genes in the human genome dont show up anywhere in ANY of our predecessors? In other words there is a missing man.....I mean missing alien somewhere in our past. That evidence alone makes the Sumerian creation story valid.
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Old 10-26-2011, 09:49 AM
 
Location: Greensboro, NC USA
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How many incorrect statements are you going to throw at us? Humans are absolutelyy NOT the only species to have "evolved" so dramatically. If we had to pick the grand champion, it would probably be wolves, who, with the help of selective breeding, have evolved into chihuahuas, pitbulls, german shepherds and puggles in about 200 years.

Humans have spent about 6 million years evolving from our ancestors, and modern humans are probably about 200,000 years old.

Many, many other species on earth, from bacteria to elephants have evolved at slower and faster rates, depending on their environment. We have "evolved" millions of species to extinction thanks to our own human activities.

If you had the gumption to pick up even ONE science book, you would be claiming none of this crap.
again...Have you ever wondered why 223 genes in the human genome dont show up anywhere in ANY of our predecessors? Either these genes magically appeared in our DNA or they are extraterrestrial.
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Old 10-26-2011, 09:53 AM
 
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I said most CHRISTIANS. I never said most people.
Again with the false information

This is true only for those classified as evangelical christian and JW's.

The majority of mainline protestants and catholic's don't believe the fairy tale of creation.
Level of support for evolution - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Old 10-26-2011, 10:00 AM
 
Location: Sinking in the Great Salt Lake
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Have you ever wondered why humans seem to be the only species on earth that have "evolved" so dramatically in a short period of time? And why do apes from hundreds of thousands of years ago look the same today? It has been said that humans and all life evolved from one source. Have you ever wondered why 223 genes in the human genome dont show up anywhere in ANY of our predecessors? In other words there is a missing man.....I mean missing alien somewhere in our past. That evidence alone makes the Sumerian creation story valid.
Study evolutionary theory; there are good answers to all those questions. All have supporting evidence too, unlike the "Alien genetic engineering program" theory.
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Old 10-26-2011, 10:01 AM
 
Location: Greensboro, NC USA
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There are 50,000-100,000 genes in the human genome. New gene information is passed down to new generations through the process of evolution. It is absolutely EXPECTED that some of our predecessors would not have this new gene information. And yet even with your whacked-out conspiracy theory, more than 99% of the genome is intact in our 4-million-year-old ancestors.:
Then why are scientist trying to find the missing link?
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