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Hey guys, don't know where to put this topic so mods move it if it's supposed to be somewhere else. But my question is, are there any posters here on CD who once believed in evolution then abandoned it?
I know as a kid growing up (I'm 24 btw) I believed in evolution 1000% because it was presented in textbooks. And as a kid, whatever is in a book you think must be true. The older I got and as I became an adult myself, I questioned more things that I had been told when I was younger and evolution was one. Now as a grown man, I don't see myself believing in that evolution shyt any more and it sounds borderline crazy now. I don't even see what makes it different from a religious belief in anymore. You have to buy in completely to what researchers say, and you have to listen to people who were born in your own time trying to tell you "facts" about what happened billion years of ago as if they were there watching it happen. But if you ask an evolutionist researcher what he ate for lunch yesterday he cant even remember that, but yet this same guy supposedly has the "answers" for my existence and billions of years of life and is never wrong? Absolute BS.
" You have to buy in completely to what researchers say, and you have to listen to people who were born in your own time trying to tell you "facts" about what happened billion years of ago as if they were there watching it happen. "
No, you have to study science to understand what the researchers say. If you had, you would realize just how sound the science is behind evolution and the age of the earth, etc....
I think you just don't have a good understanding of evolution. No, a lay-person can't usually have a complete understanding of genetics and evolutionary biology and has to trust the experts to a certain extent. I have a geography degree and a geology minor and I don't understand it that well because I don't know much about genetics and chemistry. But I understand the environmental processes that affect evolution, and the fossil record that contains MOUNTAINS of evidence, and I can assure you it's real.
But I understand the environmental processes that affect evolution, and the fossil record that contains MOUNTAINS of evidence, and I can assure you it's real.
What do you take issue with?
I used to have that mindset and I don't anymore. Cliamatologists had "mountains of evidence" too. I'm not even being argumentative, it's just that there a more mysteries in the universe than we'll ever fathom...just start pondering quantum mechanics for one.
I find it's more interesting to keep an open mind than to declare a particular argument "settled".
Last edited by Dockside; 11-10-2013 at 10:12 AM..
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Hey guys, don't know where to put this topic so mods move it if it's supposed to be somewhere else. But my question is, are there any posters here on CD who once believed in evolution then abandoned it?
I know as a kid growing up (I'm 24 btw) I believed in evolution 1000% because it was presented in textbooks. And as a kid, whatever is in a book you think must be true. The older I got and as I became an adult myself, I questioned more things that I had been told when I was younger and evolution was one. Now as a grown man, I don't see myself believing in that evolution shyt any more and it sounds borderline crazy now. I don't even see what makes it different from a religious belief in anymore. You have to buy in completely to what researchers say, and you have to listen to people who were born in your own time trying to tell you "facts" about what happened billion years of ago as if they were there watching it happen. But if you ask an evolutionist researcher what he ate for lunch yesterday he cant even remember that, but yet this same guy supposedly has the "answers" for my existence and billions of years of life and is never wrong? Absolute BS.
So what do you believe now? That an airborne Superman spoke the world into existence?
And then poofed Adam and Eve into the Garden of Eden?
Last edited by weltschmerz; 11-10-2013 at 10:41 AM..
Question - should nonbelievers in evolution be allowed to benefit from our understanding of evolution? For instance, should they be allowed to receive attenuated vaccines?
Evolution is not a believe, religion is. Technically I guess it is,in the same way that i believe the store is down the road. But it is easy to find out if you look for yourself.
Stopping believing in evolution is like stopping believing that there are oceans....
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