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Discussion: DEBATE: How did we come about?
Member Since: 5/15/2010
Posts: 8,120
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Originally posted by Entity
Religion should be destroyed or at least ended.
And I'm happy that it's beginning...
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No, it's not beginning, the USA are one of the most religious countries in the world and then we have the jew power. so NO it's not happening...
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Member Since: 5/22/2011
Posts: 21,227
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I believe in Evolution & Science.. God is just as belivable as Santa Claus or the Tooth Fairy.
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Member Since: 11/7/2010
Posts: 5,164
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Originally posted by Entity
Go blow a balloon.
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I'm just asking... It's something I have yet to have seen proven anywhere in any religion (besides the "God always was here") or science.
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Member Since: 9/5/2010
Posts: 4,381
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Originally posted by Kunt
Humans didn't "evolve from monkeys", we share a common ancestor with them, and evolution didn't suddenly stop happening. lol It's a process of natural selection that takes millions of years to manifest in that way. You're not going to just wake up on a Sunday with three extra toes and the ability to smell colors. It's a long process.
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You probably know this but evolution, as somebody pointed out, happens all the time in the realm of mico-organisms.
Nylon-eating bacteria are just the most common example, but researchers are trying their best every day to invent new antibiotics that circumvent certain enzymes or other defense mechanisms that develop over literally days.
It's a constant struggle and denying evolution is like throwing egg in their faces.
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Member Since: 3/12/2011
Posts: 10,342
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Originally posted by Mezik
I believe in Evolution & Science.. God is just as belivable as Santa Claus or the Tooth Fairy.
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Can you say the same about a higher power not having to do with religion
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Member Since: 5/8/2011
Posts: 3,738
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Originally posted by Beatz
No, it's not beginning, the USA are one of the most religious countries in the world and then we have the jew power. so NO it's not happening...
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It will and it's going there.
A lot of the people in the USA don't believe in God. Atheism has been growing rapidly for many years now.
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Member Since: 1/8/2011
Posts: 6,941
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Religion is nonsense designed to manipulate the people...
So ppl u better walk up before is to late
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Member Since: 11/19/2010
Posts: 4,697
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Originally posted by Beatz
No, it's not beginning, the USA are one of the most religious countries in the world and then we have the jew power. so NO it's not happening...
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Atheism is the fastest growing minority in the United States.
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Member Since: 12/4/2010
Posts: 37,894
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Originally posted by MrDeeds
No, it's not.
The question is not why are there still mokeys, it should be why are the monkeys not turning into human anymore?
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Clearly, we're lacking a basic understanding of evolution. Let me break it down in simple terms.
There's a population called Group A.
Group A separates into two and moves to separate lands over a long time, and they are now Group B and Group C, but they both share a common ancestor: Group A.
Group B stays where Group A stayed, while Group C migrates.
Group C evolves over a long period of time, their brains evolve and their bodies evolve. This is not just a random occurrence. They evolve, because there is a need to in order to survive. They evolve because of new circumstances, new environments, and new needs.
Because Group B did not migrate and stayed in its original habitat, it had no reason to evolve and change with its environment. So now, after a long period of time (we're talking millions of years, not a good minute), Group B hasn't changed much, while Group C is vastly different than it's cousin, Group B.
Now, to this present time, Group B is still in its original environment and has not vastly evolved, while Group C has changed its environment many times, and has spread it's population across the globe.
To answer your question, monkeys aren't changing into humans, because they have no need too. And it would be impossible for the monkeys of today to evolve into the humans of today, because the humans of today evolved into what they are because of the circumstances of the past. Do you understand why Group B is not evolving along with Group C? Did I break it down enough? Ch... Lord knows I tried to.
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Member Since: 6/28/2009
Posts: 6,960
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Religion was created to answer all of our questions when we didn't have science. Move on people.
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Member Since: 9/5/2010
Posts: 4,381
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Originally posted by Beatz
No, it's not beginning, the USA are one of the most religious countries in the world and then we have the jew power. so NO it's not happening...
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Member Since: 5/8/2011
Posts: 3,738
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Originally posted by Chris191
I'm just asking... It's something I have yet to have seen proven anywhere in any religion (besides the "God always was here") or science.
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'Go blow a balloon' was a legitimate response.....
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Member Since: 1/13/2010
Posts: 5,334
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Quote:
Originally posted by Entity
It will and it's going there.
A lot of the people in the USA don't believe in God. Atheism has been growing rapidly for many years now.
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Atheism is not gonna become a global thing, I dare say ever. Specifically the USA are still extremely religious and on a large-scale non-accepting of atheists (on average). You just gotta look to politics, I think it's probable we will see a gay president before an atheist one.
But apart from that, consider that every culture on this earth has independently from each other at completely different times come up with their own beliefs and forms of religions. Christianity will go down sooner or later, but I don't think religion ever will.
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Member Since: 11/7/2010
Posts: 5,164
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Originally posted by Ri_Ri_Rock
Religion is nonsense designed to manipulate the people...
So ppl u better walk up before is to late
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Too late before what? Waiting for death would be the only other reason to wake up (walk up? ), since there is apparently no reason to life according to science
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Member Since: 4/6/2011
Posts: 31,849
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Originally posted by Good_Doc_Gone_Bad
Science couldn't explain half the stuff it can now than it did in 1800. Doesn't make science any less valid.
I believe there's an explanation to damn near everything (except the existence of God, which I believe in because of faith, not because of science), and it's human nature to try to find those explanations, which is what humans have been doing since the beginning.
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Faith/God is something that you believe even if you do not see. You can feel it in your heart and spirit. Id rather experience that amazing feeling and be "ignorant" than be right and feel nothing.
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Member Since: 3/27/2011
Posts: 1,081
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Originally posted by MrDeeds
No, it's not.
The question is not why are there still mokeys, it should be why are the monkeys not turning into human anymore?
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That's because we didn't evolve from monkeys.
Evolution doesn't even work that way. Humans, Apes, and Monkeys all come from a common ancestor. From that common ancestor, one branch evolved to be chimps, another branch evolved to be humans, and etc. Monkeys and Humans have been evolving all this time. Humans, Apes, and Monkeys will continue to keep evolving, but we can't predict what we or other animals will evolve into.
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Member Since: 6/28/2009
Posts: 6,960
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Originally posted by Chris191
Too late before what? Waiting for death would be the only other reason to wake up (walk up? ), since there is apparently no reason to life according to science
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The meaning of life is for us to find out.
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Member Since: 5/8/2011
Posts: 3,738
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Originally posted by Dephira
Atheism is not gonna become a global thing, I dare say ever. Specifically the USA are still extremely religious and on a large-scale non-accepting of atheists (on average). You just gotta look to politics, I think it's probable we will see a gay president before an atheist one.
But apart from that, consider that every culture on this earth has independently from each other at completely different times come up with their own beliefs and forms of religions. Christianity will go down sooner or later, but I don't think religion ever will.
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It will. It's pretty much common sense.
Newer generations are less religious than their parents, and good god imagine 100 years from now.....
And Science has been proving religion to be false time and time again...
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Member Since: 11/7/2010
Posts: 5,164
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Originally posted by uclaboi2003
Faith/God is something that you believe even if you do not see. You can feel it in your heart and spirit. Id rather experience that amazing feeling and be "ignorant" than be right and feel nothing.
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Member Since: 1/8/2011
Posts: 6,941
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Originally posted by Chris191
Too late before what? Waiting for death would be the only other reason to wake up (walk up? ), since there is apparently no reason to life according to science
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Girl please! religion is stupidity, there so many other reason to life.
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