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No, I accept it as fact.
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Yes I do. It may not be perfect & have numerous holes, however nothing else even comes close to being likely. In my perspectave.
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Um... of course? I have seen fossils from long, long ago. I have never seen even ONE thing supporting Creationism. But that does not mean that somewhere along the line something had to create everything, so I believe in both but just not like the Christians who tend to believe out of ignorance or lack of studying something.
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It is improbable due to the mutations aspect of the theory. If something is improbable it is implausible. If it is implausible it is a bad foundation for being acceptable as a belief. It takes credulity to accept evolutionary theory.
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Yes, bones don't lie. +5
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The theory is still being refined, but yes.
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Although it is impossible for me to know almost anything as fact, especially history, the theory of evolution is the closest to reality, I believe. It starts from where we are and works backwards to figure out how we got here. Religion on the other hand says they know the truth. They take a theory written centuries ago and apply it to reality in the face of contrary evidence and try to manipulate it to fit their theory. Example: Many religions have similarities to Christianity (Perseus in Greek Mythology was born to a virgin) yet even though Christianity was written after Greek Mythology, their argument is that it was the devil trying to trick people into thinking Christianity isn't real. . I believe in the theory that no single person, past or present, can/could know what happens to our consciousness after death. Therefore I can only go on the fact that my brain will degenerate into dirt making the chances of me experiencing anything after death much smaller in comparison to winning a multi-state multimillion dollar lottery.
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(This is a continuation of a discussion elsewhere in this topic. I am posting it here as there are some technical issues when a comment thread gets to be too long.) ************ For instance, I am a bit different from each of my parents. I have a mix of some of their attributes; my father was short but my mother and I are tall, my mother is poor at engineering but my father and I have an aptitude for it, etcetera. However, I also have a few traits that neither of them have but one of their siblings (my aunts and uncles) do. Such is the nature of recessive genes; they can be passed on but not express themselves. Compound that over a few dozen generations and you might notice slight drift. Not necessarily mutations, but a tiny bit of... what do we want to call it... evolution Also bear in mind that according to the TOE, Evolution is a relatively slow process. Add in that there are certain combinations of genes that will be more or less successful in reproducing, Natural Selection enters into the picture. Natural Selection will allow some "mutations" to succeed.
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Yes
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Yes.
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Yes. And I believe in God, too.
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There is no such thing as a evolutionary theory it's a consensus view which has more roots in religious atheistic following that scientific fact. Piltdown man is a good example and there is the possibiltiy that all these fossils (if they are real) are in fact freaks of nature and have devolved not evolved from man as there is lots of buried evidence that is kept quiet as it uproots the debate. Too much vested interest in it. I'm sure natural selection is a prograssion to perfection of A species but changing from ape to man is more miracle than science you might as well say lead can be made to gold as it's only 1 proton apart whereas humans and primates are 3% apart.
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Absolutely, it makes a lot of sense.
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I don't have to "believe" in evolution. It is a fact. It is not whether you "believe" in it, it's whether you accept it or reject it. I accept it.
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The word "believe" is rather slippery, because it gets involved with religious belief. I believe in evolution in the same way as I believer Tuesday follows Monday and water runs downhill. It is part of my world-model: if it were disproven, I would have to rethink massive parts of my life. But I don't believe it in the way a religious person believes in their God and their Scripture.
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Yes of course
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Of course not. One does not believe in something if it is real and supported by actual evidence. I agree that it is our best explanation for the diversity of life.
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