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MarkedMusic
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I currently have no religion, I believe in a God and that is all right now.

I'm very open minded about religion, but I don't see why I should follow one religion over another when every side believes so strongly that they are right?

You might think religion is not so much of a choice but a "feeling" of belongingness? I have never had a feeling like that. I want to though, I want to believe in something, I just want a good reason to do so.

But anyway, one theory I want to bring up is the creation vs evolution. Has anyone else ever thought that it could be both? The bible says the world was created in 7 days, but what if it wasn't our idea of 7 days? What if it was actually 7 billion years? What if God set off the big bang, and started evolution? We are so complicated in out structure and anatomy, so I would think we'd have a more complicated beginning then just *poof* you're here.

What are your thoughts?

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MageGrayWolf
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Soooo, can we conclude deism? Or is it different?


Based on what?
MageGrayWolf
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I just can't see how a primate could have evolved into a human being so suddenly, with one being so much more intelligent as the other, and to have relatively no trace of that left behind.


It was quite gradual and we have a rather complete fossil record linking back to that ancestory.

if intelligent beings sprawled up everywhere why is it that all of the other homo sapiens happened to die? Cro Magnons and them just randomly disappeared and that just sounds weird.


They were out competed for the same niche by us.

More like agnosticism.


That deals with knowledge not belief.
Xcalibur45
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Its funny how We are supposedly are evolved yet in the last few hundred years we have seen nothing evolve. Kent Hovind Can explain this greater then I can. the movie Expelled is also good to watch.

MageGrayWolf
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Its funny how We are supposedly are evolved yet in the last few hundred years we have seen nothing evolve.


You mean like how we haven't see the observed instances of nylonase evolving to eat nylon or the Italian wall lizard evolving an entirely new digestive system to better suit the location a group of them were transplanted to?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nylon-eating_bacteria
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/04/080421-lizard-evolution.html

Or like these other instances of observed evolution?
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/faq-speciation.html

Kent Hovind Can explain this greater then I can. the movie Expelled is also good to watch.


Kent Hovind is a lying sack of crap with a phony degrees from a degree mills and those degrees aren't even in biology but in Christian education.

In other words
That is why you fail

And for the lols.
Every Debate with a Creationist Ever
MageGrayWolf
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Using creation please explain the existence of ring species?
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/library/05/2/l_052_05.html

We can explain it with evolution.
Evolution in Action: Ring Species

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s funny how We are supposedly are evolved yet in the last few hundred years we have seen nothing evolve. Kent Hovind Can explain this greater then I can. the movie Expelled is also good to watch.


We have evolved. The majority of people have evolved to be able to digest cows milk without farting for one as people started farming cows for milk and bacteria has evolved a lot.
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Its funny how We are supposedly are evolved yet in the last few hundred years we have seen nothing evolve. Kent Hovind Can explain this greater then I can. the movie Expelled is also good to watch.


Aside from the fact that Kent Hovind is an absolute nutjob and aside from the links that Mage provided - what are you expecting to see? You can't expect a completely new species or subspecies of anything much larger than a single-celled organism to evolve and take prominence over the course of a few hundred years.
MageGrayWolf
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As for Kent, you do know he is serving a 10 year sentence in federal prison for over 58 counts ranging from tax fraud, obstructing federal agents, and 45 counts of cash structing to avoid taxes and various federal filing as required by law.


While it does show he can be dishonest, I'm not sure if this can be used as an argument against what he tries to teach. The other stuff sure can though.
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