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Do you believe in evolution?
brokeplex:
http://www.expelledthemovie.com/
this seemed like a good spot to link the latest Ben Stein movie about dogma and censorship in academia. I saw it and thought it was very funny with a serious point about censorship.
I personally see natural selection as the logical driving force in life. The "selfish gene" is determined to survive. But, I am saddened at how academia has become as dogmatic, and rigid in its beliefs as the 19th Victorians whom they condemn. Opposing points of view outside the orthodoxy just aren't readily expressed anymore in academia.
David In Indy:
I've always wondered if we evolved from monkeys, then why are there still monkeys?
I'm not sure if I believe in evolution, but I don't buy into this "Adam and Eve" deal either. But I DO believe however it happened, it was God's will and he caused it to happen. :)
delalluvia:
--- Quote from: oilfieldtrash on April 25, 2008, 08:35:23 pm ---http://www.expelledthemovie.com/
this seemed like a good spot to link the latest Ben Stein movie about dogma and censorship in academia. I saw it and thought it was very funny with a serious point about censorship.
I personally see natural selection as the logical driving force in life. The "selfish gene" is determined to survive. But, I am saddened at how academia has become as dogmatic, and rigid in its beliefs as the 19th Victorians whom they condemn. Opposing points of view outside the orthodoxy just aren't readily expressed anymore in academia.
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The minute I saw a commercial for "Expelled" I knew it would be garbage. Ben Stein's supposed "zinger" line that 'stumps' the teacher while in a class of evolution is to ask "Where did life come from?"
I wanted to reply, "You're in the wrong class, Stein!"
Here's a good read about why the movie is bunk:
http://www.expelledexposed.com/
http://www.pandasthumb.org/
http://richarddawkins.net/article,2394,Lying-for-Jesus,Richard-Dawkins
delalluvia:
--- Quote from: DavidInIndy on April 25, 2008, 09:23:22 pm ---
I've always wondered if we evolved from monkeys, then why are there still monkeys?
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If humans evolved from apes, why are there still apes?
Humans did not evolve from modern apes, but humans and modern apes shared a common ancestor, a species that no longer exists. Because we share a recent common ancestor with chimpanzees and gorillas, we have many anatomical, genetic, biochemical, and even behavioral similarities with these African great apes. We are less similar to the Asian apes--orangutans and gibbons--and even less similar to monkeys, because we share common ancestors with these groups in the more distant past.
Evolution is a branching or splitting process in which populations split off from one another and gradually become different. As the two groups become isolated from each other, they stop sharing genes, and eventually genetic differences increase until members of the groups can no longer interbreed. At this point, they have become separate species. Through time, these two species might give rise to new species, and so on through millennia.
From: http://books.nap.edu/html/creationism/appendix.html
Brokeback_Dev:
You know whats really cool about evolution? Is that we, humans, are still evolving. All creatures flora and fauna a like are elvolving. Right? It would be really cool to use some of that other percentage of our brain we dont use and see what we can do with it.
But then again what about all the hormones our kids are getting in milk, meat and the processed food we serve them? Our 12 year olds are looking more like 18 year olds. Do you agree that the younger population of people actually have different attributes both feminine and masculine as once was. Is that evolution?
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