re: #292 Davehm

I find evolution hard to believe, take a look at the eye how can some believe that the eyeball, socket, eyelid, tear ducts, and eye brow all came into existence at random and then duplicate itself on the opposite side of the face… i just don’t have that kind of faith.

It’s not hard to believe at all. Look at the wide variety of eyes found on the various creatures on earth! Some are VERY simple, involving only light sensitive cells. The eyes of insects are quite a bit simpler than ours, but are arrayed in greater numbers to compensate. Each creature’s eyes have progressed in a manner that best suits the environment/circumstances in which that creature lives.

the truth is that believe systems do have consequences, if you were to teach evolution as a fact like they do in the government school system then you would be telling a group of Jr. and Sr. high school students that they
1) came from slime (meaningless)
2) that they are nothing but animals (no better then the food on your plate)
3) that they came about by chance (thus making them a freak of nature)
4) that when they die they become worm dirt (meaning they have nothing to look forward to…hopelessness)

Not at all.
1) They came from their parents. (meaningfull)
2) Humans ARE animals. That doesn’t mean we’re no better than food on a plate.
3) There’s an approximately 30% chance of any given pregnancy resulting in a miscarriage. That means that, no matter if you like it or not, it’s a FACT that we all came about by chance. I fail to see how that makes anyone a freak of nature, since we’re all the same in that regard.
4) Belief in science doesn’t rule out belief in an afterlife. Science makes no attempt to prove or disprove the supernatural. What you’re describing, is a willful blindness to the facts upon which scientific theory is based. Science isn’t trying to kill god.

If I were to buy into that I’d say pass the Prozac and get me a gun.

I fell bad for you, that acceptance of the human condition would drive you to Prozac. Billions of us (the religious included) are strong-minded enough to accept it and be happy.