Don't Look if Politically Correct People ANNOY you

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It's no problem, mean81GT. I don't mind discussing my faith with anyone, and I appreciate your input.

I can't say that I agree with your religious views, but they're just that...your religious views, and you're entitled to them. That's what makes America what it is...that different faiths are tolerated, and people can express their views freely without thought of ridicule. At least that's how it's suppose to be. I'm not trying to force my beliefs on you or any person, but I will gladly discuss them with you.

I come from a scientific background. Even now I'm deeply involved with the study of human biology. I've had about every biological course there is, and I've seen a lot of things. I believe in evolution as well. Maybe it's not the same type of evolution which you refer to, but in nature, everything must evolve or adapt or it will die. Darwin was not a heretic...he was a smart man with an inquisitive mind. It's survival of the fittest. If by some chance of nature or mutation, one organism is better suited to survive in a particular environment and thus reproduce, passing on it's advantageous trait, it only serves reason to see that the trait will soon begin to dominate the population. That's basic common sense.

I don't wholly agree with radical evolutionism: that life began in a goo of amino acids struck by lightening to form bacteria, which then mutated into ameobas, into cyclopods, into crustacians, into fish, into amphibians, into reptiles, into mammals, into birds, into monkeys, into man. That is presuming an unbelieveable and impossible chance of statistics. Radical mutations themselves are statistically inconceivable, and almost without fail they end in death. To think that these anomolies occured many many many times to eventually form sophisticated life just by chance is a monstrous presumption, and I don't care how many billions of years you say it occured over. I just don't see how it could have happened without divine intervention of some sort.

This will give you an idea of how almost impossible it would be: For life to begin as scientists think, you would have a better chance of randomly reaching out anywhere in the entire universe and grasping a single, pre-selected atom, and then taking that pre-selected atom and randomly inserting it into another complete universe, only to randomly reach out and select the same atom again. It just is for all intents and purposes impossible to happen by chance. Sure, it's possible that all the atoms in my room this very moment will strike each other in such a way that they suddenly collect in the corners of the room, leaving a vaccume in the center of the room and causing my head to explode from the negative pressure, but it just aint gonna happen.


Anyway, I'm sorry that you had bad experiences with the Christian faith in the past. Search your heart and search for truth, and maybe you'll find it there. Again, I'll not force my beliefs on you; you're welcome to your own. But I'll be glad to share what I believe.

Take care.

--nathan