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The Adam and Eve "incest" issue is a critical one. Take two members of the same species that are of the opposite sex. Even if those initial two are unrelated, the brother and sister (provided at least one boy and girl are produced from the original couple) would have to commit incest and have...

I would be tempted to regard science and religion as two different things were it not for the fact that there is no separation between the two. If, say, religion existed on some other planet, and science existed only here, then I might say that we cannot judge each of them by the same standards...

A few reasons, some of which have been covered already. 1) To reaffirm their own belief in religion. 2) To disprove evolutionists, thus, reaffirming their religion. 3) To attempt to correct "misguided" thinking. 4) Sheer ignorance.

Huh?

Lucretius, I can respect your need to demonstrate your math skills. And I understand that you are doing this to show creationists that human population growth is not truly exponential. However, there are no mathematical models which can respresent the growth rate of our species. Since the...

To answer the OP's original question: it's natural selection. Cells that are more complex maintain an advantage over cells that are less complex in most environments. This advantage equates to an uneven propagation rate between competing cells. Over time, one type of cell will hold a larger...

Hopefully God will come down and sort all of this mess out and clarify his intent behind the creation of all life. That way all those pesky scientist can't keep bothering us laypeople with all of these things we don't understand...like evolution, natural selection, geology, genetics, physics...

Ed, by your rationale then: Since Abraham Lincoln was an admitted white supremecist...and since he freed the Negros...then freeing the Negros was done by a racist and must somehow be a bad thing...because the racist in charge of it was bad. Is this reasoning not comparable to your own?

Bush supporting intelligent design and the fact that he scares me are hardly "new" concepts.

Again, we can never know for sure how, why, or what started the universe...unless someone or something can somehow show us or in some way demonstrate how it came about. But its likely that that won't happen...ever. Having said that, I'll just go with what really smart scientists say...

Genes compell their survival machines to stay alive as long as possible. As long as a gene can "sit" in a living body, then it stands a chance at surviving in the long run. So staying alive becomes imperative. The fear of death is a mechanism which gives "selfish" survival machines an...

I think the fact that the OP requested for "Atheists only" to respond and that he showed a complete misunderstanding of what the "writing center" of the brain is is indicative of his futile attempt to pose a strawman type question by using flawed logic and misinterpretation of facts. But nice...

My dyslexia caused me to inadvertently re-scramble the letters of the title of the post into their intended formation, so I didn't even notice the mispelling at first. I don't know who this Ham guy is or what rock he crawled out from under. Furthermore, I don't know why PBS would give a...

I love the OP's question. I also love how this exact question is debated day after day, time and time again. Of all the existential questions to have answered, this would be the one. I think it even takes precedence over "What is our purpose in the Universe?" But because it is so perplexing...

I love the OP's question. I also love how this exact question is debated day after day, time and time again. Of all the existential questions to have answered, this would be the one. I think it even takes precedence over "What is our purpose in the Universe?" But because it is so perplexing...

That's pretty scary. From reading some subsequent posts of yours, I get the feeling that you aren't grasping HOW evolution works. Take heredity and geneology for example. I am white. So is my mom and dad and both sets of grandparents. However, it is very possible that my great great great...

"What would it take for me to believe that God was real?" Well, it would take something real. See, the thing is, in the rest of the world it is very easy to tell what is real and what is not. This is how I know that raindrops are real, but that Casper the friendly ghost is not. So if I am...

Cam, Even if Lucy isn't conclusive proof that man evolved from apes, at least it is a step in the right direction. Certainly nothing in the bible can shed any light on why we have found a 3 million year old skeleton of a transitional ape-like bi-ped, yet evolution can fully explain it. The...

Hey Cameron, I think the most compelling proof which supports evolution has come from the discoveries of the Leakey family. In Charles Darwin's time, the fossil record was almost non-existent. Nonetheless, Darwin predicted that there should be transitional species which account for modern man...

I'm sure we do have many things like that. Of course, they are so small and minute that they may not be the overwhelming conclusive data that you are looking for. My concern at this point is what you are implying. Do you believe the information you are asking about does not exist? If so...