If the bible were never written, would you believe in evolution?

One of the things that continues to astound me, is that if you take a step back. Scratch that, if you take MANY steps back, and stop looking at all the back and forth between evolutionists and creationists, stop looking at all the hundreds of discussions that have taken place on this board, you would see something that we ALL know, but little do we think about...

Everything creationists believe in, is based on a SINGLE book, written by men thousands of years ago.

Now, we all already know this, atheist and theist alike, but if you repeat the above over and over in your head, the absurdity of it really starts to sink in.
I'm serious. Try it,

Really think about it, Because of a BOOK, just ONE book, people have completely allowed their lives to be run by it. The more I say it, the more outrageous it seems to me I walk over to my bookshelf, and look at all my star wars books, Dresden novels, and my leagues of other books that are fantasy. And I am flabbergasted that someone could take a fantasy book like one of these books, and actually believe everything it says just because they were told to when they were younger.

Sometimes when I am tossing and turning in my sleep, I say to myself, "People ACTUALLY believe this stuff, they ACTUALLY believe it."

Noah's Ark, talking snakes. People truly, to the bottom of their heart AACCTUUALLLLLLYYYYY believe it.

Does it really bother you that much? Maybe, you are just not seeing it.

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It’s incredible, isn’t it? The corollaries are what sort of person would actually believe that nonsense and why would they believe it?

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Never underestimate the power of childhood brainwashing & group/mob behavior.

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Actually looks like a fun book to read. hmm going to barnes and nobles tommorow.

Makes you wonder if there would be any morals? What a world this would be. God knew what He was doing and what we needed.

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Originally Posted by Meshach

Makes you wonder if there would be any morals? What a world this would be. God knew what He was doing and what we needed.

Amen to that!

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Sure there would. Contrary to what some think, morals don't begin with the Bible.

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Creationism has not made a single contribution to agriculture, medicine, conservation, forestry, pathology, or any other applied area of biology. Creationism has yielded no classifications, no biogeographies, no underlying mechanisms, no unifying concepts with which to study organisms or life. - Botanical Society of America's Statement on Evolution

I agree, there were morals all over the world before and after the Bible/Torah was written. Most of them didn't even know that such a book existed.

By the Bible I assume y'all mean the New Testament, so if it was never written I doubt Christianity, and perhaps Islam as well, would have the numbers that it does today. History would probably be different, maybe there would have been no Crusades, perhaps the Renascence would have come sooner, who knows.

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