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Evilution VS Evolution

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There are people from time to time that will refer to Evolution as Evilution. I wonder if there is some validity to their claim.

No. It's just a propaganda trick to "load" the concept of a theory of biology with the idea that the "devil" is behind it all, in some sort of worldwide, fieldwide, "evil" conspiracy.

It's a dishonest play on emotions, if anything.
Quite a juvenile practice.
 
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Funny, how it seems that only the most radical and fundamentalist theists are able to "realise" how wrong evolution theory is.
 
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TRANLATION. What skeptics and scoffers preach and teach and claim is Biology is not Biology at all. At least none of it is actually in the Biology Text book. Most people alive today would be doing very good if they ONLY knew as much Biology as what we can read in even a High School Text book. Only one percent of the people even go to college and only a few of them study Biology on a college level.
 
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No, that's not what I said at all.
 
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The intake of Biological sciences students at Oxford was over 100 this year - there are about 130 Universities in the UK. That's just the UK of course. I wonder if any of them will emerge as Creationists?
 
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Hi JimmyD. Do you see a difference between the categories of intelligent design and Creationists (or are they they same in your understanding)?

Any wall that may have been erected between intelligent design and creationism was torn down by this memo written by an Intelligent Design foundation:

"Design theory promises to reverse the stifling dominance of the materialist worldview, and to replace it with a science consonant with Christian and theistic convictions."
http://www.antievolution.org/features/wedge.html

Intelligent Design is just creationism dressed up in fake science.
 
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Most of what all of us believe is "on good authority". You believe the world is round because that's what you've chosen to believe on good authority, unless you've actually been to space.
I believe the world is round because I can fly around it, what I can't believe is stories handed down by word of mouth over many years are all 100% true, I have heard accounts of an event I witnessed twisted out of all proportion in just one week, imagine what happens to a story over many many years when there is no one able to write it down, 10 becomes a hundred and a week becomes a year.
 
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Errr, it was an honest question. I am keen to hear your answer.

Maybe you should read up on human history and current events.

Radicalism / extremism, in any context, is never good news.

It always ends up in intolerance, injustice, cruelty,... While the extremists actually thinks (s)he is doing good things.

Extremism has the power of taking the nicest person and turn it into a monster.

Radicalism is the enemy of a free, tolerant, safe and prosperous society.
Always has been.

Wheter it is related to religion or politics. It never ends nicely.

Because there is no reasoning and open discussion possible with a radical. They are entrenched in the dogma's of their particular ideology and no amount of reasonable arguments and / or evidence is going to change their mind. A radical has become blind to everything outside of his little bubble. That makes the radical very dangerous.
 
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Hi JimmyD. Do you see a difference between the categories of intelligent design and Creationists (or are they they same in your understanding)?

Look up cdesign proponentsists.

There's your answer.

ID = creationism disguised in a lab coat.
 
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There are people from time to time that will refer to Evolution as Evilution. I wonder if there is some validity to their claim.
No, it's really just the equivalent of calling Donald Trump by Donald Chump. Or the result of having certain accents.
 
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