Creation VS Evolution

I'm watching an old episode of Penn & Teller: Bullshit!

I never saw much merit in creationism, and I am not saying it is in any way true. But watching this, Christians say "Intelligent Design" to replace god, and now they are trying to get it taught in schools.

I'm not saying Creationism is correct. I've looked at all the fossils and completely agree that we evolved from some type of ape, and still are some type of ape (but we have adapted to the point that we can call evolution).

What I am saying is, Creationists/Christians are fucking persistent. They were persecuted throughout Roman times, yet they kept believing. They were persecuted in British times, and went to a new world across the ocean...

And watching this, I am starting to think that they will be the first ones to live in space. Either in an attempt to discover and prove god, or get away from Earth once it becomes too Atheist, so they can go to another planet and practice peacefully.

 

And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

(one of my favorites)

 

Are we not a form of ape? Is the word Primate? Maybe I just got those confused.

 

If all those are apes, then we are apes and just don't want to officially recognize it.

 

Creationism is pseudo-science. Plain and simple. It is merely an extension of the gap of knowledge fallacy whereby theists make the erroneous god did it comment when faced with unanswered questions.

Meagain is correct. We are not evolved directly from primates. Rather, science has determined that we do share a common ancestor. What that common ancestor was, we do not yet know. Unlike religion, science will not simply create an answer out of thin air to suit one's imagination and comfort one's curiosities. Rather, science strives to discover while remaining grounded in reality.

I doubt theists would be the first to venture into space for the purpose of survival there. They hinder science at every opportunity, after all. Look at what they did to Galileo when he informed them that the earth was not the center of the universe. Also, the earth is apparently not flat as the bible would have one believe.

 

That's just adaptation and evolution.

I'm sure Gorillas and Gibbons can't cross breed either (can they?), but they are both still considered apes.

 

Scientist say that the modern human brain evolved from proto-human to modern human in about 100,000 years, and that it took millions of years to get to the proto-human stage.

The thing that they can't figure out is how proto-human brain evolved into the modern human brain so quickly without some kind of outside influence. Even after millions or hundreds of millions of years a proto-human brain would have still been a proto-human brain. I guess thats what they call the missing link.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZt1Gn0R22Q"]Myths and misconceptions about evolution - Alex Gendler - YouTube

 

There's a box but no video inside...

 

The video showed up. I watched it, and none of it goes against anything I've said.

 

Ahhh,

I always wondered when they were going to start practicing PEACEFULLY.

 

I mean, that's why they came to America right?

 

I'll check it out

 

All the European settlers did was slaughter a whole native race of a continent so that they could practice their faith in peace.

 

Lol, I'm talking about the very first settlers, not the 400 years following.

 

the video says that evolution wasnt by adapting to their environment then the very next part mentions how giraffes got long necks because the giraffes with longer necks survived and had babies with long necks.

umm that is a species adapting to its environment. aka survival of the fittest in whatever environment the animal is born into. to take that theory to an extreme, a shark is the most fearful predator of the sea, take the shark out of the environment it was born in...lets say it was born in a very small pond. i would take my chances on beating a shark if it couldnt swim around too far. likewise if i was born on a desert island like in those comics where there is nothing but a coconut tree and sharks swimming around, those sharks would have a pretty easy time finding a human meal. like the video said it isnt always the fastest or strongest but the best to adapt to its environment...wait where have i heard that adapting to the environment line before?