<p>So as I began my quest in being a believer of evolution, I came across an obstacle which flaws that logic. After reading legitimate anecdotes about specific houses that were/are haunted by sinister spirits, I can't help but speculate how spirits would exist if humans were simply derived from bacteria. Am I a dunce? A dolt? Call me anything you please, but if anything, break my logic.</p>
<p>Many "supernatural" occurrences are likely explicable through hallucination, a function of the brain's faulty wiring. Look up the phenomenon of [url=<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confabulation%5Dconfabulation%5B/url">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confabulation]confabulation[/url</a>], for example, for details on just how common the production of false memories is. You can also research the neuropathology behind hallucinations. </p>
<p>Of course, there are tons of unexplained phenomena out there; that's probably why we as humans are so intrigued by the concept of the metaphysical. It's only natural to be curious, but take everything with a grain of salt. :)</p>
<p>You don't "believe" in evolution. Evolution is a fact. There's just certain speculations that use evolution as its basis that are questionable, like humans deriving from bacteria.</p>
<p>I meant that I'm a believer that humans are products of the evolution process.</p>
<p>Just a warning. Make sure to state your own opinions and not slander others.</p>
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<p>This should put in bold, capitalized and underlined.</p>
<p>Why so serious?</p>
<p>^ bolded, with red lipstick.</p>
<p>Just a warning. Make sure to state your own opinions and not slander others.</p>
<p>Anything else?</p>
<p>I don't have an answer for you. It seems as though some occurrences can be explained away as hallucinations or illusions, but others can't.</p>
<p>Another thing I can't get past is, since we've disproved spontaneous generation through science, why do we believe that non-living material became living material just once, but now doesn't?</p>
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<p>Evolution is a theory, and that's a fact.</p>
<p>Simply because it seems that most religion-based discussions turn into either:</p>
<p>"i AM t3h atheIST (i lUV Pet3 wentz furevah!!111!shift) and god is fakeeee, u idiotzz"</p>
<p>or</p>
<p>"i believe in God (prAIZe him!!111!) and u atheists are going to HIZZELL!11shif11one"</p>
<p>It'd be nice if an opinion could be stated without demeaning someone else's, as the person above said.</p>
<p>I always crack up when I see imitations of MySpace groupies. The only sad part is that they are usually pretty close to the truth. My philosophy is that it requires less energy to do it the right way.</p>
<p>yea, boi. who just got quoted 4 times? </p>
<p>personally, i do not believe in the theory of evolution. i believe that God made us the way we are, </p>
<p>but since we're all wonderfully gifted individuals, we can discuss this politely.</p>
<p>It did take a lot of energy to type that way. I don't know how people do it, regularly.</p>
<p>I cAn TyPe LiKe ThIs ReAlLy QuIcKlY bEcAuSe I dId It In LiKe ElEmEnTaRy ScHoOl. </p>
<p>As for evolution, I've always thought of "microevolution" (small changes within a population) as a fact, as it has been proven through experimentation, but "macroevolution" (every species developed from the same bacteria) as speculation because, obviously, billions of years of development haven't been directly observed. (The thing that most people fail to realize, when explaining that they believe in microevolution but not macroevolution, is that they're the exact same thing; macroevolution just requires much more time and many more "micro" changes than the former.)</p>
<p>Here's what I believe about religion and non-religion religion: The universe was either created/has always existed and this creation/existence was/is this result of either intelligence/chaos. </p>
<p>Just because you believe there was no intelligence involved does not make you any more intelligent than those who do. I have gotten the feeling that a lot of Christians feel superior to everyone and a lot of atheists feel more intelligent over hating God because someone died etc. I say "hate God" because most atheists I've seen aren't that way because of intellect but because of emotion.</p>
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Where did our parallelism go? </p>
<p>As captain Janeway said "That's what is so great about logic and it's greatest flaw: you can make it say anything you want." There are a lot of things we don't understand and trying to fit everything into a little box and telling people how everything works without evidence is fraud and a secular version of what the Catholic church did when it was omnipotent. </p>
<p>Maybe some questions are meant, designed, or are created (by humans or deities) to be unanswerable.</p>
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Isn't that convenient? If matter turned into matter with the ability to think for itself, shouldn't we extrapolate that it humans and other intelligent creatures should "evolve" to a higher form stemming only from changes in the environment and not from intelligent being's own workings.</p>
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<p>Okay, it bothers me when people use this argument.
A scientific theory has to be supported by mountains of data before it is elevated from the status of a hypothesis. But science can never be completely sure of anything, so there's no such thing as a "scientific fact." True, evolution is just a theory. So is general relativity, but no one questions that.</p>
<p>Gravity is also a theory. </p>
<p>I think it's really due to tiny, invisible "God-magnets" in our feet.</p>