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What kind of proof are you looking for?
i don't think wings would help (considering your weight)
What kind of proof are you looking for?
Bible verses
http://www.answersingenesis.org/about/faith
They cannot, by definition, accept any evidence that contradicts their worldview.
That is not what anyone would call an "open" mind, is it?
Not watching it.
You won't watch what I post.
Put it in your own words.
At this point, I am more concerned with devolution tbh.
We could go back and forth all day posting yootoobs. I generally don't find that productive, especially since people who think that the theory of evolution is some evil conspiracy tend to not watch material that contradicts their world view.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_biasConfirmation bias (also called confirmatory bias or myside bias) is a tendency of people to favor information that confirms their beliefs or hypotheses.[Note 1][1] People display this bias when they gather or remember information selectively, or when they interpret it in a biased way. The effect is stronger for emotionally charged issues and for deeply entrenched beliefs. They also tend to interpret ambiguous evidence as supporting their existing position. Biased search, interpretation and memory have been invoked to explain at ude polarization (when a disagreement becomes more extreme even though the different parties are exposed to the same evidence), belief perseverance (when beliefs persist after the evidence for them is shown to be false), the irrational primacy effect (a greater reliance on information encountered early in a series) and illusory correlation (when people falsely perceive an association between two events or situations).
A series of experiments in the 1960s suggested that people are biased toward confirming their existing beliefs. Later work re-interpreted these results as a tendency to test ideas in a one-sided way, focusing on one possibility and ignoring alternatives. In certain situations, this tendency can bias people's conclusions. Explanations for the observed biases include wishful thinking and the limited human capacity to process information. Another explanation is that people show confirmation bias because they are weighing up the costs of being wrong, rather than investigating in a neutral, scientific way.
Confirmation biases contribute to overconfidence in personal beliefs and can maintain or strengthen beliefs in the face of contrary evidence. Poor decisions due to these biases have been found in political and organizational contexts.
This is the reason why you do not actually look at the evidence supporting evolution, nor do you bother watching or really reading anything I post.
Doesn't it bother you that you have been lied to so consistently and purposefully?
???
I have already watched enough creationist lies to be familiar with them, and am not inclined to spend my time watching something when the favor is not returned.
If you actually watched what I posted on a minute for minute basis, I would be happy to entertain however much you want to post.
Quid pro quo.
No my friend, it is you who has been lied to. I have watched all of your links and have yet to find any proof that we evolved from fish.
tadpoles, yo.
Now you are just lying to *me*.
By the way, this shreds the "nebraska man" myth you noted earlier.
It is very emblematic about how creations lie about evolution.
Last edited by RandomGuy; 10-22-2013 at 04:08 PM.
Can you find a video that explains evolution instead of debunking creationism? Atheists are every bit as annoying as religious zealots.
My point is this RandomGuy, both take faith to believe in. If you deny that then you are simply lying to yourself.
He didn't either.
Indeed. It isn't all that hard.
The problem in talking about the subject is that there is no small amount of dis-information out there.
Short place to start.
A bit longer, in more detail:
If you go to the particlur page for the video above, it provides links of elaborating evidence:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7tQIB4UdiY
Last edited by RandomGuy; 10-22-2013 at 04:18 PM. Reason: fixxed link
I didn't say it was hard. I'm not the one with something to prove.
Blind watchmaker?
Already addressed that.
Creationism, by definition, requires faith.
Evolution does not. The mountains of evidence supporting it in multiple fields of science are all readily observable, and verifiable.
Therein lies the difference. I can go out and find for myself. I have done so.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Objections_to_evolutionCreationists commonly argue against evolution on the grounds that "evolution is a religion; it is not a science".[29] The purpose of this criticism is to undermine the higher ground biologists claim in debating creationists, and to reframe the debate from being between science (evolution) and religion (creationism) to being between two equally religious beliefs – or even to argue that evolution is religious while intelligent design is not.[30][31] Those that oppose evolution frequently refer to supporters of evolution as "evolutionists" or "Darwinists".[29]
The arguments for evolution being a religion generally amount to arguments by analogy: it is argued that evolution and religion have one or more things in common, and that therefore evolution is a religion. Examples of claims made in such arguments are statements that evolution is based on faith, that supporters of evolution revere Darwin as a prophet, and that supporters of evolution dogmatically reject alternative suggestions out-of-hand.[18][32] These claims have become more popular in recent years as the neocreationist movement has sought to distance itself from religion, thus giving it more reason to make use of a seemingly anti-religious analogy.[25]
In response, supporters of evolution have argued that no scientist's claims, including Darwin's, are treated as sacrosanct, as shown by the aspects of Darwin's theory that have been rejected or revised by scientists over the years, to form first Neo-Darwinism and later the modern evolutionary synthesis.[33][34] The claim that evolution relies on faith, often based on the creationist belief that evolution has never been observed, is likewise rejected on the grounds that evolution has strong supporting evidence, and therefore does not require faith.
In general, the argument that evolution is religious has been rejected on the grounds that religion is not defined by how dogmatic or zealous its adherents are, but by its spiritual or supernatural beliefs. Evolutionary supporters point out evolution is neither dogmatic nor based on faith, and they accuse creationists of equivocating between the strict definition of religion and its colloquial usage to refer to anything that is enthusiastically or dogmatically engaged in. U.S. courts have also rejected this objection:
Assuming for the purposes of argument, however, that evolution is a religion or religious tenet, the remedy is to stop the teaching of evolution, not establish another religion in opposition to it. Yet it is clearly established in the case law, and perhaps also in common sense, that evolution is not a religion and that teaching evolution does not violate the Establishment Clause.[35]
A related claim is that evolution is atheistic; creationists sometimes merge the two claims and describe evolution as an "atheistic religion" (cf. humanism).[31] This argument against evolution is also frequently generalized into a criticism of all science; it is argued that "science is an atheistic religion", on the grounds that its methodological naturalism is as unproven, and thus as "faith-based", as the supernatural and theistic beliefs of creationism.[36]
Define:Blind watchmaker?
Evolution.
Define:
Science.
If you can do neither, you do not understand the topic well enough to have your own opinion.
I have asked you to explain them.
Doesnt' it bother you that all you have in response is smileys?
Do you care about what is true and what is not?
Mountains of evidence
I will ask once again, when did you observe evolution?
All you're doing is taking someone else's word for it. Watch the video that I posted.
I said "tadpoles, yo."
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