@fmf saidYou’ve adopted a position with no evidence or justification to support it.
I don't need to. The "enormous differences" do not mean that humans are not animals.
Do you buy the lie that the human genome and chimp genome are 99 percent similar and that only that 1 percent difference accounts for all of the anatomical and intellectual differences between humans and chimps?
@plantermoo saidPlenty of atheists have lots of "natural curiosity about the big questions of life" ~ arguably more so than many theists who have mostly settled for theological "answers" ~ and do not need "a defense for their atheism".
Right, but in order to satisfy their natural curiosity about the big questions of life and to provide a defense for their atheism in that regard, they use the theory of evolution.
Personally, I think that, if there is a creator entity, then it probably set in motion the evolutionary process that developed the flora and fauna present on this planet.
@plantermoo saidTo support what?
You’ve adopted a position with no evidence or justification to support it.
@plantermoo saidIf you believe it is a "lie", then so be it. If you want to find people who are interested in spending time discussing it with you, I suggest you take it to the Science Forum.
Do you buy the lie that the human genome and chimp genome are 99 percent similar and that only that 1 percent difference accounts for all of the anatomical and intellectual differences between humans and chimps?
@indonesia-phil saidI believe in both, so I feel like I should know the difference. I've said before that there's no proof for God. There can't be, because God gave us free will to believe in him or not. He wouldn't muck up that free will by giving us a cheat sheet full of proof that God exists. We are meant to come to belief in him through faith, not proof.
Brilliant, a fundamental truth summed up in eight words. Thank you, Suzianne!
Science, on the other hand, is all about proof. Or at least the search for proof through experimentation.
@plantermoo saidAgain, you haven't read The Origin of Species, so all this is just the bleatings of a child who spit out his binky. You cannot back up what you're saying.
Not really. The theory of evolution isn’t science for the reasons I outlined earlier - it doesn’t follow the Scientific Method and its central claim was neither observed nor demonstrated by an experiment
@plantermoo saidThe fact that I believe in both God and science belies all that you're saying here.
Didn’t say that.
The theory of evolution is more of a religion than science. It’s the religion of atheists and is how atheists justify their atheism. It’s never been anything more than that.
@suzianne saidWhat experiment or observation backs up the theory of evolution’s claim that one species evolved into an entirely separate species?
I believe in both, so I feel like I should know the difference. I've said before that there's no proof for God. There can't be, because God gave us free will to believe in him or not. He wouldn't muck up that free will by giving us a cheat sheet full of proof that God exists. We are meant to come to belief in him through faith, not proof.
Science, on the other hand, is all about proof. Or at least the search for proof through experimentation.