according to scientists and their research, a lot of evolution is indeed random. Go away and do some more research into what you're talking about then come back
There are many unanswered questions in life that science has not been able to answer. One of them is....how did you come to believe that you know everything?That is the danger of science IMO. Many people have been tricked into thinking that they know something as fact when it is in fact, still only theory. At least I know that what I 'know' is based on faith.
without science we would still be living in the dark ages. unless of course you want to go back to the times were women were drowned and burned as witches and people had holes drilled in their heads to release the devil. screw getting a headache in those days because it might just be the devil!And i just love the part how science is tricking people. It does nothing of the sorts. Science allows people to make up their own minds based on the evidence and those beliefs are open to change at anytime unlike your "faith" which is nothing more than selfish hope for something after death.
" Brain power: Scientists at the Institute for Animal Health in Edinburgh secured a £200,000 government grant to find out whether BSE has jumped the "species barrier" from cows into sheep. An inquiry is now under way after it was found that scientists had been mistakenly testing cattle brains instead of sheep brains for five years.· Scientific Watergate: The US National Institutes of Health investigatory panel found the immunologist Thereza Imanishi-Kari had fabricated data in a 1986 research paper authored with the Nobel prize winner David Baltimore. The findings claimed in the paper promised a breakthrough for genetic modification of the immune system.· Mein bumph: Oxbridge historian Hugh Trevor-Roper authenticated the Hitler Diaries, unveiled as an exclusive by the German-based Stern magazine. The diaries were later exposed as a hoax.· Cold Fusion: In 1989 chemists Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischman, of the University of Utah, claimed to have solved the world's energy problems by discovering cold fusion. However, no-one has since been able to replicate their findings of nuclear fusion in heavy water.· Hubble Space Telescope: Nasa scientists launched the Hubble telescope to create a lens 10 to 20 times more powerful than those based on earth. A gross design error in the main mirror was discovered immediately after launch in April 1990. Hundreds of millions of pounds were needed for the astronaut repair of the mirror.· N-rays: A French physicist, René Blondlot, claimed to have discovered a new type of radiation, shortly after Roentgen had discovered X-rays. American physicist Robert Wood, however, revealed that N-rays were little more than a delusion. Wood removed the prism from the N-ray detection device, without which the machine couldn't work. Yet, Blondlot's assistant still claimed he found N-rays.· Academic standards: Cyril Burt, the 1960s guru of British psychology, produced research into the intelligence of identical twins which, among other findings, led to the assertions that academic standards were falling. Years later the statistics were found to be "too perfect" and it was discovered the twins - and even the researcher alleged to have carried out the work - never existed.· Piltdown man: In 1913 an ape's jaw with a canine tooth worn down like a human's was uncovered at a site near Piltdown. British paleoanthropologists came to accept the idea that the fossil remains belonged to a single creature who had a human cranium and an ape's jaw - offering the missing link between apes and humans in the evolutionary chain. In 1953, Piltdown 'man' was exposed as a forgery. The skull was modern and the teeth on the ape's jaw had been filed down.· Alchemy: - Sir Isaac Newton - the scientist who single-handedly created the foundations of modern day physics had a little known obsession with alchemy, and was convinced for much of his life that he would be able to change base metals into gold. Such a discovery would have helped with his later job as master of the mint, but never materialised.· Flat Earth: - even though Christopher Columbus gave flat earth theorists a reason to think twice, there are still flat earth societies where people propose (and prove) elaborate explanations for why the world actually is shaped like a pancake. "
The effects of Religion on Physical and Mental Health - Harold G. Koenig, MDA book I found whilst doing some research on the topic. This is scientific research to establish the 'truth' about the above topic. Basically, this is science getting pwnd by science.SummaryCross-sectional, longitudinal, and intervention studies have demonstrated the positive effects for religious belief and practice on both mental and physical health.http://books.google.co.nz/books?hl=en&lr=&id=itxfXK1yrbwC&oi=fnd&pg=PR9&dq=christianity+mental+health+statistics&ots=KmKvFMUZzr&sig=jbIY-DTZtXp1qT-x6nkHy1s5hTo#PPA111,M1
I like what slim shot saids about spirituality. Spirituality is not at war with science, in fact it is a very seperate thing that has alot to do with faith and the belief in something more to life, or perhaps the overall goodness of life in general.........
what do other religions think of atheism?
Most Christians that I know consider an atheist to be a person just like anybody else, but somebody who for some reason does not have the faith to believe. I think most Christians would share a sense that an atheist is missing out on something. As in a sense of empathy or caring, not a sense that they are stupid or anything like that. Just to be crystal clear before you go judging...
I would have though Catholics would have thought similar so I am surprised (but not really surprised as I have seen plenty of other crap come out of your mouth/fingers)to see you say that the flics hate atheists. The only hate round here seems to come from the atheists.
When I was a Christian, I believed evolution occurred. I simply believed it wasn't random.
The statistical chances of evolution happening the way it did is beyond comprehension. So it begged the question, and is still a question I ask myself, do we exist because of a natural statistical fluke, or because evolution is simply a tool of a higher power? In my mind science was simply a way for man to try and understand the complex workings of God.
The effects of Religion on Physical and Mental Health - Harold G. Koenig, MDA book I found whilst doing some research on the topic. This is scientific research to establish the 'truth' about the above topic. Basically, this is science getting pwnd by science.
Most Christians that I know consider an atheist to be a person just like anybody else, but somebody who for some reason does not have the faith to believe.
The only hate round here seems to come from the atheists.
it is patronising to suggest that we are lacking faith, we are not atheists because we are "lacking" something, we are atheist because we are intellectually honestlol - read your hateful posts from a few pages back - i believe you told me to fuck off and die in a fire or somethingcalling you ignorant after you post ignorant post after ignorant post isn't hateful, just honest
beleif in god is what makes suicide bombers, for every example you have of a good effect of religion it is severely outweighed by the bad effects, so disgustingly outweighed that I'm suprised at your audacity to even post it.
short version: having an imaginary friend can be good for your mental health. That makes sense actually.
Black and white thinking based on the assumption that if it can't be seen/measured/tested it doesn't exist or has no value.
