Evolution is BS and based on guesses

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I was not aware salad is Muslim since most of the people I encounter who deny the reality of evolution are fundamentalist Christians, but it goes to show that any particular religion is not the problem. It is the fundamentalist style of interpretation that is flawed. But since Muslims share the same creation myth as Christians, my argument from the last post still stands.

The reason I say the fundie style of interpretation is flawed is that such an interpretation limits God's power and also leads to internal and external inconsistencies. I am not familiar with specific quotations from the Quran, but I know that a fundamentalist interpretation of the Christian Bible contradicts itself many places and is also falsified by the evidence of the physical world.

Any spiritual teaching is ineffable, cannot really be shared with words but only realized or experienced. But all we have to write with are words so we use things like metaphor to try to point to spiritual teachings like a finger pointing to the moon. When people take metaphor to be literal fact, besides being silly they also miss the whole point of the original teaching. It is confusing the map with the territory.

Thank you all for the parsing assistance. I was in over my head.

Personally, I believe Science and Mathematics (as we currently know them) are ultimately myths. Simply our way of conceptualizing things that are far too complex for humanity (and it's very limited cosmic perspective) to fully realize. Our entire world is simply a spec in a cosmic ocean so vast that truly comprehending it would be impossible.

That being said, even though we can only be expected to ever understand an infintesimly small amount about the nature of our universe, that doesn't mean we shouldn't make it our duty to pursue that knowledge. Evolution (as with any other scientific theory for that matter) is part of that, as it will change and be altered (or even possibly dubunked and abandoned someday) as new evidence (and subsequent tests of that evidence) is presented. That's the beauty of science and what makes it distinct from religion.

Saying "God did it" whenever something unexplainable happens is just lazy.

It's entirely possible that we may even one day discover an extrademensional entity in some galaxy somewhere (or even our own) that could be viewed as a God. But there's not a single thread of testable evidence for that. That's why a belief in God it's called "Faith" and not Science. That's why I find it so odd that creationists want to teach it in Science class.

If you truly believed (i.e. had faith) you wouldn't feel the need to disguise your religion as something else. That's why I believe people like Ken Ham (and other Creationist "Scientists") get into fields like this. Deep down they don't actually believe what thier saying but want so hard for it to be true that they spend thier lives trying to prove it despite no actual evidence.

Is this the new fundamentalist strategy? To make the heads of non-believers explode from dealing with your blind obstinance

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I actually had never heard of this Ken Hamm character till the other day when he made the idiotic statement that we shouldn't be looking for extraterrestrial life, as they'd all be going to hell anyway.