Originally Posted by
ophiura
http:///forum/post/2587431
Ah, another wonderful accurate completely pointless evolution thread.
PLEASE at least do a search on what a SCIENTIFIC THEORY is so you can speak the same language as a scientist. Your definition is different from a scientist. It is unfortunate that we refuse to even speak the same language. We accomplish nothing in these threads except perpetuating misinformation, on both sides, quite regularly.
BTW, it is not MY religion, and I am an evolutionary biologist, so I won't complain about "you Creationist people" if you don't do the same with me. You have no right to misrepresent what I believe about God. Please, folks, be careful with your implications.
Ideas have been abused, misinterpreted, misapplied by people throughout history. And just because some plaque in a zoo says something, does not mean it is modern scientific understanding.
Man these threads are frustrating.
Hey now, please understand the tenor of the post which I posted. They are "generalizations" not refering to everyone. And from past experiences with people most of the time I am not intellectually stimulated by debates regarding a difference of opinion. More often then not especially when discussing with an athiest, (which can and tends to turn to ID or evolution) turns into basically an attack on my faith and the "how can you be so stupid as to believe in a higher being." While I am proposed to just accept (by I'm assuming faith) that we somehow are all here by cosmic coincidence. Somehow the earth has the correct amount of water, right distance to the sun, and all the other lighting strike twice in the same place type circumstances to allow for life on the planet. While being told that I just "peddle lies" and or refering to my belief system as "rubbish." Many times if I disagree with someone regarding evolution, I get the same reaction as I do when discussing religious topics like calvinism. I get attacked, cut off and disparaged. I get the impression that to many evolution is as sacred to them as some aspect of religion is to me thus the, "This is the religion to these folks." But I am by no means saying literally that evolution is your religion. Maybe implying that to most who do follow it blindly that it is as sacred as religion.
I by no means am an expert in evolutionary biology. In reality I'm basically a layman. And I'm not dumb, so I do understand there will be differences between different evolutionary theorists. But even I am going to lump evolutionary thoughts together as the same. Evolution. so when I walk into the fort worth zoo and see them say, we are "cousins" or have common "early primate" ansestors. To me the guy who isn't a biology nut that means monkey.
The main problem I have is that it is refered to as fact. The concept of the discussed movie is just that. When it needs a caviot. And personally, just like geocentricity, I think they are going to make some new discovery and decide well we were wrong. and have some new theory to how the world started.
