Originally Posted by The_the

I'm certainly no expert on this, but, theoretically, evolution has a profound amount of evidence for it--enough for many reasonable people to consider the "theory" an actual truth.

The proposed "missing links" mentioned earlier are, from what I know, mostly false inferences. Many of the transitional forms included in the theory's support ( not to mention the genetic improbabilities for an alternative process) are ones which strongly appear to be remains of those which were involved in the evolutionary process. (obviously you're not likely to find anything "in the process")

Anyone not informed of scientific journal or progress information are those who make up the majority of those in disbelief of evolution.

But, cutting to the real issue, intellectually feeble religious convictions are the main problem. Too many are convinced that the Biblical God exists because it is so instinctively reasonable that He does, despite the lack of details specifying the Biblical God from some other possible "God". Thus, they tell themselves that since it is so obvious that the Biblical God exists, it is all too likely (more instinctive presumptions) that other things the Bible says is true are, well, in fact true. People are choosing strong emotions over that which is plainly true, most likely, from what I've observed, to not have to deal with the intellectual struggles they'll have with forming more objective, strongly-based views on those types of matters.

Evolution is an entirely reasonable view to hold--more so than any other--and more so with a "Big Bang" view of a cosmological beginning. (e.g the assumption that the world was created with a direct guiding hand with each individual object, and not simplistically and deterministically after the first amounts of particles and energy were created, is weak, baseless and certainly not reasonable. Also, the Biblical account of a "six day creation" is not necessarily an earth day is it? Afterall, I believe the means for deciding the length of an earth-day came in a different time from the earth itself. )

Originally Posted by Danger

Glad to have another member that atleast knows what their talking about in a way.

Originally Posted by gillibean

What do you mean "in a way"?

Originally Posted by jol

Evolution explains structure, but not essence.
You can make a cell, but you can't make it live. That's a computer.

Originally Posted by jol

Evolution explains structure, but not essence.
You can make a cell, but you can't make it live. That's a computer.