How can you believe in evolution?

[The Imperial Navy]

Evolution is a little more believable than a supreme being making all life go "DING!" and exist.

Also, if Creationism is correct, then the earth is barely 3000 years old. When carbon dating clearly shows it's a few billion.

[Milks Empire]

This about sums it up.

[The Tofu Islands]

Evolution is a little more believable than a supreme being making all life go "DING!" and exist.

Also, if Creationism is correct, then the earth is barely 3000 years old. When carbon dating clearly shows it's a few billion.

Carbon dating doesn't actually show that -- carbon only works back a few thousand years or so. Other radioactive materials are used for dating the earth.

[The Imperial Navy]

Evolution is a little more believable than a supreme being making all life go "DING!" and exist.

Also, if Creationism is correct, then the earth is barely 3000 years old. When carbon dating clearly shows it's a few billion.

Carbon dating doesn't actually show that -- carbon only works back a few thousand years or so. Other radioactive materials are used for dating the earth.

My mistake then. But we've still clearly proven that the Earth is older than Creationism claims it to be.

[Grantanata]

Evolution is a little more believable than a supreme being making all life go "DING!" and exist.

Also, if Creationism is correct, then the earth is barely 3000 years old. When carbon dating clearly shows it's a few billion.

Actually Creationism says it is about 6000. And, it wasn't a "DING!". What evidence is there of evolution?

[Vittos Ordination]

Do people really not know how to use google?

Google piles sources upon you without much consideration for their truthfulness or usefulness. It can be prohibitive at times if you don't really know what you are looking at.

[The Imperial Navy]

Actually Creationism says it is about 6000. And, it wasn't a "DING!". What evidence is there of evolution?

What evidence is there of creationism.

[Agadar]

Well, my grandparents don't

[Farnhamia]

Evolution is a little more believable than a supreme being making all life go "DING!" and exist.

Also, if Creationism is correct, then the earth is barely 3000 years old. When carbon dating clearly shows it's a few billion.

6,000 years is about the age according to Young Earth Creationsists, based on counting backwards in the Bible through the figures found there. Carbon dating is only good back about 62,000 years. There are other radiometric dating methods that do go way back, though.

[The Tofu Islands]

Actually Creationism says it is about 6000. And, it wasn't a "DING!". What evidence is there of evolution?

Lots.

Plus the current best guess on age of the earth is ~4.5 billion years, which is a bit too long for YEC.

[Monte Mare]

How can you believe in evolution?

I mean something happened and all of a sudden, BAM! We have an explosion and all of the things collide and form everything we have in our universe. Then some millions to billions of years later we have micro oranisms that evolve into fish. Next, those fish "grow" legs and walk onto land. After that, they some how evolve into all of the millions of billions of living organisms that we have today.

Could someone please explain as to why you would believe in this?

Watch: Into the universe with Stephen Hawking. It explains everything about the Big Bang...
Oooh and for evolution, i prefer to believe that we came from monkeys than believe that a man created the world in 7 days...

[Ifreann]

[EvilDarkMagicians]

Do people really not know how to use google?

Google piles sources upon you without much consideration for their truthfulness or usefulness. It can be prohibitive at times if you don't really know what you are looking at.

But come on. If somebody want to find out about evolution or the big bang, it's quite simple to find the information out.

[Farnhamia]

Evolution is a little more believable than a supreme being making all life go "DING!" and exist.

Also, if Creationism is correct, then the earth is barely 3000 years old. When carbon dating clearly shows it's a few billion.

Actually Creationism says it is about 6000. And, it wasn't a "DING!". What evidence is there of evolution?

Quite a lot, actually: http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/comdesc/

[Grantanata]

Actually Creationism says it is about 6000. And, it wasn't a "DING!". What evidence is there of evolution?

What evidence is there of creationism.

Everything around you! No matter what religion you are, the deity created everything. For me, it is God. In my opinion, he created everything in the world.

[Agadar]

In this thread: People mistaking the Theory of Evolution with the Theory of Natural Selection.

By the way: both are pretty much proven, in compare to other theories which have barely, if any, supporting evidence.

[The Imperial Navy]

Everything around you! No matter what religion you are, the deity created everything. For me, it is God. In my opinion, he created everything in the world.

That is belief, not evidence.

[Vervaria]

Actually Creationism says it is about 6000. And, it wasn't a "DING!". What evidence is there of evolution?

What evidence is there of creationism.

Everything around you! No matter what religion you are, the deity created everything. For me, it is God. In my opinion, he created everything in the world.

And I'm sure you can back that up with something besides your belief.

[The Tofu Islands]

Quite a lot, actually: http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/comdesc/

I think I just ninja'd you twice in a row...

[Cyndonian Legion]

How can you believe in evolution?

I mean something happened and all of a sudden, BAM! We have an explosion and all of the things collide and form everything we have in our universe. Then some millions to billions of years later we have micro oranisms that evolve into fish. Next, those fish "grow" legs and walk onto land. After that, they some how evolve into all of the millions of billions of living organisms that we have today.

Could someone please explain as to why you would believe in this?

What the hell is this?

Good job. You've successfully mixed a raped version of the Big Bang Theory, with a cross-breed inbred version of evolution mixed with abiogenesis.

Three different scientific theories, and you've completely decimated the definition of each. Cool story bro.

The Big Bang Theory: Is the explanation that our universe came from a very dense primordial substance, and the explanation therein' of how it proceeded to expand. There are several evidences for this, making it easily believable. The most obvious of all: We're still able to observe the universe expanding.

Abiogenesis: Abiogensis is the theory that life can come from non-life. That is, that life originated from inorganic molecules, which can produce organic molecules. This has been demonstrated by many experiments, one of the most famous being the Miller-Urey experiement, in which amino acids, organic molecules which are the building blocks of life, were formed via natural chemical reactions. And, far more recently: scientists have created the very first synthetic organism.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142 ... 41984.html

Evolution: Evolution is the study and explanation of the change of species throughout generations, natural selection, DNA, mutation, common ancestry, and so-forth.
Reasons to believe such.
A) We have witnessed species evolve. We have specifically caused many of these evolutions to occur for our own purposes. <--kinda a biggie
B) The understanding of evolution has brought breakthroughs and advances to the genetic and medical industries.
C) Chromosomes from DNA, and our understanding of how they transfer from parent to child.
D) Fossil records.
E) The list goes on.


Now, my question to you is, why on earth do you object to something you apparently know absolutely nothing about?

[Eradium]

Evolution is a little more believable than a supreme being making all life go "DING!" and exist.

Also, if Creationism is correct, then the earth is barely 3000 years old. When carbon dating clearly shows it's a few billion.

Actually Creationism says it is about 6000. And, it wasn't a "DING!". What evidence is there of evolution?

Evolution is an incredibly well observed phenomenon, sure the theory that tries to explain it may not be absolutely perfect, (especially since almost every form of information transfer possible has happened, it's about as complex as the universe itself). The theory of evolution is actually far better understood than the theory surrounding gravity, at least people know why evolution occurs, why gravity occurs is still wide open to debate. (Shame we don't see people denying gravity, that would be more fun.)

[Songri]

Evolution is a little more believable than a supreme being making all life go "DING!" and exist.

Also, if Creationism is correct, then the earth is barely 3000 years old. When carbon dating clearly shows it's a few billion.

Actually Creationism says it is about 6000. And, it wasn't a "DING!". What evidence is there of evolution?

The various breeds of dogs and sheep (to name two). For the most part they are two examples of human introduced evolution, to the point where there are some breeds of dogs that are generally incapable of surviving in the wild (Toy dogs for example)

[FreeSatania]

Evolution is a little more believable than a supreme being making all life go "DING!" and exist.

Also, if Creationism is correct, then the earth is barely 3000 years old. When carbon dating clearly shows it's a few billion.

Actually Creationism says it is about 6000. And, it wasn't a "DING!". What evidence is there of evolution?

Being a non-batshit-carzy-american Christian I ask you to point to anywhere in the bible where it actually says that.

[Farnhamia]

Quite a lot, actually: http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/comdesc/

I think I just ninja'd you twice in a row...

*reserves a trio of Black Helicopters for the weekend, to pay a little visit to the Tofu Islands*

[The Imperial Navy]

Having read some of the posts, I am tempted to start a thread titled "How can you believe in Gravity?"