The Tofu Islands wrote:I firmly believe in evolution -- all the evidence points towards it. Intelligent Design is not a good alternative, because it makes no predictions that I know of.
My opinion on the creation story in Genesis is that it was the belief that the Hebrews had, so when they got around to writing up a holy book, they included it. As far as accuracy goes, it sucks.Free Soviets wrote:but more importantly, there are a lot of very fat christians, so their religion just might have more religious weight than any other challengers.
Can I sig that?
Well yes, but to be honest, if I was around at that time, I would probably believed in it, as would most of you, because there was no alternative. It was the only way they could come to terms with how the world around them came about, and we shouldn't judge them on that. Particularly as there was no (real) form of science then.