OK speaking as true Atheist now
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I am proud to be a human, a species that has against all odds survived and evolved over millions of years…ultimately achieving the state we are in now. From my perspective, my 4+ years of university training I accept that science is real.
I should mention that my major is English, so I have also studied the bible quite a bit, its an ok book… kind of rambles on in places.
If one takes a religious standpoint that say, humans are separate from the rest of the animals on earth, such a statement cannot be supported by facts, only faith.
Science on the other hand starts with a theory and then seeks to prove it by use of the scientific process. Needless to say, if the scientific process didn’t work, then I wouldn’t even be typing on my laptop right now [img]smile.gif[/img]
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Additionally I personally do not see a correlation in understanding how our evolutionary history occured is in any way demeaning to what we are now.
How does understanding our origins demean what we are now??? Why would this be?
Hell, we beat the odds! We survived the astroid that wiped out the dinosaurs; we beat out the Neanderthals, and not to mention the countless plagues and wars... ect...
Yea, Human life is valuable.
[ 01-23-2003, 04:47 PM: Message edited by: esquire ]