New Charles Darwin film is 'too controversial' for religious American audiences

YukonJack

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Before any life form can evolve from any other life form, (according to your god, Darwin) should you not be able to show how life began in the first place?

If and when you do that, you can procede with evolution.
 

SirJosephPorter

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A fraud then, a fraud now.

What the Hell is the difference?
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WHich church are you referring to? – taxslave

Does it matter, taxslave? Whether it is the Catholic Church or the one started by Al Bundy (on married With Children) they are all the same, interested in one thing only, money.
 

petros

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Before any life form can evolve from any other life form, (according to your god, Darwin) should you not be able to show how life began in the first place?

If and when you do that, you can procede with evolution.

When that happens man will be god. Then what?
 

Machjo

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Youkon Jack,

I don't see why Christians should be so fearful of the theory of evolution. Would it not be possible for Christians to simply accept the Bible as teaching spiritual truths and in no way intended as a science textbook or thesis?

If looked at that way, then it would be possible for Christians to accept that God did create earth and man, and accept that there may be symbolic allusions in the Bibble they're not sure the meaning of but that might be worth exploring. This would allow them to accept the Bible and science without one conflicting with the other, the one teaching spiritual truths, the other scientific truths.

The only people it really ought to threaten are those who insist that the Bible was meant litererally, word for word, and that God was incapable of using literary devices.
 

Dexter Sinister

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Before any life form can evolve from any other life form, (according to your god, Darwin) should you not be able to show how life began in the first place?

If and when you do that, you can procede with evolution.
That's one of the sillier red herring arguments I've seen on this subject. Would you also argue that Newton should first have figured out how the universe began before proceeding with his theory of gravitation? That not how science works. The origin of life and how it's developed over time are very different questions, there's no reason why we should have to figure out the former before proceeding with the latter. Given the obvious fact that life exists, evolution provides a very parsimonious and elegant explanation for its great variety and complexity. It says nothing at all about life's origins, and doesn't need to, that's not what it's about. Your scorn is utterly misplaced, and reveals nothing but your own misunderstanding.
 

L Gilbert

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Machjo, I think flat earth people should borrow a page from the Creationists and demand equal time in public schools.

I remember in high school we were taught that earth is round and given evidence for it. Not a word about the opposing scientific theory, that earth is flat. That is an outrage. In the name of science (just as creationists demand that Book of Genesis be taught along with evolution), they should give equal time to flat earth theory.

And flat earthers have a better claim for a hearing that Creationists do. Flat earth is a scientific theory,
It sure is, but it's a disproven one. Anyone with a telescope, a pencil, and paper can demonstrate its fallibility.
which Creationism (or intelligent Design) is not.
Yep. Those are hypotheses (at best. At worst they are nonsensical guesses) and not verifiable in any way.
 

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