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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	I think we should go ahead and stop calling it the 'theory of evolution.' Until we get time machines down, we'll never know for sure. Which means we'll never know for sure. But when all available evidence points to it, it sounds pretty solid. The fact that a book written around 1400 B.C.E. (i.e., the Old Testament) didn't get it right isn't too surprising. Folks wandered around the desert a lot. The wheel was new tech. Women were property, and holy days were [b]holy days[/b]. Evolution makes sense. It has evidence. It connects all the dots. But because the only way to prove it beyond a shadow of a doubt would be to watch all the history of mankind and take photos every 100 years and put it all into a big cartoon, it's still called a theory. Let's drop the theory part. It is, for all practical purposes, fact. Intelligent design has no evidence. In fact, the only reason it exists is as a question mark for evolution. It has no facts. Its supporters also believe that the earth doesn't rotate and mankind and dinosaurs lived together. They have 'museums' that show all this, but it's nothing more than a bizarre group-wide psychotic episode. Intelligent Design is neither. To say to science, "Well, I personally cannot explain this, so I'm gonna pin it all on one all-seeing, all-knowing architect-slash-father-figure, so please treat my idea (that I have scrawled on this bar napkin) with the same validity as your theory (the constructs of which could fill a thousand thousand-page volumes of tiny print)" is to admit that you are part of this massive psychotic episode. So, it's settled. We're dropping the 'theory' from 'theory of evolution.' But since everyone already refers to it as 'evolution,' this doesn't change anything. When the framers of Intelligent Design (whose crazy idea I continue to capitalize and treat with the 'proper noun' respect despite my best interests) come up with some, I don't know, reasons or evidence or something tangible for their crazy idea, then I'll buy their books and read up on it. Until then, it's evolution or giant spaghetti monsterism. As for it being science's goal to show 'both sides of a theory,' I must ask this: If I claim that gravity actually is a construct of my local deity simply pushing down on my stuff, are gravitational scientists ethically, morally, and scientifically bound to explore that option? Of course not, because it's a stupid dumb-fuck idea. And I've got lots and lots and lots of dumb-fuck ideas. Man, I like hearing my keyboard. Clickity-click-click-click. -[url=http://www.brokenhattrick.com]steve[/url] Loading...
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