Sarah Palin critical of the Pope for not being enough of an extremist nutjob

[russell]

She is accused of being stupid because she doesn't buy evolution. The people who make such accusations strangely think they are being intelligent in making such crass generalisations.

Funny how they supposedly hate religion due to its unchanging pillars, yet won't have a word said against their evolution theories.

You just don't get it, evolution is a fact! It has been proven beyond any doubt. You may as well start arguing that the earth is flat. That you even try and argue against it shows that you are uneducated and have difficulty with logic and rational thought, or you are a troll sockie

[Mich the Tester]

You just don't get it, evolution is a fact! It has been proven beyond any doubt. You may as well start arguing that the earth is flat. That you even try and argue against it shows that you are uneducated and have difficulty with logic and rational thought, or you are a troll sockie

No, you need to leave at least a tiny opening for doubt. I'm not a big fan of Richard Dawkins but I agree with him that you should keep an open mind, just not so open that your brains fall out.

[Ticktock]

Mrs. Palin is a professional politician in America, a country where evolution is a minority belief and amongst activists in her party a belief that is rather unpopular.

Who ever said that agents or journalists make tulip up all the time rather than researching facts?

Yes, there is a high level of belief in Creationism, but belief in evolution in the US is a majority belief.

[russell]

No, you need to leave at least a tiny opening for doubt. I'm not a big fan of Richard Dawkins but I agree with him that you should keep an open mind, just not so open that your brains fall out.

He would agree that evolution is fact though, I think he talks about tiny opening to doubt in regards belief in some kind of God.

[russell]

Who ever said that agents or journalists make tulip up all the time rather than researching facts?

Yes, there is a high level of belief in Creationism, but belief in evolution in the US is a majority belief.

I think Mr Connor believes the US is made up of the tea party and the south

[cojak]

It's not obvious that we descend from pondscum (but maybe you do) nor that life 'just happened'.

[Mich the Tester]

He would agree that evolution is fact though, I think he talks about tiny opening to doubt in regards belief in some kind of God.

Well no, I think he allows for doubt in pretty much anything, just not a lot of doubt about evolution; there's no need for an epistemological debate about it because as far as I'm concerned, yes, evolution is fact if you're able to see 'fact' as something with a 99.999 percent chance of being true and I think that's how Richard Dawkins sees it. That tiny margin for doubt offers the opportunity for competing theories that may be wrong, but may in some strange way offer new insights, and that's necessary for science.

[cojak]

Honestly, small minded arguments about 6,000 years ago or 4billion years, made by small minded people.

There are REALLY BIG philosophical and religious questions going on RIGHT NOW that are stumping cosmologists, philosophers and the religious.

What was there BEFORE the Big Bang and what triggered 'something' out of 'nothing'?

Curious About Astronomy: What was there before the Big Bang and what is there outside of our universe?

What Happened Before the Big Bang? The New Philosophy of Cosmology - Ross Andersen - The Atlantic

Religious interpretations of the Big Bang theory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Come on people - everyone needs to up their game.

[Gibbon]

OH really, so where would people get their morals from to serve as a foundation for Law?

Morality has no dependency on religion nor does law. Indeed western law which is based on Roman law was first codified in aprox 450 BCE with no recourse to any religion.

[Mich the Tester]

Morality has no dependency on religion nor does law. Indeed western law which is based on Roman law was first codified in aprox 450 BCE with no recourse to any religion.

Please don't pollute the discussion with facts. Honestly, tut tut...