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resistor
People believe in evolution because they are told by respected and immanent personages that it is true
Nygdan
This is bollocks. I don't know a single person that says 'Darwin was so smart, so I must accept evolution on his authority'. Rather, I do see religious people accepting the statements of religious authorities on that authority all the time.
Of course no one is going to say 'Darwin was so smart....' Why would anyone want to make themselves look so easily influenced? Yet the influence that college professors, famous scientists like Carl Sagan, etc. and of course the media at large have on folks is unarguable. Very few people have the wherewithal to actually prove out scientific axioms for themselves, and accepting the popular view is much more appealing than going against the stream.
and to believe that which is most convenient at the time.
Currently it is more accepted to believe in evolution, but what does not change is mans tendency to deceive others in order to benefit himself, and that by whatever means are most expedient, whether religion or science.
Originally posted by resistor
The layman is apt to believe whatever he is told by either, and to believe that which is most convenient at the time.
but what does not change is mans tendency to deceive others in order to benefit himself,
that scientists would however, is gross heresy.
Originally posted by melatonin
Sun, why are you talking to yourself?
Then this replicator will change over time and become more complex, reproducing as it goes. Eventually we likely have single celled organisms.
You probably know the rest...
Originally posted by Sun Matrix
Yea, I know the rest. There are those that believe if you wait long enough hydrogen turns into people.
Bingo.
Originally posted by melatonin
Aye, if you say so. By small gradual steps through a growing complexity, result of the physical laws of the universe.
However, there are also those who believe a book from a bunch of goat-herders that says some really mega-complex invisible magic-man, who just is, think n' poofed complex organisms into existence from dust. But happened to think n' poof a female human from a rib of a male human.