Re:Skepticism About the New "Missing Link" Fossil
by spyrosk on Wednesday May 20, 2009 @10:30AM
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I wonder how this or any other discovery concerning Darwin's theory of evolution might affect current religions who don't accept it.
What if this, or any other, is presented by major media as undeniable proof of the theory?
On the other hand, some religions reject fossils, so you can never underestimate the power of dogmatism..
Re:Skepticism About the New "Missing Link" Fossil
by electromagnetic on Wednesday May 20, 2009 @11:23AM
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Well the papacy has acknowledged it for a long while now, I just don't get why all those creationist nuts can't get that the leader of their own religion, quite literally God's man in charge (of the catholic religion, where many of the nut's seem to be coming from) is telling them that evolution is real and doesn't contradict the bibles teachings in any way. I believe the layman's translation goes as this: "The book's not literal morons, get a life."
The Simpson's did a funny joke illustrating this. Homer becomes a genius and comes up with undeniable proof that god doesn't exist, he hands it to Flanders to prove it who looks it over and says something to the effect of "Oh my, he's right" there's a pause while he looks it over again "Well we can't let anyone else see you!" and he tears it up.