people turn to religion necause they cannot think for themselves that all n they need to be told what to do ...

the lord is my shepherd i shal not want he maketh me down to lie

are poeple not being told they are sheep ...

he he so true...I can't stand it when they start saying we are possessed by the demons or devil when in fact we are only thinking...reasoning...deducting from facts and fiction....come on now the bible (fairy tales from very good fiction writers) is as unfactual, undated, and misrepresented as truth...It is like handing every child at birth the Grimm's Fairy tales Book recovered, rebound, and renamed The Holy Bible.....

hahaha i completely agree rosiethorn!

Scientists do not have facts(as far as creation is concerned) that's why evolution is called the "theory" of evolution. They can neither disprove anything in the bible. I don't think any body's forcing you to believe anything you don't want to believe. After all how can they. When it comes right down to it we all believe what we want. As for myself, my life would be pretty empty if all I had to look forward to was the inside of a coffin or being burned and scattered somewhere for the rest of eternity. My wife's a teacher,my sister-in-law is a teacher and so was my dad. I know first hand there are teachers out there who are also teaching "fairy tales and lies."

okay first of all, yes it is a theory. but the NAS (national academy of sciences) defines theory as "awell-substantiated explanation of some aspect of the natural world that can incorporate facts, laws, inferences, and tested hypotheses." No amount of validation changes a theory into a law, which is a descriptive generalization about nature. So when scientists talk about the theory of evolution--or the atomic theory or the theory of relativity, for that matter-- they are not expressing reservations about its truth. in addition to the theory of evolution, one may also speak of the fact of evolution. The NAS defines a fact as "an observation that has been repeatedly confirmed and for all practical purposes is accepted as 'true.'" The fossil record and abundant other evidence testify that organisms have evolved over time.

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The key word there is "can" and if your relying on a govt. agency for your facts I got some swampland in Florida we need to talk about. The fossil records don't testify to anything They don't talk.............................DUH, You're a pretty smart girl don't let yourself be brainwashed by the same people you're trying to defend. The other key word is "accepted". Those two words leave room for a lot of interpretation. When you can produce an individual who as actually witnessed evolution or the BIG BANG let me know. I've never heard someone over a couple million years old talk, it should be pretty interesting. Please do inform me when you come across him or her, I'll be waiting. Anyway good debate. Have a good one.

you still dont understand. scientists have done tests and proved that organisms have evolved over time. your ignoring the truth.

while fossils don't talk, i would LOVE to hear jesus or god or any one of them actually TALK to me too. tell me when god has actually spoken to you, with words, had an actual conversation, a little chin-wag, then you can also inform me. i'll be waiting also. take a read of my "God IS dead" blog, and tell me i don't have a good argument.

you see? the shoe can be put on the other foot, and render your own argument null and void. while you put up a good argument, it's too easy to turn it around...i guess what i'm trying to say is...you've put up a pretty crappy argument right now...

good comment mrtom666 !

mrtom666, so u use to be a christian but changed your mind cuz God didnt help you. i'd like u to read my blog Reply to (Is there a God?). And while i know its thought to be hogwash and that i am supposedly a joke (thank u eccentric), u seem to be a person who enjoys people's opinions.

To everyone:
I dont understand how so many people can claim God doesnt exist. I have said this on many blogs, yet i havent received any answer. No one was there years ago when the world was created or evolution happened or whatever. Ppl ask how God could exist? I tell them, the bible says he always was. They think its crazy that that could be possible. Yet if evolution is true, something had to just always be, right? I mean, were did the moon, stars, sun, earth, the whole solar system come from. Where did the first organism come from? They say a Big Bang? Where did the Big Bang come from. From space? Where did space come from? A star exploded or some black hole? Where did it all come from? Im not trying to force nothing on nobody. I dont tell ppl they r going to burn in hell. i dont tell ppl they are possessed with demons. But all in all Christians are human, we say stuff we shouldnt. Just because we are Christians doesnt mean we are perfect. Im sorry if i have ever said anything to anyone like that. I shouldnt have, and i apologize if i did. Its your opinion and u are entitled to it. But in the same sense, shouldnt i be entitled to my own opinion? Y call me a joke bcuz i believe what u dont. Thats what makes me mad, not because u have a different believe or because ur share urs.

2 words: still waiting.Just because they proved that some microorganism may have evolved and/or mutated still does not prove evolution as fact.Btw more and more scientists everyday are discarding evolution for some of creationism. Mr. tom you just proved my point. It renders both arguments the same way doesn't it? That's my point ,thank you. Evolution cannot be proved by anyone. That is not a crappy argument.Geez I thought we Christians were supposed to be the narrowed minds.Theory does not=fact.You can believe what ever you want but the previous statement cannot lie. I'm glad to see your feeling better though.Btw i did read your God is dead blog couldn't fit my comment in,lol.

very good point xcavatr. just because it can happen or happened bfor, doesn't mean it happened then. nice.

You do realize don't you that the theory of evolution does not line up with the second law of thermodynamics? We can actually observe that left to itself, things go toward disorder, not order. (Just look at your own bedroom sometime.) Things decay and mutate toward disintegration. Evolution says just the opposite.

Now, the Bible tells us of things that God caused to happen that also go against the laws of Science - but then we are talking about miracles. Unless of course you are willing to admit that Evolution requires miracles to actually work - no matter how many millions of years you give it.

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You need to read "Sherlock's Faith" by Frank Harber. This man set out to scientifically disprove God by using deductive logic (i.e., Sherlock Holmes style.) His mind was changed after an intensive scientific investigation.

To believe in evolution takes more faith that believing in God. You must make unscientific assumptions...such as organisms changing chromosome count, such as believing that 10,000,000,000,000,000 to 1 odds actually happened, etc.

The book is an interesting read. If you actually read it and still state that you do not believe that the Bible is truth, then you are refusing to accept logic (to say nothing of faith) and I hope you have fun in eternal torment knowing that it was your choice that you are there...with no hope of ever getting out.

Religion is a belief system that give people a set of moral codes, principles, ethics and practices to live by. It is undeniable the impact that religion had on the World. From the time of the Paganism or Polytheism to the advent of Monotheistic faiths like Christianity Judaism and Islam. People depend on the laws to co-exist in the the communities in which they live.

If there is any out the listening I will be Starting an organization tho spread peace and education between the three major faiths talked about above.

any Ideas out there for good funding sources, names for the organization.

I've given you proof on your blog "God doesn't exsist!!!" That He indeed exist!!!
Please try to study it for a minute.

see in way I THINK your right. yet there isnt hard TRUE fact that eveluion is fact. even the later work of Darwin the guy that first came up with it said that the past 30 years of his life was a waste of his time. he wrote that, i could tell you what book and what page if you want to know lol. so there isnt hard fact that humans came from aps. there isnt hard fact that a bug crawed out of a pit full of orgaisems eather. yet there is'nt a fact that god created the world. there never will be. hell it could end up that the buddist are right. yet there is alot more facts about god existing then most people know. do reasch. theres a shit load of it. about just as much as there is on evlution. but what ever you believe i say this. belive in it. reseach the hell out of it and then believe in it. its better to believe in something then nothing at all.