David Hume, Philosopher, Historian, Economist, and Essayist
All that belongs to human understanding, in this deep ignorance and obscurity, is to be skeptical, or at least cautious; and not to admit of any hypothesis, whatsoever; much less, of any which is supported by no appearance of probability.
By Joseph L. Conn, Director of Communications of Americans United for Separation of Church and State.
Parents were upset that their children might be taught religion in science class. And civil liberties activists noted that the courts have declared “intelligent design” to be a religious concept and barred it from public school biology classes as a violation of church-state separation.
[…] with the mapping of the human genome, it’s clear that modern humans emerged from other primates as a large population – long before the Genesis time frame of a few thousand years ago… Evolution makes it pretty clear that in nature, and in the moral experience of human beings, there never was any such paradise to be lost… To many evangelicals, this is heresy.
Being able to go beyond our instinctual desires is the main thing that separates humans from animals. Still, I’m sure we all know just how hard it is to overcome our instincts. It’s hard to resist a beautiful woman, for example, and some men can’t (rapists). Still, from nature’s perspective, rape is a perfectly legitimate way of passing on your genes, which explains why there are rapists in the world. Ironically, if all raped women aborted their children perhaps rapists would die out.
I had the following dialogue with a friend of mine concerning the invisible cosmic babysitter in the sky, the sky daddy, if you will, the big bang, and evolution. What are your thoughts concerning such matters?
The following is a link to NASAs Global Climate Change Website. It is located under ‘Tiding Sources’ on the Main Sidebar to this blog; however, I thought it worthy of mention in a post. Way cool, enjoy!
“Scientific evidence for warming of the climate system is unequivocal.”
~ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Always Question Authority 