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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (732)	9/3/2011 7:53:23 PM
From: koan	Respond to of 85487

<<You have a very simplistic notion of religion if you think you can't be religious and believe in evolution. I didn't say that. You are drawing assumptions and putting words in my mouth. I think people, very smart people, can be religious and believe in evolution. Having said that, "and generally speaking", with a statistical predicibility greater than the .05 level of confidence (greater than random chance) you can predict if a person believes in evolution by knowing if the person is religious or not, or is a Liberal, or conserviative. And most scientist's are athiests or at least agnositcs, I believe. I also know it is dangerous to even discuss religion. The intensity of the above sentence speaks to that. I seldom discuss religion, but when I do, I can always expect a couple of ignores. People do not like to defend their beliefs. Except scientists and they encourage it! But let me list just a couple of facts since you brought it up. Religion, of one form or another, is found in all cultures and through all of mankind's history. Thousands upon thousands of different religions and belief systems around the world and all believing they have the one and only truth about reality. And interestingly few ever question their own belief system or wonder about other belief systems?? And even more interesting is the fact there is not one shred of hard evidence for even one of those belief sysems. But if anyone ever questions any of them they know to look out for a ton of bricks to fall on their head. In the middle ages, in Europe, heresy was punishable by the most terrible torturing and death. A person would often be tortured and then if he did confess to heresy, he was still killed, but not tortured. Got his reward in the after life. In Islam today, it is technically a death sentence to quit the religion. A touchy subject indeed-lol. But as the great Bertrand Russell said, lived to be 96 and was probably the most educated man of the last century: "I have searched the world and found nothing.