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To: 2MAR$ who wrote (44642)	1/3/2014 4:56:40 AM
From: Solon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 69300

"The number of Republican voters who do not believe in evolution has jumped from 43per cent to 54 per cent in the past four years, research has found." Fortunately the number of educated people and Scientists who "believe" remains at a steady 99%! What is the matter with the American public? I wonder what the current "belief" percentage is for the existence of cows? For the idea that air is not an invisible spirit--but rather gases!? That the earth is over 4 BILLION years old? That the earth goes around the sun? It ought to be about 43 to 54 %...if the evolution stats have any meaning at all? 54% of Republicans believe that air is an invisible spirit? That is scary...

To: 2MAR$ who wrote (44642)	1/5/2014 12:51:25 PM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 69300

I "believed" in evolution for decades for the same reasons everyone else does .... because we're all told intelligent people should believe this ... it's been proven, etc. But over time, scientific findings eroded my 'belief' in evolution. Life is based on encoded information. A scientific fact that actually HAS been discovered. Information encoding languages can't be created by the laws of physics or by chance. It takes a MIND. In this case, obviously a super-intelligent mind, compared to ours. Once you realize there's no way life could come into existence without some super-intelligence getting involved, there's no reason not to think that super-intelligence didn't stop with the creation of life, but continued to guide and develop life over time. Furthermore, knowing that life is based software, we need to ask ourselves how likely it is that random changes in software* will produce something new and useful. Small changes that might be useful (a new color pattern or something) seem possible, but major new features, like bio-luminescence, eyesight, and on and on, it's just too much of a reach to think these things can develop by accidental changes in software. IMO, we can either attribute life and life's evolution (ie change over time) to a designing super-intelligence or we can view it as a mystery .... but thinking there's some magical scientific thing called 'evolution' that explains it, that's just not thinking at all but taking something on blind unsupported faith. Strange language to use about a 'scientific' topic, yet for many people 'belief' in evolution is extraordinarliy important. It bothers them that not everyone 'believes in' it. * Think about making such changes to software .... wiping out a section of code, copy a section of code one or more times and stick it somewhere in a program at random, insert a new section of code drawn from some other unrelated organism and stick it in somewhere, make such random, unintelligent changes in software .... will you get something that even works, much less works in some new complicated way? No.