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Democratic Rep. Joins Atheists in Push for Congress to Celebrate Evolution With Annual ‘Darwin Day’

Feb. 12, 2013 9:34pm Billy Hallowell

Rep. Rush Holt Joins Atheists in Push for Congress to Designate Darwin Day | Evolution

Famed evolutionary biologist Charles Darwin (Photo Credit: AP)

Today marks evolutionary biologist Charles Darwin’s 204th birthday — a noted holiday for atheists, humanists and non-believers who wish to see the famed scientist gain increased respect and adoration. In fact, the American Humanist Association (AHA)’s International Darwin Day Foundation seeks to reserve Feb. 12 each year as a day to celebrate “science and reason.”

While there are events planned across the globe to celebrate Darwin’s life, Rep. Rush Holt (D-NJ) also introduced House Resolution 41 today, an effort to officially designate Feb. 12 as “Darwin Day.”

If successful, atheists believe the action would send an important message to the nation and world. In working with Holt on the bill, the AHA was also able to help get seven co-sponsors on board with the bill. The organization lists them as follows: Rep. Michael Capuano (MA), Rep. Mike Honda (CA), Rep. Ed Markey (MA), Del. Eleanor Norton (DC), Rep. Jared Polis (CO), Rep. Charles Rangel (NY), and Rep. Louise Slaughter (NY).

“The passage of Rep. Rush Holt’s proposed resolution in Congress would send a strong message to the world that the United States supports science education,” said the organization’s executive director Roy Speckhardt. “Charles Darwin’s significant contributions to the advancement of science and our understanding of the world deserve recognition.”

Below, watch Holt speak in favor of Darwin, praising him as “one of humankind’s greatest thinkers”:

The event’s intention is to honor Darwin’s scientific accomplishments, notably his creation of evolutionary theory. The AHA press release describing the initiative explains, in part:

Charles Darwin’s evolutionary discovery of natural selection as the basis for biological transformations responsible for the diversity of life on earth is the foundation of modern biology, genetics, and medicine. Other areas of science and the humanities can also trace advancements to Darwin’s ideas. Since his publication On the Origin of Species in 1859, additional advances in knowledge have fine-tuned and repeatedly verified his insights.

Previously, the AHA attempted to get Darwin Day passed, but former Rep. Pete Stark (D-CA) was unsuccessful in moving Congress to do so.

You can find out more about Darwin Day on the initiative’s official web site – and read Holt’s bill in its entirety.

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AbrahamsSheepdog
Posted on February 13, 2013 at 1:13am
Darwin was a false flag.

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- StonyBurk
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 8:06am
  Darwin is a false flag. Actually I’ve evolved away from any need for idol worship and no longer put my trust in a Government that has rejected God .When they erected that wall back in 47 and have maintained it –they prove they are now irrelevant.Just as Darwin is.
  
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- SquidVetOhio
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 8:21am
  “At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace, the savage races throughout the world. At the same time the anthropomorphous apes … will no doubt be exterminated. The break between man and his nearest allies will then be wider, for it will intervene between man in a more civilized state, as we may hope, even than the Caucasian, and some ape as low as a baboon, instead of as now between the ***** or Australian and the gorilla.” – (Darwin 1887:156)
  
  This racist is the man they revere so much. Is anyone surprised that the party that started the Klu Klux Klan and fought the Civil Rights act would want to celebrate this ignorant bigot.
  
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- SquidVetOhio
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 8:49am
  Ha! The Blaze censored out “negr0″ in Darwin’s quote. He’s apparently too racist for the Blaze. LOL
  
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- The_Doors_Of_Perception
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 9:15am
  @squidvet
  
  Do you have the same disdain for our founding fathers?
  
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- JGraham III
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 9:41am
  At the risk of restating the obvious, Darwin and the Atheists already have April 1 set aside for them and their assertions. They even have had the God they don’t believe in give them their very own verse in the Bible, namely Psalm 14:1 which says that the fool has said in his heart there is no God. I guess this is yet another attempt by democrats at double dipping.
  
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- Calm Voice of Reason
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 10:59am
  @Squid: Science is not an authority, it is a method. Science recognizes no personalities, only discoveries. It matter not one bit what Darwin’s sociological ideologies are because his scientific observations are the real matter. One day his name will be forgotten, but we will always have the Theory of Evolution by means of Natural Selection.
  
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- tonypro
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 3:15pm
  Just another in a long list of items to push God out of our country, and culture.
  
  IMO there is no such thing as evolution. When any creature, or plant, change basic forms of their being to adapt to a different environment, it is just that, adaptation, not evolution.
  
  I challenge anyone to bring PROOF of evolution of mankind, and not speculation, or propaganda.
  
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- SoNick
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 3:50pm
  Darwin was a false flag? You must spend too much time on conspiracy theory sites… But let us entertain your ridiculous assumption: if he was a false flag, what was he covering?
  
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- Keatonc33
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 5:49pm
  Ok look.. small scale evolution can be proven. you see some bacteria and viruses can become immune to antibiotics through evolution and mutations in the penicillinase enzyme. put simply this means that these single celled organisms can change their biology to adapt to outside variables, such as medication… THIS IS EVOLUTION!!!
  
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- Freedomlover_US
  Posted on February 15, 2013 at 8:09pm
  Evolution is a fact – we have all the evidence we need. Get over it.
  
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cmr396
Posted on February 13, 2013 at 12:08am
***this post may seem offensive to some, please don’t flag, as I am not trolling I am simply stating what I believe*** thank you

Scientology believes an alien Zenu blew his body parts all over earth and we are all created from his parts

Other religions believe some bearded guy in the sky zapped humans on earth and every so often this God will grant their wishes (prayers). They believe they are constantly being watched/tested.

And others believe that we slowly evolved overtime from molecules-bacteria-larger living creatures creatures-intelligent life.
Now it is up to you and only YOU to decide what you would like to believe in. Which one makes the most sense and why?

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- OccamsSword
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 12:37am
  Definetly its between the first two choices.
  
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- joel228
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 1:02am
  cmr396 do you specialize in poll taking? It’s really hard to tell which one you believe. But shouldn’t your last statement read something like
  
  “some people believe that magic darwin dust randomly clumped itself together to create something far more complex and durable than anything the combined intelligence of the world has been able to create” Now tell me how that makes sense.
  
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- cmr396
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 1:36am
  @joel228
  
  We make medicines, bacteria eventually EVOLVES, becoming immune to our medicine. So we create another medicine and repeat this cycle.
  That is how it makes sense my friend. Because we know for a fact that things evolve
  
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- cmr396
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 1:40am
  As for the “magic Darwin dust”, I’m not so sure
  
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- Witness1974
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 1:46am
  CMR396: What you are talking about is adaptation, not evolution. A bacteria that becomes resistant against an anti-biotic, has simply adapted; it is still a bacteria. Every creature has a certain range of adaptation in its nature. It cannot survive outside that range and it never becomes anything else but what it is. It comforms to its nature. Because a moth can change color, or a bird grow a thicker beak does not mean that the one ceases to be a moth and the other ceases to be anything but a bird that was given a nature that allows it to grow a thicker beak when its diet demands it. Talk about a leap of faith; the leap from adaptation to evolution is huge.
  
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- joel228
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 1:48am
  cmr396, read my response to Keaton. The kind of evolution Darwin proposed and that we are debating is that which created life from non-life and one form of life from another form of life. What you see in bacteria is nothing of the sort and is a weak argument. In fact I’ve found it very instructive to see what arguments evolutionists come up with. They still use irrelavent and disproven arguments which they would not have to use if they had something concrete.
  
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- joel228
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 1:53am
  Well said Witness1974. You gave examples of what I was talking about. I’m sure we would disagree about the nature of God but sounds like we’re on the same side against the fallacy of evolution.
  
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- DIR
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 2:59am
  CMR396
  
  Not to throw water on your expertise, but have you ever seen a bacteria evolve into say a dog? Now that would be some real proof. Absurd, I know, but you get the point, I hope. Most understand that we evolve as part of the survival process. That doesn’t answer many of the unknowns as far as how we as humans or other living species really got here in the first place (explaining it is one thing, proving it is another), then again I’m not really searching for the answer. By the way I don’t have a problem with ‘evolution’ if it is in fact reality. The Bible does quote God as saying something on the order of: from dust to dust … By my standards, ‘how’ is still the question that hasn’t been adequately answered and there are some huge gaps that need to be cleared up to come close to proving evolution beyond a shadow … Some accept evolution on something akin to blind faith, others don’t because of faith. Then there are some who aren’t treatened by the truth no matter how is turns out. By the way Rush Holt is only acting as a contrarian. He has no more insight on the matter than anyone else. I believe it’s to take a stand against Christianity which is in vogue with libs of late and the reason should be obvious. If I were an evolutionist, his endorsement would come unwelcomed. The guy acts like a super doofus.
  
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- HOOT_OWL
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 6:57am
  cmr396
  No your not just stating ‘what you believe’
  
  Your are being offensive with malice and you know it. dipstick.
  ________________________________
  
  “God will grant their wishes (prayers).”
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  You use [ ‘grant wishes’ then use (prayers) ] ,this means you know the proper terminology , with full intentions of degrading the belief. Clever your not. Some of you godless fools HATE…Is so transparent .Go away troll..!
  
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- pdw
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 8:30am
  The only “proof” will take place in eveyone’s heart and mind. Theory has always been a starting point for research. Religion is something everyone has to find within themselves and not from others. True Religion teaches Love not hate. Love brings peace to the soul in times of hardships even to the point of death, Hate bring anger which lessens the desire for facts. Ask anyone who has had a near death experience if they believe there is nothing greater than man. Explain how a man can watch his surgery from over head while still on the operating table. Ask a man how when he feels his life slipping away why he feels a greater peace than he has ever felt in life. Why does anyone think man is the most superior being in existent in this universe. For those who have never had a prayer answered I do feel very sorry for as they have missed out. Effort is always required as well as faith and love. The next time an answer comes out of no where, just maybe you need to stop patting yourself on the back and learn where your answer came from. But in life everyone has to find out for themselves. Someone else s experience only may give them an idea. We do not learn to drive as long as someone else is at the wheel. We can either say that is impossible or we can try t find out how it is possible. That way we learn for ourselves what is possible and what we think is not.
  
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- The_Doors_Of_Perception
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 9:04am
  @DIR
  
  I don’t know how many times I have to say this on this site. If bacteria turned into a dog…if a duck turned into a crocodile…ect…that would be evidence against evolution!!!!! You should pray for that to happen…that might actually be considered evidence for “god”. Whenever someone on here says…”have you ever seen “x” animal turn into “y” animal?” all you are doing is showing how little you really know about evolution. NOW STOP IT!!!! Read a science book.
  
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- Calm Voice of Reason
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 10:57am
  @Witness: “Adaptation” refers to changes an individual makes in response to stimuli and makes use of genetic information already present in an organism’s genome. “Evolution” refers to the changes within the genome that affect further descendants. The Lenski experiments with E. coli have demonstrated this without question, further lending credence the line by Jacques Monod, “Anything found to be true of E. coli must also be true of elephants.” We are all made of the same stuff, and follow the same rules.
  
  When one asks for proof that one “species” can become another, one must specify what it is you mean by “species”. Taxonomy isn’t an argument, by which measure shall we define the division between species? Any one you might choose can be shown to have arisen by evolutionary change.
  
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- symphonic
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 11:06am
  So if I work hard, and calluses begin to form on my hands making them thicker, my hands evolved?
  
  If I lift heavy weights, and my muscles begin to grow very large, my muscles evolved?
  
  No, they adapted.
  
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- The_Doors_Of_Perception
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 11:24am
  @symphonic
  
  You probably should stay out of this discussion…if you’re serious of course.
  
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- HOOT_OWL
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 12:17pm
  I usually stay out of these trivial conversation were the godless fools has this propensity to flex his/her narrow egos for self gratification .
  
  But in this day and age, where we have scientist experimenting to create super foods that can withstands everything when growing crops in the field.
  
  To creating a spermless male Mosquito to fight malaria.
  
  To the injection of contrails into our atmosphere .
  
  The fact is ,people that believe in evolution .
  
  Will NEVER be able to use any CURRENT evidence . in their evolution argument .
  
  Due to man paying god and using the world as their laboratory .
  
  The constant has been compromised.
  
  It will remain a flawed theory until the day God decides to show himself and put a stop to all this nonsense .
  
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- Jadedfate
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 12:45pm
  The only issue is, the last one you listed, evolution, isn’t a belief. It’s fact. To say otherwise is to live in willful ignorance.
  
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- Witness1974
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 1:17pm
  Calm Voice of Reason: I know what adaptation is and I know what evolution claims to be. And what did Lenski have at the end of his expriments with E. Coli? E. Coli, either adapted or mutated. Mutations are aberrant and not beneficial. What ever you do with E. Coli, they remain E. coli.
  
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- HOOT_OWL
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 1:46pm
  To say All life that has ever existed ‘evolved’ from a single particle.
  with no intelligent design. Now that takes >>> faith<<< ..!
  
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- Witness1974
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 5:55pm
  HootOwl: Roger that!
  
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- Freedomlover_US
  Posted on February 15, 2013 at 8:19pm
  Only the last one has any shred of proof going for it. This is an easy one. And I don’t even believe evolution disproves the existence of a deity.
  
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freedentstheone
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 11:59pm
Problem: Darwin wasn’t an atheist he was an agnostic.

The idea of atheists celebrating Darwin day is laughable at best and should be thought of as an anti-theist celebration as it would be more of a stab in the eye of theists than a celebration of the life and/or philosophy an agnostic.

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- Freedomlover_US
  Posted on February 15, 2013 at 8:18pm
  I would imagine it’s more to celebrate the accomplishment of a scientist more than anything else. Einstein and Tesla didn’t believe in a God either – and likely countless of the great minds before them.
  
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QwertyK
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 11:52pm
These, indescribable people disgust me. Such hypocrisy, they tear down our crosses and public displays of our harmless faith, in the name of “Separation of Church and State” – which has completely had it’s purpose turned around from it’s original meaning – and ask for a “Darwin Day” completely ignoring what they themselves have whined about for years. The worst part is, we will not be able to accuse them of hypocrisy, because we will ourselves be condemned for speaking out against this absurd idea.

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- SoNick
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 9:19am
  except there’s nothing religious in celebrating the man who gave us one of the greatest scientific ever devised, So great, in fact, that modern biology and most of the life sciences are entirely based on his original theory. Would you be against an Edison Day? Or an Einstein Day?
  
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- Calm Voice of Reason
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 11:44am
  Qwerty, those two groups do not necessarily overlap.
  
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- QwertyK
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 4:51pm
  This I understand, but I am not willing to say that none of them believe this.
  
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- Freedomlover_US
  Posted on February 15, 2013 at 8:10pm
  Nobody is worshipping Darwin – they want an accomplished and historically important scientist to be honored
  
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purple_circles
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 11:50pm
Darwin didn’t discover evolution; evolution is clearly written about in the Bible long before Darwin was born.. Let atheists celebrate Darwin if it makes them happy, and let them who wish to celebrate Easter and Christmas and pray where they wish if it makes them happy. Christians cannot save atheists no more than atheist can convert Christians. Do what Jesus would do, walk away if they choose not to believe, leave them alone their choice is their right.

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- joel228
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 1:05am
  book and verse?
  
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pantokrator
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 11:42pm
As a Christian man who believes strongly in Intelligent Design, I honestly don’t have a problem with this at all. Both can’t truly prove one over the other, and both are great philosophical theories. So I really don’t have a problem. I am amused to see articles like this, however. It helps weed out the truly ignorant and biased people in society. Unfortunately, in this case, most of those people call themselves Conservatives and Republicans.

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Canada_Goose
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 11:41pm
Darwin was just a man who had an idea to explain the extreme diversity of life. Organized religion somehow saw this as a challenge to the existence of God.

I always thought Einsten’s general relativity theory (as well as special realtivity) is a bigger challenge to God since it’s implication is that there is nothing special about planet earth since the fundamental laws of physics apply across the whole universe.

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- OccamsSword
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 1:21am
  Your sooo smart…. leap years ahead of the rest of us.
  
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- Witness1974
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 1:39am
  Goose: Diversity is more consistent with an intelligent designer than it is with mere chance. What do any of us know about the laws of physics across the universe. Do you really claim to know all about the laws of physics as it is and has been through all of time, across all space? If you hadn’t noticed you are stuck here on this little spec of dirt with the rest of us. Your idea of God is insufficient. Laws of physics are what we have discovered about how physical things work. God is not subject to His creation; He is outside of it. Light, Time, Space: Created, Created, Created. Nothing is added or taken away from God by what He has created. He is eternal, perfect, and infinite in all His attributes. Otherwise, He would not be God.
  
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- pdw
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 8:45am
  That is funny as Einsten knew that there was a greater being out there. He received his information thru dreams and exchanged ideas with other scientist all over the world about his theory, he also said he did not understand all he knew about it. We only see, hear and understand that which we are looking for at the time. Most of our finger pointing comes from not having all the facts which makes us believe everyone else is wrong. We humans are not that smart but hopefully we will keep learning truths.
  
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- Locked
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 8:57am
  @Canada_Goose
  
  “Darwin was just a man who had an idea to explain the extreme diversity of life. Organized religion somehow saw this as a challenge to the existence of God. ”
  
  Most Christians do not see evolution as a challenge to the existence of God. The Roman Catholic Church, for example, accepts evolution as a factual explanation for the diversity of living things found in the world; former pope John Paul II confirmed as much back in the 1990s.
  
  Those who most often decry evolution are those who do not understand what a scientific theory is, or what testable predictions the theory of evolution makes.
  
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Witness1974
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 10:58pm
I’m not in favor of another government sanctioned religious holiday. Besides it is already celebrated everyday in classrooms all over the country.

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- Jadedfate
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 1:05pm
  Evolution is not a religion, regardless of how much you like to label it such. It’s factual and all evidence supports it.
  
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- Witness1974
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 1:25pm
  Evolution is a theory. Theories are speculative by nature. To take the leap from theory to fact takes a leap of faith. A fossil, a rock, an elephant, these are facts. How they got there can never be anything but speculation.
  
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- Freedomlover_US
  Posted on February 15, 2013 at 8:13pm
  WITNESS – that is dishonest and you know it, or you should. Theory, in the scientific sense, is a conceptual framework of facts (facts being the key word) used to describe a phenomenon. The Theory of Evolution is just as much proven and real as the Theory of Gravitation.
  
  The beautiful thing about science: it’s real whether you believe it or not.
  
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TheGrtDcptn
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 10:48pm
…Sorry, I don’t worship fallible man…

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- 22AUTOMATIC
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 11:14pm
  Darwin? What? Why not honor the scientists before him who thought life came from raw meat because if you let it sit out little white creatures suddenly appeared…..until one guy realized if you cover the raw meat the flies can’t lay eggs (true story – these were the “geniuses” back in the day like Darwin.) Over 150 years, 1/2 a billion fossils, and yet NOT ONE transitionary fossil uncovered. Darwin himself said if they didn’t find these fossils in TWENTY years he’d be proven wrong. I live in one of the largest school districts in the country and found out in 2011 they hadn’t taught evolution in any of the schools in fifteen years because of all of the holes. Darwin? Sheesh……Who’s next to honor, Charles Ponzi?
  
  Here are a few great docs/films (of the hundreds) that disprove Evolution. Less than 10% of the population still believes in “evolution” alone. 90 percent believe in God alone or God using evolution despite all of the propaganda you still hear now and then. (see great links below)
  
  http://youtu.be/jZn5qo6Q6IY The Mysterious Islands
  
  http://www.myspace.com/video/vid/33826735 The Case for a Creator
  
  http://youtu.be/AUpHyZjm3rU A Question of Origins
  
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- 22AUTOMATIC
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 11:43pm
  Darwin? Are you kidding me? Why not honor the scientists before him who thought life came from raw meat because if you let it sit out little white creatures suddenly appeared…..until one guy realized if you cover the raw meat the flies can’t lay eggs (true story – these were the “geniuses” back in the day like Darwin.) Over 150 years, 1/2 a billion fossils, and yet NOT ONE transitionary fossil uncovered when we would have tens of thousands if evolution was true. Darwin himself said if they didn’t find these fossils in TWENTY years he’d be proven wrong. I live in one of the largest school districts in the country and found out in 2011 they hadn’t taught evolution in any of the schools in fifteen years because of all of the massive holes discovered in the theory. Darwin? Sheeesh……Who’s next to honor, Charles Ponzi?
  
  Here are a few great films (of the hundreds) that thoroughly disproves Evolution. Feel free to pass along to anyone who’s on the fence about Intelligent Design.
  
  http://youtu.be/jZn5qo6Q6IY
  
  http://www.myspace.com/video/vid/33826735
  
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- cmr396
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 11:53pm
  @22automatic
  I think you are misunderstanding the way things evolve. I don’t know why there would be a “transitionary fossil” discovered. Things evolve, but I believe it’s not in the way you are imagining.
  
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- OccamsSword
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 12:50am
  You must understand that evolution is alot like climate change, the definition twists and turns and”evolves”. Darwin ” the man you want to honor” himself said his theory would be wrong if alot of transitional fossils were not found. Maybe we should have a CMR396 day.
  
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- andrewcvety
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 4:46am
  In UK it’s mandatory evolution be taught, creationism is optional. Population claiming non-religious continues to increase dramatically. A well-educated scientific mind can break from indoctrination. Those who seek profit or control know this. Soon baby boomers will not run the reins to textbooks and school boards. Generation X & Y show to be much more secular. Notions of this sort will only continue to see more support. Sad to see some of the ignorance posted below. As secularism grows how will the theist handle it? There is only one god. FSM. disprove that. Kinda silly huh? That’s what you look like to me.
  
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- Freedomlover_US
  Posted on February 15, 2013 at 8:24pm
  OCCAM – it only “evolves” (develops is the correct word) as new information comes out. Climate change and evolution are just as real as gravity – why do you think 95+% of the worlds scientists, from a wide array of fields, agree on this?
  
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media-bias-steals-elections
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 10:38pm
Every dime sent to an Islamic state supports the religion of Islam, that’s the only evolution I see in America?

Put your heads back in the sand, you can’t handle the truth, the answers to your problems are putting 4 year olds in pre-school?

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- whitealaskan
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 11:23pm
  Please please please explain to me why you put question marks after every sentence you write. My brain uses question inflection when I read it in my head and it drives me crazy.
  
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- Witness1974
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 1:53am
  Alaskan: Well, I don’t know? Perhaps he’s Irish?
  
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commonsensechristian
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 10:24pm
The atheists already have a national holiday – it’s April Fool’s Day.

“The fool says in his heart, ‘There is no God’” Psalms 53:1

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- andrewcvety
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 4:55am
  fools eh?
  
  http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=6f1_1229283163
  
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mtsnj
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 10:21pm
Rush Holt better spend more time on cutting our taxes than any of this BS

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- 22AUTOMATIC
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 11:51pm
  Darwin? Are you kidding me? Why not honor the scientists before him who thought life came from old beef because if you let it sit out little white creatures suddenly appeared…..until one guy realized if you cover the meat the flies can’t lay eggs (true story – these were the “geniuses” back in the day like Darwin.) Over 150 years, 1/2 a billion fossils, and yet NOT ONE transitionary fossil uncovered when we would have tens of thousands if evolution was true. Darwin himself said if they didn’t find these fossils in FIFTY years he’d be proven wrong. I live in one of the largest school districts in the country and found out in 2011 they hadn’t taught evolution in any of the schools in fifteen years because of all of the flaws in the theory. Darwin? Sheeessh……Who’s next to honor, Charles Ponzi?
  Here are some great flicks (of the hundreds) that thoroughly disprove Evolution. Feel free to pass them along to anyone who’s on the fence about Intelligent Design.
  
  http://youtu.be/jZn5qo6Q6IY
  
  http://www.myspace.com/video/vid/33826735
  
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- whitealaskan
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 12:14am
  Because a supreme being snapping his fingers and creating something out of nothing is much more logical than saying it happened by itself and trying to find out how.
  
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DaveOregon
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 10:20pm
The archeological record does not show evolution for human beings – we have never found the supposed “missing link”. Several hominid lines were around at the same time – but no definite **** Sapiens until they “just appeared”. Granted, 90% of prehistory has not been found – but since **** Sapiens is the last supposed evolution – it should be abundant – at least as much as Neanderthal or Cromagnan – but alas no. Birds, lizards etc evol faster then humans – especially when in isolation. We have humans that have been in isolation for thousands of years in the Amazon – pretty much the same now as were thousands of years ago physically, etc. Until the missing link is found – not buying Darwinism for humans.

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- Keatonc333
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 10:38pm
  interesting! so you accept the theory of evolution in other species.. but not our own! i can find that respectable.. Much better than the people who just flat out deny evolution despite all the evidence.
  
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- Witness1974
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 11:17pm
  What evidence, Keaton? There are no transitional forms anywhere between any two species. The best the true believers can do is draw cartoons of evolution. If it can’t be observed, it can’t be tested; if it can’t be observed and tested it’s not science. Your brain has been washed time to wring it out.
  
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- whitealaskan
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 11:32pm
  We’re not talking thousands of years we’re talking hundreds of thousands of years and millions of years. and there is some evidence of evolution. Go to a historic homestead or go to Europe and walk around in ancient buildings there, the doorways and ceilings are lower. The presidents desk that was a gift from England had to be raised because people are becoming taller than they used to. Different species evolve differently. Races from northern countries are lighter so their skin can metabolic the vitamin D they need and races closer to the equator are darker because they don’t need as much exposure to the sun. And who’s to say that that isn’t part of a creative process? Darwin’s theories obviously aren’t perfectly proven but there is a lot of logic in them.
  
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- TheCalmOne
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 1:28am
  Witness:
  
  Every fossil is transitional.
  
  You may want to research the evolution of the horse and also the whale. Go ahead, be brave and just search.
  
  You might also want to look at Tiktaalik – a recently discovered transitional form between fish and tetrapods.
  
  A final piece of advice: don’t believe everything your pastor tells you…
  
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- Witness1974
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 1:29am
  WhiteAlaskan: Smaller stature can be explained by diet. Last time I checked people with white skin and people with black skin, and people with skin tones all the way through the spectrum are still human beings. The problem with a lot of what passes for evolution is that it is just mistaking adaptation for evolution. Show me one species that has transformed into another. The Bible says that all creatures reproduce after their kind. It seems that is pretty much how it goes, don’t you think?
  
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- OccamsSword
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 1:32am
  WHITEALASKAN…Are you KEATONS buddy?
  
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- mewnani
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 1:44am
  Keaton I have a rather good question regarding evolutionary theory: If animals can truly evolve, say from bacteria onward why can’t we simulate it in a laboratory? We do observe animals adapting to their environment (i.e. a moth changing color to adjust camoflage, or bird’s beaks changing shape, which people refer to as micro-evolution) but why don’t we see anything bigger than that? If evolution existed we’d be seeing lizard eggs changing to chickens over time. If it really exists why can’t we observe it? We can observe virtually everything else after all, so why can’t we observe any living examples of that?
  
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- Witness1974
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 1:51am
  Calmone: “Every fossil is transitional.” This is such a ridiculous statement it doesn’t even merit an answer. Don’t believe everything your high school biology told you.
  
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- OccamsSword
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 1:57am
  THECALOMONE…You are way behind the curve in the debate. The horse series is wrong and proven so at least 40 yrs ago, no present day evolution appologist would ever try to use it in a debate nowdays…The whale, that was so promising, is becoming a evo’s nightmare now it was an impossible stretch to begin with but since discovering whale jaw fossils much earlier in the record, it gives much to short of time to evolve, again you are not current at all in the debate and Tiktaalik is simply a fish, again they have discovered 20 myr earlier fossil prints with actual digits. Please try to stay current. your evo sites will not keep u informed when it shoots down the theory unfortunatly.
  
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- whitealaskan
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 2:07am
  @Witness like I said we’re not talking thousands of years we’re talking millions of years. And what determines a species? look what we have done with dogs, that doesn’t have to do with food. Adaptions are part of evolution. I said it wasn’t a perfect theory and I’m not in any position to prove to you that its perfect. I said it was logical. I also said it could be part of a creation. But to say its completely false and has no truth in it isn’t right either. bacteria can evolve very quickly through adaptions look at the super bugs in hospitals that have become very resistant to antibiotics, that’s natural selection. and you cant ignore all the fossils either. Seeking answers to questions through the means we have available to us isn’t bad. Refusing to do so is your choice. It’s not like creationism has any more legs to stand on. I’ve never picked a side and said I’m right and my way is the only way.
  
  and @Occam I disagreed with one of Keaton’s posts earlier today so I guess that means I’m not his friend? Also instead instead of arguing somebody’s point with your own points you attack them personally instead of arguing with them rationally. It basically makes you look like a 5 year old. Its called an Ad Hominim Fallacy. I don’t care if you think I’m wrong, I might be, but I try not to go around saying essentially “I know you are, but what am I” to anybody that disagrees with me
  
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- whitealaskan
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 2:18am
  Witness
  So why does your side of the spectrum get to be completely true? Why don’t you apply the same type of questioning towards your beliefs? If there is a Creator why is your version of him correct? Why isn’t a Mormons version correct, or a Catholic? Where did the creator come from? who created him? What makes the Bible infallible when its been translated and transcribed over and over and over again by men? If you’ve had some special experience telling you that your beliefs are correct then what about the millions of others that have had similar experiences claiming different beliefs?
  
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- Witness1974
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 2:52am
  WhiteAlaskan: I don’t think you thought about anything I said. Filling your shotgun with red herring and pulling the trigger is no way to win an argument. Stay with the subject. Since I haven’t been able to convince you that evolution is illogical, I doubt we are going to accomplish anything with a theological discussion about doctrinal differences between different groups. But if you think I haven’t spent decades questioning my own beliefs you are wrong. I grew up in the public school system and believed in evolution like most public indoctrination victims. I also spent nearly half of my life as either an agnostic or atheist. Can’t prove any of that to you here.
  
  Back to the subject. Consider this: Organisms need to have certain systems in place in order to survive. An organism has to have the ability to take in nutrients, process them, deliver them to where they’re needed, and excrete the waste. That is just for the first generation to survive. In order to have a second generation, it must also be able to reproduce itself. Now how did all these diverse species come to be unless the first generation had all these systems in place? In other words the answer to the question, “Which came first, the chicken or the egg?” is. . . wait for it . . . they both came into existence simultaneously along with a rooster. Stir the “primordial soup” for a trillion years and. . . no chicken, no egg, no rooster, no Alaskans.
  
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- whitealaskan
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 3:24am
  All evolution is is an attempt to explain things. How I see it is we have what we have and we try to explain it through what we have. We see monkeys we see mammals and our brains make the connections between the similarities so we try to explain them. I don’t think you can say evolution is false because we’ve never been able to observe speciation or create life from polymers and at the same time say that God caused them to appear fully formed and functioning ready to reproduce. You haven’t observed that either. Its two very different sides of the same coin. Neither can be proven and neither has all the answers. and I think that saying one is completely true and one is completely false with any absolute certainty is illogical unless you have some other form of evidence that no one else is privy to. I do not. That’s why I asked my other theological questions not to throw a red herring.
  
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- Witness1974
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 4:05am
  WhiteAlaskan: One more and I’m going to bed. When you see a bike and a trike do you assume one evolved from another or that they are the way they are because they were designed that way? I’m not asking to climb the ladder of science here. One only need look at the complexity and diversity of nature, the symbiotic relationships, the beauty, the balance, the function of all that is creation to understand what a simple farm boy can understand. It didn’t happen by chance. Order does not proceed from chaos, no matter how many years you allow it to change. The image of the Creator is stamped on you. You can reason, you can acquire knowledge, and through wisdom you can apply that knowledge. You are like your Maker, you are creative and intelligent. Hopefully you live your life by design instead of just letting everything around you follow its tendency to degrade. We know God by Revelation. He reveals Himself in nature, and He has spoken to us through His written word. If you want to know God beyond what nature can teach you then start reading. Good night.
  
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- OccamsSword
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 4:08am
  ALASKAN , coudda fooled me, and did. You poped off with alot of bold claims that i definetly challenge. If you want to have more civil debate I’m willing
  
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- OccamsSword
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 4:33am
  You know, on second thought … I don’t think I can improve on what witness just so eloquantly said, and I feel it was to no avail… Good Luck Brother
  
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- Keatonc33
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 5:42pm
  mewnani.. we could! but it would take several million years
  
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Verceofreason
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 10:19pm
Creationists are right up there with Holocaust deniers.
It’s really quite juvenile to even try to alter the real world to confirm into one’s religious beliefs.
And that’s all creationism is.

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- mewnani
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 1:45am
  One could say the same about evolution: we can’t observe it, though we believe we can, and some will die to defend it even though they for sure do not know it is real.
  
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- Jadedfate
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 1:33pm
  We can and do observe it all the time. You just seem to be ignoring the data.
  
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- mewnani
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 2:49pm
  Really Jaded? Then give me some proof.
  
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- The_Doors_Of_Perception
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 3:56pm
  talkorigins.org spend days on it
  
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- Witness1974
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 11:10pm
  Cerceofreason: “Creationists are right up there with Holocaust deniers.” To say this is not an apt comparison is very kind. You want to talk juvenile. What you’ve stated here is nauseatingly so.
  
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mtsnj
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 10:18pm
No way!! what about separation of non-church and state

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- Keatonc333
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 10:37pm
  you have to stop crying “war on christmas” if you want to go down that road
  
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- Jadedfate
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 1:35pm
  How does that make any sense at all? Non Church and State? So you want to separate all fact from the state?
  
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Remember_Benghazi
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 10:08pm
If Creationism is good enough for Jesus, it’s good enough for me.

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- Verceofreason
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 11:52pm
  Where does Jesus mention or accept creationism?
  
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- OccamsSword
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 1:39am
  He did metion Adam and Eve, and Noah, which I think would discredit evolution.
  
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- The_Doors_Of_Perception
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 10:47am
  haha…yeah adam and eve…and of course Noah, discredits evolution. I can’t wait for the next generation to get older.
  
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bornagaincowgirl
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 10:03pm
It just warms the cockles of your heart doesn’t it? There was a big boom and then some green slime and poof, here it all is. HA! They say we believe in fairytales.

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- Keatonc333
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 10:19pm
  Its called primordial soup.. abiogenesis… look into it!
  
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- high school drop out
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 11:13pm
  @Cowgirl and Keaton… You all may not like this much but , you are both right.. I have spent most of my life reading books and such about this very puzzle Modern science has done a fantastic job of explaining just about everything in the universe to the point of literally harnessing the power of the sun! and through bones, fossils and things like carbon dating (yes I know there are flaws with that process) They have proven and almost seemless record of evolution. I say almost because as far as man is concerned sometime in the last 100,000 years or so modern man appeared alongside his evolutionary predicessor! An unexplained (by science) unprecidented event. ( you’ve heard of the still undiscovered missing link)Now for the other side..In every religion, culture.and myth there are literally thousands of tales of beings desending from the heavens And quite a few saying these “beings” mated with man or accuratly with woman (genetic enginering?) If you read enough geology, astrophysics,anthropology and then read books like VonDannikens “Chariots of the gods” and the hundreds of others of that theme you will see that “creationism” and “evolution” are not only both probable but quite possilble………………please forgive my spelling..it’s been a very long day
  
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- OccamsSword
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 2:18am
  Yes indeed KEATON, I did look into it… that primordial soup and abiogenisis and discovered that it would take something supernatural to occur, did you come to the same conclusion? If not explain where I went wrong.
  
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- SoNick
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 9:26am
  @OccamsSword: you went wrong when you implied the existence of a supernatural agent is needed for abiogenesis. You’re not living up to your screen name…
  
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Chuck Stein
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 10:02pm
I wish that the Democrats would evolve. Problem is: they fill the niche that the media has created and are protected by the media. Accordingly, Democrats do not suffer losses to their numbers in accordance with the deleterious effects of “progressive” policies, regulations and laws. Therefore, no evolution takes place.

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tradcatholicgirl
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 10:00pm
Darwin..whose familial relations were closely tied to the “powers that be,” those who had motives beyond Science. And who was pretty much intellectually empty when he started his journey of “Science.” Yeah, let’s celebrate the man whose “theory” was so intellectually bankrupt that it never has been proven. That he did not have the intellectual prowess to even begin to explain it. Much less attempt to even attempt start to prove it.

Darwin Day. Let’s make it a Federal Holiday, and a day off from the intellectually bankrupt public school system!!! That would truly be a fitting tribute.

Read about it.

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- Keatonc333
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 10:06pm
  dude.. evolution in species is proven everyday in bacteria
  
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- Keatonc333
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 10:17pm
  related note… we can’t prove God created the heavens and the earth… yet we still have a christian holiday every couple months.
  
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- OccamsSword
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 1:17am
  KEATON… Evolution in species is proven everyday in bacteria is FALSE… And it does’nt even make sense You should stay away from this subject, and most others as well.
  
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- joel228
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 1:27am
  That’s right Keatonc333. Just like every day proves both global warming and global cooling. And recently I saw a bacteria grow legs, stand up and off the microscope slide.
  
  Your slippery definition of evolution and your false extrapolation of minor changes does not help your argument.
  
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- Locked
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 9:01am
  @Tradcatholicgirl
  
  “Yeah, let’s celebrate the man whose “theory” was so intellectually bankrupt that it never has been proven.”
  
  An interesting poster name…. As you seem to claim to be a Catholic, you DO know that evolution is accepted by the Roman Catholic Church, right? John Paul II confirmed it in the 1990s, saying that what was once a hypothesis is now effectively proven, and that it’s unfitting for us to ignore actual facts simply because it could be theologically uncomfortable.
  
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- mewnani
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 2:54pm
  Well well E.Coli cells change over time! Who would have thunk it? Still you can say this about humans too. We change with the generations, but currently we haven’t changed into anything other than human. Why aren’t the cells changing into something other than E.Coli cells? They changed size, their genes changed, but I don’t see anything on here other than E.Coli cells. Shouldn’t they be changing into something else by now?
  
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- tradcatholicgirl
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 3:37pm
  @LOCKED,
  
  The Catholic Church accepts evolution WITHIN a species, as does the general scientific community. But it has never been proven yet (please cite if you find it) that one species has evolved into another species. Yes, a monkey can evolve new traits in time and become another monkey. A bird can be isolated geographically and over time, it can display entirely new traits.
  
  But Darwin was known by his peers to be intellectually lacking. He never even developed the “theory” for which he is so famous!
  
  Do your homework.
  
  And please try and find out where they are keeping the evidence (bones, etc.) of the “transition species” which proves one species evolves into another. I am willing to conced to your pint if you find any evidence.
  
  TRANSITION SPECIES. Evidence of. Go for it. And good luck.
  
  Please cite here. Because I have no problem with the theory. I’d accept it if it were proven.
  
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- tradcatholicgirl
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 4:48pm
  @Keaton,
  
  Dude,
  
  Go beyond your public school education, and try and find out whether any species has been proven to change into another completely different species.
  
  This is not a theological issue for me. I just have failed to find any real evidence anywhere that one species changed into another. Or that a single-celled organism eventually evolved into you. It is a nice theory. I have no problem with the idea that God designed the Universe that way. So far, however, man has not proven it.
  
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- Keatonc33
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 5:45pm
  You serious? Many strains of virus and bacteria become immune to outside medication. that is a biological structure change in the species as an effort to adapt to their new variables or surrounding… THAT IS EVOLUTION!!!!
  
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- Locked
  Posted on February 14, 2013 at 12:50pm
  @tradcatholicgirl
  
  “The Catholic Church accepts evolution WITHIN a species, as does the general scientific community. But it has never been proven yet (please cite if you find it) that one species has evolved into another species.”
  
  You seem to be arguing something that doesn’t exist: namely, a strawman of evolution. You know that a species that changes enough is then considered a NEW species, yes? As Keaton has mentioned, we’ve seen this with short-lived, fast-growing microorganisms like bacteria.
  
  “But Darwin was known by his peers to be intellectually lacking. He never even developed the “theory” for which he is so famous!”
  
  Edison didn’t invent the lightbulb, but he’s still known for it. He popularized it, and it’s been improved since then.
  
  “Do your homework.”
  
  Stop with the insults.
  
  “And please try and find out where they are keeping the evidence (bones, etc.) of the “transition species” which proves one species evolves into another.”
  
  Kindly look up why the term “transition species” is YEC nonsense. EVERY species is a “transitional species,” because evolution doesn’t simply stop – it just is spread out over many, MANY generations. Our current form will be a transition once we’ve evolved in thousands, hundreds of thousands, or millions of years.
  
  Ple”Because I have no problem with the theory. I’d accept it if it were proven.”
  
  Also look up what a “scientific theory” means and why “proving i
  
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Locked
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 9:54pm
I imagine it’ll be about as memorable as National Puzzle Day or National Bubble Bath Day. Not that I don’t appreciate the forefather of all modern-day biology, but doesn’t Congress have better things to focus on?

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- ModerationIsBest
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 10:37pm
  I had no idea it was Darwin’s birthday lol.
  
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- OccamsSword
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 2:27am
  How about a national scratch your balls day?
  
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OldSurfRat
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 9:53pm
Ok… but wont that day continue to evolve?
So the date would change every year right?
Could it not eventually evolve into religion with a GOD?
Damn this could get confusing.

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- OccamsSword
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 4:46am
  OLDSURFRAT, I was’nt so sure, but I guess I like ya.
  
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copatriots
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 9:44pm
Even Darwin didn’t “believe” in his own THEORY!

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- ModerationIsBest
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 10:41pm
  You’re right.
  
  Evolution doesn’t need to be “believed” because…..there is actual physical evidence for it. (GASP).
  
  Do you “believe” 2+2=4?
  Do you “believe” that the Earth revolves around the sun?
  
  Why do they call what you do “belief” and “faith”? Because you’re accepting it in spite of all the evidence against it.
  
  If you’re going to say that you have evidence to prove your claim, you no longer need faith, and if you don’t need faith then religion is dead.
  
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- OccamsSword
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 2:08am
  Oh, okay…just show me the evidence, and I’ll sign right up.
  
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- mewnani
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 2:09am
  What evidence? All the evidence they gave me were skeletons and pictures of birds with different size beaks. Show me a real live generation of animals evolving and then I might believe you.
  
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- DoseofReality
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 9:25am
  You flat earthers are funny……what evidence in there for evolution? Ok your right, all biologists, physicists, chemists, etc are wrong and your pastor is right becasue he goes on answersingenesis. Thankfully most of you are old and dying off.
  
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- The_Doors_Of_Perception
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 10:54am
  @doseofreality
  
  Seriously, I hope my kids and grandkids don’t have to deal with this on any realistic level. I love the “show me the evidence” crowd. How about schools, hospitals, musuems, labs, archaeology, fossils, biology, discovery channel, national geographic, books. No, all they need is their 2000 year old book and Kirk Cameron.
  
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- Calm Voice of Reason
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 11:36am
  @Mewnani: Here you go: http://myxo.css.msu.edu/ecoli/
  You’re welcome.
  
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- DoseofReality
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 11:36am
  Doors – they are just scared…its simple as that.
  
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- mewnani
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 3:03pm
  @Reason Woo, E. Coli cells change over time! Who would have thunk it?
  
  It doesn’t really prove your theory. Every species of animal does this over time. Their DNA changes with the the generations but they don’t change into anything other than their kind. With all those generations shouldn’t they have started to evolve into something OTHER than an E.Coli cell by now? Shouldn’t they be evolving into something more complicated? My apologies but I’m only getting an experiment that has yet to produce evolution.
  
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- SoNick
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 3:49pm
  @copatriots
  please enlighten us with a quote from Darwin or I will assume you are a troll. Where in the world did you get that he didn’t believe his own theory?
  
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- copatriots
  Posted on February 26, 2013 at 12:52pm
  Haven’t been back on since my original post. But here ya go. Hmmm…..ever wonder why it’s a “theory” and not a “law”?
  
  “To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I confess, absurd in the highest degree.” -
  - Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species.
  
  “I am quite concious that my speculations run beyond the bounds of true science…it is a mere rag of an hypothesis with as many flaw(s) & holes as sound parts.” –
  - Charles Darwin to Asa Gray, cited by Adrian Desmond and James Moore.
  
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PurrrpleMtnMajesty
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 9:44pm
Only if we can have a Intelligent Creator day

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- Keatonc333
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 10:00pm
  You mean like Christmas, Easter, Advent, Lent, Good Friday, St. Valentines day, St. Patricks day etc etc.. believe me.. we don’t need another christian holiday!
  
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- freedentstheone
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 12:28am
  KeatonC333:
  
  Ummm… as it turns out Christians aren’t the only ones who believe in an intelligent creator. Maybe if you weren’t so dead set on being anti-Christian you could have some ideas that make sense to someone other than yourself.
  
  We have plenty of Non-Christian holidays already too, like oh let me give you some examples…
  New Year’s Day
  MLKJ Day
  4th of July
  Labor Day
  Memorial Day
  Veterans Day
  Halloween
  April Fool’s Day
  Boss’s day
  Secretary’s Day
  Teachers’ Day
  Groundhog Day
  Arbor Day
  Earth Day
  Mother’s Day
  Fathers’ Day
  Flag Day
  Pearl Harbor Day
  President’s Day
  Emancipation Day
  Constitution Day
  Patriot Day
  Women’s Equality Day
  Doctor’s Day
  Chemistry Day
  Be Kind to Lawyer’s Day
  Hug your Cat Day
  Car-free Day
  and of course May Day.
  There are many more to add to this list of course.
  
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LakeHartwellSailor
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 9:43pm
Nice! Lets have a Darwin Day! But to recognize Christmas, that’s bad!

Screw Darwin!

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Keatonc333
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 9:42pm
eh why not.. we have several christian Holidays.. why not an atheist one. maybe we can spend the day drinking primordial soup! while wearing archaeopteryx T-shirts! and every night at the stroke of 12 the ghost of Charles Darwin will sneak into your house and wrap a tiny string around your thumb.. so you will never forget his teachings!

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- TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
  Posted on February 12, 2013 at 10:17pm
  Not to worry… atheists will get their national holiday. It will have something to do with Obama I’m sure. You can celebrate an empty day in honor of an empty suit and toast to him with an empty glass.
  
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- mewnani
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 1:53am
  Aww Keaton don’t trip out on us already…. Are you sure you’re not saying you’re gonna drink malt liquor all day instead of primordial soup?
  
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- Wisdom7
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 2:05am
  Keaton,
  
  As usual you are misguided. In the context of your comments, it is apparent you are talking about public federal holidays. There is ONE federal “holiday” associated with Christianity, which is Christmas. By the way, Christmas is also a public holiday in other countries as well like Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom.
  
  The following is a list of the federal holidays:
  
  New Year’s Day
  Martin Luther King’s Birthday
  George Washington’s Birthday
  Memorial Day
  Independence Day
  Labor Day
  Columbus Day
  Veterans Day
  Thanksgiving Day
  Christmas Day
  
  The rest of the days on the calendar are marked days of observance. There are also marked days of observance for the Jewish and Islamic religions. One can choose to celebrate or not celebrate them. However, some states do have holidays where state offices are closed such as César Chávez Day in California. Therefore, in every instance you indicate, none of those days affect you and your non-believing ways in the least! The only exception being Christmas when public offices are closed. Additionally, Lent is not a holiday. It is a 40-day period of observance for Catholics preceding Easter. There is also an Islamic observance period called Ramadan.
  
  You seem “uneducated”. (smirk)
  
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- Keatonc33
  Posted on February 13, 2013 at 5:51pm
  mewnani… I’m calling it primordial soup! whats in the cup is a different story
  
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