A fun read!

Here’s the section on evolution:

• The word theory in the theory of evolution does not imply doubt from mainstream science regarding its validity; the concepts of theory and hypothesis have specific meanings in a scientific context. Whiletheory in colloquial usage may denote a hunch or conjecture, a scientific theory is a set of principles that explains observable phenomena in natural terms.^[148][149] Evolution is a theory in the same sense as germ theory, gravitation, or plate tectonics.^[150] (See Objections to Evolution.)
• Evolution does not claim humans evolved from monkeys,^[151] chimpanzees^[152] or any other modern-day primates. Instead, fossil evidence has shown that humans and monkeys share a common ancestor that lived about 40 million years ago.^[153] This common ancestor diverged into separate lineages, one evolving into so-called New World monkeys and the other into Old World monkeys andapes.^[154] Humans are included in the Homindae family of apes, which also includes chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans. Similarly, the common ancestor of humans and chimpanzees, which lived between 5 and 8 million years ago, evolved into two lineages, one eventually becoming modern humans and the other splitting again into chimpanzees and bonobos.^[151] Thus, one cannot consider any present-day monkeys or apes as reflecting how humans “used to look” or behave. All extant animal groups have evolved over the same amount of time.
• Evolution is not a progression from inferior to superior organisms, and it also does not necessarily require an increase in complexity (see evolution of complexity). A population can evolve to become simpler, having a smaller genome, but devolution is a misnomer.^[155][156]
• It is a common misconception, even among adults, that humans and dinosaurs (in the ordinary sense of the term) coexisted. According to the California Academy of Sciences, around 41% of U.S. adults mistakenly believe they co-existed.^[157] The last of the dinosaurs died around 65 million years ago, after the Cretaceous–Tertiary extinction event, whereas the earliest Homo genus (humans) evolved between 2.3 and 2.4 million years ago.

ageofreason:

Creationism

fightthefaith:

Carl Sagan on evolution

I love Carl Sagan (RIP)

friendlyatheist:

Carl Sagan: A Universe Not Made For Us.

Submitted by justintheamazingallan

(via ageofreason)

Young-Earth Creationism is like taking a dump on the last three hundred years of scientific advancements.

If you accept such fundamental geological/biological principles as the law of superposition and uniformitarianism, you have no choice but to accept evolution. Hell, look at your dog breed, you accept microevolution - why not macro?

Atheists are heavily concentrated in economically developed countries, particularly the social democracies of Europe. In underdeveloped countries, there are virtually no atheists. Atheism is thus a peculiarly modern phenomenon. Why do modern conditions produce atheism?

Atheist Thought to Ponder for the Day:

Why is it that God said “Let there by light” before there were any light producing objects?

 Genesis 1:3-5 - And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. ⁴ God saw that the light was good, and He separated the light from the darkness. ⁵ God called the light “day,” and the darkness he called “night.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.

Genesis 1:14-19 - And God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years, ¹⁵ and let them be lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth.” And it was so. ¹⁶ God made two great lights—the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars. ¹⁷ God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth, ¹⁸ to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good. ¹⁹ And there was evening, and there was morning—the fourth day.

“Ask why god said let there be light before he created any light producing objects”

[Essay for HST104 at ASU, Word Count 876)

Traditionally when someone speaks of evolution, they are talking about a slow process of change that plants and animals experience due to slight genetic variations and natural selection.  This term, however, can also refer to other aspects of human society.  Upon examination of our species’ history, it becomes apparent that we have also witnessed an economical evolution.  Occasionally a surge can occur, in which development accelerates.  In economic evolution, this has occurred a few times, such as with the rise of capitalism out of feudalism.  By examining Britain during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, one of these surges becomes quite apparent.  From the eighteenth century to the mid-nineteenth century, the economy changed in three key areas; that of the labor pool, the source of production, and the role of women.

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