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Why, if you do not believe in Evolution because you feel life is “Too Complicated”, do you spend hours reading the bible, watching sitcoms, talking on the phone, researching that recipe, downloading porn… Whatever you spend hour after hour doing, just to kill time, yet you refuse to take even a single hour out of your life to use the SAME SEARCH ENGINE that led you to that “Perfect” pair of pants at GAP to even TRY and understand the basis of ALL LIFE on this planet?
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To me, saying “I don’t believe in Evolution because I don’t understand it” is like saying “I think Microwaves run on magic because I don’t understand it.”
When I questioned how a microwave worked, I sat down at my computer and turned on Discovery Science Channel, and I did some research and now I get the GENERAL principals behind how a microwave works.
The SAME can be done for the topic of Evolution. There is even a show on History Channel called “Evolve” that, every week, describes the different aspects that most carbon based life forms share and explains how they came about…
I’m watching the episode on “Skin” right now… I have “Sex”, “Guts”, & “Eyes” on my DVR…
I have taken half an hour out of my life to set my DVR to record some shows about evolution, and now I have a better understanding of the process of evolution and how ALL life on earth is connected through the evolution of various components… I have a MONTH’S worth of episodes on my DVR right now and instead of “Channel Surfing” and finding mindless sitcoms or reality TV shows to watch, I’m sitting down and watching a documentary on evolution.
After that? The last new episode of Modern Marvels about the most dangerous roads.
After that? I might watch America’s Test Kitchen.
After that? The secret lives of women form Oxygen.
After that? The South Park episode called “The Losing Edge”.
I have taken some free time and gone to http://www.livescience.com and I have read their articles on Evolution… Again, I’m not an “Expert” but now I have an even deeper understanding of how you can take a basic structure like keratin and tweak it to form hair, feathers, scales… How each animal on earth seems completely different from each other yet each aspect of our bodies is merely a tweak on a single basic design.
I’m not an “Expert” now that I have watched a few documentaries and read some articles, but now I at least UNDERSTAND how these processes are POSSIBLE… NOW I can start to connect the dots when I read/see even more NEXT week…
THAT is why I believe that Evolution is plausible and real…
I have put forth the same effort to understand the Christian bible… I have read it, I have studied it, I have gone in and put the same effort in to understanding the basis for a major religion and it just doesn’t hold up.
Creation is basically saying “Things are too complicated so that means a god must have been involved.” Yet when you do the most superficial study of Evolution, you see that it isn’t so complicated…
Saying that ANYTHING is “Too complicated” to understand is a cop out because you’re unwilling to take the time to do even the most superficial research on a topic…
I know people that won’t even bake a TURKEY because they say it is “Too Complicated” and such defeatist attitudes make me ILL!
Turning a blind eye to SIMPLE DOCUMENTATION because you are afraid that comprehension of a topic will make Baby Jesus Cry is NOT “Refuting Evidence” against evolution.
Using your own willful ignorance as your REASON behind not ‘believing’ a scientific reality goes against the whole scientific method…
