Given Buffy’s directive, I’ll try to move our discussion about evolution from the Evolution Poll tread to a new thread here in the Biology forum.
The discussion picks up here:
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Originally Posted by Fatstep
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Originally Posted by Lancaster
Please explain. Do you mean that you do not believe in natural selection but do believe in evolution? They're pretty much mutually inclusive.
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I believe this; Darwin noticed how things happened around him and named them certain events, such as natural selection. Natural selection is 'only the fittest survive' right? When two animals compete for mates the stronger one wins, and because the stronger genes are passed along the ones that weren't up to par do not continue in the gene pool. I believe that happens, simply because it makes sense and it happens every day in plain sight.
I do not believe in evolution in the darwinian sense. I do not believe we all started as a volatile mixture of elements and somehow were forced by energy into simple amino acids, carbohydrates, proteins etc. To put it bluntly, I believe in God, and I believe in Science.
I in a sense believe in Ocaam's Razor. Whatever seems the simplest was probably what happened, with all of the infinite number of things that could have been, but we got them perfect in our universe, I believe God is the simplest answer, and he placed everything on earth for us to investigate and all of the sciences that say there aren't a God are just ways to test faith. Will they be enough to disprove God, or will people decide to put them aside and believe in God first of all and sceince secondly.
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God and Occam’s razor are not friendly toward one another. In fact, they are bitter enemies.
—Larv
