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I can't take credit for this. But this response was generated during a debate about the "evolution is only a theory" stickers on text books.
"A friend of mine told me this story once several years ago:
Let's say you're walking down a sandy beach along the ocean. As you're walking along, you see something shiny in the sand and reach down and pick it up. It's a gear. You toss it in your pocker. Further down you find another gear. A little further a spring. Next a piece of glass, and later still a flat piece of metal about the size of a coin. Each time you find one of these items, you put it in your pocket. When you arrive at home you reach into your pocket and pull out a complete, working pocketwatch made up of each of the pieces you found in the sand. They randomly fell together just right from the vibrations of your walking.
The chances of of that first, single-celled organism coming from that primordial ooze is worse than your chances of finding all of those pieces to that watch and having them fall together in your pocket during a walk on the beach. The next time you're making fun of a creationist, you might want to consider those odds first, because your chances of standing there because of evolution are pretty slim, regardless of how much evidence you happen to have tucked away in your pocket.
Science anymore is as much of a religion as any religion. We go to school and read textbooks and are taught by teachers. It's not much different than going to a church, temple, or whatever building and reading a Bible or Koran or other book and being taught by another teacher, pastor, or such. Granted, many parts of science have been proven by someone, but until you go and build your own lab and prove to yourself that water is made up of 2 atoms of hydrogen and 1 atom of oxygen, you are taking on faith that what is written in your science book is true. Don't forget that along the way you will have to prove that atoms exist.
You can argue all you want with my logic, but most of us do take our science on faith as we will never take the time or energy to prove it all to ourselves. I'm not saying that I don't believe in science, but we all put our faith somewhere, whether it be in religion or science. "
~D.T.
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"A friend of mine told me this story once several years ago:
Let's say you're walking down a sandy beach along the ocean. As you're walking along, you see something shiny in the sand and reach down and pick it up. It's a gear. You toss it in your pocker. Further down you find another gear. A little further a spring. Next a piece of glass, and later still a flat piece of metal about the size of a coin. Each time you find one of these items, you put it in your pocket. When you arrive at home you reach into your pocket and pull out a complete, working pocketwatch made up of each of the pieces you found in the sand. They randomly fell together just right from the vibrations of your walking.
The chances of of that first, single-celled organism coming from that primordial ooze is worse than your chances of finding all of those pieces to that watch and having them fall together in your pocket during a walk on the beach. The next time you're making fun of a creationist, you might want to consider those odds first, because your chances of standing there because of evolution are pretty slim, regardless of how much evidence you happen to have tucked away in your pocket.
Science anymore is as much of a religion as any religion. We go to school and read textbooks and are taught by teachers. It's not much different than going to a church, temple, or whatever building and reading a Bible or Koran or other book and being taught by another teacher, pastor, or such. Granted, many parts of science have been proven by someone, but until you go and build your own lab and prove to yourself that water is made up of 2 atoms of hydrogen and 1 atom of oxygen, you are taking on faith that what is written in your science book is true. Don't forget that along the way you will have to prove that atoms exist.
You can argue all you want with my logic, but most of us do take our science on faith as we will never take the time or energy to prove it all to ourselves. I'm not saying that I don't believe in science, but we all put our faith somewhere, whether it be in religion or science. "
~D.T.
I liked this.