Religion: What it means to you

Originally Posted by GameInfarcer

You're right, you can't disprove the existence of god, but that doesn't mean you have to actually give it a chance. You also can't disprove the theory that the flying spaghetti monster exists.

But what exactly is wrong with entertaining the possibility? Crazier things have been believed in.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Smelnick

Common sense tells me that the theory of evolution is bullshit. You're gonna sit there and tell me that something as complex as the human eyeball became perfected through random mutations. Common sense should tell you that ain't gonna happen. If you took apart a watch, and dropped the handful of pieces onto the ground over and over again. What are the chances of it landing in such an orientation as to work perfectly? Or even at all? Common sense will tell me that it's not going to happen. It's this level of common sense that is making scientists lean away from the theory of evolution.

I think you're confusing evolution with entropy. And even then, evolution does not violate the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics. Complexity is relative. For example, let's use number of chromosomes as a measure of complexity for living things . . . humans have 46 pairs, yet a potato has 48. Do those 2 extra pairs make them any more "advanced" than humans? Common sense says that it should since it has more DNA to deal with, so is this really true?

There's nowhere I can't reach.