Why do people deny evolution?

I don't know spendius.

I don't view you in a negative manner. Or anyone else.

Nobody knows. They pretend they do for personal reasons.

Aren't down thumbers tedious? It must be a moment in which they savour the full extent of their significance.

Hmm.. left in thought. Well. I'm not a down thumber. kind of person.

I love how people openly share their thoughts, feelings, else more here.

Think I'm addicted to this place. off this place.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Epo2M2CsUEs&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Not at all.

Your reason: It's not nice to believe in evolution


Like I said, science doesn't care whether or not you think it's nice.

evolution isn't belief

Do you think I don't know that? Science doesn't care about the quality of life either. It only pretends to in order to ingratiate itself with a bunch of naive, unthinking mediocre saps.

Snake oil salesmen didn't become extinct when snake oil was found not to work.

I think if you studied the matter more scientifically you would find that it is.

It isn't to you..it's actually fact to others. I could spend the rest of my life providing substantiating proof but to people like you it would fall on deaf ears. Why bother?! Scientists have devoted their lives to this question. You think by reading a few intermittent facts you can refute it's existence. The choice to be ignorant eludes me. And believe me...it is a choice.

No, it is not.

I think if you knew the first thing about science you would find that it is not.

wtf are you talking about?

I don't think she knows herself. Pay her no heed, you've got enough on your plate with Spendi.

Well, Imagine how many creatures died without being fossilized.
Now imagine how many of those that were fossilized are not discovered.

Still, what we have found so far goes against the goddidit plan.

Like an irresistible force goes against an immovable object.

Humans seek meaning in their lives and the godditit plan is the only one that can provide it. It might be said that the seeking of meaning in life is a necessary condition of being human. And a necessary condition for the existence of this thread. And of the US Constitution.

Why is a fossil with a bone structure and DNA traces which resemble our own in a limited way to be considered human except to satisfy a circular argument and an argument which could not have existed in the life of the fossilised being?

But it's a job eh?

Fossils are simply novel, spectacular manifestations being put to use by people who deny the concept of the unique place of humans in the history of life and the very act of standing at a microphone or writing a screed defeats every argument they are making.

I used to suspect that you had little knowledge of what you post, lately , you've been removing all doubts.

The people who use these "natural tools" have a deep desire to pass this information on and to share it with those coming after.
These people don't sit in bars and kvetch over their brews about how the human race is descending.

Nah!! They have a deep desire to use the information which others are too busy to soak up, or find too banal to bother with, and use it to try to look good, take control and revise Christian teachings regarding rumpy-pumpy to suit their personal circumstances.

There is not a single podium spouter on the joyous message of evolution who doesn't look like an over-expanded ego. Obviously such people avoid pubs because they are ego reducing institutions.

And they avoid answering questions in an adult manner and are content to sling mud at the questioner as if the question and the questioner are the same things.

You're on an "oohing" and "aahing" fairground sideshow old boy in the area where the toy aeroplanes and motor cars go around it little circles with their occupants waving at their doting moms and pops.

Evolution is simply a long winded and exceedingly repetitive codification by pedantic taxonomists of what had been known for thousands of years. It discovered nothing, it cannot be falsified and words and spurious authority can be used to fit everything for its use. It requires no intelligence beyond the average which is why Darwin spent so much time picking the brains of pigeon fanciers, some of whom were illiterate, and why so many averagely intelligent people attempt to use it to fake being above average or to justify their licentious behaviour. Probably both in the average case.

What it needs to really catch on is some style. Some black masses, unusual vestments, spectacular effects with coloured lights and atonal sound patterns, brain states altered under narcotics of one sort or another and ending, climaxing, in an orgy of writhing debauchery on and around the altar. Obviously with a Priestess officiating.

That might give it a bit of a zing I should think.

When you have seen one fossil you've seen them all.

An evolution gig is where a young man might find liberal minded young ladies of the self-improving sort.

Wilhelm Reich describes the same method as the Communist Party used it to persuade young men to join the cause in the early 1930s in Germany.

It struck me that the idea of a flat earth has two things going for it--

1--It looks flat.

2- It avoids watching the live cricket from Australia in a very peculiar state of mind unless one represses the knowledge that the scene is upside down. Or seeing Americans struggling through the snow looking upright when they are actually at an angle of about 30 degrees from the vertical as defined by the Greenwich Observatory.

This is the most idiosyncratic and stupid argument I've ever heard. I don't think anybody here is denying that humans have a unique place in the animal kingdom. That has absolutely nothing to do with evolution.