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Originally Posted by bhutocracy
Nope, you pretty much just flamed out there. Evolution is a capital "F" Fact. It is a Fact that evolution occurs. There is no faith neccessary at all. What you are calling faith (and btw callously insulting those who have faith and believe faith in the devine is special) is the same thing as not walking off a tall building because you have "faith" that the theory of gravity will cause you to fall. Both falling from buildings and evolution are facts. The theory part is the mechanism involved, so while scientists may argue over punctuated equilibrium in evolution or the mechanism of gravity, they don't argue over the fact of evolution or that you fall off buildings.
If you want to change the meaning of words go ahead but it has no bearing on reality or the argument. To get to the larger point of accepting abiogenisis, as I mentioned in the previous post, they've already demonstrated how it occurs up to RNA. The "belief" required isn't the same kind or quality as wholesale belief in something completely untestable, Ie it's not blind. If you could prove god or an invisible unicorn the way we are proving that life originated here chemically than it wouldn't be blind faith in god and I would be withholding all judgement as the scientists got on with proving god. You're making a category error. Belief + fact != religion.
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I'm not arguing that evolution itself is blind faith. Animals are always evolving. Last I checked, and I'm no scientist by any stretch of the imagination, they have yet to explain exactly how humans came to be. We share DNA with apes, but I'm not aware of them ever discovering that missing link.
Evolution aside, the blind faith part comes from the big bang. You have to just believe that this stuff existed and exploded and created the universe. We have no proof that this is how it occurred. We have theories, but no hard fact in that case.
All the science aside, and I am likely blame for bringing it up, it doesn't really change the fact that I believe atheism is a form or religion. Maybe that is how I should have stated it to begin with. I feel that atheism is a religion. You may not. It's a free country.