I wonder if you don’t want it to be true, or just skeptical

Maybe you could steelman the position so that at least you can show you honestly understand such a complex topic.

Evolution is a maximization of organism fitness by natural selection via genetic drift. All those components are proven to exist in nature.

Why would putting them all together into a working theory break any of them?

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I’m taking an skeptical position on this topic. And like I said, we can agree to disagree on many of these touchy ideas

Since covid, I have been seeing things in a different perspective. If they lied about covid, what’s stopping them to control the narrative?

Question everything frens šŸ’œ

Would you agree to disagree that Litecoin is better than bitcoin?

Probably not.

It’s not about narrative control. It’s about educating yourself.

Sure. You are confusing two different concepts but that’s ok. I’m not going to assume anything about you bc I don’t roll like that. Know what I’m saying

We are all at different stages in life and at least I got the seed planted in your head to ponder more about this concept 😊

No. I used to believe evolution was a lie before I had looked into it. I also believed in Jesus. Then I started educating myself.

I respect your opinion but your denial of Jesus Christ is plain wrong

Repent friend

The book that changed my life was ā€œA Manual for Creating Atheistsā€

Don’t read it.

Looks like an interesting read. I do agree that my worldview is based on faith.

This (highlights in photo above) seems flawed though, and this individual absolutely seems like the armchair intellectual I referenced above. You and the individual above would rather replace the biblical faith (rooted in thousands of years of study and intellect) with the amorphous blob ā€˜faith’ (with strong niahlistic undertones ((evolution))) that was only recently developed in the fiat age?

That type of ā€˜faith’ transcends even my capacity for faith, and in my religion I practice faith everyday!

https://www.catholic.com/magazine/online-edition/a-manual-for-creating-atheists-a-critical-review

I’d LOVE to discuss the books contents with you after you’ve read it.

It’s a very short book. The audio book is great BTW.

As we know trying to orange-pill, it’s very easy to shrug a new idea off before really taking the time to sit down and listen to it.

Will check out audiobook.

ā€œWhat is faith?ā€

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Action.

The denial of God is absurd

I’d never do that.

But faith is an ā€œunreliable epistemology.ā€ The book explains the concept, but only read it if you’re actually willing to absorb a new idea and think critically for yourself!

If the book is wrong, then you’d do nothing more than solidify your belief in god as well as have a new tool to engage with any atheists you meet.

Can’t hurt.

So absurd that you see how it impacts other areas requiring critical thinking. Like evolution.

The theory of macro evolution is so absurd that only an intellectual could have come up with it.

It me reminds me of the Thomas Sowell quote, ā€œSome of the biggest cases of mistaken identity are among intellectuals who have trouble remembering that they are not God.ā€

Evolution conveniently puts God to the side so that they can make themselves the center of the universe and subscribe to whatever jacked up worldview they would like.

Explain the most absurd points about it.

I studied biology in college. I’d like to figure out what’s wrong about it so I can learn.

Thanks for sharing.

Also you said you don’t assume things but then did twice in this reply.

I’m really not trying to argue.

When someone becomes emotional or argumentative while they explain their opinion it just shows how they don’t have much to stand on logically.

But I have spent a considerable part of my life deeply looking into this topic. If I’m wrong, I’m wrong - but I would be surprised if you had genuinely looked into the theory of evolution before discounting it.

Question everything means you start educating yourself in order to find out what’s true.

If you’re willing to discount evolution that means you’d need a very deep understanding of biology. Take any modern biology class and you’ll learn the basics of evolution.

Biology is founded on ā€œevolution.ā€ Evolution is science.

Richard Dawkins has some very good books on the topic.

Evolution denial is science denial. And if you want to deny science then being a bitcoiner would be ironic, as bitcoin is founded in computer science.