Sunnyhunda1, having been a devout communist myself I can definitely assure you religion wasn't ever an issue for whether I'd like communism to rule or not. Considering Fidel Castro is a devout catholic, you'd realize this to be of no bigger concern for communism. Mao and Stalin did EVERYTHING in the name of communism, no doubt. Hitler was a catholic, and also killed millions of people.
After I've left my communism, I'm an even more moral person. I will never hurt anyone for their belief in a deity, as I think every life is precious(granted. I don't give a shit about many, I still respect their right to live). Religions constantly hurt those who don't share their god. No one can or will forgive me if I make mistakes, therefore my conscience won't allow me to make too big mistakes. The paedophile catholic priests knew they could later ask god for mercy. How could I ever do that? I have to not make the mistakes in the first place. It's so convenient to be religious.
Movax: I'm more than interested in why you think the evolution is ridiculous. Every respectable biologist work under the premise it's true. They don't even have any alternative to work with and they're fully satisfied it's the only theory we'll ever have. I would assume you find it ridiculous due to the extremely common misconception creationists use over and over, despite it's obvious flaws. sunnyhunda said something even more ridiculous about a stone becoming a 100 story building based on that misconception.
The evolution is rock-solid. There's one simple misconception most creationists use. The idea of evolution being a random process. Evolution is absolutely anything but random. If it were random, you'd all be correct. Hoyle's fallacy is probably the origin of this ludicrous misconception. A snippet from the wiki on Hoyle's fallacy - "Hoyle's formulation concerns the probability that a protein molecule could achieve a functional sequence of amino acids by chance alone. He calculates this as being of approximately the same order of magnitude as the probability that a hurricane could sweep through a junkyard and randomly assemble a Boeing 747."
If you believe this to be how the evolution works, then you're obviously not in the least interested in learning about it as Natural selection is a fundamental and crucial aspect of it. There's nothing random about it at all. The mutations however (I think) are more or less random. If any random mutation doesn't work, it's likely to fall under the knife of Natural selection, which the majority of mutations do. If the mutations are working in the environment, it's likely to survive (I may have been wrong to some extent in the last parts here, but I think it explains it fairly well).
So yes, the evolution would be ridiculous if it was random, but that's a simple and common misconception fabricated by creationists to undermine it. Here's a page that explains some misconceptions.
http://www.talkorigi...onceptions.htmlPlease Movax, if you would love to believe(accept reality, really) in the evolution, as you said, then please read about it, as there's absolutely nothing ridiculous about it. I say accept the evolution in the sense that you don't believe it's a chair you're sitting on, you know it is and therefore accept it. Belief is unnecessary. There are no "missing links" that can undermine it either. Please keep asking, as I find it important people don't believe in ridiculous ideas like the earth being only 6000 years old, when it's really 4.5 billion years old.
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