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Author Topic:   What is the appeal of evolution?
robinrohan
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Message 68 of 75 (352228)
09-25-2006 6:01 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by Percy
09-22-2006 4:04 PM


I'm looking for an explanation for why evolutionists choose evolution?
Evolution has a romantic appeal that fits very well with the science-fiction crazed culture of our time.
"The dark backward and abysm of time"--it sends a shiver down one's spine to think of all those eons when monsters roamed around. Thus the popularity of such shows as Jurassic Park. It's a fashion.

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robinrohan
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Message 73 of 75 (352320)
09-26-2006 7:16 AM
Reply to: Message 71 by ReverendDG
09-26-2006 12:05 AM


for someone who claims to know anything about the ToE, its really sad you bring up the x-men monster strawman of evolution
What I know about the Theory of evolution are the bare basics only. The bugaboo for me is genetics: totally incomprehensible.
that has nothing to do with the science, that has to do with people thinking that there is a magic pill that can solve all their problems at once.
I'm talking about the appeal of evolution, not its technicalities. That's the question asked in the OP. Some subjects have an exotic appeal. Now stories from the Bible have no appeal at all to the modern sensibility. One thinks of all those hideous Medieval paintings.
is this even relevent? what are you even talking about?
Very relevant. The human animal is not a logical machine. Many times what someone believes is influenced by what he finds attractive--not in a logical sense, not in a moral sense, but oddly enough in an aesthetic sense.

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