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Originally Posted by ShaniFaye
I do not, however, believe that we evolved from apes
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But you
are an ape!
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Originally Posted by nothingx
It just explains why a horse is not a zebra, and why polar bears are not black.
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Actually, polar bears
are black. They have black skin and a transparent outer layer of fur, which appears to us as white.
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Originally Posted by kutulu
I really don't see why people can't separate science and religion. To me evolution seems like the practical and likely mechanism to describe the emergence and development of life and the Bible is a non-scientific way to describe the same to people who at the time had absolutely zero understanding of scientific processes.
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So true, it's just a story for, and told by, people not yet ready for a scientific explanation. If the Japanese had settled America before the Europeans then the argument would be evolution versus the divine beings Izanagi and Izanami.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanes...#Creation_Myth