Quote Originally Posted by CosmoLTW
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Also, there is just as much faith based in believing in evolution as there is in religion. I'm not talking about micro-evolution(sp?) because that is pretty obviously in existence. It is just pretty much adapting to one's environment. I'm talking about macro-evolution, where you have huge species jumps over millions of years. With all the species that become extinct each day, what's to say that wasn't a "missing link" that we were looking for but a species that lived and died off just like millions of others? Or if only one copy of that particular missing link is found, how do you know it's not just a mutation, a fluke? I think on both sides of the fence people force what they claim to believe into a tiny little box to serve the agenda they had all along. But if you go into it with an open and humble mind, you can take away much more from both science and religion.
Nobody (rational) contests the fundamental science behind the chemistry which creates medicine or the anatomical knowledge behind life saving medical procedures, the operations of various types of power plants which light and heat their homes or the various complex hardware and software systems which are enabling you to read this right now.

But as soon as science (paleontoleogy, geology, dating techniques, evolutionary biology, etc) appears to be contradictary to their religious beliefs, everybody thinks that all scientists in the respective field are quacks, that they're wrong, that science is a complementary explanation to the workings of the universe in the occassional absence of god and that the contested article(s) is/are "just a theory" (without knowing what a theory is in a scientific context~) etc.

Its mass idiocy, and if you subscribe to it, you're an idiot too.