Reply #143: So, you're not worried about the facts, you're worried about what makes you feel better?

[Warren DeMontague]

You'll excuse me if I don't think that's a very good way to try to understand the world.

Look- some people say, I believe in evolution, I just believe "God" is behind it. That sort of statement is essentially meaningless, from a scientific standpoint, because it can't be proven or disproven.

But that's not "creationism". Creationism is brought to you by people who believe the Earth is 6,000 years old because Teh Bible Sez So, never mind the evidence. And that's the gist of it- never mind the evidence, this is what WE KNOW to be the facts so we're going to push it off as an "alternative" to evolution.

Problem is, there is no "alternative" to the "theory" of evolution any more than there is an "alternative" to the "theory" that the Earth is Round. EVOLUTION IS A FACT. End of story.

If you can reconcile your religious beliefs and concepts of an afterlife with the facts, bully for you. But you don't get to change the facts because they make you uncomfortable.