If Americans evolved from British people, how come there are still British people?

Question

If this country was founded by religious people, why did they pass the first amendment?

Answer 1

Good effort but it's probably wasted on most of your respondents :-)

Answer 2

1st question - I think it's better to say that Americans and Brits 'evolved' from 18th-century British people, if evolution occurred at all.

The First Amendment was not to condemn or condone religion, but rather to keep government out of religious matters. What they didn't want was a "state church" such as the Anglican Church in England, which was seen as an excessive entanglement of political and religious authorities. Quite the opposite in America, where religious groups often are at odds with political decisions. At the same time, that does not preclude either the electorate or the elected officials from adhering to a religion, nor even from making decisions based upon religious belief.

Answer 3

Because they didn't know what the world would like or be like today. Think about George Washington. If he came out of a time capsule, he'd fall over from shock.

Answer 4

That's easy..... The Brits are soooooo stubborn and determined that no one has had the courage to tell them the evolution has occurred and they lost!

Answer 5

if humans evolved from apes, how come we still have you around?

Answer 6

you wanted bloody british to extinguish ?

Answer 7

not all left England