…a rift between those who stubbornly believe in impossible delusions and the more advanced members, aka, atheists?
2007-12-26 11:34:15 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Perhaps they're the "control group" by which those who are more evolved can be discerned...
2007-12-26 11:41:17 · answer #1 · answered by eris 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I see a great number of people here who think they know something about evolution, but should keep their hands away from the keyboard.
By " rift " I assume you mean speciation. You would have to isolate one group from another, their children would have to be clones of their parents and you would need the proper mutational event. Not too likely.
You assume a progressive bent to evolutionary processes that have no direction, or, any goal in mind. Evolutionary theory can tell you about the past and the present, but is not an accurate predictor of the future.
gradfather raven sums it up nicely.
2007-12-26 11:49:55 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I do not think so - everyone has their rights to their believe - may them be an atheist or the others - it has nothing to do with believe and religions or races - I have talk about this subject everywhere in answering questions after questions - we are giving excuses just to cause any sparks to each other to fight in the name of the subjects I mentioned above
We are Homo sapiens - it is our art creating reasons to fight - It has nothing to do with God or religious teachings - we specialize in the art of fighting among other things - we are at our best when wee arwarring then we seldom fully utilize our 3 pounds brain to the best of our ability - thinking wisely have no fun I suppose
We always crave for something we don't have and when we get it, it is not fun anymore - we are thinking as an individual not for the total of mankind - we are always a greedy species - whom shall we balme? Our Maker? Think people think
2007-12-26 11:55:05 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
The rift is widening as we speak, but WOman is very adaptive and thus should survive idiotic delusions.
What is gratifying to a Freethinker is the steady decline in those who think like Tina R that Christianity is the true religion.
2007-12-26 11:51:28 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Yes.
A recently released peer-reviewed paper shows humans are evolving faster than previously thought, and the part that really caught my eye is groups are evolving away from each other!
Speciation may occur in a few thousand years. What will it be called? A biologist friend (and atheist) told me the next step up would be Hetero Sapien.
2007-12-26 11:37:55 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
No,I don't think so.
Religion has, however, caused a rift between you and anyone on the planet who does not think as you do.
You stubbornly refuse to be friends with anyone who does not think as you do. You refuse to acknowledge that anyone who disagrees with you just might be a good person.
That, to me, does not indicate any advancement.
It indicates bigotry and regression.
2007-12-26 11:40:26 · answer #6 · answered by batgirl2good 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
It can and has been for thousands of years, If not for the lions in the Colosseum, who knows what one of the unborn souls of the lions meal would have done to change the world. Cure cancer? by the way, evolution proves the existence of God. The Big Bang. The amoeba, the sponge, amphibians, reptiles, mammals, man. All of this is the Formula that God used to create the world. It didn't just happen by chance. What if it did take millions of years, so what? That's nothing to infinity.
2007-12-26 12:09:04 · answer #7 · answered by jezabell 4 · 1⤊ 3⤋
As funny as that is, I'd have to say "no." People who come from long lines of fundamentalist zealots, and/ or were once fundamentalist zealots have become atheists, and atheists have become believers. I think the capacity for atheism is in every human being.
2007-12-26 11:44:29 · answer #8 · answered by Pull My Finger 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
probably not, at least without geographic or reproductive isolation of some form
this isn't Lamarkism, where the attributes acquired during life get passed on to descendants
genes don't pass on education, and the educated can still breed with the ignorant
2007-12-26 11:41:37 · answer #9 · answered by grandfather raven 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Not the true religion, Jesus was born a Jew, but became the first Christian. He showed all people how they must live, and the main teaching is that they love one another. True, we don't all follow that today and wars and violence do separate people, but the Bible promises that in the near future the wicked one will be no more. The scripture is Psalms 37:10, 11. It goes on to say that the righteous themselves will posess the earth and will live forever upon it. Learn more from Jehovah's Witnesses. We can show you how mankind will soon live in peace and that there will be no borders.
2007-12-26 11:41:47 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 6⤋
Physical evolution stops where society starts, because at that point, we protect those who would otherwise have been weeded out of the gene pool.
2007-12-26 11:36:52 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 10⤊ 1⤋