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Originally Posted by MHDTV
Exactly, and I'm certainly not saying I believe this, but many would say that that is proof of intelligent design. Once again, I don't believe that but I'm just making the point that that isn't proof that God doesn't exist, as you implyed.
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It's a good thing you're not saying you believe it's proof of intelligent design because I can't see how it would be. Evolution isn't really proof of anything much. All the current scientific knowledge tells us is that mutatation and the following 'natural selection' is one process that happens. There are lots of other possible processes which could happen, from the extremes of randomness to intelligent design and everything in between, and it could have been any combination of these unknowns which brought things to where they are today.
I think that evolution theories are currently focussed on the effects of DNA mutation because Crick and Watson happened to crack the structure of DNA in the 1950's (I think) so it's given scientists a better grip on that piece of the puzzle than they might have on other aspects of evolution theory. As with many things in science, until you have the 'paradigm shift' necessary to jump to another level of research then comparitively little progress gets made and I'm pretty sure that were a good few paradigm shifts away from even understanding evolution to a decent extent let alone having any explanation for the history of evolution beyond invoking some god/gods that people made up rather than admit they didn't know why anything was happening.
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This is why more then 1/3 of those who describe themselves as "deeply religious" in prison became so once they got there.
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Also because they realise it'll win them brownie points with the prison authorities and being 're-born' helps them in trying to distance themselves from whatever crime they committed (almost like a metaphysical cry of "It wasn't me!")