Part of the reason evolution was offered was they were looking for more sex, and didn't like Christianity telling them about morality.
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cue evil horny scientists:
Darwin: hey, fuck im horny.
Martin: me too. I am so tired of 'yoking' it.
Darwin: not to worry my good buddy. I have arranged these bones in a false pattern to fool the world into thinking there was evolution. I support this outlandish tomfoolery with these painted finches.This will hatch my evil plan to kill god and get laid without worrying about morality.
martin: "I'll never yoke again. Imagine the way the girls will flock to us now.
Darwin: "and so it is done. Put away the lube and porno my good buddy...happy days are finally here."
Fade out to white.
clap clap clap clap
oh, wait.... does he mean that, as evolution is clearly the ONLY alternative to christianity, you can have morality or you can have sex, ie, you can have christianity or you can have evolution?
took a bit, but I think I've deciphered the logic.
Charles Darwin confided his own doubts in a letter to a colleague in 1858, the year before publication of the Origin of Species:
Thank you heartily for what you say about my book; but you will be greatly disappointed; it will be grievously too hypothetical. It will very likely be of no other service then collating some facts; though I myself think I see my way approximately on the origin of the species. But, alas, how frequent, how almost universal it is in an author to persuade himself of the truth of his own dogmas.
If Darwin himself called it "grievously too hypothetical," why are we teaching it as proven fact today?
Page 74 The Case against Darwin
If Darwin himself called it "grievously too hypothetical," why are we teaching it as proven fact today?
Because we have evidence for it that Darwin did not. For one, the mechanism for variation and inheritance thereof (DNA) was not known to Darwin.
I'm sure Einstein had some doubts about relativity when he first came up with it too. It's normal to doubt when the evidence leads you away from popular belief - usually with good reason, in science, since an established theory is established for a reason. Perhaps the data was flawed or tampered with. But if you keep examining the evidence and it keeps pointing that way, maybe you ought to be heading that way after all.
"didn't like Christianity telling them about morality."
while this is true, it is not the reason scientists believe evolution. The real reason is that most evidence (protip: teh babble is not evidence) points to evolution.
Read The Song of Solomon in the bible. Its one of the greatest ads for sex ever written.
And while you are reading it, note that no where does it say the the couple is married.
"they were looking for more sex, and didn't like Christianity telling them about morality"
Well, that didn't stop Jimmy Swaggart, Ted Faggard, Newt Gingrich et al, did it?! [/smartarse]
Yeah, we've read all about the morality of Christianity, their moral crusades, their moral atrocities, the oh so moral hypocracy and demands for special status. I'd put many Pagan/Nature religions above any moral expressed in Christianity, you should too, that's where you lot stole the good ones from.
@Robodoon quotes Darwin and misses the context:
"grievously too hypothetical,\"
And the rest of the quote you provided is an honest, humble man explaining that he wished he could nail it down, provide absolute proof. As Crosis pointed out. This is a case against Darwin how?
"The Case Against Darwin"? At least Darwin was honest. I've yet to meet a creationist who wasn't (a) a lying turd, (b) an ignorant fool, or (c) a scam artist.
The evidence for evolution has been gathered for the past 150 years, and at this point it's airtight. What have you got, Robodoon? Character assassination of a man long dead.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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