See, religious people don't bug me. Not fully trusting evolution doesn't bug me - its a hard concept to grasp. But science is based not on observation and inference, but on using valid tests to confirm hypothesis without unreasonable doubt. The earth and this universe *is* billions of years old, and evolution or not, denying the overwhelming evidence for that in favor of "the bible" is ridiculous. Why can nobody accept that the bible was written during a time without science? The future advancements of mankind were not known, and basically everything people of this time have thought to be true have been proven wrong. Sure, we may be proven wrong as well in 2,000 years, but for those who wrote the bible - they've ALREADY been proven wrong.
The advancements of science and technology have simply made religious claims look silly in the eyes of 99.9% of intelligent people in the world. You say we aren't looking hard enough for God, or the evidence of creationism. I'm sorry, but you shouldn't have to look so damn hard for evidence when there are millions and millions of pages and thousands of theoretical papers written and verified over hundreds of years by people FAR more intelligent than any of us that shows otherwise. You give an example of some moron on youtube, and for every one of those there are probably 10,000 people with better theories about the age of the earth.
Personally, I trust the people who build the skyscrapers to withstand the elements, the bridges, the cars, the space shuttles and astronaut suits, the submarines, the people who have spent their life in geology studying the age of rocks, those who split atoms, have spent their life looking at animal and plant biology, people in gene therapy who have confirmed the ability the alter ones genetic makeup, make our airplanes fly, create artificial organs, have robots doing our work, create telescopes to peer into the distant space, the thousands of distance-algorithms from these findings to see how far away objects are in space, people confirmed the expansion of the universe, etc., etc., etc., etc., and hey.. they're the people who will tell you, science says the universe is billions of years old, the earth is billions of years old, microevolution can be SEEN, and our people evolved, are continueing to evolve, and there will be a day humans cease to exist.
You can backfire and say history shows scientists have been wrong. But I'm sorry, we've proven people wrong who could hardly figure out how to use a wheel, thought the earth was flat, etc. We have REFINED their theories, and even if people look back on us as idiots, we're still a hell of a lot farther ahead of "the bible" right now.
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monkeys have evolved a TON since we split from the, as redbull said, common ancestor. Making connections between CURRENT DAY humans and CURRENT DAY monkeys is not valid whatsoever. Both species have undergone so many changes that of course there are vast differences. Why would, if we evolved from monkeys, monkeys.. still be the same? Lol. Anybody who says "evolutions is dumb, no way did we evolve from monkeys" has no idea anything about evolution.
