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Originally Posted by RougeUnderoos
Yeah, but in this Darwin documentary does he even get to that?
Early on he does say "this theory is what leads me to believe there is no god", but the gist of his religious argument, as I saw it, was "this evolution explanation is way better than an explanation we get from any religious text" and that's about as far as he goes.
I think I'm contradicting myself.
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I don't think Darwin does, I just found that the kids themselves did very much, saying that the information on evolution was interesting but they still believed in God one said I think.
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Originally Posted by Circa89
Still religion does not have to be discounted because try as it may evolutionary theory or science in general never explains, nor ever can explain the rise from the single celled organism to the self aware consciousness ( I think therefore I am) Cartesian thought process that humans have, the faculty of the mind supercedes evolutionary explainations plain and simple.
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I disagree, the whole point of evolution is a common ancestor, at one point far in the past all life was a single population of single celled organisms. There's been tons of research into consciousness and how it evolved, why would that be outside evolution's ability to describe?
And even if it was something that evolution didn't explain, why would religion be the only alternative?