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« on: August 22, 2014, 07:12:00 PM »

Looks like 50% evolution 42% creationism to me.

And 19% for atheistic evolution is some serious movement, even though the gains are mainly shifts within the evolution crowd and no conversions.

The fact that more and more evolution rationalists are making the jump to atheism is splendid news!
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« Reply #1 on: November 23, 2014, 11:26:38 AM »

Looks like 50% evolution 42% creationism to me.

And 19% for atheistic evolution is some serious movement, even though the gains are mainly shifts within the evolution crowd and no conversions.

The fact that more and more evolution rationalists are making the jump to atheism is splendid news!

A good number of those people are the sorts who probably characterize themselves as deists if they're familiar with the term.

And a large number of deists are going to get to atheism, eventually.  Deists are largely people that have looked at the world on a, how do I say, somewhat more superficial, everyday level and have seen that lack of a need for god/gods.  What happens when these people get into physics, astronomy, and Big Bang cosmology?  There are not a lot of bonafide facts when it comes to the origin of our universe, but what is a fact is that more and more and more aspects of existence and the nature of the cosmos that are being discovered that show no need for the supernatural.  Science has taken us through the natural progression of being able to explain things here on Earth, but in the last 40-50 years we've taken gigantic steps in understanding the cosmos.  Even the age old "How can something come from nothing?" isn't even relevant anymore, because we observe particles blipping in and out of existence everyday, as well as more mathematical proofs (and I'm not stupid enough to claim that I thoroughly understand these equations) that show a relation to the total estimated energy in our universe, Heisenburg's Uncertainty Principle, and the fact that the total amount of energy that can be contained in one cubic Planck length (the smallest possible volume) correlates exactly with the amount of energy that Einstein's equations predict can suddenly come into and out of existence in a vacuum.  Simply put, that sphere of our understanding where much had to be the work of the supernatural is shrinking and shrinking.  It can never go away, of course, but I wouldn't be playing smaller and smaller odds at casino for eternity, either.
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