Devient.genie is an intolerant bigot

" God cannot be disproved no matter how hard you try. Nor proven." Leprechauns, unicorns, allah, zeus, thor, bale, none can be proven or disproven, you have said nothing but gibberish there :) " Separation of church and state seems to be working well here in the US and western countries. I don't know what world your living in" http://www.dailykos.com...# http://www.guardian.co.uk... http://www.waukeshawonk.com... Those are just a few links that smash your lack of knowledge and clearly show the USA has seperation anxiety when it comes to church and state. http://www.nytimes.com... http://www.huffingtonpost.com... http://www.clarionledger.com... Theres a few that deal with prayer, again more separation anxiety :) " do you think telling a child to strike down a human being for their religious beliefs is moral or good for it? This answer will prove my point in the debate." Only if the religious person starts the conversation, then you can ridicule and mock them as if they said the Yugo was the best car ever, or that 200 is a bigger number than 2 million. Ridicule and contempt are what religion has deserved for a long time now :) So let go of the tit, teach your kids the process on HOW to think by using logic, reason, evidence, observation, experiments, testing, instead of teaching them WHAT to think thru INDOCTRINATION. Kids have been free thinking forever, this is nothing new. Brainwashed and delusional, even though they make fine insults, are really Not insults to religion, they are both a very unfortunate diagnosis :) However, there is a cure. If everyone knew the beautiful and inspiring truths of nature in the 21st Century, religion would demand the respect of a 10 yr old paper airplane maker :) However, to ensure they dont lose their grip, religion must work very hard to discredit, talk down, disregard, and belittle, scientific genius understandings, that in the 21st Century, make Darwin childs play. The insurmountable amount of evidence that has been amassed over the last 150+ yrs, not only confirms Darwin's Theory, but improves upon and surpasses it leaps and bounds in evidence, understanding and ultimately application into our lives :) Mainstream scientists, don't attach the same importance to macro- vs. microevolution that creationists do. The terms macro- and microevolution were coined in 1927, casting doubt in an improper way has been going on for a long time. 1927 science still thought the Milky Way was the entire universe. Come on kids catch up. It's nice of creationists to admit that microevolution occurs, but the truth is that there is no magical dividing line between micro- and macroevolution. Biological evidence shows that changes within species are caused by the same natural forces that eventually cause differences between species, genera, families, and all the way up the line. There is no single day in which a youth becomes an adult, but everyone knows youths do become adults. It's just a gradual process. Looking at an individual day by day, we see the continuity. When we stand at a more distant vantage point, as when we view photos of ourselves taken years apart, we see the differences. We have no trouble identifying which stage is which, even though there never was a single calendar date at which one stage totally ended as the next totally began. It works the same way with species. It"s good to remember that terms like 'species' 'youth' and 'adult' 'dusk' and 'night' 'caterpillar' and 'butterfly' are words we invent to describe stages we observe. The processes that generate the stages happen regardless of what we call each stage, or whether we call them anything. Nature does what it does. We invent terms as we need them to talk about what we see. If evolution is truly a new concept to you, you haven't been served well by your science teachers. Fortunately, it's never too late to learn. Let me suggest a place to begin catching up on what you missed: the FAQ page for the Department of Geology at Baylor University. Baylor, as you know, is a baptist college in Texas. It trains geology graduates for success in many fields, including careers in the oil industry. The department offers an excellent summary of what is known about natural time scales and organic evolution. You will want to give special attention to the description of the scientific method :) Which is the perfect verse to curl up with your 7-9 yr old child as you share in the inspirational words? judges 19:22-30 :) 22 While they were enjoying themselves, some of the wicked men of the city surrounded the house. Pounding on the door, they shouted to the old man who owned the house, "Bring out the man who came to your house so we can have sex with him." 23 The owner of the house went outside and said to them, "No, my friends, don"t be so vile. Since this man is my guest, don"t do this outrageous thing. 24 Look, here is my virgin daughter, and his concubine. I will bring them out to you now, and you can use them and do to them whatever you wish. But as for this man, don"t do such an outrageous thing." 25 But the men would not listen to him. So the man took his concubine and sent her outside to them, and they raped her and abused her throughout the night, and at dawn they let her go. 26 At daybreak the woman went back to the house where her master was staying, fell down at the door and lay there until daylight. 27 When her master got up in the morning and opened the door of the house and stepped out to continue on his way, there lay his concubine, fallen in the doorway of the house, with her hands on the threshold. 28 He said to her, "Get up; let"s go." But there was no answer. Then the man put her on his donkey and set out for home. 29 When he reached home, he took a knife and cut up his concubine, limb by limb, into twelve parts and sent them into all the areas of Israel. 30 Everyone who saw it was saying to one another, "Such a thing has never been seen or done, not since the day the Israelites came up out of Egypt. Just imagine! We must do something! So speak up!" "The GOP's Uncomfortable Debate Over Gay Marriage" You know you live in a weak ignorant consciousness when its uncomfortable to consider equal rights to all humans :) Your beliefs, my beliefs, nobody's beliefs matter. Its whats we know and what we have evidence for that matters. We have evidence of Evolution by natural selection, its a basic tenet of all biology. Inability to comprehend biology, does not validate other beliefs, it only validates ignorance of biology :) Deism and the idea of a creator, or intelligent designer, is one of the greatest illusions of all time. A true intelligent understanding of evolution and science, is so corrosive to religious beliefs, that John Scopes went to trial in Tennessee for teaching evolution in school, just 88 yrs ago. That same level of ignorance, caused by the poisonous effects of religion, that took John Scopes to trial, is why equal rights in a court of law are even an option in 2013. If there is No religion, then marriage in a court of law is as controversial as eating a Snickers bar on break :) Grow up. Just because someone says keep it real, actions STILL speak louder than words :) Denying cumulative evolution by Non random natural selection, is the equivalent to denying water is H20. This isnt a joke. Cornell University 10 Mis-Understandings of evolution. Everything you need to know about evolution University of Berkley Evolution is Not in bible, adam and eve is :)