orogenicman
Darwin was a pastafarian
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I don't have to prove you wrong, you have to prove yourself right, and on that you fail miserably.You can't prove that ridiculous claim and you call me the zealot? And no, Christians don't want ANY religion taught in school, including the religion of evolution. You are NOT our children's parents.Actually, the first thing you zealots want is an opportunity to force your religious beliefs into the public schools. The entire false and contrived "teach the controversy" nonsense is being furthered by fundamentalist Christian creation ministries.Wrong, idiot. The last thing Christians want is for some fucking atheist liberal teaching our kids about God. Neither do we want you fucktards teaching our kids that our ancestors were apes. Comprende, asshole?No, Mr. Wrong. Atheists aren't saying that Christians don't understand evolution because there are plenty of Christians who do. They are saying that creationists and intelligent design supporters don't understand it or are willfully ignorant of it or willfully misrepresent it. What you people are insisting on, particularly intelligent design people, is that life is too complex to have come about randomly (randomness being a mislabel of what evolutions says) and must have had a designer. Creationists simply say god did it regardless (in 7 days of all crazy things), but intelligent design hides god behind some undefined "designer" because they believe that in doing so they can get it taught in our public schools. And sorry, but that is never going to happen. It is the god of the gaps argument.
Sorry to disappoint you but human ancestry does derive from a version of the "apes" you describe although your understanding of our biological history is as ignorant and useless as the typical zealot.
Yes we can demonstrate the claim exactly through genetics, fossils, anatomy, morphology, physiology, and cladistics. And your claim that it isn't true is via what evidence, exactly? Please be specific.
Actually, you do. Why? Because the theory of evolution is the accepted paradigm for the origin of the diversity of life on Earth. So let's discuss who has the burden of proof, shall we:
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8. Burden of Proof
Who has to prove what to whom? The person making the extraordinary claim has the burden of proving to the experts and to the community at large that his or her belief has more validity than the one almost everyone else accepts. You have to lobby for your opinion to be heard. Then you have to marshal experts on your side so you can convince the majority to support your claim over the one they have always supported. Finally, when you are in the majority, the burden of proof switches to the outsider who wants to challenge you with his or her unusual claim. Evolutionists had the burden of proof for half a century after Darwin, but now the burden of proof is on creationists. It is up to creationists to show why the theory of evolution is wrong and why creationism is right, and it is not up to the evolutionists to defend evolution. The burden of proof is on the Holocaust deniers to prove the Holocaust did not happen, not on Holocaust historians to prove that it did. The rationale for this is that mountains of evidence prove that both evolution and the Holocaust are facts. In other words, it is not enough to have the evidence. You must convince others of the validity of your evidence. And when you are an outsider this is the price you pay, regardless of whether you are right or wrong.