I guess I will try to get this thread a little back on track. I suppose the two main ideas in this thread can be categorized by beliefs in gods and such.
The whole idea of god, as I understand it anyway, has always been for man to have a reason for something, to explain why we exhist, why we are here, why things happen etc. In christianity, as well in many other religions, people are taught to be humble, to be caring for other humans, to be nice, etc. and for these same reasons they alienated some people.
A lot of people don't want to be told what is right or wrong, they need to find out their own human truth because they feel that they can only learn through expierence, or at the minimum, something that feels more real. Darwinism did this for a lot of people. It is fact that there are a lot of stretches of truth in the bible, and for people who take it literally, it leaves much to be needed. darwinism filled a lot of those holes.
It makes more sense that things just didn't happen over night, or in the bibles case in 6 days. 6 days to billions of years, which one is more logical?
So on one front, you have science, the other religion. I realize that is incredibly simplified, and could be called wrong because of that, but it's just a short thought that I felt that could be shared.
I doubt anyone in this thread is on the extreme of either of these cases, but both sides do have baring on how we argue our subjects.
So lets try to get this thread back on track a little alright?