This week, we talk about evolution versus Adam and Eve with a great guest host. Jordan joins us to discuss Darwin, where evolution has gone and where it may take us next. The podcast is a little late, but it's a few minutes longer than usual to make up for it. Hopefully it was worth the wait; tell us what you think!
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Megan
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
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Seems to me your fake fact was more believable than a lot of the real facts regarding Scientology, for example, Scientologists believe that 75 million years ago Xenu (an alien ruler of the "Galactic Confederacy")brought billions of people to Earth in spacecraft resembling Douglas DC-8 airliners, stacked them around volcanoes and blew them up with hydrogen bombs. Their souls then clustered together, stuck to the bodies of the living and continue to do this today. L. Ron Hubbard (the creator of Scientology) called these clustered spirits "Body Thetans," and advanced-level Scientologists place considerable emphasis on isolating these alien souls and neutralizing their ill effects. I know right?
As for the Creationism/Darwinism deathmatch, I've always believed in evolution. Call me crazy, but I justs feel more inclined to believe the geniuses who spend their lives studying the way earth works, as opposed to the men who make me get up early every Sunday, to get overdressed and listen to stories suggesting I should feel bad for being human. I know deep down that everything can be explained if we look hard enough. Sure, right now it seems like there are so many things we'll never understand, like where we came from, why we exist, how existence itself started to... exist. It's overwhelming, sure, and every question we answer creates dozens more, but when I think that some three hundred years ago humans had no idea what gravity was or why it stuck us to the earth, and now it's taught in second grade, it makes me think that it's all just a matter of time.
I may offend a lot of people by saying this, but in this day and age, creationism, and religion in general, have just become the proverbial "easy mode". Science is hard work, a lot harder than reading The Bible (especially if you skip Leviticus, trust me, nothing happens), so if you're looking for answers, that's a great way to get them. The same applies to morality. It's much easier to obey ten arbitrary rules unconditionally, but maybe those ten rules aren't quite enough to cover the intricacies of life? Yeah, I think they fall a bit short (they put a lot of emphasis on not cheating on your spouse. I think that commandment could have been used better, for like "Thou shalt not rape young children" or something).
Wow, that got long-winded. Yeah so TL;DR, religion will eventually be overtaken and devoured by Science. It's natural selection.
Anyway, good podcast (love the title); keep it up.
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