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Originally Posted by chopperdudes

When one openly attacks a religion, they are deemed impolite, rude, and gets attacked back for venturing into enemy territories. however, i think any idea should be subjected to the same amount of scrutiny given the chance to. every scientific theory undergoes a huge amount of scrutiny/peer reviewing/trying to prove it wrong before it is even published to the public.

the theory of evolution undergoes an exception amount of scrutiny (not only by the religious community but more so the scientific peer reviewers), in fact that's one of the reasons why it's one of the most solid theories in present time.

religion is also an idea, however, they undergo little scrutiny and those doesn't really affect it at all. attacks against religions are big no-no's. isn't this unfair?

one of the best flow charts i've seen:

Removed. If the OP wants to salvage a single strand of legitimacy from this thread, he won't mind. If not, I'll gladly lock the thread for lack of an interest in discourse.

Holy crap that's a bias OP!! Religious beliefs are constantly criticized and also undergo scrutiny. All scientific evidence produced also complies with the existence of a god. Now who'd know more about evolution than Darwin himself? Even he eventually said that it's inaccurate (that all species present today DID NOT stem from a single ancestry). Oh and lets not exclude the irony that its most compelling evidence is its greatest downfall: fossils. The fact is that for all creatures present today to have stemmed from a single ancestry there must be fossils of the intermediate phases in equal quanities to the fossils of the final product. The truth is that there are tons of documented fossils in their final phase, yet VERY few demonstrating the intermediate phases (and many aren't even complete fossils). Soley from a mathematical aspect, the theory of evolution is inconceivable.

I have some more to say but I've got to leave. I just wanted to explain how bias the OP is.