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Permalink Reply by matt.clerke on October 18, 2011 at 10:36pm

Well that's a double negative, so they are saying that they DID come from an ape!

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Permalink Reply by Kemal on October 19, 2011 at 7:07pm

Muslims?  Probably, yes (the Quran is vague enough about creation to allow evolution as long as you don't touch the Adam and Eve myth).  Christians?  I doubt it.  Genesis dug them into a pretty deep hole as far as creation is concerned.  Fundamentalist Christians still believe dinosaurs coexisted with humans just so they can keep the 5,000-year-old-world thing going.

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Permalink Reply by Deborah Loraine Kean on October 24, 2011 at 2:05am

"Fundamentalist Christians still believe dinosaurs coexisted with humans just so they can keep the 5,000-year-old-world thing going."

Erm, no, that's not true, at least in my experience... (I spent years in a fundamentalist church.) None of them believed humans and dinosaurs co-existed, and while some were creationists, others were not.

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Permalink Reply by Kemal on October 26, 2011 at 6:28pm

You're right I shouldn't have generalized.  I did watch a pastor on TV who explained in excruciating detail his "proof" that dinosaurs and humans co-existed.  But I'm not an expert on fundamentalist Christianity and I'll submit that it may very well be a minority or even a fringe view.

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Permalink Reply by Deborah Loraine Kean on October 27, 2011 at 3:32am

"and I'll submit that it may very well be a minority or even a fringe view."

It's my experience that it is indeed a fringe view! Thankfully...

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Permalink Reply by Bryan Casey on October 26, 2011 at 10:26pm

The ones at the church I'm forced to listen to every week believe that fossils were planted on earth by Satan to deceive people.

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Permalink Reply by Suzanne Olson-Hyde on October 27, 2011 at 4:05am

That frigging Satan, he is just soooo tricky lol:). But he does get around.

From Africa, to America, from Mexico and Argentina to the Arctic - wow!.

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Permalink Reply by Suzanne Olson-Hyde on October 27, 2011 at 4:00am

There is a Creationist Museum In Petersburg, Kentucky, built in 2007.

It presents an account of the origins of the universe, life, mankind, and man's early history according to a literal reading of the Book of Genesis. " 

Copied from link - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creation_Museum 

The museum complete with Tyrannosaurus co-existing with humans. This museum gets million of dollars in donations from xians, and is on 49 acres of land.

Copy and Paste - Over 80 of them animatronic (animated and motion-sensitive). Model dinosaurs are depicted in the Garden of Eden, many of them side-by-side with human figures. In one exhibit, a Triceratops and a Stegosaurus are shown aboard a scale model of Noah's Ark.

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Permalink Reply by Deborah Loraine Kean on October 24, 2011 at 2:03am

Newsflash, The " religious community" already does  accept evolution as a fact .. at least outside of Bugtussle USA!

The Catholics have accepted evolution as a fact for generations, as do most main stream Protestants, and the only creationist religious people in New Zealand, are a handful of Muslims and maybe 150 American-influenced recently formed Protestant groups.

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Permalink Reply by Reg The Fronkey Farmer on October 25, 2011 at 3:18pm

Evolution is a fact. It is not a matter of belief. It is one of understand it or misunderstanding it. We share common ancestory.

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Permalink Reply by Deborah Loraine Kean on October 26, 2011 at 4:52am

My point is that the vast majority of 'religious people' do not dispute it!

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Permalink Reply by Bryan Casey on October 26, 2011 at 10:29pm

It's different in America, especially in the bible belt, where evolution is still hotly debated both inside and outside biology classes.

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