Some Things Banned By The Bible

Jesus never existed, and neither did the characters of the old testament.  Despite the details given in the Bible, not one shred of archaeological evidence exists for any stories of the Old Testament or the existence of Jesus.

THIS IS A REPLY TO ‘THA LORD’ DIRECTLY UNDERNEATH THIS COMMENT…

google search “dead sea scrolls” then tell me there isn’t any archaeological evidence…

IT’S A FUCKING JOKE PEOPLE….. learn to laugh….take yourself and your ideas a little less seriously….  fucking atheists are just as dogmatic and close minded as the religious bigots.  everyone shut your pie holes and have a laugh

The comment was mostly addressed to the people who DO try to use the OT as leverage for their radical ideas, without taking the work as a whole.  If they attempted to follow every command in the Bible, including those made by Jesus himself, then they’d run into paradoxes.  For example, Jesus made a lot of “you have heard it said… now I say to you…” statements.  How can an omniscient god change its mind?

Had a great class on this. It’s because they were so (stil are) tribal, and it records where Jesus came from and many of the other prophet’s ancestors. They were big into that.

everybody that participated in writing the bible was a 100 percent true God wouldn’t allow liars or none worthy people to write it

You really need to spend some time researching the history of the bible and how it was put together.

God also wouldn’t allow crazy ass Christians to learn grammar or spelling.

excuse me i am a christian.

I’d like to point out that you told yourself that you slapped god in the face.

just becuase people lie does NOT give anybody the right to say Gods word is a lie.

just-> Just
becuase-> because
Gods-> God’s

You are so FUCKING STUPID!

Only Catholics have changed things? So there is a source that derives from stories passed down orally that is concrete and is true to the original story? Not likely, in fact, next to impossible.

Weren’t you just prodding on about how the Bible was never changed and is 100% accurate? How can that be so if the Catholics twisted it around? Catholicism was around for hundreds of years before Protestantism, and in Europe the Bible wasn’t even available to the everyday person until the reformation. So, since the catholics were the only one’s who had the bible, don’t you think when they finally got around to giving it to everyone it would have been written the way the Pope had wanted it? 

Just by reading your comments I’m a bit more stupid, you are contagious.
Please don’t have kids.

Are you saying that I’m NOT crazy if snakes talk to me and I just so happen to be the proud owner of a magical tree?…

i would say that your taking too strong of medication or your schiziphrenic

larry he was making a joke read the sense you will see a little joke in there.

Torah is only the first 5 books of the old testament, not the entire old testament.

i am a christian i resent that accusation

That is so true. If you translate spanish to english the sentences are sometimes backwards. And the bible was in Latin so it would be worded oddly for english speakers. And virgin back in those days was not someone that had not had sex. It was an un married worman. So as much as people don’t. Want to believe it. The bible has been changed so it makes sense to people in their own languages. That could mean that things were excluded or moves around

thats why its translated.  obviously the word wasn’t virgin back in those days, it would have been, woman who hasnt had sex, that word then translated to virgin.  you guys are going to burn in hell i mean why go against God

Yes, thank you, Jesus, for demanding we believe something that we have no proof to believe, thus condemning those of us who are interested in reaching logical conclusions.

i get what you are saying but its false! the old test is the old law for people who and still are in the blood line of adam (the original sinner). when jesus in human form came to the earth is when the new test starts you know matt, mark, luke, and john are all accurate depictions from 4 separate people of the birth, life and death of jesus christ. when jesus christ died he had not sinned. there fore god used his only son to bear the sin all sin so we can go to heaven. do you have to be perfect to go to heaven? no, ill be the first to tell you i screw up on a daily basis all that you have to do to go to heaven is believe in him. just one more lil parting remark. if the earth was one more degree closer to the sun we would all burn to death and one degree further we would all be ice cubes now tell me that isnt intelligent design!   

um, or it could be, this just where the earth happened to be created so that’s why we’re here. if we were one “degree”, as you say, closer or farther from the sun, we simply wouldn’t be here. some other creature that is adapted to extreme heat or cold. 

As stated, “one more degree” makes no sense in terms of distance, but I believe you’re probably referring to the oft-repeated (and entirely fallacious) claim that if we were even 10 feet closer to the Sun then Earth couldn’t support life – which is wrong, as Earth’s orbital distance from the Sun ranges by as much as 5,000,000 km from its closest to furthest from the Sun. Of course religious people aren’t interested in facts, only in soundbites and pseudo science that they think backs up their unverifiable opinions.

actually Jesus did sin, according to the Catholic church three times in his life. I’m not saying it to make a point just sayin. Oh and the earth gets closer to the sun every day..

I think the common theme of religion is that it’s rules are for OTHER people to follow

One degree…that’s fucking completely retarded

If Adam was the first man, then Everyone on earth is in the boodline of adam, dumbass.

First learn thought, THEN learn faith.

aubwestler i suggest you dont listen to the catholics becuase that just proves their wrong Jesus did not sin because he was the son of God he couldn’t sin.

Eve was the original sinner. Adam just went along, as any married man will understand.

Free will… except in cases of mental retardation, traumatic brain injury, mental illness, birth defects, oxygen deprivation, etc…. People who suffer in such ways are not free to choose or not choose… yet, “no man cometh to the father but by me…” So I guess since they can’t choose, they will burn

the only reasons why u dont believe becuase it contradicts itself is becuase you dont understand it and u formed ur own image of what u think it means.

If you honestly believe that then you must lead a VERY sheltered and controlled life and seriously need to expand your social circle and experience the REAL world.

But didn’t Jesus come so we wouldn’t have to live that way anymore?

sweetheart. please do everyone here a favor and: 1. learn how to spell correctly (drives me personally crazy), 2. recall that earlier in this string, you stated “i resent that accusation i am a christian and i dont have any desire to
get rid of gays i treat everybody the way God said to.” How can you say that you treat everyone the way God said to, yet call homosexuals an abomination? God said “Love thy neighbor as thyself.” We are all neighbors, even us queers.

One last thing that really disturbs me about everyone who has commented on this string. Please stop being close minded. (Especially you Elizabeth, the “Christian Baptist Bible” is not the sole truth in the world) Has anyone here actually ***lived*** the saying “Walk a mile in another man’s shoes?” I was born a Christian. For the past few years I have been atheistic. And now, I have come to terms that science and logic can explain near everything. Yet, I still believe that mankind did not just happen by pure chance. Some higher hand maneuvered everything to work this way. That is the nature of Life.

The 10 commandments say nothing about homosexuality. Are you referring to leviticus, per chance? Because there are a lot of things that are abominations in that book. Do you separate yourself from your people during your period? Ever eat shellfish or pork? How about speagkin in church? You’re not allowed, you know. Do you watch tv or read something other than the bible on Sunday? You shouldn’t, you know. I’ll bet there are many teachings in the bible you break every day. So please, quit cherry picking verses to suit your bigotry.

i know for sure that you haven’t read the bible or else you wouldnt have said that i have personally seen where it says so myself in the bible.

um he did

How would a being, not a man or woman write a book? I’m sure your answer will be something like: “Telling prophets his will.” Have you ever tried to write down a joke you heard an hour before? Almost never correct. You also have to remember they were most likely illiterate so they would only be able to speak these prophesies which would reduce the accuracy even more.

There are a lot of different versions of the Bible today, so I’m not sure what you’re referring to as the “English Bible”. For all the closed-minded atheists, at least consider how sacred the Word of God is to Christians. It’s not just a bunch of idiots who are loosely translating the Bible and sticking in things where they want. Also, how is Christianity a religion of hate and hypocrisy? Sure it’s confusing, the truth usually is; but that Christianity enforces any sort of hatred is completely false.

“We must respect the other fellow’s religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful, and that his children are smart” H.L. Mencken

wow Guest you obviously have no idea what it is to be christian.

I think that you are the idiot “Cletus”  it has be translated, rewritten and changed several times and its still the same crock of bollox but narrow minded theistic twats are far too stupid to question actually why they still subscribe to their absolutely contradictory fantastical beliefs, Cletus you are a first class knob.

um.. if it has been re-written and changed then why are the dead sea scrolls which are aproximately 2100 years old identical to the 1000 year old version of the bible.

If nothing was changed in 1100 years how can you claim that it has been changed?

you’re not making a lot of sence

so what are u going to say when God asks you on judgement day why you said and acted the way you did?

Bart D. Ehrman has detailed documentation of the 100,000+ changes (some significant, some not so much) in the New Testament alone

Successful troll is successful.

This is the most accurate cartoon ever

that’s not even close to true. retard

you really think over the thousands of years of obnoxious Christians wanting to rid the world of gays, haven’t changed or edited one thing? you are seriously the dumbest person on the planet, you need to realize that humans will make change things to the way they want to, not how it was originally written…ESPECIALLY the bible.

people change things all the time but God never changes.im insulted at your words.

there are still copies of the earliest bibles how do u think the ones to this day were made? do your research.you must be a athiest becuase ur threatened by God.it shows.guilty are we?

@yahoo-GLUDCT7XSYGABU3GGQVC2AMAMY:disqus There are copies of incredibly old Bibles, most are so old in fact, that the writing has deteriorated making distinguishing much of it almost impossible. It also does not help that they are written in languages that have changed over time, causing more trouble translating. Ex. English at the time of Shakespeare differs greatly from the forms of English we speak now.

um.. if it has been re-written and changed then why are the dead sea scrolls which are aproximately 2100 years old identical to the 1000 year old version of the bible.

If nothing was changed in 1100 years how can you claim that it has been changed?

you’re not making a lot of sence     

In fact, the bible started out being passed down orally, like fairytales, or a game of telephone.

wtf. that is actually less true than you think. please stop making up facts.

@yahoo-GLUDCT7XSYGABU3GGQVC2AMAMY:disqus By taking a world history class, you would know that the majority of the world was and IS illiterate. It would be impossible to write down stories when you can’t write.

I have never seen such a cluster-fuck of un-provable posts in my damn life… Half of you need to read a damn book and quit listening to street preachers that tell you shit with their hand down your pants… ahem… Elazabeth Shrak…. 

not as accurate as the bible tho.The bible foretold Jesus just like God said whoever calls the bible a fake will be judged for that horribly someday they should be scared of that more than anything else

ur an idiot its the biggest fiction book ever made is what u should have said

nothing like denying God who gave u life.What do u suppose ur answer will be to God on judgement day when he asks u why u denied him?

Shroud of Turin disproven by carbon dating.

really? that is why all of the prophecies that were foretold came true like Jesus for instance?

@yahoo-GLUDCT7XSYGABU3GGQVC2AMAMY:disqus Have you ever played a game, and something happens, and someone says, “I called it!”? It’s really not hard to do. It is also very easy just to add it into a story.

I agree with you Claefuswilson. 
Plus, why would God let his Word be changed as to make the stories and messages untrue? It just wouldn’t make any sense.

I can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic or not.

it’s also the most describedly prophecised that has come true as well

Elizabeth, I’ve been reading your posts. And it seems to me that the best counterargument of which you are capable is “Well, what will you say to God on Judgement Day?” According to the principles of logic, this question is a non sequitur fallacy, basically meaning that, while we have been discussing the translation of the bible through generations, your only point with which to refute it is a point entirely unrelated to the translation of the bible. 
Also, you said that the Baptist Bible is the only one that hasn’t changed. You do realize that the Baptist Bible is based off the same King James one that we’ve been discussing, and which HAS been translated and retranslated through the years?

You’re a fucking idiot because the bible was written in Hebrew. You can’t translate, only transportation interpretation, which means not everything is creditable. That and the writings date back 500 years after the death of jesus christ. Also jesus disappeared most of his life learning about religion, which he turned around and started preaching. The preachings were of another ones beliefs. Discovery.com read about it sucka

1. Hebrew copies of the bible exist dumbass, they haven’t ceased to be because they’ve been translated. If you want to cross reference them, go ahead. you can read the Bible in it’s original language (Hebrew, Greek and Aramaic), and indeed, many do.

2. it’s pretty hard to misinterpret an entire book dedicated to the acts of Jesus after he died.

3. The latest gospel was written 97 years after. 97, not 500, and that was the latest one (luke). The other three were written by eyewitnesses, and Luke consisted of information collected from eyewitnesses.

4. Of course he bloody learnt about religion, he’s a religious guy, the point was, he pointed out the flaws in what the teachers of the law were teaching.

What you think of “copied” most people (historians, researchers, scientists etc) call “secondary research”…. Obv.

Only the old testament stays accurate and only kosher copies. They have to be hand copied on sheepskin in the original language and alphabet that it was written in.
  The forbidding of homosexuality is actually taken out of context.  Temple prostitution, gay or straight, is what is actually forbidden in the original text.
There was no polyester back then.  Shotnez was forbidden.  A mixture of wool and flax.

Apparently it was also written by illiterate people.

Why do you call it the Christian Baptist Bible?  It is the King James version, which is not used by only Baptists.  

The Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered between 1947 and 1956 and the first edition of the King James Bible was completed in 1611. Either your statement is due to some secret knowledge of time travel or you are sadly ill-informed.

it is interesting to see the number of misspellings, grammatical errors, wrong words (there insteasd of their as an example) and fragmented sentences by the educated elite of the christian world. writing also lacks the tone inflection or intention of oral converstaions. i see this in numerous postings, when someone cannot discern what is meant by various statements.
how can one believe the biblical writings have not changed through typos or errors of these types, over the past 35 centuries?  though gutenberg’s press helped slow down the mistakes, it allowed them to be massed produced when they are made.  
this does not take into acount deliberately made changes of which many were made in the bible text. some were made in hopes of creating better understanding, while some were made to make the text fit in with the writer’s  or person authorizing the changes, agenda.
someone previously mentioned prof. bart ehrman, who has written a great deal on the problems of biblical writings. i would suggest anyone who has not read at least one of his books, do so before posting. they are educating and enlightening.

We’ll stop trolling and speaking out when religious people stop proselytizing and trying to force their religion into schools, politics and everywhere else that is shouldn’t belong. 

Haven’t you heard “Thou shalt not kill” is a mistranslation. Now, allegedly, what they really said was, “Thou shalt not murder”. It helps the relious right feel better about supporting things like war and the death penalty.

Astro I would also like to add the fact that there have been how many crusades? Wait weren’t the deaths of millions in the name of the lord himself in those? I forgot to add your right

The Crusades were thanks to power-hungry popes who wanted their own armies. Again, the foolishness of man doing things falsely under the Lord’s name. All too many horrible deeds have been done in God’s name, even though Jesus said to love your neighbor.

dont need to complicate it just alot of people cant put their feelings aside to follow the bible plus they confuse their feelings with the bible.i am christian and i dont support the lgbt community but obviously i will treat them like any other person i see.

…that IS the christian bible he’s using…spefically…0_o

Gosh!  How many Bibles are there?  Can I get to choose?  I want the flying spaghetti monster one with a green cover, please.

Yay for Pastafarians!!

THat’s Catholicism, it applies only to Mary mother of God, not anyone else.

um no. the winter solstice is a separate holiday from Yule which is the pagan holiday that xmas rips off. also- excuse me sir, i believe your stupid is showing.

YOU SPELLED WRONG WRONG 

Crazy Larry sounds like a fun guy. Ejitsu sounds crazier than Crazy Larry.

Thank you Paul.

Thank you. I try to be non “religious” too. Jesus wasn’t about religion, He was about Love. I don’t hold a faithful following of any particular religion, rather I try to emulate Jesus Christ.

I wish Christians were smarter than this. But if they were they’d be Atheists/Pantheists. Do you think it’s a coincedence that Albert Einstein was a Pantheist? No, he was a genius, it is an insult to him and to all of the people who’ve helped advance science to STILL believe in religion anymore. It’s backwards and it’s sad that you actually believe in Jesus and the Christian God. Did you know that if you research the time to which the Bible was made and the time which Jesus died… 30 years, everyone FORGOT about Jesus. His teachings didn’t stick, no one was suddenly Christian. How can 30 years later produce accurate information about Jesus’s story? And in fact, if you read several other stories that predate Jesus, like Hercules, Buddha, Krishna, Odysseus, Romulus, Dionysus, Horus and many others, do you think it’s just “coincedence” that they are similar? I’m sad for you and I wish you would educate yourself. Read Richard Dawkins’ “The God Delusion.” It is a great read and it is meant to help people like you realize your indoctrination has corrupted your life and your ability to think for yourself. If you don’t care to learn about Atheism, I feel very sorry for you. You won’t be disappointed with the prospect of no God. It’s actually the most wonderful thing I can think of, to know there isn’t a constant surveillance in the sky, reading your every thought and punishing you for being yourself. You’ll love life more without religion, trust me!

But homosexuals are comparable to murderers?  That sounds very loving.

Neither is being a pedophile or sexual predator, these people also didn’t chose this “lifestyle” they are afflicted with the disease of Sexual Deviance n need help, just like you my friend, get yourself some help and stop wondering why u have such a hard time fitting in with normal society. 

I believe I was born an alcoholic. Alcoholism has been in my family for many generations. I believe drinking to excess is a sin. I was born this way but does this mean it is okay for me to act on my desire to drink? Some of us have harder time on this earth. But thank God one day  we will not have to fight the battle any longer if we just believe in Jesus Christ.

Life is hard for homosexuals because religious people make it that way for them.  Let he who is without sin cast the first stone…

But also, let me turn the tables on you.  You’re a bigot undeserving of the people you call “friends”.  You’re a hypocrite who preaches morality and doesn’t live it.  You take your religion as absolute truth, but it’s nothing more than the myths perpetuated locally by your friends and family.  You probably haven’t investigated the claims of your religion, you take whatever scripture you feel is appropriate and acceptable to your inner circle a la carte.  You’re the type of fascist that is undeserving of the doctrine of “love thine enemy”.  You make society less livable for any thinking person who cares about others in a genuine fashion.   

Perhaps now you know what it is like for the people you persecute.  We don’t hate the Christian, only the stupidity and immorality of their preachments.

So dp you believe gay marriage should be legalized, as long as they ask forgiveness for it?

@1778ce3efd1dd91a06300c6a36d03450:disqus Sorry if this offends you but no. It is a sin whether they are married or not. 

They don’t ask God to forgive them for loving the people they love for one simple reason:

They don’t need to.

If there is a benevolent God out there, he doesn’t care whether you love a man or a woman. He has more important things to worry about. Being in love with a guy doesn’t hurt anyone, so please stop treating it like it’s the same as doing bad things. Do you know what gay people would have to do to not be gay? THEY WOULD HAVE TO LIE. They would have to pretend to be something that they are not, which in your eyes is akin to murder. What benevolent God would give gay people the choice between two lives of constant sin?

The only reasonable answer, if we assume that there is a benevolent God, (not my viewpoint at all, but I’ll pretend) that sexuality cannot be changed, even by appealing to said God (there is overwhelming evidence that this is true) and that this God is not a total jerk who condemns an entire group to either hell or celibacy, is that either lying is not a sin or homosexuality is not a sin.
Lying can ruin relationships, condemn the innocent and acquit the guilty. You yourself said that it made you feel dead inside when your friend lied to you.
Homosexuality has all the same ups and downs as heterosexuality, which we don’t consider a sin. The only real difference is that it’s harder to find a date if you’re gay, because so many people are straight.

Which of those two do YOU think is morally wrong? Why would it be OK for a man to love a woman, but wrong for a woman to do the same thing?

bigot, its bigot. fyi lol

Your best friend didn’t have a choice in being black or white, homos do have a choice, yet we r all sinners n love n associate with all sorts of other sinners regardless of hetero metro or homo. I sin with women, u sin with men.. is all the same, no judgement here, just wont tolerate lies n bs, I have a constant yearning for truth, hence I will not excuse my womanizing ways and acknowledge that this is not the most healthy way of interacting with women, I need to work on that. You my homo friends need to do the same, stop making excuses for your behavior, stop forcing society to accept and support your abomination, don’t force your behavior upon our churches and force them to accept your naughty ways. Stop requesting special rights, do I get special rights for being a womanizer?  don’t think so…..

In some countries they put pedophiles n sex predators to death too. Is that cruel? Pedophiles don’t chose to be obsessed with children yet they r, same for rapist, they don’t chose to be obsessed with dark desires yet they are. The same book states the same for adultery n fornication among opposite sexes also. Ever wonder why its much harder to find a partner when your gay? hmmmm, ur not the brightest apple on the tree huh? Try to stop lying to yourself for once, stop trying to justify your twisted circumstances, stop hating the bible because it calls out your sin, it calls out all of our sins for we are all sinners yet homos seem to be the last of all sinners to come to the bible. why is that? Is it because u cant accept the fact that u r a sinner n need help? or is it that you just cant stand to look at yourself in the mirror of life? We r all sinners n we all need help (spiritual guidance). Why do homos fail to see this? Why do homos stay so far from the church? The church condemns all our sins, why should yours be any more condemned? The lies you tell yourself is why you suffer, not society and not the church fyi. 

Once again, you’re an idiot.  ‘Pedophiles and sexual predators have a disease!’  Moron.  It’s not a disease, it is a lack of self control.  You take the perversion of the mind that exists within those who can’t control themselves, and do whatever the hell they want, ruining the lives of others, and you put it down to a disease, thus trying to remove any and all guilt from those offending parties.  Wait.  Now it makes sense.  You’re a pedophile.  Surprised I didn’t see that earlier.

…most gay men where molested as children, I guess that just happens too, most gay women will have sex with men occasionally so as to say most gays are actually bi, guess that just happens too. Or is the truth actually…. the fact that all sex feels good just some distort natural sex more than others such as swingers, gays, pedophiles and predators.  

ur a pot calling the kettle black, Science comes from the great architect of the universe. To look at the universe’s design and not see a designer is the true definition of idiocy. The first Scientist on the face of the earth aka “Wise Men, Astronomers” were men of faith. As Science and technology develops it actually takes less n less faith to believe in an so obvious designer to what is obviously designed in our reality of existence.  

======= Coles Notes =========
- attacking science because you don’t understand it is bad
- a god would not be vain, but judge people
- god would not be against homosexuality, thats illogical fear
- religion is important regardless of it’s veracity
- restraint people, noone likes their beliefs questioned, and very few can look at another’s beliefs, objectively consider them, while not letting them effect your own belief.

see below for reasoning:
=======Scientific Arguement=================

Speaking as an atheist, and someone who has read quite a bit on the big bang theory I also find it hard to believe, but the point of science is to question everything. Right now the big bang theory (theory; not law, axiom or theorum) is the best explanation that has been presented, so scientists teach it. Once we have a better idea it will supplant the big bang theory.

The big bang theory is supported mainly by two pieces of information. Firstly is that everything in the universe is moving away from each other. (This has been proven by knowing the speed of light, and wavelengths of colors, and using the difference over time of many many measurements of the nights sky). If everything is moving away from each other it implies a common starting place. (Which in your defense could be God)

The second piece of information is Einstien’s theory (another one) that all matter is made up of energy. With this fact scientists postulate that a large amount of energy gathered at the beginning of the universe, collected by some means, either gravity or unknown. This collective force would act much like a black hole, gathering everything until some fundamental breaking point at which matter is made, resulting in a large explosion, and forcing the newly formed matter in all directions. This too does not explicitly deny god, and the source of energy is unspecified.

It is unwise to attack scientific theories, as they are well based on current information. They are, however, in no way “fact”, and have in no way been shoved down anyone’s throat, unless you consider learning scientific process and current conclusions “shoving”.

Should this be the case then you should also question your faith as it too has been taught to you, with the best interpretation that your church of choice can find.

The arguement of whether or not God exists is irrelevant. If you believe, then you believe, if not you don’t. But athiests (myself included) should not slander religion. I will raise my kids catholic and let them make their own choices as I have, for the sole reason that religion is a means to the final goal of moral people.

On the other hand catholics should not judge athiests, as many of them lead the moral lives that the bible would expect, and I firmly believe that if a God were to exist, he/she would not be vain enough to require belief, but more judge the worth of the person.
The one point made that is outlandish is the statement of God against homosexuality. I am not homosexual, lets start that off. But WHY would God have a problem with it. Provided that both parties are involved through free will, love exists, and the spirit of the commandments are upheld there would be no logical reason to descriminate beyond one’s own fear of the unknown.

All in all this whole debate leaves a bad taste in my mouth. People are attacking different views. They are calling names. They are classifying the nature that someone is born with as a sin? They have created false facts to justify arguements, and made agruments with no basis.at all. Each person is entitled to their beliefs, but even still, do unto others? how would you like to be told that your firm beliefs are a lie? or that you nature that you can’t control makes you a sinner. Restraint people.

Phew, longest post ever

you know i am tired of you talking all this smack and when facts get presented in front of you and then you stay silent. I am only saying. You might want to do some actual mind searching because all I am reading from you is ignorance not intellect. 

There is a huge difference between adaptation and evolution. Adaptation happens between many species. Just like the finks. Finks are all the same but some have different beaks so they can ADAPT to their environment.  This is not evolution. Evolution is like a tadpole turning into a frog or a baby that starts off as an egg. That is Evolution. Big cats grew smaller because they needed to adapt to their environment which also created a gene for that adaptation. Which in turn was traveled all over the country. Cats are not nice its HOW you domesticate them. Even domesticated cats can be highly vicious. Just like a domesticated cow, bull, dog, ect. Any animal can be domesticated but their instincts will always be there. Just like a mother can giver their child up for adoption but that motherly bond to her child will always be there. Human’s don’t evolve over time the evolution we do is in our mothers womb. Sure we get smarter, make more tools, figure out easier ways but that is ADAPTATION. Just like skin color. Skin color was an adaptation because at first we all came from africa which is true according to the bible. Then we migrated to Ireland and Ireland as most people know is very cloudy. Our skin needs those vitamin for our immune system. I never said I FULLY disagreed with the theory of evolution. However if we are to come from a itty bitty cell to create a while Universe with people and animals is HIGHLY unlikely. Yes we are made of cells that is an obvious scientific statement but one cell did not create the world. I may not have read all of the Origin of Species but if you think logically there is simply no way. It is a true SCIENTIFIC fact that we all come from the same 2 people. A study was done on it and you can look it up.

I don’t want to read the bible because I’m not all that interested in fiction stories. I’d prefer to NOT make myself more stupid and maybe learn something that’s actual FACT that is proven with hundreds of SCIENTIFIC STUDIES. Maybe if you payed attention in school or weren’t as stupid as a toddler you’d realize that we have found skulls from different periods of our evolution, and that evolution takes place over millions of years. How can you claim that “believing your sick makes you sick” is an act of God? Have you ever even heard of the placebo effect? You’re just perpetuating the stereotype that Christians are idiots.

Hilariously, I can tell you how each one of those processes work.
1) we aren’t as different as you claim from apes.  We share almost 99% of our structural DNA.  The reason we can talk and they can’t is because we didn’t evolve from apes.  We as humans evolved from the same common denominator, which interestingly enough is believed to be far preceding apes. The necessity of talking and communication developed as a result of our habitat changing over time.  Apes hung out in trees; we chilled in the grass.  Pre-humans needed a way of acknowledging danger before the others could see it.  Hence, the vocal chords were used to produce sounds that others understood as “gtfo guys big fuckin’ cat”.  And over several hundred thousand years, those vocal chords and our cranial cavities evolved to allow for more complex speech.  
2) One tiny cell cannot form itself into an animal.  That was a little ridiculous of you to suggest.  What that cell can do, however, is reproduce.  And reproduce.  And reproduce.  And something will change.  And it’ll stick.  And more reproduction.  
More changes.   Over millions, in this case billions of years, that cell will evolve into a multi-cellular organism, where it can hang out with all its friends together as one structure (by the way, that’s part of adaptation).  And due to life most likely starting in the ocean, Ocean life, particularly sedentary ocean life, will evolve.  When tidal changes occur, that will spur more change throughout species, which will start to appear very different by that point.  Some species will become exposed to the air (which was most likely a different concentration of gases early on), causing mass surface death.  However the ones that do survive will evolve to thrive in the environment.  Still sedentary though.  Plants and bacteria really.  But you’ll get the random little fish from the ocean (oh yeah fish evolved probably around the time land plants did) who get trapped in a small pond or something that forces adaptation onto them.  Adaptation over time forces evolution.  They learn to tolerate air for short periods, and venture onto land.  VOILA!  Land species. :]
3) Yeah, I get the gist of it. That’s probably a major factor in life taking as long as it did to even start, not to mention evolve.
4) Refer to number 2 to understand the general process where dinosaurs and all these different animals came from.  I could explain it if you want but that might take a while.
5) Ever hear the phrase “Mind over matter”? Our minds are what perceive the world around us!  Keep that in mind when asking questions like this.  The brain is so complex, so many neurons are firing while you’re reading these letters, and forming words and meaning from each one, and hearing that fan in the background, and feeling the mouse in your hand, and the stubbed toe you got when you hit the desk, that it’s staggering to even think.  Our minds became so powerful because they were, like most life, designed to grow and change with the environment.  Humans, as nasty as we are, have a habit of speeding crap up to suit our needs.  It’s exponential growth.  The reason you “get sick” when you think you are is probably because you’re actually physically ill.  Gee. But if you are talking about the part where your brain fools itself into the body reacting with an immune response to nothing, that’s where you’re a hypochondriac.  The brain perceives all sorts of data, it’s no wonder we can fool ourselves into being sick.
Yeah, odds are you came from an animal.  Fun part is, it probably looked something like a rat.  Neat, huh?
Sure, you don’t need to accept that, but that doesn’t mean it didn’t happen.  A 9 year old could easily say 9/11 didn’t happen.  Obviously not true but just because we know better doesn’t mean they do.  Time and experience.  You’ll see the world for what it is soon enough.  One day you’ll wake up and probably say something to the effect of “Who gives a crap how it started?  Not me, gosh darnit.  I have better things to do today than freak out about nothing.” 
Oh and you really should read up on some of Darwin’s conjecture and the responses it’s gotten since.  It’s been largely discredited.  The reason Darwin’s so famous (or infamous to some) is because his research was the kick-start to modern theories on the subject of natural selection, adaptation, and evolution.  It’s the same deal with Newton and gravity.  Modern science knows so much more about the forces of gravity and its relation to mass and energy than he could have ever imagined.  Doesn’t mean he wasn’t brilliant.  He and Einstein would have had a ball talking to each other.
Just so’s y’all know, you can’t prove evolution “wrong” without proving that each and every organism, big and small, complex and simple, is the EXACT same generation after generation.  Forever.  Now altering the modern theory is a different matter.  Like somebody else said, science is observation.  It’s self-correcting based on the new ways we perceive things, advancing technology, etc.

So then how are a human’s eye and a squid’s eye almost exactly the same, yet they come from nothing similar? Coincidence?