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Leeches are still actually beneficial in some instances, but thinking the Earth is flat benefits no one.

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please don't compare roundness of the world to evolution. The world's roundness is a fact easily determinable by observation. Evolution remains a theorem, even if accepted by the majority of scientists. It has never been observed.

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"[Evolution] has never been observed."

Except by, you know, every single microbiologist.

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Actually Ari, evolution HAS been observed, albeit on a small scale (insects, etc). Evolution on a large scale, like a whale growing legs, obviously has not been seen. So to say evolution hasn't been observed is incorrect.

Another factoid is that the hosts of the View are retarded. That's science.

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Super Flu Bugs! Resistant to vaccines! Were Intelligently Designed! Because He wants us dead! BWAHAHAHA!

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You know those two planes crashing into WTC I and II could also be easily viewed but still 25% of the nation think that the government actually blew the towers up. And that there was no plane in the Pentagon. And no plane in that hole.

So people might be entitled to their opinion but those people tend to be uninformed and ignorant.

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Actually, whales have lost their legs as they evolved from land mammals. They have tiny vestigial legs within their body. Or perhaps it was intelligent design that put the vestigial legs there to make it look like evolution. We will never know.

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After seeing yesterdays View i knew it wouldn't be long before we'd have a post about it. Sherri Shepard has officially become the dumbest TV personality. Not believing in evolution is bad enough but not being sure on whether the Earth is round or flat is just ridiculous. The other women on the View aren't any help by telling her that it's her belief and she's can have it and Elisabeth is just happy that there is someone on the show with less intelligence than her.

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She "never thought about it?" Did she skip third grade? What a moron.

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She talked about it today. She says she was nervous about talking about her faith for the first time and says "of course I know the Earth is round!" She might have thought it was a loaded question, and with everyone talking over one another, I don't blame the girl for crumbling under the pressure. Give her a break.

In regards to evolution, it's also okay for her to believe whatever she wants. If she wants to have faith in something, good for her. Lots of people believe what she does, and although I don't, I think it's a little presumptive to discredit her entirely as a person because she doesn't believe we evolved from primates.

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I wonder where Sherri Shephard gets her beliefs--'cause it clearly isn't the Bible. She says "I have a chapter in Genesis that says god created the Earth and he said to his son 'We're going to create an earth.'" I hate to break it to you, Sherri, but I've never read the Bible and even I know that that several thousand years are written to have passed between Genesis and the birth of Christ. The Son wasn't around back then by anyone's reckoning.

And don't get me started on the phrase "God wrote." True or not, divinely inspired or not, it was men who wrote that book, not God.

I don't have a problem with religion per se, but Ms. Shephard is a great example of what's wrong with so many modern Christians: They know precious little about the very texts that form the foundation of their religion. They haven't even read the Clif Notes.

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Scientists also don't "believe in evolution". Belief is for things without evidence. BUT evolution does have evidence.

The other crazy thing about what she said was that it had not "been an important thing" to her to know if the Earth was flat or not. Instead she cared more about caring for her children (fair enough). But wait a minute --- she had time to study evolutionary biology to KNOW that it isn't true?

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Ari: A scientific theory is not the same as the everyday "I've got a theory (it could be witches)". Evolution is a theory in the same sense that gravity is a theory, only there's much more evidence for evolution than for gravity.

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What makes it even worse is that she says she believes in Genesis, but then mentions that God talked to his son about how they were going to create the Earth.

whaaaaa?
There is no mention of God having a son in any part of the old testament, let alone in BS Genesis.

Why is it so hard for religious people to believe in whatever incarnation of god they want and STILL have the intelligence to realize that evolution is valid scientific theory. The problem tends to be that these same people just don't understand science.

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I couldn't go through the whole video... embarrassing.

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plinstrot: I don't think you're being particularly fair, because witches, they were persecuted, Wiccan, good, and love the earth And woman power and all.

Anyway. I'll be over here. I blame the bunnies.

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I think this shows that a lot of religious people are very ignorant about their own religion, especially in the US.

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I guess she never watched a shuttle launch, you can see the roundness of the Earth. Of course she probably belives a shuttle never really launches and it's all filmed in a studio.

"I never thought about it", neither have I, I just know it's fact.

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This is not surprising. To be Chrstian is to be ignorant. Often the extremely Christian are also extremely ignorant. (When I say "Christian" here I really mean "belief in God").

Whoopi seems to be the only one with any rational thought skills. The other four are stealing good oxygen from the rest of us.

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Stephen - that is a gross misstatement regarding Christians and those who believe in a God. In fact, it's evidence of poor logic while we're at it. Just because you've met/spoken with/judged some Christians to be ignorant doesn't mean all Christians are, just as I can't say based on one comment from an atheist/agnostic that all are rude and illogical.
Check out famous Christians/Theists like Galileo, Albert Einstein, Thomas Jefferson, Copernicus, Sir Francis Bacon, Mendel, Kelvin ... I could go on.
Sherri Shepherd is evidence of an epidemic across the country, not just among Christians, of a failure to contemplate deeper issues, to embrace science and logic, to aspire to greatness.

http://thecourier.typepad.com/popgoestheculture/

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