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There is NOTHING dogmatic about evolution, it is a theory that says, this is here, so somewhere down the line we should find one of these, and low and behold, down the line, we find one. What a concept.

This is a disingenuous statement. Evolution is presented as dogma in high school textbooks, colleges, universities, the major media, in our entertainment, everywhere. The links you speak of are entirely fabricated.

To say that if you believe in evolution, you cannot be religious, is not only ridiculous, but assinine.

Evolution is itself a religious worldview, for it concerns itself with man's origin. And by the way, it (both the spelling and the theory) is asinine.

Now onto the question of if you believe that it all came about as a huge accident, why shoudl you care? This belief would tell me that life is WORTH MUCH more then if goddidit because if goddidit then he can do it again, but if it is all indeed a cosmic accident, then life is worth a heck of a lot more, because we have one shot here, and that's it, the chances of it happening again are miniscule, whereas if goddidit then who cares, he'll just do it again.

There is a kind of twisted way in which this may seem to make sense, but only if one is willing to make the major league assumption that God would, indeed, 'Do It Again'. Since by definition your worldview excludes God, such an assumption is prohibited and therefore unavailable for the illegitimate usage you have employed here.

If there is no God, life is indeed a meaningless charade which no one can fathom. If evolution is true, then... that a person only gets 'one shot at it' merely serves to increase the sense of urgency felt by those who wish to infuse life with meaning through deeds undertaken with the desire for lasting results that benefit others, and conversely, to increase the sense of despair felt by those who conclude that it is not worth the effort since we are all going to die anyway. Neither of those options is remotely the same as having the real meaning and purpose derived from the correct understanding of man's origin, identity, purpose, morality, and destiny. Such needs require a self-sufficient source of power and goodness that is found only in a Creator.

[Aric2000]

Here we go again, I have always notice that christians will do whatever they can to prostletize to the unfaithful so to speak.

I nver said that that was my worldview, I said that that is a way to look at it, if it was. You see, unlike you, I can take myself away from my religious points of view and look at something logical and based on facts.

Evolution being one of those things, yes, it is a theory, just likfe the theory of gravity, the theory of astrophysics, the theory of put your known theory here.

All science is a theory, you know why? Because at some point there may be a MAJOR breakthrough that destroys the theory and therefore it must be replaced.

When and if a better theory comes along that replaces evolution, I will be one of the first to go with it, but it MUST have a preponderance of evidence to back it up, and nothing like GODDIDIT within. Because if it says that GODDIDIT then it is NOT science, it is religion.

THERE IS A DIFFERENCE.... Whether you fanatics believe it or not.

I will make this easy for you, I have a religion, which explains everything to me, the beginning, the middle, the end etc, but it is religion, NOT science, so I do not bring it up in these discussions, because it is NOT science. You see, I can separate my religious beliefs from science facts.

Why don't you try it, you MIGHT actually learn something.