A view of what faith is

Wise words as ever, Elegran. And timely. X

@Galen - "What about all the hominids, neathanderal man, Peking Man, and all the other Homo sapiens precursors?" Not precursors... speciation doesn't work like that - there is no neat queue of ever-taller, ever more upright hominids, culminating in an accountant living in Orpington as the peak of development. It's a matter of common ancestors - as homo sap. has a common ancestor with the chimpanzee, and that common ancestor had an earlier common ancestor with the gorilla...

@Soontobe - "evolution - species do adapt, but essentially stay the same."

That's shown to be wrong by the transitional forms - tiktalik for one, which was a fish on the way to becoming a reptile... Evolution happens in populations, not in individuals, over enormous numbers of generations.

"A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything." - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900)

feet I was not trying to be scientific, just disagreeing with creationist theories,
I perfectly understand (as much as anyone does) the evolutionary tree with its branches.
I have studied evolution and paleo archeology to a small degree and I would thoroughly disagree about the accountant in Orpington.
I thought it was generally agreed that the pinnacle is a lady living in sight of the Paps of Jura?

Oh yes, Galen!

We are all boats in a stormy sea but with faith, we aren't helpless.

Thank you Lilygran, its a really good article.

For some people these transcendent moments change the whole direction of their lives, the accounts of Maurice Bucke, a reforming psychiatrist in the 19th century, and Allan Smith a physician and researcher in the 1970s are worth reading.