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@the_great_she_elephant wrote:

What you don't realise is, you can be religious and still believe evolution. 

 

I'm so glad you just said that.  It's refreshing to see an athiest admit to evolution being a belief system

 

What is your definition of a 'belief system?

Many religious people accept the theory of evolution, but they believe evolution started via biogenesis - that the first, microbial  life was created by God and evolved over billions of years into all the species we see today.

They do not believe evolution started via abiogenesis - that the first microbial life evolved from nonliving matter and was not created by God.. 

 

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Something is a belief system if it requires a leap of faith.  Religion of course is the perfect example.  But imo the idea of billions of years of time also requires a leap of faith to accept (as a concept, regardless of carbon dating techniques and other ways science determines the age of a fossil)  the idea of life evolving from nonlife also requires a leap of faith imo.  

 

Thats why I see evolution a belief system too.