There are no opposing theories to evolution, any contrasting beliefs are guesses at best. People who say that evolution is "just a theory" clearly don't know what the word theory means. A scientific law vs. theory works like this; the law of gravity states that if I drop an object it will fall to the ground 100% of the time, the theory of gravity explains why this will happen. In scientific terms, law is what happens and theory is why it happens. Just like gravity we have the theory of evolution and the law of evolution. A theory is not a guess like some people think it is, a theory is higher on the scientific hierarchy than a law is. Evolution is a fact, it has been proven that it happens, the only piece of the puzzle missing is how life started. We can hypothesize how it started, but we can't prove it, yet. Creationists, your inability to understand evolution is not evidence against it.
You lack some understanding as well. Macroevolution has never been proven or replicated in a lab in anyway whatsoever. Only microevolution and its replication in a lab is minimal at best.
PedalTheGlobe Micro and macro evolution are the same thing and that is evolution plain and simple. It has been proven and it is based in reality unlike any religions.
Yet the chances of something as complex as the human eye alone, just "evolving" SOLELY through random mutations, within the timeframe applicable, make the concept of "evolution" as we currently perceive it, very unlikely. To say the least. But you only have to see the wonders of the natural world to sense that. There is always more to be known... That is the only thing we truly know.
HOW SCIENCE GETS INTO THE CLASSROOM: 1- Make an observation, 2- form a hypothesis, 3- test hypothesis, 4- collect and analyze data, 5- submit for peer review, 6- gain general consensus, 7- submit to governing body for implementation into the classroom. HOW CREATION "SCIENCE" GETS INTO THE CLASSROOM: 7- submit to governing body for implementation into the classroom.
(Pt2)... Our current stance on how life began is simply "we don't know". That is the only honest position anyone could take on this subject right now because it is still in its infancy. There is nothing faith based about that.
He is a fantasy to those who don't know him, or don't want to know him. But, he is real to believers, and growing up is accepting his reality, not trying to deny him.
Never stop searching. Never stop questioning. Never stop exploring. Never stop learning till the day you die. Remember, the biggest problem with a closed mind is nothing gets in.
As a Christian I applaud Rollins for seeing the difference between a Christian and a Fundamentalist Christian. I have always liked Henry and his effort to make the world a better place. I'd say more atheists need to be like Rollins but in truth more HUMAN BEINGS need to be like Rollins.
We need fuel, lubrication, electricity, we have parts that wear out and we eventually break down. Our cells are basically mini internal combustion engines. We are also beautiful and I consider everything beautiful to be a work of art.
I just explained to you how scientists don't have faith. Christians say "I know for absolute certain that God exists". Scientists don't make absolute statements like that. In science, everything is tentative. Even well established theories like the theory of gravity. And scientists simply regard these theories as: "the best explanation we currently have for a natural phenomena that may or may not end up being revised or discarded if new evidence is discovered".
"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age." Howard Phillips Lovecraft In other words, so many humans are terrified of how insignificant we actually are to reality in general that they would rather keep themselves and everyone else in ignorance than face it.
When you're so dogmatic about current scientific theory that you believe the entire Omniverse has only one planet with life. Otherwise, this is mostly spot-on. He saw the direction the world was going with a great deal of clarity.
"Personal attack generally deserves silence by way of response." Stephen Jay Gould. Gould was the arguably the 20th Century's leading academic exponents of Evolution. Real academia exhibits humility and proper discourse.
Speaking as a Mutant Catholic-Buddhist, I identify my personal Faith as a means of keeping my Ego in check. Might Intelligent Design have merit as a stepping stone towards a synthesis of the millions of years that have led up to our current position as one of the domiant lifeforms on the planet and our speculative Origins? Adaptivity is the cornerstone of Evolution. If you want to know the "Mysteries" just look at Creation...and scientists do. Open minds are important. Thanks, Henry! :)
I meant fossil evidence. Please don't make assumptions about what I do or do not want to know. I know that there is evidence for natural selection and beneficial mutation. I also know that behind every machine is an engineer and behind every work of art there is an artist.
"science is NOT about absolutes, it's about following, understanding, and accepting the evidence despite our prejudice." THAT...sounds like religion to me!
You misunderstand ID. Nowhere does ID insinuate God, only an intelligent agent. The theory of ID itself is a bit shaky in its current form but shows promise and IS testable. Evolution has a lot of evidence for it and is fact, however it depends on what you define evolution to encompass. There is a lot of inference and assumptions when asserting that all life came from a single cell. Why can't evolution and ID both be right? Oh right, people stick to their bias and ignore any conflicting evidence
The more knowledge we gain the more we begin to understand how ignorant we are of the universe. The gaps don't get bigger they always get smaller. The more we know it just reveals new gaps for us to explore and learn. That's the Idea, to continue to learn about our universe rather than throw in an answer that we have no evidence for. You treat admitting ignorance as if it is a sin. When it is the true Humility. "We don't know" is the proper response to questions we don't have evidence to answer.
What's sad, is my mom believed that "Under God" was originally part of the pledge. She thinks that when it was introduced back in the 50s that people "Had God put back into the Pledge of Allegiance"
First of all, all fossils are transitional forms. Second of all, we are lucky to have fossils at all, if you knew anything about them you would know that it takes very specific conditions for them to form at all, the vast majority of things that die will never become fossilized.
I'm stoked that HR did a piece on this. I must have missed it when it aired. The irreducible complexity fallacy is so insulting to what we know about biology, and evolution that I can't believe anyone with the ability to reason will blindly support it. It has been shown time, and again that it does not stand up. Their precious flagellum has been show as easily reducible if you don't assume the current function. It beautifully supports evolution, by means of natural selection.
What you are failing to see here is Rollins is not debunking faith nor calling Christianity stupid, his comments are directed at the extremists who insist that their way is the ONLY way. If you are a Christian, please remember that the tree of knowledge was put in Eden for a reason....So mankind would have a CHOICE. Its not for anyone to tell another what they have to believe or not.
I was sent to the principals office in Junior High for leaving "Under God" off of the pledge of allegiance. I didn't know at the time that it was an adhock addition, I just didn't want to be a hypocrite for saying it. The principal sent me back and no fuss was raised after that.
Also, I'm a biologist. I've studied evolution. Hell, I've made it happen in petri dishes. ID has no supporting evidence, and if you can provide something that doesn't boil down to "evolution can't prove X therefore ID happened" or "*insert religious text* says X" then I'll retract that statement and consider ID a legitimate theory. Finally, Science is EVERY field of study. That's why faith is faith, where people believe things specifically without (and frequently in direct defiance of) evidence
That's wonderful that you have cited those atrocities. However, your argument was not "religion has caused murder" you argument was that "religion has cause more murder than anything else". Its an absurd argument that cannot be proven, but rest solely on your own circular assumptions. Ironic because as a secularist I would think that you would have a higher standard of evidence.
My point is, that just because you or I lack the imagination or (self-)education it doesn't make facts untrue. I think that virtually everyone is capable of understanding evolution - provided they try, honestly, and read and research the required literature and such. I happened to put enough pieces of the puzzle together to understand enough of natural selection to accept it as truth based on VERY solid and undeniable facts.
I am okay with sex of any kind, as long as it is not hurting someone else (in a bad way ;D ), I believe in Evolution and I believe in God. I am a lesbian and I was born this way damn it! I love this dude. He is intelligent. I have nothing against anything he says because he specifies which so called 'Christians' he is talking about. He's not offensive in anyway to me. This dude kicks ass. ~* Live long and prosper *~
i am a christian and i believe that evolution is true, i disagree with many christians, not every one is the same, not all are crazy and oppressive, the ones u probably heard of only are because thats why you are hearing about them. i agree with henry on a lot, so far i havent really disagreed with him i love his speeches, i think the book of genisis in my interpritation describes evolution, the bible isnt meant to be taken 100% literaly, its for interpritation
[A] person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all. Instead they are holding tight. But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be. - Alan Watts
Evolution is still in a "flat world" state. Neither theory can be proven. Scientific Method: 1) Observe 2) Construct a hypothesis 3) Test your hypothesis 4) Conduct experiment 5) Accept hypothesis I'm pretty sure we can only do #2 for both ideas.
The real world is not that easy to grasp or imagine. I mean, I can hardly grasp the size of our planet, but there's our star, a world waaaay much larger than our tiny Earth. And there are stars out there that make our star look like a small speck of dust. Imagine the space between your front yard and some big ass quasar billions of light years away. I can't even imagine a billion of beans, hardly a billion light years.
"Irreducable Complexity is ONLY OUTWEIGHT by the COMPLETE LACK OF KNOWLEDGE involved." He than goes out to say "You can't get God to come down to the lab and prove a thing. You just have to believe and Science does not operate on faith. Faith is taught in Curches. If you can't prove it in the scientific world. You've Got No Gain." This guy's a genious, haha. He's right if you can't prove it in the scientific world you've got NO GAIN! I'd say to him to just take his advice and Just believe, haha
Calm down, Mr. Rollins, there are much bigger things to be worried about, like the economy/Federal Reserve. If you want to talk about education, talk about if the government should even be involved in education.
Darker skin pigment is a result of the body reacting to protect itself from constant exposure to UV rays. If you stay in a certain environment long enough, your body adapts. Adapting to your surroundings is key for survival. Evolution is survival of the fittest. Please, get a library card.
Yes I used my brain to evaluate every aspect and all the factual evidence involved, in order to come to the right conclusion. What else should I do to research this?
Of course it matters why - THAT'S THE ENTIRE FUCKING POINT I'VE BEEN MAKING. Religion is a much more compelling (and therefore widespread) reason to do terrible things than anything else, because it allows people to believe that a higher power will forgive them, and perhaps even reward them, for doing those terrible things.
"Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution"
- Theodosius Dobzhansky
henry rollins is a pretty cool guy.
Henry has a great grasp on reality.Rollins 2024
There are no opposing theories to evolution, any contrasting beliefs are guesses at best. People who say that evolution is "just a theory" clearly don't know what the word theory means. A scientific law vs. theory works like this; the law of gravity states that if I drop an object it will fall to the ground 100% of the time, the theory of gravity explains why this will happen. In scientific terms, law is what happens and theory is why it happens. Just like gravity we have the theory of evolution and the law of evolution. A theory is not a guess like some people think it is, a theory is higher on the scientific hierarchy than a law is. Evolution is a fact, it has been proven that it happens, the only piece of the puzzle missing is how life started. We can hypothesize how it started, but we can't prove it, yet. Creationists, your inability to understand evolution is not evidence against it.
Jordan Ede right on Jordan
You lack some understanding as well. Macroevolution has never been proven or replicated in a lab in anyway whatsoever. Only microevolution and its replication in a lab is minimal at best.
PedalTheGlobe
Micro and macro evolution are the same thing and that is evolution plain and simple. It has been proven and it is based in reality unlike any religions.
Yet the chances of something as complex as the human eye alone, just "evolving" SOLELY through random mutations, within the timeframe applicable, make the concept of "evolution" as we currently perceive it, very unlikely. To say the least.
But you only have to see the wonders of the natural world to sense that.
There is always more to be known...
That is the only thing we truly know.
Holy fuck! Rollins just became one of my heroes!
Henry Rollins is a great man
SuperAtheist, THANK YOU for posting! Henry Rollins is SPOT ON with his comments!
HOW SCIENCE GETS INTO THE CLASSROOM: 1- Make an observation, 2- form a hypothesis, 3- test hypothesis, 4- collect and analyze data, 5- submit for peer review, 6- gain general consensus, 7- submit to governing body for implementation into the classroom. HOW CREATION "SCIENCE" GETS INTO THE CLASSROOM: 7- submit to governing body for implementation into the classroom.
(Pt2)... Our current stance on how life began is simply "we don't know". That is the only honest position anyone could take on this subject right now because it is still in its infancy. There is nothing faith based about that.
Your post made me LOL. Comedy gold.
Holy crap. This guy is fuckin' good! FIVE STARS!!
Henry is one of the few people with a working brain these days.
He is a fantasy to those who don't know him, or don't want to know him. But, he is real to believers, and growing up is accepting his reality, not trying to deny him.
Never stop searching. Never stop questioning. Never stop exploring. Never stop learning till the day you die. Remember, the biggest problem with a closed mind is nothing gets in.
Rollins, brilliant as always.
We really need to grow the fuck up.
As a Christian I applaud Rollins for seeing the difference between a Christian and a Fundamentalist Christian. I have always liked Henry and his effort to make the world a better place. I'd say more atheists need to be like Rollins but in truth more HUMAN BEINGS need to be like Rollins.
No matter what you believe you have to enjoy hearing an intelligent speaker on a social media sight. Thank you for posting this :)
Beautifully said Mr Rollins.
Go Henry! Brilliant.
Can't believe someone with actual intellect got his own show.
Lord's prayer and Canadian anthem . Spoken before every class 1980s
same with the 2000's when i was still a kid
That guy spews punk rock out of his roid raged eyes.
But I commend him for his stance,
Well said.
We need fuel, lubrication, electricity, we have parts that wear out and we eventually break down. Our cells are basically mini internal combustion engines. We are also beautiful and I consider everything beautiful to be a work of art.
I agree with Rollins. He's the voice of reason.
Glad evolution will be taken out of public schools. It's not science! Come on Henry! I used to love Henry Rollins. Smile, Jesus loves you Henry!!! 8-D
I just explained to you how scientists don't have faith. Christians say "I know for absolute certain that God exists". Scientists don't make absolute statements like that. In science, everything is tentative. Even well established theories like the theory of gravity. And scientists simply regard these theories as: "the best explanation we currently have for a natural phenomena that may or may not end up being revised or discarded if new evidence is discovered".
"The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age." Howard Phillips Lovecraft
In other words, so many humans are terrified of how insignificant we actually are to reality in general that they would rather keep themselves and everyone else in ignorance than face it.
Ia! Ia! Cthulhu Fthagn! Ph'nglui mglw'nfah Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!
henry for president 2012
I never realized the angry man I saw on TV every now and then was so incredibly intelligent.
Typo correction from my last post; "I have seen NO evidence for god/gods"
great man. love this guy.
When you're so dogmatic about current scientific theory that you believe the entire Omniverse has only one planet with life.
Otherwise, this is mostly spot-on. He saw the direction the world was going with a great deal of clarity.
It's Ramohog,run for your lives,the entropy,signature in the cell,spiritual denial babbling is about to begin
It's not about feelings. It is about truth!
'of pandas and people' is a creationist book that was magically turned into an ID book when just a few key words were changed.
Thanks meg love Rollins
Rollins is a great fella, saw him do a spoken word last year, he's really funny.
And yet any real scientist cannot dismiss it.
I enjoyed this
Up until now, i really didn't have a problem with Henry's opinions.
Science can not prove I ate breakfast this morning.
"Personal attack generally deserves silence by way of response." Stephen Jay Gould. Gould was the arguably the 20th Century's leading academic exponents of Evolution. Real academia exhibits humility and proper discourse.
Speaking as a Mutant Catholic-Buddhist, I identify my personal Faith as a means of keeping my Ego in check. Might Intelligent Design have merit as a stepping stone towards a synthesis of the millions of years that have led up to our current position as one of the domiant lifeforms on the planet and our speculative Origins? Adaptivity is the cornerstone of Evolution. If you want to know the "Mysteries" just look at Creation...and scientists do. Open minds are important. Thanks, Henry! :)
FreePlay, you seem angry. Why so angry? "An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes." Jack Nicholson in Anger Management
He is the former lead singer for the band Black Flag and all around intelligent, funny man.
Rollins always cracks me up. He is EXTREMELY serious and emphatic about everything. Like Penn Gillette, but with zero sense of irony.
As a Christian with a degree in Biology and Physics I believe I'm in a good position to state Science doesn't have facts.
Faith: Making a virtue out of not thinking.
I love this...a lot.
Rollins President 2016!
I meant fossil evidence. Please don't make assumptions about what I do or do not want to know. I know that there is evidence for natural selection and beneficial mutation. I also know that behind every machine is an engineer and behind every work of art there is an artist.
Great underused pun.
"science is NOT about absolutes, it's about following, understanding, and accepting the evidence despite our prejudice."
THAT...sounds like religion to me!
You misunderstand ID. Nowhere does ID insinuate God, only an intelligent agent. The theory of ID itself is a bit shaky in its current form but shows promise and IS testable. Evolution has a lot of evidence for it and is fact, however it depends on what you define evolution to encompass. There is a lot of inference and assumptions when asserting that all life came from a single cell. Why can't evolution and ID both be right? Oh right, people stick to their bias and ignore any conflicting evidence
The more knowledge we gain the more we begin to understand how ignorant we are of the universe. The gaps don't get bigger they always get smaller. The more we know it just reveals new gaps for us to explore and learn. That's the Idea, to continue to learn about our universe rather than throw in an answer that we have no evidence for. You treat admitting ignorance as if it is a sin. When it is the true Humility. "We don't know" is the proper response to questions we don't have evidence to answer.
What's sad, is my mom believed that "Under God" was originally part of the pledge. She thinks that when it was introduced back in the 50s that people "Had God put back into the Pledge of Allegiance"
@SuperAtheist BUYBULL?? How did I never put that together?? I'm using that all the time now :)
when GWB was governor, texas executed 152 prisoners, more than any other governor in modern American history.
I find evolution much more interesting than religion so I just go with it! x
@blackfrank32 There's basically no evidence Jesus ever existed lol. And evolution is a fact and we do not need god to explain anything.
First of all, all fossils are transitional forms. Second of all, we are lucky to have fossils at all, if you knew anything about them you would know that it takes very specific conditions for them to form at all, the vast majority of things that die will never become fossilized.
I'm stoked that HR did a piece on this. I must have missed it when it aired. The irreducible complexity fallacy is so insulting to what we know about biology, and evolution that I can't believe anyone with the ability to reason will blindly support it. It has been shown time, and again that it does not stand up. Their precious flagellum has been show as easily reducible if you don't assume the current function. It beautifully supports evolution, by means of natural selection.
It's cool, I realized that's how my comment might be viewed that way so I thought I would just clarify a bit about what I meant.
This man is my fuckig hero
What you are failing to see here is Rollins is not debunking faith nor calling Christianity stupid, his comments are directed at the extremists who insist that their way is the ONLY way.
If you are a Christian, please remember that the tree of knowledge was put in Eden for a reason....So mankind would have a CHOICE. Its not for anyone to tell another what they have to believe or not.
I was sent to the principals office in Junior High for leaving "Under God" off of the pledge of allegiance. I didn't know at the time that it was an adhock addition, I just didn't want to be a hypocrite for saying it. The principal sent me back and no fuss was raised after that.
Also, I'm a biologist. I've studied evolution. Hell, I've made it happen in petri dishes. ID has no supporting evidence, and if you can provide something that doesn't boil down to "evolution can't prove X therefore ID happened" or "*insert religious text* says X" then I'll retract that statement and consider ID a legitimate theory.
Finally, Science is EVERY field of study. That's why faith is faith, where people believe things specifically without (and frequently in direct defiance of) evidence
You owe Charles Darwin an apology.
I just don't agree with Henry's negative view about intelligent design, and God's work in creation.
Right On!
What does Chuck Norris fear?
Rollins!
And may I add, the creationists try to manipulate data and flat out lie too.
They can, and they do. The thing about science is, it deals with science. ID is not science.
That's wonderful that you have cited those atrocities. However, your argument was not "religion has caused murder" you argument was that "religion has cause more murder than anything else". Its an absurd argument that cannot be proven, but rest solely on your own circular assumptions. Ironic because as a secularist I would think that you would have a higher standard of evidence.
My point is, that just because you or I lack the imagination or (self-)education it doesn't make facts untrue. I think that virtually everyone is capable of understanding evolution - provided they try, honestly, and read and research the required literature and such. I happened to put enough pieces of the puzzle together to understand enough of natural selection to accept it as truth based on VERY solid and undeniable facts.
I am okay with sex of any kind, as long as it is not hurting someone else (in a bad way ;D ), I believe in Evolution and I believe in God. I am a lesbian and I was born this way damn it! I love this dude. He is intelligent. I have nothing against anything he says because he specifies which so called 'Christians' he is talking about. He's not offensive in anyway to me. This dude kicks ass.
~* Live long and prosper *~
awesome
i am a christian and i believe that evolution is true, i disagree with many christians, not every one is the same, not all are crazy and oppressive, the ones u probably heard of only are because thats why you are hearing about them. i agree with henry on a lot, so far i havent really disagreed with him i love his speeches, i think the book of genisis in my interpritation describes evolution, the bible isnt meant to be taken 100% literaly, its for interpritation
Yup, and if you hold with the multiverse theory that "small distance" could be a Universe away !
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Thanks man, needed the laugh.
That's funny. You sound like you're either a lawyer or a reporter.
i just like being a creationist.. it's the underdog of theory "yay"
[A] person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all. Instead they are holding tight. But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.
- Alan Watts
Evolution is still in a "flat world" state. Neither theory can be proven.
Scientific Method:
1) Observe
2) Construct a hypothesis
3) Test your hypothesis
4) Conduct experiment
5) Accept hypothesis
I'm pretty sure we can only do #2 for both ideas.
If only Darwin called it "the hand of god" instead of "evolution" everyone in the world would accept it today.
and now they discovered that Darvin was wrong...
The real world is not that easy to grasp or imagine. I mean, I can hardly grasp the size of our planet, but there's our star, a world waaaay much larger than our tiny Earth. And there are stars out there that make our star look like a small speck of dust. Imagine the space between your front yard and some big ass quasar billions of light years away. I can't even imagine a billion of beans, hardly a billion light years.
"Irreducable Complexity is ONLY OUTWEIGHT by the COMPLETE LACK OF KNOWLEDGE involved." He than goes out to say "You can't get God to come down to the lab and prove a thing. You just have to believe and Science does not operate on faith. Faith is taught in Curches. If you can't prove it in the scientific world. You've Got No Gain." This guy's a genious, haha. He's right if you can't prove it in the scientific world you've got NO GAIN! I'd say to him to just take his advice and Just believe, haha
Calm down, Mr. Rollins, there are much bigger things to be worried about, like the economy/Federal Reserve. If you want to talk about education, talk about if the government should even be involved in education.
darwin never said anything about evolution. he came up with the theory of natural selection.
Darker skin pigment is a result of the body reacting to protect itself from constant exposure to UV rays. If you stay in a certain environment long enough, your body adapts. Adapting to your surroundings is key for survival. Evolution is survival of the fittest. Please, get a library card.
This guy looks how Wilson off of House MD would look if he were a badass.
Henry the scientist. Poor Guy knows not what he does not know.. lol
@CrackedBiscuit
yeeeh, Now name the First and Third law of thermodynamics without resorting to looking it up on google! :P
Yes I used my brain to evaluate every aspect and all the factual evidence involved, in order to come to the right conclusion. What else should I do to research this?
Except Darwin himself said his theory had so many holes in it that it couldn't possibly be true.
Of course it matters why - THAT'S THE ENTIRE FUCKING POINT I'VE BEEN MAKING. Religion is a much more compelling (and therefore widespread) reason to do terrible things than anything else, because it allows people to believe that a higher power will forgive them, and perhaps even reward them, for doing those terrible things.
Go ahead and collapse that! Its GOOD PUBLICITY!
:)
Fuckin'-A, SuperAtheist! I couldn't have said it better myself, brother!