Life On Earth, Science Vs Religion

[jd_1984]

I don't wish to denigrate any individuals beliefs, but I am curious how this story is received by those who follow religion and the origins of the earth taught through religion.

Do some Christians take the biblical accounts of creation literally, believing that they describe exactly how the universe and human beings were created.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/life-earth-started-300-million-6664589

[jomifl]

Khandro, strangely all biologists regard them as being animals let alone creatures. Pehaps you should have worded you question differently and started a new thread with it. Do you think that the ability to sleep has much if anything to to with the development of life?

[Khandro]

All I can say is your life won't develop much without sleep.

[jomifl]

I believe that swifts have a similar arrangement DB.

[jomifl]

/All I can say is your life won't develop much without sleep. /
So that's a don't know then?

[Doosh]

Have any of you watched the film promethius? It could be the answer we were waiting for

[Doosh]

Though I kinda buy into the idea of us coming from a meteor hitting the earth

[jomifl]

Prometheus was a pretty daft film.. Why do you 'buy into' the meteor thing Doosh. do you have any compelling reasons?

[Doosh]

Yes my ongoing research. No conclusion has came yet though this is looking pretty a dead cert.

https://www.google.co.uk/?gfe_rd=cr&ei=scUsVuaPNcGq8wfwqKi4CA&gws_rd=ssl#q=humans+came+to+earth+from+another+planet

[Khandro]

//So that's a don't know then?//

Yes, and I can speak for everyone on that.
A fact which isn't in the Guardian article is that the only animal found so far not to have REM sleep is the Giant Anteater. I know this because the subject came up in a discussion between some eminent biologists and the Dalai Lama.
The Dalai Lama asked if they thought it might have something to do with his diet.

[jomifl]

/the only animal found so far not to have REM sleep is the Giant Anteater./
Khandro, I went to all the trouble of compiling a (partial) list of animals that don't sleep and yet you insist on denying its' veracity. According to your reasoning the abillity to sleep is the definition of an animal, which kind of contradicts just about every biologist on the planet. Do I detect some kind of wacky agenda here?

[jomifl]

Punch line please Khandro?

[jomifl]

/Dolphins are seriously over rated. Quite a few of them are homosexual rapists./
they all look the same to me ...and perhaps other dolphins.

[Doosh]

"/Dolphins are seriously over rated. Quite a few of them are homosexual rapists./ "

Well that's the most random post I've read on the net in a year.
^But it's probably true as if there's one person you can trust in this world it's your divebuddy.

[Doosh]

Be thankful it wasn't a whale as I've heard they have a 2 metre member

[jomifl]

should've gone to specsavers

[jomifl]

Well that's snails for you ...I wouldn't go out with one. Now barnacles on the other hand can call round without leaving home as their penis can be 50 x the length of their body..... terms and conditions may apply :-)