What?!

Acknowledge?!

I've said over and over that whether or not there's a higher power has absolutely nothing to do with evolution, in my opinion. Andrew said the same thing from a Christian point of view.

We're talking about the origin of species and how we evolved. You have to be positively kooky to believe that we aren't closely related to apes! Go read about Koko and her friends, for heaven's sake! They're just like we are, only slightly simpler.

MSNBC is a news organization. It's not Faux News, and that story isn't about research they conducted. I don't know the answer to those questions about genetics, but I do know they're irrelevant.

As a matter of fact I do believe in a higher power of sorts. I don't believe in it the same way you do, that's all, and I certainly don't believe that it snapped its fingers and *poof* there everything was. I also believe in a spiritual connection between everything, in fact I don't see how one can deny that in one sense we're all part of the same thing. To me it makes more sense that the higher power is an integral part of everything, not something standing outside it.

And it couldn't care less who's religious, whether you chant or pray, or anything else; that stuff is all for people to feel secure - which is perfectly valid up to the "and you're not" point. Unfortunately that point is a very short step for a lot of people.

The universe didn't get here all at once; it took about 15 billion years to get here, and it hasn't stopped expanding at a breakneck speed yet. Nobody will ever know what started it, and we'll only be able to theorize about how life began here.

Or maybe we'll be able to create life out of primordial crap one day and prove how it happened. Who knows.