Which I’m actually more in favor of.

I hate to burst any bubbles (no I’m not creationist NOR am I Christian), but Wicca is less than 100 years old. It was invented by Gerald Gardner. He was taking advantage of a popular social trend. With respect to Halloween, Easter, etc, yes they are from non-Christian religions mostly in Europe, but there is not, nor has there been, any kind of historical evidence to indicate that there was a religion called Wicca. You MAY claim (as many Wiccans do) that the Christians tried to wipe it out, but that doesn’t account for the historical records of the Celtic Druids, the Nordic beliefs, the Roman and Greek pagan beliefs, etc. I’m not hating on Wicca. I just want Wiccans to get the history of their religion right.

The faith you refer to in statistical chance doesn’t really exist. What most scientists who hold to the darwinian view of evolution believe is that darwin’s theory of evolution is the current best method of describing the events of the past with the current available data. Hence the word theory. If new data show’s darwin’s theory to be wrong, then it will be investigated and a new theory formed.

Pretty much all of science is saying, here’s what we know and here is a theory that best explains what we know and can observe. This also applies to most scientists views of Intelligent Design. Evolution and Intelligent design aren’t completely incompatible either, both could be present, who knows? (Intelligent design may imply a god or creator, but doesn’t imply an omnipotent creator).

Think of it this way. Imagine our world was a computer program, and the programmer was god. the programmer could create the program and run it, but that doesn’t mean that unexpected things wont happen. It may be designed to be self sufficient. (The creator could have made our world and built in evolution to make it self sufficient).

I personally dont think this theory is the case, but its still a valid theory at the moment.

It takes just as much faith to believe in the statistical chance that the human brain could have evolved from a single celled organism. To say that Creationism is stupid because of the belief system is hypocritical in my opinion.

Believe what you want but don’t tell other people they’re foolish for their beliefs.

oh, and tsunamis. they kill people too.