I respect your opinion. You need to respect others when it comes to what they believe in, because my dear man, your not always right.
And yet it's always the religious kooks who try to convert others. I've never told anyone to give up their faith, as misguided as it is. I have advocated and will continue to advocate against ANY practice that harms people, keeps them oppressed and suffering and causes death and suffering. Religion is of course the biggest offender in this catagory. See, while religion may be adaptive to an individual it is horrific for society in general.
Scientist, Astronmers, can not come up with a reasonable explanation of what it is. WE call it gravity, but they can't figure out what makes it up. We know its there, but can not see it. We know there is wind, but we can not see it. Did they just evolve too? What are your views on this?
Forgive me for sounding flippant, but like other people who have posted here, you talk of things about which you have no understanding.
We have a very good understanding of gravity going back at least to Galileo, Brahe and Tycho Kepler. (But I'm sure you haven't heard of Kepler's Law.) In the 1600's Newton came up with the Universal Laws of Gravitation. Our understanding of gravity took a quantum (pun intended) leap forward when Einstein published his general theory of relativity which related gravity to space and time. I'm sure you've heard of Stephen Hawking or perhaps Hawking Radiation? Perhaps reading a few of his books will illuminate some of these concepts. Pay particular attention to supersymmatry and the search for the MOAT - uniting electromagnetic effects with gravity, quantum mechanics, and the general and special theory of relativity.
Thorne is the new wundekind of gravitational physics and has combined general relativity and quantum phsyics to explain gravity in curved space time. I believe he has recently published work on gravity waves. The exact nature of this elludes me at the moment.
We've progressed a long way from the times of Aristotle who thought that cosmic movement was caused by the hand of god. We now know that there are laws and rules by which all things act. Even something you cannot see - like gravity.
Gravity, wind, and the like are all readily observable in their effects. God is not. He's a no show for the last 15 billion years, but perhaps he (or his prophet) will turn up at the Resturaunt at the End of the Universe.
By the way, you obviously are unaware about the evolution of our climatary system. Yes, it evolves as well. And the patterns of evolution are different on different planets. Do you suppose there was a different climate during the Pangean Era? Do you know what that is? Are you aware of the nemerous periods of glaciations the earth has gone through? Do you know we're overdue for another one? Do you know that there were at least 2 mass extinction events on earth where over 95% of all species died?
Please, get the basic facts first. Even die hard creationists accept planetary evolution. And some religious groups when faced with the irrefutable evidence of evolution, have conceded grudgingly that evolution may have been the mechanism through which god worked.
The more we learn, the less of a need there is to cling to old harmful superstitions.
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