I find it interesting that a Jehovah's Witness would bother to try to defend religion, though, since even a cursory examination of their own will leave them breathless due to the constant lies disseminated from their leadership. Did the world end in 1914 as C.T. Russell said? Or did it happen in 1925 or 1941 like Rutherford insisted it would? Or, did the world end in 1975 like Frederick Franz said? Oh, I'm sorry, it happened in ... oh wait, I'm still here. I don't suppose you're reading anymore, though, since you could be excommunicated for having independant thought and questioning your faith (entrapment by threat ... if you can't examine your beliefs on your own, you won't have a chance to question the crap you are fed and you'll continue to pour your time and income into their coffers ... but at least you'll be imprisoning your descendants in the same restrictive bullshit!).
Try looking at this page (if you have the cojones to question what you believe rather than blindly adhering to your current beliefs ... after all, if anything contradicts your godly beliefs you should be able to quickly refute it if it is untrue, right? Right?):
http://www.rice.edu/armadillo/Sciaca...ins/things.htm
My favorite are these tidbits:
1) human embryos have gills and tails
2) a rather common genetic defect causes people to be born with tails ... enlongated coccyges
3) appendixes
4) cancer's causes
5) goosebumps
6) wisdom teeth
7) little toes
8) dew claws
9) back pain
10) optical construction
11) your five fingers
12) hemoglobin
13) shared pseudogenes with other species
14) the plantaris muscle from our monkey days
15) your monkeylike incisor roots (feel your gums and look at a smiling chimp pic)
If we were intelligently created, God sure did a shitty job. In fact, ALL evidence points to evolution. Seriously, read the page and try to use LOGIC instead of BLIND IGNORANCE ... well, unless you belong to a cult like the mormons of JWs, who would be excommunicated for reading things like this without permission. You keep saying there is no proof to anything except what fundamentalist quacks spout (have you noticed how contradictory the quacks all are? even the Pope has accepted evolution because even the catholic church can't continue to deny the truth of it!). If you honestly believe that, then there couldn't be ANY proof on that page, right? I swear, this is beginning to feel like arguing with grandparents about technical issues on their computer and having them repeatedly pointing to the pathetic instruction manual for their Gateway when you know exactly what the problem is? Of course, the manual says to format and reload the emergency CD, but you know that all that is needed is a bit of registry repair? How do you explain to people that are unwilling to listen, learn, and understand that they are woefully wrong?
What is it about being a christian/buddhist/pagan/hindu/muslim/animist/etc that suddenly makes you such an expert in astronomy, history, archaeology, biology, chemistry, physics, anthropology, philosophy, and geology that you can dismiss those that have devoted their life to the actual sciences (as opposed to believing whatever your particular quacks tell you to believe) as ignorant? My, aren't we just humble?
I could stay here and list all the ways that the creationist myths are wrong, but it would be like beating on deformed puppies: it would be too easy, and there would be no satisfaction in causing pain to things that can't understand why they're hurting. Besides, I'm tired of people quoting things that MANKIND wrote hundreds and thousands of years ago as scientific proof. Please ... the bible also says that rain comes through doors in the sky/firmament, the earth is flat and supported by four pillars, that there is a mountian that allows you to see every nation on earth, God lies while the devil tells the truth (read the first couple chapters of Genesis ... who lies to Eve, and who tells the truth?), men have less ribs then women (have you counted them recently? fuggin' duh!), and assorted other nonsense. Oh, and the Jews were also polytheistic as well, since through the beginning of Genesis they referred to the gods (elohim is plural) until they focused in on one particular god named yahweh (jehovah is a butchering of the jewish spelling) who decided to do his own little creation project.
Stop quoting a book filled with self contradictions, impossiblilities, wishful thinking, and lies interspersed with history as fact, because it is really getting pathetic. I might as well start quoting from a holy book of my own about how Iluvatar created the world and Melkor tried to destroy it, and refute any evidence that there have never been elves, dwarves, orcs, or assorted other Tolkien critters because my faith is all the proof I need. The sad reality would be this: you have no more proof than I that either of us are correct, since both are based on works written by man after the fact, and neither is able to be proven.
God, my puppy whacking club is getting pretty worn ... I better stop.