Why don’t you accept it

You’re lucky lol

I live in a Muslim household and can’t actually tell my parents I’m atheist without fearing for my safety

@T2the2ndpowr there seems to be a lot of evidence for adaptation of a species but I haven't seen any undeniable evidence of species actually changing into another

@Deleted User then you haven’t looked

It’s called speciation

Look that up

Speciation

Regardless it's more the given timeline that I have a problem with

What do you mean?

And for one thing and I don’t mean this disrespectfully at all, but what you have a problem with doesn’t quite matter

If it’s true it’s true

If it’s supported by tons and tons of evidence then it is

I’d think someone should believe in something if it’s supported by so much evidence

To many assumptions need to be made for their theories to work. Like assuming the rate of decay remained unchanged.

I just don’t understand that

What do you mean

What does that have to do with evolution

I’d just ask you to look into for one Natural selection and learn how that works. I could explain it to you in a voice chat but I’d much rather you learn it from someone else more qualified. And then look into speciation, because that is when animals branch out into other animals

Well when you look at fossils and what not the rate of decay is one of the factors used to determine it's age. But we assume the rate of decay has remained the same throughout time. That's an assumption

I think you’d really be into it because you clearly enjoy thinking and looking deeper

Fossils are rocks

Molds

Of old bones

Rocks do not decay

They can weather

But they don’t decay

But never mind that don’t even think about that because it is honestly not worth thinking about

Just look at what I said before about looking into speciation and natural selection

Just research that

You’d really be interested in that

I read up on it again. I don't believe the earth was created in six days either

I just think there are other theories that work too.

The only theories that work are the ones with the overwhelming evidence

Perhaps but it just never sat well with me. Perhaps some religious indoctrination seeped through into my subconscious while growing up.

But it shouldn’t matter if it sits well with you. If the evidence is all there you should believe it. At least that’s the way I look at it and I think it’s a pretty safe way to look at it.

I don’t mean to sound harsh at all and I hop I’m not

Cause I think you’re an intelligent person and a critical thinker

I’d just really want you to look into evolution

And from what I’ve gotten from how you are I’m sure you would love learning about it

I will and I will point out the areas where I find that assumptions are being made or where other theories could work