Unlike most people of faith, I don't want to convert anyone to my religon. Here's where a lot of believers get really lost in the concept of aethiesm as a belief structure since they 1st of all feel as if we believe in some anti-christ theology since we don't believe in god. What they don't get is that we don't believe in ANY god, period. No "salvation", no "here after", nothing, nada, zippo ! You live, make the best of your time here and then you're gone.

Now then, although I don't wanna convert any believers to my way of thinking, I do simply ask that they explore their own concepts of faith from a real world perspective and try using a logical brain methodology to inspect their own beliefs instead of simply accepting such a life impacting choice simply because their parents, friends and associates do so.

Try comparing the real world scientific info on what is known about man and the animals that once roamed this planet, which are absolutely verifiable, against whatever theological concept you personally hold and see if there's a way to reconcile the 2.

If you can reconcile the differences between scientific knowledge and theological explanations of mans supposed history without simply using the old "'cause the bible tells me so" cop out to explain how you accept the theological view of Mans history here, I'd really like to hear about it.