(thought i would throw my own comments in here because everyone else has!) I do honestly beleive that anyone has faith is cool and that if that is what the truly beleive - well that's just dandy. But really, come on people, there aint a god. I have one question for anyone who is a beleiver : How old is the earth?
The bible says it's around 6,000 to 10,000 years old. Well we all know that the earth os around 4.5 billion years old. Many religeous people will answer that by saying that our 'dating methods' are inaccurate and can't be trusted. Sure carbon dating has some flaws, but there are many ways to date rocks, fossils etc. And when you are looking at the question of how old th earth is, they all roughly point to the same date, around 4.5 billion years old. There are several atomic clocks in the world and they all point to the same date.
We know that Dinosaurs walked the earth at some point, no body can dispute that - the evidence for their existance is overwhelming. If believers DONT trust our dating methods then why do we not find human remains with dinosaur fossils? Surely if these two species existed side by side we would find them together.
And my last point. Charles Robert Darwin's research gave us the theory of how species evolved over an immense period of time and his research showed how all species are related to each other on one great family tree. His research has now been PROVEN by discovery of genes.
I have seen the genetic code of a human and an ape spread out in long lines of code side by side. The code is massive and our genetic code is so similar to that of an ape, with just a few differences in the code here and there. It is amazing and more people should at least look at the evidence.
Like I said i don;t have a problem with those people who beleive in a God or a creator. But if you genuinly take a look at the EVIDENCE and Im not talking about just listening to people like me or other experts, but if you take a look at the evidence for yourself it is truly overwhelming.
We were not 'created' by some higher power who looks over us, dinosaurs were real, the earth is a damned site older than 6000 years, all species are related (proven by DNA), species evolve over long periods of time (and sometimes short periods of time - google it), humans are not some 'special' species and Darwin was right.
And in answer to my mans first question, some 300 or so pages back, YES smoke as much as you want. Cannabis is a natural plant, created by nature, evolved of millenia and is related to other plant species.