Why is GameSpot's logo on drugs?

@chaoscougar1 said:

@alim298 said:

What? What do rainbows have to do with gay marriage? I always thought they were a symbol of Marijuana. That would be interesting though...

This is the result of a systemic counter-productiveness that both sex education and drug counseling have had in our education system.

While Religion has been a cause for a lot of strife and warfare out there, I wouldn't blame every war on religion.

But yes, organized religion done a lot more harm than good.

If it is so obvious that god exists. Then I am sure you could provide us with any ample evidence. Also you would also need to argue that men and women were made, and not just inherited successful mutations and "designs" from their ancestors. Until, then, this video describes my stance really well in terms of religiousity,

lmao...God's existence is anything but obvious. I'll humor you though...convince me.

@Maroxad: Atheism itself is a religious belief based on the religious notion of evolutionary theory. There is actually no evidence to support the evolutionary theory as evolutionists see it. All you have is assumption based on speculation and conjecture there.

As far as God's existence goes, just open your eyes. Complex design requires a designer.

@bforrester420: Just open your eyes. Can't do that for you.

Theres some rather big holes in the evolutionary theory. Which came first, the chicken or the egg? The seed or the flower? Life only comes from pre-existing life. Spontaneously generating life has never been observed or created in a lab. How did plant and animal life both evolve from the same first single cell? If the first cell became a creature first, how do you explain plant life? On the other hand, if the first cell became a plant, how do you explain animal life? If you say they both developed in parallel at the same time, what are the odds of that happening? The odds of simply one happening are astronomically small, but both happening together in parallel?

Where did the 'ape' come from that man evolved from? Where are the skeletons of dinosaurs that had long necks with short necks to show their evolutionary change? Why did the human brain 'evolve' to such high intelligence? 'Inferior' apes survive just fine sitting in a jungle chewing on a bananna. Why did we need a brain capable of sending a man to the moon?

What controlled the expansion of the universe so it did not expand too fast and not allow galaxies to form, or too slow where it would have collapsed back on itself by now? What is behind dark matter and dark energy? Without dark matter and dark energy the galaxies and universe would fly apart. If 'modern' man more or less had the same mental capacity for the last few hundred thousand years, why is the population just now at 7 billion? Why do humans have a sense of spirituality that every culture attempts to satisfy through some form of religion? What caused the 'big bang'?

Theres plenty of reasons to doubt evolution and put faith in God. Just as there are many valid reasons to doubt the teaching that the homosexual lifestyle and gay marriage is normal and equal to heterosexual relationships and marriage.

This is technically incorrect. While it isn't PROVEN, there is plenty of EVIDENCE, and some of it very strong. Doesn't make it proven, and you can disregard the evidence as you see fit of course. Now - why belief in evolution has to be in opposition to belief in God has never been wholly clear to me, but that's a separate issue.

On a broader note, however, I'd like to point out to all in this discussion that posts such as "homosexuality is filthy and unnatural" AND posts asserting "why religion is idiotic" are both against CoC. I realize it is very difficult to debate the gay marriage issue while observing these guidelines, but they are there, and there's plenty of questionable content along that front in this thread. So let's keep it respectful.

The logo has returned now to its original state.

But regardless, the gaming press may take political stances too if they want to. Many organizations does the same thing including Facebook and Google.

@DarthaPerkinjan said:

Google speciation to answer the first two questions.

As for the origin of life, evolution doesnt concern that. But to answer it as best as I can: I... no, we dont know. Abiogenesis models are making some progress though, but that is at the moment not an established theory yet like evolution.

Plant vs animal life. The single cell organisms didnt necessarily evolve into animals or plants first but may have evolved from multi celled microbiotic organisms, that are neither taxonomically classified as either plants or animals. Different populations of these microbiotic creatures, evolved into different things. Keep in mind evolution is populationwide, not specieswide. The probability argument doesnt work either, http://scienceblogs.com/evolutionblog/2014/02/04/another-round-on-probability-and-evolution/.

the apelike creatures that we humans evolved from came from rodents... actually I will let this slide do the talking.

http://waitbutwhy.com/2013/12/your-ancestor-is-jellyfish.html

Regarding the rest of the paragraph. Intelligence was a favored trait among great apes, as those who were smarter than the rest would fashion tools. For more, read this,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_of_human_intelligence

On the third paragraph. I can assure you that we don't know a lot of those questions. We dont know what caused the big bang, we don't know what is behind dark matter. As for the expansion of the universe at the rate it does. I can assure you that the rate at which the universe expands is constantly accelerating. Regarding the population, human populations can not grow beyond the population capacity, our planet can only support and sustain a certain population which depends on how much food we can grow. How much food we can grow depends on our technology.

As for how spirituality and religion arose. It might be difficult to answer that question. Having slipped quite a bit in this discussion, I think it is probably for the best I avoid commenting on religion for a while, and just focus on science, gay marriage and gamespot's temporary logo. I am sure @xantufrog would agree :)

Anyways, keep in mind that my answers are by NO means conclusive, and are merely based on our current understanding. There is a lot we do not know, and the things I did mention could turn out to be wrong.