@GodisNotReal_

Brendan, a biologist, goes by "Prototype Atheist" on social media challenges creationists to think critically about creation and evolution.  I asked him some basic questions about evolution and presented a few of the more common creationist objections to it. @GodsNotReal_ : What is your education and working experience? (Just to establish credibility) @ProtoAtheist: I have a Master's Degree in molecular biology and have worked for a diagnostics company as an R&D scientist for 8 years. @GodsNotReal_ : Can you operationally define what evolution is? @ProtoAtheist:  Biological evolution, simply put, is the change in allele frequencies over time in a population of organisms. Alleles are just different forms of a gene. Allele frequencies might change in a population via natural selection or genetic drift. Natural selection is when external pressures affect a population of organisms such that a specific allele or alleles become beneficial or detrimental relative to ...

Nancy had enough of the lack of humanistic values found throughout the Catholic church and when she discovered alternate worldviews other than what she had been taught as a child, she found that explaining away the suffering and corruption made more sense if there were no omnibenevolent, omnipotent, deity looking over us, and she admitted to herself that she no longer believes in God.  But she can't admit it to her everybody.  Find out why... @GodsNotReal_ : How were you brought up in religion?  What did your parents/pastor teach you and what about it did you like the most while growing up? Nancy: If it's okay, I'd like you to post an excerpt from my "deconversion" story since I've already written this up. "I was raised in a loving Catholic family, I went to Catholic school from grades K-12, and attended a Catholic university as well. Even within the Catholic community, we were kind of seen as religious freaks because we went to church every S...