# Was It All An Accident...Or Did An Intelligent

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [January 19, 2013, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-it-all-an-accident-or-did-an-intelligent/647721 "2013-01-19T17:18:17Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 24, 2013, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-it-all-an-accident-or-did-an-intelligent/647721/257 "2013-01-24T23:14:17Z")

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> [@pchaos](#):
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> I had a philosophy professor who taught that once we became adults, our basic beliefs don’t change.

You’ve said yours did. Doesn’t that kind of invalidate the comment? I don’t understand why you brought it up here.

> [@God must be a sadist](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/god-must-be-a-sadist/645080/190):
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> You guys may not believe it, but I use to be a lefty. For those not familiar with the term it refers to the radical left in the U.S., my hair went down to my shoulders. And then my parents died back to back within a short span of time.
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> I basically believed what the lefties believed back at CAL. All that Marxist garbage about, “religion being the opiate of the masses.” They didn’t mention that Marx never said that.
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> 30 years later I turned around 180 degrees. Give me some of that opiate.

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